Explanation
BACKGROUND: Columbus Public Health has been awarded a grant from the Cardinal Health Foundation through the Columbus Foundation for the 2016 Healthy Children, Healthy Weights Grant Program. This ordinance is needed to accept and appropriate $105,000.00 in grant monies to fund this program for the period of January 1, 2016 through December 31, 2016.
The Healthy Children, Healthy Weights Grant Program is designed to prevent childhood overweight and obesity by promoting healthy weight and growth in all children. This grant will be utilized to partner with early learning centers, including childcare centers and preschools in the Cardinal Health Foundation targeted zip codes, to provide practical strategies to establish environments and policies that promote healthy weight in children.
This ordinance is submitted as an emergency so as to allow the financial transaction to be posted in the City’s accounting system as soon as possible given the grant start date of January 1, 2016.
FISCAL IMPACT: The program is funded primarily by the Cardinal Health Foundation and does not generate revenue or require a City match.
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To authorize and direct the Board of Health to accept a grant from the Cardinal Health Foundation through the Columbus Foundation in the amount of $105,000.00 to support the Healthy Children, Healthy Weights Grant Program in the amount of $105,000.00; to authorize the appropriation of $105,000.00 to the Health Department in the City’s Private Grants Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($105,000.00)
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WHEREAS, grant funding has been made available to Columbus Public Health through the Cardinal Health Foundation through the Columbus Foundation for the Healthy Children, Healthy Weights Grant Program; and,
WHEREAS, it is necessary to authorize the Board of Health to accept $105,000.00 in grant funds for the Healthy Children, Healthy Weights Grant Program for the period of January 1, 2016 through December 31, 2016, and to app...
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