Explanation
BACKGROUND: Columbus Public Health has been awarded a grant from the Greater Columbus Arts Council for the 2017 Art Walks Project. This ordinance is needed to accept and appropriate $4,000.00 in grant monies to fund this project for the period of March 9, 2017, through December 31, 2017.
This grant will be utilized to update design, develop, and print 14 existing Art Walks maps, host 18 guided walks in each of the Columbus Art Walks districts, and continue to promote public engagement for all the Art Walks in 2017.
This ordinance is submitted as an emergency so as to allow CPH to contract for services to provide materials prior the start of the Art Walks season beginning in the summer 2017.
FISCAL IMPACT: The program is privately funded by Greater Columbus Arts Council ($4,000.00) and does not generate revenue or require a city match.
Title
To authorize and direct the Board of Health to accept a grant from the Greater Columbus Arts Council for the Art Walks Grant Program in the amount of $4,000.00; to authorize the appropriation of $4,000.00 to the City’s Private Grants Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($4,000.00)
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WHEREAS, grant funding has been made available to Columbus Public Health through the Greater Columbus Arts Council for the Art Walks Grant Program; and,
WHEREAS, it is necessary to authorize the Board of Health to accept $4,000.00 in grant funds for the Art Walks Grant Program for the period of March 9, 2017 through December 31, 2017, and to appropriate these monies to the City’s Private Grants Fund, Fund No. 2291; and,
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Columbus Health Department in that it is immediately necessary to accept this grant from the Greater Columbus Arts Council to initiate the deliverables in 2017, and to appropriate these funds to the Health Department for the immediate preservation of the public health, peace, property, safety, and welfare; Now, therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That the Board of Health is hereby authorized and directed to accept a grant award of $4,000.00 from the Greater Columbus Arts Council for the Art Walks Grant Project for the period March 9, 2017 through December 31, 2017.
SECTION 2. That from the unappropriated monies in the City's Private Grants Fund, Fund No. 2291, and from all monies estimated to come into said Fund from any and all sources during the grant period, the sum of $4,000.00 and any eligible interest earned during the grant period is hereby appropriated to the Health Department, Division No. 5001, as indicated in the legislation attachment.
SECTION 3. That the monies appropriated in the foregoing Section 2 shall be paid upon the order of the Health Commissioner, and that no order shall be drawn or money paid except by voucher, the form of which shall be approved by the City Auditor.
SECTION 4. At the end of the grant period, any repayment of unencumbered balances required by the grantor is hereby authorized and any unused City match monies may be transferred back to the City fund from which they originated in accordance with all applicable grant agreements.
SECTION 5. Funds necessary to carry out the purpose of this ordinance are hereby deemed appropriated, and the City Auditor shall establish such accounting codes as necessary.
SECTION 6. That for reasons stated in the preamble hereto, which is hereby made a part hereof, this ordinance is declared to be an emergency measure and shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval by the Mayor, or ten days after passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same. That this ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after the earliest period allowed by law.