Explanation
BACKGROUND: Columbus Public Health has been awarded a grant from the Central Ohio Hospital Council on behalf of the Ohio Better Birth Outcomes (OBBO) Collaboration. This ordinance is needed to accept and appropriate $100,000.00 in grant monies for the period of January 1, 2019 through December 31, 2019.
The OBBO grant program supports initiatives of the Baby and Me Tobacco Free Program at Columbus Public Health by providing funds for additional support staff. Program staff include a Program Manager Registered Nurse and additional Public Health Nurse, both maintaining certification as Tobacco Treatment Specialists. In 2018, the program enrolled 203 participants and received over 800 referrals, making it the largest Baby and Me Tobacco Free program in Ohio. Of the 2018 program participants, 95% remained smoke free through the baby’s first year of life and 90% 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 starts January 1, 2019.
FISCAL IMPACT: The OBBO grant program is fully funded ($100,000.00) by the Central Ohio Hospital Council 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 Central Ohio Hospital Council for the Ohio Better Birth Outcomes (OBBO) Collaboration grant program in the amount of $100,000.00; to authorize the appropriation of $100,000.00 to the Health Department in the Health Department’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 through the Central Ohio Hospital Council for the Ohio Better Birth Outcomes (OBBO) Collaboration grant program for the period of January 1, 2019 through December 31, 2019; and,
WHEREAS, it is necessary to accept and appropriate these funds from the Central Ohio Hospital Council for the support of the Ohio Better Birth Outcomes (OBBO) Collaboration 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 Central Ohio Hospital Council 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 $100,000.00 from the Central Ohio Hospital Council for the Ohio Better Birth Outcomes (OBBO) Collaboration grant program for the period of January 1, 2019 through December 31, 2019.
SECTION 2. That from the unappropriated monies in the Health Department's Private Grants Fund, Fund No. 2291, and from all monies estimated to come into said Fund from any and all sources 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 to the Health Department, Division No. 5001, as indicated in the ordinance attachment.
SECTION 3. 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 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. 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 be transferred back to the City fund from which they originated in accordance with all applicable grant agreements.
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.