Explanation
BACKGROUND: The Office of CelebrateOne has been awarded funds from the CelebrateOne Community Fund and the Nationwide Foundation at the Columbus Foundation. This ordinance is needed to accept and appropriate $141,000.00 in grant money to support continued work on the Connector Corps and Healthy Beginnings at Home Programs.
The Healthy Beginnings at Home program provides housing stabilization services to Medicaid eligible pregnant women to improve better birth outcomes. The Connector Corps also improves better birth outcomes through home visits and other related services to help pregnant women and infants to their first birthday.
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 meet the grant deliverables. Up to date financial posting promotes accurate accounting and financial management.
FISCAL IMPACT: The program activity is funded in part by the CelebrateOne Fund at the Columbus Foundation and does not generate revenue nor require a City match. The funds will be deposited into Private Grant Fund 2291.
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To authorize and direct the Executive Director, Office of CelebrateOne, to accept funds from the Columbus Foundation, in the amount of $141,000.00 to support programs within CelebrateOne; to authorize the appropriation of $141,000.00 to the City's Private Grants Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($141,000.00)
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WHEREAS, $141,000.00 in Private grant funds have been made available to the Office of CelebrateOne through The Columbus Foundation in support of the Connector Corps and Healthy Beginnings at Home programs and,
WHEREAS, $66,000.00 will be used for support of the Connector Corps program and $75,000 will be used to support the Healthy Beginnings at Home program: 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 to meet grant deliverables. Up to date financial posting promotes accurate accounting and financial management; and,
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Office of CelebrateOne in that it is immediately necessary to authorize the Director to accept this grant from the Columbus Foundation, and to appropriate these funds to the Office of CelebrateOne so as to allow the financial transaction to be posted in the City's accounting system as soon as possible to meet the grant deliverables, 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 Executive Director, Office of CelebrateOne, is hereby authorized and directed to accept a grant award of $141,000.00 from the Columbus Foundation in support of the Connector Corps and Healthy Beginnings at Home programs.
SECTION 2. That from the unappropriated monies in the Fund known as the City's Private Grants Fund, Fund No. 2291, and from all monies estimated to come into said Fund from any and all sources and unappropriated for any other purpose during the grant period, the sum of $141,000.00, and any eligible interest earned during the grant period, is hereby appropriated upon receipt of an executed grant agreement in Fund 2291, to the Office of CelebrateOne , Division No. 40-01, per the accounting codes attached to this ordinance.
SECTION 3. That the monies appropriated in the foregoing Section 2 shall be paid upon the order of the Office of CelebrateOne, 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. 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.