Explanation
This ordinance authorizes the Office of the Mayor to modify three contracts to provide additional funding in the amount of $27,766.00 collectively as outlined below and keep current contract end date as December 31, 2018. Those modifications are needed for Community Health Workers as part of the deliverables in the CelebrateOne Community Connector Corps Project.
Additional Funding
Contract Amount End Date
SomaliCAN $7,258.00 12/31/2018
First Church of God $7,258.00 12/31/2018
The Columbus Urban League $13,250.00 12/31/2018
$27,766.00
Every year in Franklin County, approximately 150 babies die before their first birthday. While national infant mortality rates are decreasing, in 2014, Ohio ranked 12th worst in the nation for overall infant mortality. In 2017, infant motality rate was 8.2, far exceeding the national Health People 2020 goal of 6.0.
Emergency action is requested for these contract modifications in order to ensure that the work on reducing infant mortality is not interrupted.
FISCAL IMPACT: The funds for these contract modifications are budgeted within the City’s Private Grants Fund, Fund Number 2291.
Title
To authorize the Mayor’s Office to modify by increasing three existing contracts to provide Community Health Workers for the CelebrateOne Community Connector Corps Project through December 31, 2018; to authorize the expenditure of $27,766.00 from the City’s Private Grant Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($27,766.00)
Body
WHEREAS, $27,766.00 in additional funds are needed for the continuation Community Health Workers; and,
WHEREAS, it is necessary to modify three contracts by increasing the contract amount so that the Community Health Workers can continue with the City’s CelebrateOne program; and,
WHEREAS, this ordinance is being submitted as an emergency measure so that timely services can proceed without interruption; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Office of the Mayor in that it is immediately necessary to modify three current contracts 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 modify by increasing three current contracts through December 31, 2018 as follows:
Additional Funding
Contract Amount End Date
SomaliCAN $7,258.00 12/31/2018
First Church of God $7,258.00 12/31/2018
The Columbus Urban League $13,250.00 12/31/2018
$27,766.00
SECTION 2. That, to pay the costs of said modification; the expenditure of $27,766.00 is hereby authorized from the City’s Private Grants Fund, Fund No. 2291, per the accounting codes in the attachment to this ordinance.
SECTION 3. That this modification is in compliance with Section 329 of the Columbus City Code.
SECTION 4. 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 5. 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