Explanation
Background:
The Central Ohio Area Agency on Aging of the Recreation and Parks Department was awarded federal and state grants from the Ohio Department of Aging for the continuation of services to older adults in the Central Ohio area including Delaware, Fairfield, Fayette, Franklin, Licking, Madison, Pickaway and Union Counties.
This legislation authorizes 28 community services contracts for the provision of meals, adult day care, homemaker, personal care, transportation, home repair and legal services for the period January 1, 2021 through December 31, 2021.
The Central Ohio Area Agency selected service providers from proposals submitted July 2019, and these contracts represent the third year of a four-year proposal period. Approximately 20,000 individuals are expected to be served.
Emergency Justification: Emergency action is requested in order to have the contracts in place by January 1, 2021 as stipulated in the grant requirements, so there is no interruption of services to older adults.
Fiscal Impact: $6,310,000.00 is required and budgeted from the Recreation and Parks Grant Fund to meet the financial obligation of these contracts.
Title
To authorize and direct the Director of Recreation and Parks to enter into contracts with 28 community agencies to provide social and nutrition services to older adults in Central Ohio during 2021; to authorize the expenditure of $6,310,000.00 from the Recreation and Parks Grant Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($6,310,000.00)
Body
WHEREAS, funding to enter into contract with community agencies to provide social and nutrition services to older adults in Central Ohio during 2021 was made available to the Central Ohio Area Agency on Aging from the Ohio Department of Aging; and
WHEREAS, it is necessary to authorize the Director of the Department of Recreation and Parks to enter into 28 community services contracts for the provision of meals, adult day care, homemaker, personal care, transportation, home repair and legal services for the period January 1, 2021 through December 31, 2021; 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 to avoid interruption of services to older adults, thereby preserving 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 Director of Recreation and Parks is hereby authorized and directed to enter into 28 contracts for the provision of social and nutrition services to older adults in Central Ohio from January 1, 2021 through December 31, 2021 with the following community agencies:
Bridges Community Action Partnership (Delaware, Madison, Licking)
CAC of Fayette County
Carol Strawn Center (Licking)
Catholic Social Services (Franklin and Licking)
Clintonville-Beechwold Community Resource Center (Franklin)
Easter Seals (Area-wide)
Employment for Seniors (Franklin)
FairHope (Fairfield)
Fayette County Commissioners
Franklin County Commissioners - Franklin County Office on Aging
Harmony Information Systems/Wellsky (Area-wide)
Heritage Day Health Center (Franklin)
Interim Health Care (Fayette, Madison, Union)
LEADS (Licking)
Legal Aid Society (Delaware, Franklin, Madison, Union)
Licking County Aging Program
LifeCare Alliance (Franklin and Madison)
Madison County Senior Center
Meals on Wheels-Older Adult Alternatives of Fairfield County
Memorial Hospital of Union County
Ohio Living Home Health and Hospice (Franklin)
Ohio State University College of Social Work (Franklin)
Ohio State Legal (Fairfield, Pickaway, Licking, Fayette)
PICCA (Pickaway)
Pickaway County Commission on Aging
Salvation Army (Fairfield)
SourcePoint (Delaware)
Union County Senior Services
SECTION 2. That these contracts were awarded pursuant to City Code Section 329.29-.30 relating to non-profit service contracts.
SECTION 3. That to pay the cost of said contracts, the expenditure of $6,310,000.00 or so much thereof as may be necessary, be and is hereby authorized from and within Recreation and Parks Grant Fund No. 2286, per the accounting codes in the attachment to this ordinance.
SECTION 4. 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 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 6. That for the reasons stated in the preamble hereto, which is hereby made a part thereof, 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.