89-07 Emergency Preparedness Grants

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ORDINANCE NO: 89-07 BY: Antonio, Butler, Demro, Dever, FitzGerald, Madigan, Seelie. AN ORDINANCE to take effect immediately provided it receives the affirmative vote of at least five (5) members elected to Councii, otherwise, it shall take effect and be in force after the earliest period allowed by law to enact a new Section, titled Emergency Preparedness Grants, within Chapter 111, Purchasing and Contracting, of the lakewood Codified Ordinances relative to authorizing the Department of Human Services to apply for and accept health emergency preparedness planning grants from the Ohio Department of Health or the Cuyahoga County Board of Health, and authorizing the Mayor to enter into contracts for such grants, when no matching funds from the City are required. WHEREAS, the City of lakewood has established through its Charter and ordinances a City Health District, which is administered through the City's Department of Human Services/Division of Health; and WHEREAS, the City's Department of Human Services/Division of Heaith is partially funded through grants from the State of Ohio Department of Health (ODH), and the Cuyahoga County Board of Health (CCBH), and said agencies from time to time provide grants for emergency preparedness planning to protect the public health; and WHEREAS, an example of such emergency preparedness planning grant funds is pandemic fiu money obtained by ODH from the federai Center for Disease Controi (CDC) on behalf of local Health Districts, including the City, which funds are distributed to the county and local districts, often on a per-capita basis, without submission of a grant application, and such grants are made with little advance notice to allow time to seek authority to accept such grants through this Council; and [ WHEREAS, this Councii has determined that it is in the best interests of the health of the citizens of the City to authorize the City and its Department of Health to apply for, accept and enter into contracts for various health emergency preparedness planning grants from the Ohio Department of Health or the Cuyahoga County Board of Health, where no City matching funds are required under the grant agreement; and WHEREAS, this Council by a vote of at least five (5) members elected thereto determines that this ordinance is an emergency measure, and that this ordinance shall take effect at the earliest date possible as set forth in ARTICLE III, SECTONS 10 and 13 of the SECOND AMENDED CHARTER OF THE CITY OF LAKEWOOD, and that it is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public property, heaith and safety, and to provide for the usual daily operation of municipal departments in that the grant year began September 1, 2007. Now Therefore, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF LAKEWOOD, STATE OF OHIO Section 1. That a new Section, titled Emergency Preparedness Grants, within Chapter 111, Purchasing and Contracting, of the Codified Ordinances of the City of Lakewood is hereby enacted to read as follows: 111.12 Emergency Preparedness Grants.