Explanation
BACKGROUND: This ordinance will authorize the Director of Recreation and Parks to enter into various contracts to provide PASSPORT home care and assisted living services for older adults in Central Ohio for the first year of a two year period beginning July 1, 2020 through June 30, 2021. There are four hundred and thirty eight (438) PASSPORT and assisted living agencies that provide services to older adults in accordance to the Ohio Department of Aging contracting requirements (See attachment). PASSPORT (Pre Admission Screening System Providing Options and Resources Today) is a Medicaid funded program that provides home care services as an alternative to nursing home admission and currently serves 8,000 individuals.
EMERGENCY DESIGNATION: Emergency action is requested in order to meet the conditions of the grant so that providers can be paid within 30 days of providing service, and so that services can continue beyond June 30, 2020. This ordinance is contingent on passage of ordinance 1395-2020.
PRINCIPAL PARTIES: See attached list of 438 providers.
FISCAL IMPACT: $60,500,000.00 is available from and within the Recreation and Parks Grant Fund to enter into these contracts.
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To authorize and direct the Director of Recreation and Parks to enter into various contracts for the provision of Pre Admission Screening System Providing Options and Resources Today (PASSPORT) home care and assisted living services for older adults in Central Ohio; to authorize the expenditure of $60,500,000.00 from the Recreation and Parks Grant Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($60,500,000.00)
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WHEREAS, PASSPORT (Pre Admission Screening System Providing Options and Resources Today) is a Medicaid funded program that provides home care services as an alternative to nursing home admission and currently serves 8,000 individuals; and
WHEREAS, there are four hundred and thirty eight (438) PASSPORT and assisted living agencies that provide services to older adults in accordance to the Ohio Department of Aging contracting requirements; and
WHEREAS, it is necessary to authorize the Director of Recreation and Parks to enter into various contracts to provide PASSPORT home care and assisted living services for older adults in Central Ohio for the first year of a two year period beginning July 1, 2020 through June 30, 2021; and
WHEREAS, the funds to enter into said contracts have been made available from the Ohio Department of Aging; and
WHEREAS, it is necessary to authorize the expenditure of $60,500,000.00 from the Recreation and Parks Grant Fund; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Recreation and Parks Department in that it is immediately necessary to authorize the Director to enter into said contracts so there is no interruption of Medicaid funded services for PASSPORT and assisted living clients, thereby preserving the public health, peace, property, safety and welfare; NOW, THERFORE
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That the Director of Recreation and Parks is hereby authorized and directed to enter into various contracts for the provision of PASSPORT home care and assisted living services for older adults in Central Ohio for the first year of a two year period beginning July 1, 2020 through June 30, 2021.
SECTION 2. That the expenditure of $60,500,000.00 or so much thereof as may be necessary, be and is hereby authorized from Recreation and Parks Grant Fund No. 2286, Department No. 51, to pay the cost thereof, per the accounting codes in the attachment to this ordinance.
SECTION 3. 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 4. That the City Auditor is authorized to make any accounting changes to revise the funding source for all contracts or contract modifications associated with this legislation.
SECTION 5. That the City Auditor will release the Auditor's Certificate upon receipt of an executed grant agreement.
SECTION 6. That for the 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 passage and approval by the Mayor, or ten days after passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes same.