Explanation
BACKGROUND:
This ordinance authorizes the Director of Development to execute a grant agreement with Mid-Ohio Food Bank dba Mid-Ohio Food Collective, in an amount up to $35,000.00, to support the NBC4 Urban Farm.
The NBC4 Urban Farm will serve food insecure residents that largely consist of refugees and new Americans and provide an opportunity for them to grow healthy, fresh produce feet from their doors. Programming in future years will expand availability of garden plots. Excess food production will be distributed via the Mid-Ohio Food Collective network throughout the neighborhood. The initial build out will be completed in the spring of 2022 to include community garden beds, vertical towers, walkways, gravel parking lot, and shed for equipment storage.
Emergency action is necessary to allow program services to be implemented without delay.
FISCAL IMPACT: Funding is available within the Neighborhood Initiatives subfund ($35,000.00).
CONTRACT COMPLIANCE: the vendor number is 004402 and expires November, 2022.
Title
To authorize the Director of Development to execute a grant agreement with Mid-Ohio Food Bank, dba Mid-Ohio Food Collective, in an amount up to $35,000.00 to support the NBC4 Urban Farm; to authorize the appropriation of $35,000.00 within the Neighborhood Initiatives subfund; to authorize an expenditure of $35,000.00 from the General Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($35,000.00)
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WHEREAS, the NBC4 Urban Farm will address social determinants of health for neighbors while simultaneously addressing food insecurity; and
WHEREAS, the NBC Urban Farm will serve food insecure residents that largely consist of refugees and new Americans and provide an opportunity for them to grow healthy, fresh produce feet from their doors; and
WHEREAS, the Director of the Department of Development desires to enter into a grant agreement with Mid-Ohio Food Bank dba Mid-Ohio Food Collective for the NBC4 Urban Farm program; and
WHEREAS, an em...
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