Explanation
BACKGROUND: Columbus Public Health has been awarded the 2020 Alcohol, Drug And Mental Health (ADAMH) Board of Franklin County grant contract to fund the following projects: Outpatient Treatment (General Claims); Women’s Recovery; REAL Life- Columbus Parks and Recreation Centers; Community Prevention, CPH After School/Summer; Immigrant Women’s Support Groups; School Based-Columbus Public-YES/Success; HIV Early Intervention Services (EIS), Substance Abuse General Education (SAGE); Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) and Suboxone; Harm Reduction Outreach Engagement, Prevention and Wellness-Evidence Based; Prevention and Wellness-Prevention in Schools; Performance Incentive AoD Prevention; and Performance Incentive SEL Prevention. The funding for the projects total $1,745,070.00 from ADAMH and begins January 1, 2020 through December 31, 2020.
The Alcohol and Drug Services (ADS) grant contract is primarily funded through the ADAMH Board of Franklin County but also generates the following revenues which are to be appropriated; client fees in the amount of $160,000.00 and Medicaid in the amount of $440,000.00 for a total appropriation of $2,345,070.00. These funds will enable Columbus Public Health to continue to provide treatment, counseling and prevention services to men, women, children/families, homeless population and to serve clients referred by the criminal justice system.
The Alcohol and Drug Services (ADS) prevention program will serve over 9,000 unique clients, who may receive multiple services, through Columbus City Schools, After School/Summer programs, Latina Prevention programming, Early Intervention sites, and Recreation Centers. Of this number, approximately 5,000 adults and family members will be served, and 4,000 children and adolescents will be served. The ADS Comprehensive Treatment Program will provide treatment services to approximately 1,023 men and women through the provision of Biopsychosocial Assessments, Individual, Intensive Outpatient and Outpatient counseling. 67% of the population served are men and 33% are women. Through our Outreach initiative we served 500 clients at Safe Point and other community events. The Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) program began offering services to clients in April 2019. 73 clients were referred to MAT with 59 being provided medication.
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 maintain the clients' continuity of care. Up to date financial posting promotes accurate accounting and financial management.
FISCAL IMPACT: This grant is primarily funded through the ADAMH Board of Franklin County. This program will also generate the following revenues: client fees in the amount of $160,000.00 and Medicaid in the amount of $440,000.00. This ordinance is contingent on an executed contract with the ADAMH Board.
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To authorize the Board of Health to accept the grant contract from the Alcohol, Drug And Mental Health (ADAMH) Board of Franklin County in the amount of $1,745,070.00; to authorize the appropriation of $2,345,070.00, which includes program revenues, to the Health Department in the Health Department Grants Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($2,345,070.00)
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WHEREAS, $1,745,070.00 in grant funds have been made available to the Health Department through the Alcohol, Drug And Mental Health (ADAMH) Board of Franklin County; and,
WHEREAS, the Alcohol and Drug Services (ADS) program will generate client fees in the amount of $160,000.00 and Medicaid fees in the amount of $440,000.00; and,
WHEREAS, 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 due to the grant begin date of January 1, 2020. Up to date financial posting promotes accurate accounting and financial management; and,
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of Columbus Public Health in that it is immediately necessary to accept this grant from the Alcohol, Drug Addiction and Mental Health Board of Franklin County, and to appropriate these funds to the Health Department 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 Board of Health is hereby authorized to accept grant funding of $1,745,070.00 from the Alcohol, Drug Addiction and Mental Health Board of Franklin County for the continuation of the Alcohol and Drug Services (ADS) program for the grant period January 1, 2020, through December 31, 2020.
SECTION 2. That from the unappropriated monies in the Health Department Grants Fund, Fund No. 2251, and from all monies estimated to come into said Fund from any and all sources for the period ending December 31, 2020, the sum of $2,345,070.00 is appropriated upon receipt of an executed grant agreement and any eligible interest earned during the grant period is hereby appropriated to the Health Department Grants Fund per accounting codes in the attachment to this ordinance.
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, 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 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.