Explanation
BACKGROUND: This ordinance authorizes the Office of the Mayor to modify and extend three contracts, to provide additional funding and to change the current contracts ending date to January 3, 2020. Ordinance 1301-2019 accepts and appropriates additional private grant funds of $74,490.00 for the Healthy Beginnings at Home program. These contract modifications are needed for continued services for the Healthy Beginnings at Home program to meet the deliverables required by the Ohio Housing Finance Agency.
Ordinance 0861-2018 authorized the acceptance and appropriation of $990,970.00 over a two year period from the Ohio Housing Finance Agency for the administration of this program. Contracts were established with Columbus Metropolitan Housing Authority, Homeless Families Foundation and Nationwide Children’s Hospital pursuant to Ordinance 0891-2018 on April 26, 2018. The first modification to increase and extend these contracts was approved pursuant to Ordinance 3128-2018 on December 6, 2018 with a contract end term date of March 31, 2019.
Contract Purchase Additional End
Order Amount Date______
Columbus Metropolitan Housing Authority PO149593 $12,335 .00 01/03/2020
Homeless Families Foundation PO149628 $249,895.00 01/03/2020
Nationwide Children’s Hospital PO149618 $17,819.00 01/03/2020
$280,049.00
Emergency action is requested for these contract modifications in order to ensure that the work on the Healthy Beginnings at Home Housing Stabilization Program for pregnant women continues without interruption.
FISCAL IMPACT: The Healthy Beginnings at Home program is supported by public and private grants, including funds from the Ohio Housing Finance Authority Grant Fund 2220 (Grant G401801) and the CelebrateOne Fund at the Columbus Foundation (Grant #G401803) in the Private Grant Fund (No. 2291). This program does not generate any revenue or require a City match.
Title
To authorize the Office of the Mayor to modify by increasing and extending existing contracts with Columbus Metropolitan Housing Authority, Homeless Families Foundation and Nationwide Children’s Hospital to provide continued housing stabilization services to pregnant women in the Healthy Beginnings at Home program through January 3, 2020; to authorize the expenditure of $280,049.00 from Private Grant Fund (No. 2291); and to declare an emergency. ($280,049.00)
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WHEREAS, $280,409.00 in additional funding through the CelebrateOne Fund at the Columbus Foundation is needed to continue providing housing stabilization services to pregnant women in the Healthy Beginnings at Home program; and
WHEREAS, it is necessary to modify contracts with Columbus Metropolitan Housing Authority, Homeless Families Foundation and Nationwide Children’s Hospital by increasing and extending so that the housing stabilization services for pregnant women can continue under the Healthy Beginnings at Home program; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Office of the Mayor in that it is immediately necessary to increase and extend 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 and extending three current contracts through January 3, 2020 as follows:
Contract Purchase Additional End
Order Amount Date______
Columbus Metropolitan Housing Authority PO149593 $12,335.00 01/03/2020
Homeless Families Foundation PO149628 $249,895.00 01/03/2020
Nationwide Children’s Hospital PO149618 $17,819.00 01/03/2020
$280,049.00
SECTION 2. That this modification is in compliance with Section 329 of the Columbus City Code.
SECTION 3. 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 4. That the City Auditor is authorized to make any accounting changes to revise the funding source for all contracts or contract modifications.
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.