HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD-2000-049 Intensive Home Visiting Program Grant Project Ordinance Intensive Home Visiting Program
Grant Project Ordinance
Project Number 11-648
Be it ordained by the Orange County Board of County Commissioners that pursuant to Section 13.2 of
Chapter 159 of the General Statutes of North Carolina,the following grant project is hereby adopted.
Section 1. The project authorized is the Intensive Home Visiting Demonstration Program as
awarded to the Orange County Health Department by the North Carolina Division of
Women and Children's Health, Department of Health and Human Services. The planned
two-year project period continues until June 30, 2001. This grant provides funding for
3.5 permanent, time-limited positions through the grant period. The grant provides funds
to decrease child abuse and neglect, improve parent-child interaction, ensure adequate use
of preventive family support services, improve children's health h and development, and
improve the service delivery system in Orange County by decreasing fragmentation and
duplication.
Section 2. Under the terms of the agreement, Orange County will administer the grant as fiscal
agent. The officers of the County are hereby directed to proceed with the grant project
within the rules and regulations contained in the grant document, the rules and
regulations of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services and the
budget contained herein.
Section 3. The following revenue is anticipated to be available to complete this project:
Intergovenunental.(1997-98) $105,000
Intergovemmental(1998-99) $100,000
Intergovernmental(1999-00) $89,471
Total Intergovernmental $294,471
Smart Start(1998-99) $15,965
Smart Start(1999-00) $47,578
Smart Start(2000-01) $87.71
Total Smart Start $151,253
Title MX-Medicaid(1998-99) $35,178
Title MX-Medicaid(1999-00) $15,863
Title MX-Medicaid(2000-01) $56.55
Total Medicaid $107,593
Total Intensive Home Visiting Revenue $553,317
Section 4. The following amount is appropriated for this project for the two year period:
Intensive Home Visiting(1997-98) $105,000
Intensive Home Visiting (1998-99) $151,143
Intensive Home Visiting (1999-00) $152,912
Intensive Home Visiting (2000-01) $144.262
Intensive Home Visiting Appropriation $553,317
Section 5. The finance officer is hereby directed to maintain within the grant project sufficient
specific detailed accounting records to provide the accounting to the grantor agency
required by the grant agreement and federal and state regulations.
Section 6. Funds may be advanced from the general fund for the purpose of making payments due.
Reimbursement requests.should be made to the grantor agency in an orderly and timely
manner.
Section 7. Copies of this grant project ordinance shall be made available to the finance officer for
direction in carrying out this project.
Section 8. Positions authorized through this grant project ordinance include:
1.0 Full-time Equivalent Position—Public Health Nurse
2.0 Full-time Equivalent Position—Social Workers
0.5 Full-time Equivalent Position—Office Assistant
These positions are authorized through June 30,2001.
Section 9. This project ordinance is in effect until June 30,2001.
Adopted this 29'day of June 2000
The Board approved a lease for Suite 105 at 501 West Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, NC to
Brokerage Resource, Inc. for$1,100.00 per month and taxes-in-lieu of$100 per month.
y. Bid Award_Leachate Collection Piping
The Board awarded a bid for Leachate Collection Piping for$26,241.33.
Z. Bid Award_Orange Count v Landfill Phase 4 Construction Geosynthetics
The Board awarded a bid for Phase 4 Construction - Geosynthetics at the Orange County
Landfill to Clary Hood, Inc. of Kissimmee, Florida in the amount of$346,000 and authorized the
Purchasing Director to execute the necessary paperwork, and authorized the County Manager to
execute change orders as may be necessary during the course of the installation, to the extent project
funds are available for this work.
Other bids received are listed below:
Reynolds - $432,500
Clary Hood - $346,000
Plastic Fusion - $450,479
Serrot International, Inc. - $457,906.60
aa. Budget Amendment#13
The Board approved budget ordinance amendments, grant project ordinance, and a capital
project ordinance for fiscal year 1999-2000.
bb. Adoption of 2000-2001 Grant and Capital Project Ordinances
The Board approved grant project ordinances and selected capital project ordinances in
accordance with the actions taken by the Board of Commissioners at the June 20, 2000 budget work
session.
cc. Change in Board of Commissioners' Meeting Schedule
The Board approved a change in the Board of Commissioners' meeting schedule to change
the joint meeting with the two school boards from September 21, 2000 to September 25, 2000.
VOTE ON THE CONSENT AGENDA: UNANIMOUS
ITEMS REMOVED FROM THE CONSENT AGENDA
b. Minutes
A motion was made by Commissioner Gordon, seconded by Commissioner Jacobs to
approve the highlighted draft of the minutes for March 21St and the minutes for March 23`d with the
changes as shown on the green sheet.
VOTE: UNANIMOUS
m. Contract for Orange Count v Video Production
The Board considered approving a contract with Horizon Video Productions, Inc. to produce a
10-12 minute video about Orange County's departments and services to be presented at new employee
and board and commission orientation sessions, to citizens on cable access television, and to
community, civic, and educational groups.
Commissioner Brown said that her interest in this was that the Commissioners have not had
any opportunity to discuss it and what it would be like. She would either like to hold this item and the
next item to have a presentation on it, or to put some very specific language in the contract specifying
when the Commissioners would be part of the review process.
Commissioner Jacobs said that there were three separate communication efforts going on —a
message to the people, an update of the web site, and this video. He does not see that these three are
in any way coordinated and he would like to see it be a coherent message.
Commissioner Gordon said that there could be some language added to say that the video,
the web site, and the message to the people would articulate a common and coherent theme and
message. Also, the Board of Commissioners would approve the effort at key intervals to be identified by
the Commissioners. This common theme is specified in the Strategic Communications Plan.
Commissioner Brown suggested having a presentation on both of the project concepts—the
web site design and the video—by the proposed companies so that the Commissioners could see what
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