Explanation
BACKGROUND: Columbus Public Health received funding from The Franklin County Department of Job and Family Services to implement a safe sleep media buy. To complete the deliverables of the grant, Columbus Public Health will contract with The Saunders Company, LLC from September 1, 2017 through September 30, 2018 for a total contract amount of $397,910.00. These services were advertised through vendor services (RFQ006315) according to bidding requirements of the City Code. The contract compliance number for The Saunders Company, LLC is 46-4722967 and expires on 10/31/2018.
On average, one baby dies every other week in Franklin County due to unsafe sleep practices. Many of these deaths could be prevented by following the ABCs of infant safe sleep - that babies should sleep Alone, on their Backs, and in an empty Crib, every night, every nap, every time. The allocated funding will help in the efforts to reduce sleep related deaths in Franklin County through an educational marketing campaign.
This ordinance is submitted as an emergency to ensure the grant deliverables are met within the required timeline.
FISCAL IMPACT: This contract is entirely funded by the grant award from The Franklin County Department of Job and Family Services and contingent upon passage of Ordinance 2264-2017.
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To authorize the Board of Health to enter into contract with The Saunders Company, LLC to implement a safe sleep media buy in the amount of $397,910.00; to authorize the expenditure of $397,910.00 from the Health Department Grants Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($397,910.00)
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WHEREAS, Columbus Public Health has received funding from The Franklin County Department of Job and Family Services to implement a safe sleep media buy; and
WHEREAS, The Saunders Company, LLC has been awarded the contract through the RFP process to provide services for a safe sleep media buy; and
WHEREAS, the contract period is September 1, 2017 through September 30, 2018; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of Columbus Public Health in that it is immediately necessary to authorize the Board of Health to enter into contract with The Saunders Company, LLC 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 to enter into contract with The Saunders Company, LLC in the amount of $397,910.00 for the time period of September 1, 2017 through September 30, 2018.
SECTION 2. That to pay the cost of said contract, the expenditure of $397,910.00 is hereby authorized from the Health Department Grants Fund, Fund No. 2251, Department of Health, Department No. 5001, per the accounting codes attached to this ordinance.
SECTION 3. That the 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 4. 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.