Explanation
This ordinance authorizes the City Clerk to enter into a grant agreement with Saint Stephen Community Services, Inc. in support of Christmas Cares/Unions Share.
Christmas Cares/Unions Share is a collaboration between St. Stephen's Community House and the Central Ohio Labor Council as well as many community partners. The goal of the program is to help with food insecurity during the Christmas Holiday through the distribution of a 100-pound food basket to those households who are finding themselves in a financial hardship due to job layoffs, fixed/stretched incomes, evictions, or rising costs of rent and utilities.
Emergency action is necessary to plan for the event on December 20-22, 2024.
Fiscal Impact: $75,000.00 will be appropriated and expended from available funds within the Neighborhood Initiatives subfund.
Title
To authorize the City Clerk to enter into a grant agreement with Saint Stephen Community Services, Inc. in support of Christmas Cares/Unions Share; to authorize an appropriation and expenditure within the Neighborhood Initiatives subfund; and to declare an emergency. ($75,000.00)
Body
WHEREAS, Christmas Cares/Unions Share is a collaboration between St. Stephen's Community House and the Central Ohio Labor Council as well as many community partners; and
WHEREAS, the goal of the program is to help with food insecurity during the Christmas Holiday through the distribution of a 100-pound food basket to those households who are finding themselves in a financial hardship due to job layoffs, fixed/stretched incomes, evictions, or rising costs of rent and utilities; and
WHEREAS, this is the 70th year of Christmas Care/Unions Share; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Clerk's Office in that it is immediately necessary to authorize the Clerk to ensure the St. Stephen's Community Services, Inc. has the funds to plan for the Christmas Cares/Unions Share event on December 20-22, 2024, for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, property, and safety; NOW, THEREFORE,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That the City Clerk is hereby authorized to enter into a grant agreement with Saint Stephen Community Services, Inc. in support of Christmas Cares/Unions Share.
SECTION 2. That the appropriation and expenditure of $75,000.00, or so much thereof as may be needed pursuant to the action authorized in SECTION 1, is authorized in the Neighborhood Initiatives subfund, fund 1000, subfund 100018, per the accounting codes in the attachment to this ordinance. That all or part of said expenditure may be used for the purpose of procuring food and non-alcoholic beverages, which City Council hereby finds to be for a proper public purpose.
SECTION 3. That the funds necessary to carry out the purpose of this ordinance are deemed appropriated, and the City Auditor shall establish such accounting codes as necessary.
SECTION 4. That the City Auditor is authorized to make any accounting changes to revise the funding source for all contracts or contract modifications associated with this ordinance.
SECTION 5. That for the reason stated in the preamble hereto, which is hereby made a part hereof, this ordinance is hereby declared to be an emergency measure and shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval by the Mayor, or ten days after passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.