Explanation
BACKGROUND: Columbus Public Health has been awarded a grant from the Franklin County Board of Health to provide tobacco cessation services for the Community Cessation Initiative. This ordinance is needed to accept and appropriate $26,000.00 in grant monies for the period of November 1, 2017 through October 31, 2018.
The Franklin County CCI Grant program will support initiatives of the Baby and Me Tobacco Free Smoking Cessation Program at Columbus Public Health by providing funds for additional support staff and supplies. Currently, the program is managed and administered by one Public Health Nurse who maintains certification as a tobacco treatment specialist. Between 2015 and 2016, enrollment in the program increased from 38 to 97 participants. Of the 2016 program graduates, 87% remained smoke free through the baby’s first year of life. Also, 100% of the program graduates delivered full-term, healthy babies.
This ordinance is submitted as an emergency so a delay in service does not occur since the grant started November 1, 2017.
FISCAL IMPACT: The Franklin County CCI grant program is fully funded ($26,000.00) by the Franklin County Board of Health and does not require a City match.
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To authorize and direct the Board of Health to accept a grant from the Franklin County Board of Health to provide tobacco cessation services for the Community Cessation Initiative grant program in the amount of $26,000.00; to authorize the appropriation of $26,000.00 to the Health Department in the Health Department Grants Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($26,000.00)
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WHEREAS, $26,000.00 in grant funds have been made available through the Franklin County Board of Health Community Cessation Initiative grant program for the period of November 1, 2017 through October 31, 2018; and
WHEREAS, it is necessary to accept and appropriate these funds from the Franklin County Board of Health for the support of the Community Cessation Initiative grant program; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of Columbus Public Health in that it is immediately necessary to accept these grant funds from the Franklin County Board of Health and to appropriate these funds to Columbus Public Health for the immediate preservation of the public health, property, safety and welfare, and to avoid delay in client services; 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 $26,000.00 from the Franklin County Board of Health Community Cessation Initiative grant program for the period of November 1, 2017 through October 31, 2018.
SECTION 2. That from the unappropriated monies in the Health Department Grant Fund, Fund No. 2251, and from all monies estimated to come into said Fund from any and all sources and unappropriated for any other purpose during the grant period, the sum of $26,000.00 and any eligible interest earned during the grant period is hereby appropriated upon receipt of an executed grant agreement to the Health Department, Division No. 5001, as indicated in the ordinance attachment.
SECTION 3. That, 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 4. 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 5. That 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.