Explanation
BACKGROUND:
The City of Columbus was awarded a grant on October 26, 2010, from the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency. The grant is from the Ohio Environmental Education Fund (OEEF). It was awarded to the City for "GreenSpot: Sustainable Lifestyles." The project will seek to improve student achievement by demonstrating real-life application of content standards delivered in grade one. Sustainable lifestyle choices will be integrated into the everyday classroom experience through development of a locally specific leisure book, a children's website, compiled teacher resources, classroom activity and the existing GreenSpot program. This ordinance is now needed to accept and appropriate $40,304.00 in grant money to fund this project.
This grant is for the period December 6, 2010, through July 31, 2012.
Emergency action is requested to allow the City to return the Grant Agreement to the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency within the allotted time, thereby assuring that the City receives the grant funding.
FISCAL IMPACT: This program is funded by the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency. The City will provide an in-kind match through wages paid to two employees who will work on this project. The City will additionally purchase a small amount of supplies and printing services to complete this project.
Title
To authorize the Mayor to accept a grant award from the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, under the project heading "GreenSpot: Sustainable Lifestyles;" to appropriate $40,304.00 from the unappropriated balance of the General Government Grant Fund to the Mayor's Office, and to declare an emergency. ($40,304.00).
Body
WHEREAS, the City been awarded a grant in the amount of $40,304.00 from the Ohio EPA and its Ohio Environmental Education Fund, to fund a City project entitled "GreenSpot: Sustainable Lifestyles"; and
WHEREAS, it is in the best interest of the City of Columbus for Mayor's Office to accept this grant, to appropriate the expenditure of the grant funds; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Mayor's Office in that it is necessary to accept and appropriate a grant from the Ohio EPA in order to preserve the public health, peace, property, safety, and welfare; Now, therefore:
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS
Section 1. That the Mayor be and is hereby authorized to accept a grant award from the Ohio Environmental Projection Agency for a project titled "GreenSpot: Sustainable Lifestyles" for the period December 6, 2010 through July 31, 2012.
Section 2. That from the unappropriated monies in the General Government Grant Fund, Subfund No. 220, and from any and all sources estimated to come into said fund and unappropriated for any other purpose during the fiscal year ending December 31, 2010, the sum of $40,304.00 is appropriated in the Mayor's Office, as follows: Dept-Div: 40-01, OL31: 03; Fund: 220, OCA Code: 401010 , Grant Number 401010.
Section 3. That the monies in Section 2 shall be paid upon order of the Mayor; and that no order shall be drawn or money paid except by voucher, the form of which shall be approved by the City Auditor.
Section 4. That for the reasons 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 passage and approval by the Mayor, or ten days after passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.