Explanation
BACKGROUND: The Office of the Mayor has been awarded funds from the CelebrateOne Fund at The Columbus Foundation. This ordinance is needed to accept and appropriate $118,000.00 in grant money to support the Healthy Beginnings at Home program for the time period of November 1, 2018 - October 31, 2019.
The funds will be used to expand the use of Community Partners to reduce infant mortality in support of the Healthy Beginnings at Home Program.
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.
FISCAL IMPACT: This ordinance accepts a grant from The Columbus Foundation in the amount of $118,000.00 to support the Healthy Beginnings at Home program. The program activity is funded in part by the CelebrateOne Fund at the Columbus Foundation and does not generate revenue nor require a City match. Grant G401901
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To authorize the Office of the Mayor to accept funds from the CelebrateOne Fund at The Columbus Foundation for support of the Healthy Beginnings at Home program in the amount of $118,000.00; to authorize the appropriation of $118,000.00 in the City's Private Grants Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($118,000.00)
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WHEREAS, $118,000.00 in grant funds have been made available to the Office of the Mayor through The Columbus Foundation; and
WHEREAS, it is necessary to accept and appropriate these funds to expand the use of Community Partners to reduce infant mortality in support of the Healthy Beginnings at Home Program, 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 Columbus Foundation , 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 T...
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