Explanation
BACKGROUND: This ordinance authorizes the Office of the Mayor to accept a grant award in the amount of $100,000 from the Central Ohio Hospital Council to support operations of CelebrateOne. The effective dates of the grant period is April 1, 2018 through March 30, 2019. This ordinance is needed to accept and appropriate $100,000.00 in grant money to support the CelebrateOne operations.
EMERGENCY DESIGNATION: This ordinance is submitted as an emergency so as to allow the financial transaction to be posted in the City's accounting system as soon as possible to meet the grant deliverables. Up to date financial posting promotes accurate accounting and financial management.
FISCAL IMPACT: The program activity is funded by the Central Ohio Hospital Council, on behalf of the Ohio Better Birth Outcomes and does not generate revenue or require a City match.
Title
To authorize the Office of the Mayor to accept funds from the Central Ohio Hospital Council on behalf of the Ohio Better Birth Outcomes, in the amount of $100,000.00 to support the operational capacity of the CelebrateOne Office; to authorize the appropriation of $100,000.00 to the City's Private Grants Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($100,000.00)
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WHEREAS, $100,000.00 in grant funds have been made available to the Office of the Mayor, CelebrateOne office through the Central Ohio Hospital Council, on behalf of the Ohio Better Birth Outcomes program; and
WHEREAS, these grant proceeds will be used to to support the operational capacity of the CelebrateOne Office; and
WHEREAS, this ordinance authorizes the Office of the Mayor to accept the grant award, and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of Office of the Mayor in that it is immediately necessary to accept this grant from the Central Ohio Hospital Council on behalf of the Ohio Better Birth Outcomes, and to appropriate these funds to the Office of the Mayor 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 of $100,000.00 from the Central Ohio Hospital Council on behalf of the Ohio Better Birth Outcomes collaborative for the time period of April 1, 2018-March 30, 2019.
SECTION 2. That from the unappropriated monies in the Fund known as the City's Private Grants Fund, Fund No. 2291, 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 $100,000.00, and any eligible interest earned during the grant period, is hereby appropriated upon receipt of an executed grant agreement in Fund 2291, to the Office of the Mayor, Division No. 40-01, per the accounting codes attached to this ordinance.
SECTION 3. That the monies appropriated in the foregoing Section 2 shall be paid upon the order of the Office of the Mayor, 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 4. 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 originated 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 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.