Explanation
BACKGROUND: The Office of the Mayor has been awarded a grant from the Ohio Department of Medicaid, in partnership with Ohio's Five Managed Care Plans. This ordinance is needed to accept and appropriate $3,331,483.24 in grant monies to fund the Enhanced Maternal Health Program for the period April 1, 2018 through June 30, 2019.
Under this initiative, the Ohio Department of Medicaid, in partnership with the Medicaid Managed Care Plans, has awarded $3,331,483.24 to CelebrateOne and the City of Columbus to coordinate the Enhanced Maternal Health Program in Franklin County. This program supports the expansion of Centering Pregnancy services offered by PrimaryOne Health Centers, as well as the hiring of community health workers who have completed a CelebrateOne Community Connector internship. These community health workers will support the Healthy Beginnings at Home housing stabilization program, as well as the expansion of home visiting services through Columbus Public Health and Nationwide Children's Hospital. Furthermore, workers will provide operational support for StepOne, the prenatal appointment and scheduling service operated by Physicians Care Connection as well as the ongoing support of MOMS2B weekly support sessions in the eight CelebrateOne neighborhoods.
The $3,331,483.24 will be appropriated across both the Office of the Mayor and Columbus Public Health; with $850,244.24 appropriated to Columbus Public Health for retaining and expanding community health workers and $691,167.00 for increasing the capacity of Moms & Babies First home visiting program. With respect to the Office of the Mayor, $1,642,228.00 will be appropriated for the purpose of contracting with community service providers that were approved by the Ohio Department of Medicaid. The balance of $147,844.00 will be appropriated to the Office of the Mayor for community health workers related to Healthy Beginnings at Home program and the coordination and project management for the Enhanced Maternal Health Program.
EMERGENCY ACTION: This ordinance is submitted as an emergency as to not delay program services and to allow the financial transactions to be posted to the City’s accounting system as soon as possible.
FISCAL IMPACT: This ordinance authorizes the acceptance and appropriation of $3,331,483.24 in Ohio Department of Medicaid grant monies to fund the Enhanced Maternal Health Program. This program does not generate any revenue or require a City match.
Title
To authorize the Office of the Mayor and the Columbus Board of Health to accept a grant from the Ohio Department of Medicaid for the Enhanced Maternal Health Program in the amount of $3,331,483.24; to authorize the appropriation of $3,331,483.24 from the unappropriated balance of the General Government Grants Fund 2220; and to declare an emergency. ($3,331,483.24)
Body
WHEREAS, $3,331,483.24 in grant funds have been made available through the Ohio Department of Medicaid for the Enhanced Maternal Health Program for the period of April 1, 2018 through June 30, 2019; and
WHEREAS, it is necessary to accept and appropriate these funds from the Ohio Department of Medicaid for the Enhanced Maternal Health program; and
WHEREAS, this ordinance is being submitted as an emergency measure so that timely services can begin and to allow the financial transactions to be posted in the City’s accounting system as soon as possible given the start date of April 1, 2018; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Office of the Mayor in that it is immediately necessary to accept these grant funds from the Ohio Department of Medicaid 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 Office of the Mayor is hereby authorized to accept a grant award totaling $3,331,483.24 from the Ohio Department of Medicaid for the Enhanced Maternal Health Program for the period of April 1, 2018 through June 30, 2019.
SECTION 2. That from the unappropriated monies in the General Government Grants Fund No. 2220, and from all monies estimated to come into said Fund from any and all sources during the grant period, the sum of $3,331,483.24 is hereby appropriated to the Office of the Mayor, Department 40 and Columbus Public Health, Department 50, according to the attached accounting document.
SECTION 3. That the monies appropriated in the foregoing Section 2 shall be paid upon order of the Office of the Mayor and the Columbus Board of Health and that no order shall be drawn or money paid except upon voucher, the form of which shall be approved by the City Auditor.
SECTION 4. 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, if applicable, may be transferred back to the City fund from which they originate in accordance with all applicable grant agreements.
SECTION 5. 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 6. That for reasons stated in the preamble hereto, which is hereby made a part hereof, this ordinance is hereby 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.