Explanation
BACKGROUND: In an effort to continue providing City of Columbus employees with healthy lifestyle, disease prevention, and disease management programming that aligns with the Department of Human Resources “Healthy Columbus” Program, the City published a Request for Proposal in 2016 to obtain a vendor to provide tobacco cessation services to City employees and eligible adult dependents. Optum Care Solutions Inc. was recommended as the vendor to provide tobacco cessation services to City employees and eligible adult dependents. Ordinance Number 3094-2016 passed City Council on December 12, 2016 that allowed the Department of Human Resources to enter into contract with Optum Care Solutions Inc. and authorized the expenditure of $20,250. However, the overwhelming participation in the tobacco cessation program coupled with the new tobacco surcharge that will be charged to new employees hired on or after September 1, 2017 per the AFSCME and OLC contracts and October 1, 2017 for MCP, additional funds are needed to continue the program through January 31, 2018.
Emergency action is requested to ensure tobacco cessation services for city employees and eligible adult dependents are able to commence as soon as contractually possible, thereby maintaining continuity of service.
Contract compliance number is 41-1591944
FISCAL IMPACT: To authorize the appropriation of $16,000, modify the existing contract with Optum Care Solutions Inc. to increase the maximum obligation liability, and to authorize the expenditure of an additional $16,000, for a total of $36,250, for tobacco cessation services from February 1, 2017 through January 31, 2018. An analysis of revenues and expenditures for the remainder of the contract period shows a cash balance in the employee benefits fund sufficient to support this increase in appropriation.
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To authorize the City Auditor to appropriate $16,000.00 from within the unappropriated balance of the Employee Benefits Fund; t...
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