Explanation
BACKGROUND: This ordinance is needed to accept and appropriate a total of $1,700,000.00 in grant money and anticipated fee revenue to fund the Reproductive Health and Wellness grant program (RHWP), for the period April 1, 2024 through March 31, 2025. Columbus Public Health (CPH) has been awarded a grant from the Ohio Department of Health in the amount of $750,000.00. Program fees and revenues are anticipated to be $950,000.00.
The Reproductive Health and Wellness Program will allow for family planning and reproductive health services including contraception, cancer screening and sexual health. Eligible patients include men, women and adolescents.
This ordinance is submitted as an emergency to avoid forfeiture of the grant; to meet the deliverables of the grant; and to avoid disruption of family planning and reproductive health services which aid in preventing the spread of infectious diseases affecting public health and safety;
FISCAL IMPACT: The Reproductive Health and Wellness Program is funded by the Ohio Department of Health (grant award of $750,000.00) and program fee revenues are estimated to be $950,000.00.
Title
To authorize the Board of Health to accept a Reproductive Health and Wellness Program Grant from the Ohio Department of Health; to authorize the appropriation of $1,700,000.00 in grant money and fee revenues from the unappropriated balance of the Health Department Grants Fund; to authorize the expenditures of said grant fund; and to declare an emergency. ($1,700,000.00)
Body
WHEREAS, $750,000.00 in grant funds have been made available to the City through the Ohio Department of Health for the Reproductive Health and Wellness Program for the period of April 1, 2024 through March 31, 2025; and,
WHEREAS, it is anticipated that $950,000.00 will be collected from fee revenue; and,
WHEREAS, it is necessary to accept and appropriate these funds from the Ohio Department of Health for the support of the Reproductive...
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