Explanation
The purpose of this legislation is to ensure consistency between Chapter 2331 of the Columbus City Codes, 1959, which prohibits discrimination and discriminatory practices against various protected classes of individuals and Title 39 of the Columbus City Codes, 1959, which promotes equal opportunity in contracting in the City. Title 39 contains a older definition of discrimination that omits the categories of age, disability, sex, gender identity or expression, familial status, and military status. Because it is the intention of the City to protect the categories of individuals that were added to Chapter 2331 in 2008, it is necessary to amend Title 39 to reflect this policy. Furthermore, it was discovered that that two definitions contained in Section 2331.01 were inadvertently missed in the 2008 revision to Chapter 2331. This ordinance will correct these errors.
Fiscal Impact: None.
Title
To amend Section 2331.01 and various sections of Title 39 of the Columbus City Codes, 1959, to clarify the additional protected classes of individuals that are intended to be protected from discriminatory practices.
Body
WHEREAS, Columbus City Council passed Ordinance No. 1865-2008 in order to expand the categories of protected classes of individuals intended to be covered under Chapter 2331 of the Columbus City Codes, 1959, which prohibits discrimination and discriminatory practices; and
WHEREAS, Title 39 of the Columbus City Codes, 1959, which promotes equal opportunity in the area of contracting in the City of Columbus contains an outdated definition of discrimination in that it does not include the additional protected classes covered by the 2008 legislation; and
WHEREAS, in the course of reconciling these definitions of discrimination, it was discovered that there were some unintentional omissions contained in the newer version of Chapter 2331 that should be addressed; and
WHEREAS, this ordinance will reconcile these incon...
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