Explanation
BACKGROUND: Columbus Public Health’s Environmental Health Division has been awarded a grant from the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency. This ordinance is needed to accept and appropriate $28,865.00 in grant money to fund the Air Monitoring Education Project grant, for the period January 1, 2018 through December 31, 2019.
The Air Monitoring Education Project will monitor outdoor air quality in selected neighborhood locations and provide educational information to Columbus residents on general levels of criteria for pollutants found. The goal of the project is to use data collected from two neighborhood-based air monitoring sensor stations - together with supplemental information - to increase awareness about outdoor air quality and pollution, it’s possible impacts to people and wildlife, and to offer strategies that can both reduce residents’ individual contribution to air pollution and potential harmful exposures when high levels of pollution are present.
This ordinance is submitted as an emergency to begin the air monitoring education project by the beginning of 2018, as stated in the grant agreement.
FISCAL IMPACT: The Air Monitoring Education Project is entirely funded by the grant from the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency 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 Ohio Environmental Protection Agency in the amount of $28,865.00 for the Air Monitoring Education Project, to monitor outdoor air quality in selected neighborhoods; to authorize the appropriation of $28,865.00 from the unappropriated balance of the Health Department Grants Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($28,865.00)
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WHEREAS, $28,865.00 in grant funds have been made available through the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency for the Air Monitoring Education Project for the period of January 1, 2018 through December 31, 2019; and
WHEREAS, it is necessary to accept and app...
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