Explanation
BACKGROUND: This ordinance authorizes the Board of Health to enter into a not-for-profit contract with Mental Health America of Ohio to provide fiscal agent services to Columbus Public Health’s One Block at a Time (OBAT) program for an amount not to exceed $100,000.00.
The OBAT program is a micro community intervention aimed at increasing the health and wellness of one block in the Linden area. OBAT requires a fiscal agent due to the nature of the interventions, including meeting emergent needs for residents, purchasing and providing items and food for block events, supporting home repairs and physical improvements, gift cards, and other program incidentals.
Columbus Public Health and it's staff are not able to provide fiscal agent services to this program due to the nature of the purchases and lack of capacity to facilitate the numerous procurement requests associated with the program. It is in the best interest of the City and the community that these services be rendered under a not-for-profit contract with Mental Health America of Ohio.
The contract period is from April 1, 2024 through March 31, 2025.
Mental Health America of Ohio is a nonprofit entity and is exempt from contract compliance certification.
Emergency action is being requested in order to avoid a gap in this critical service and to meet the ongoing demands of the intervention activities provided by the Columbus Public Health One Block at a Time program within the Linden community.
FISCAL IMPACT: Expenditures to provide these services are budgeted in the 2024 Health Special Revenue Fund, Fund No. 2250, contingent upon passage of Ordinance 3012-2023. ($100,000.00)
Title
To authorize the Board of Health to enter into a not-for-profit services contract with Mental Health America of Ohio to provide fiscal agent services to Columbus Public Health’s One Block at a Time (OBAT) program; to authorize an expenditure from the Health Special Revenue Fund to pay the costs thereof; ...
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