Explanation
This ordinance authorizes Columbus City Council to enter into contract with The Columbus Foundation in support of programming to provide treatment for those afflicted with opiate addiction.
This funding will serve as seed money for a new area of impact fund dedicated toward supporting treatment options for opiate addiction. The city, county, and regional partners are currently engaged in the execution of the Opiate Action Plan, a multimodal approach to mitigating and eradicating the scourge of opiate addiction that is currently impacting neighborhoods. In alignment with the Opiate Action Plan, this new fund will accept contributions and other remittances to be earmarked for treatment programs.
Fiscal Impact: Funding is available within the Public Safety Initatives subfund.
Title
To authorize Columbus City Council to enter into contract with The Columbus Foundation in support of programming to provide treatment for those afflicted with opiate addiction; and to authorize an appropriation and expenditure within the Public Safety Initiatives subfund. ($10,000.00)
Body
WHEREAS, the ongoing epidemic of opiate addiction continues to have a severe and detrimental impact on neighborhoods throughout the city, and
WHEREAS, the city, county, and regional partners are currently engaged in the execution of the Opiate Action Plan, a multimodal approach to mitigating and eradicating the scourge of opiate addiction; and
WHEREAS, Columbus City Council will provide seed money for a new fund, housed within The Columbus Foundation, dedicated toward the support of treatment of opiate addiction; and
WHEREAS, it has become necessary in the usual daily operation of the City to authorize Columbus City Council to enter into contract with The Columbus Foundation, for the public, health, safety and welfare; now, therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That City Council is hereby authorized to enter into contract with The Columbus ...
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