Explanation
To authorize the City Clerk to enter into a grant agreement with the Columbus Diaper Coalition to reimburse the organization for expenses incurred in support of the Columbus Food Truck Festival.
This year’s Food Truck Festival was held on July 12th and 13th on the Scioto Mile. This year’s festival included a new partnership with the Columbus Diaper Coalition. In exchange for providing volunteers to staff the event and funding to support security measures and entertainment, the Columbus Diaper Coalition was featured prominently at the event in an effort to raise awareness of the need for supplies and to raise the profile of the agency’s mission.
Columbus Diaper Coalition's mission is to provide free diapers to families facing financial difficulties and experiencing diaper need. The organization believes access to clean diapers is a basic human necessity and essential to the health and well-being of every baby and toddler. The goal is for every child in need to have access to clean diapers.
Fiscal Impact: Funding is available in the Neighborhood Initiatives subfund.
Emergency action is requested in order to immediately reimburse the Columbus Diaper Coalition for costs incurred.
Title
To authorize the City Clerk to enter into a grant agreement with the Columbus Diaper Coalition to reimburse the organization for expenses incurred in support of the Columbus Food Truck Festival; to authorize an appropriation and expenditure within the Neighborhood Initiatives subfund; and to declare an emergency. ($20,000.00)
Body
WHEREAS, Columbus Diaper Coalition's mission is to provide free diapers to families facing financial difficulties and experiencing diaper need; and
WHEREAS, this year’s Columbus Food Truck Festival was held on July 12th and 13th on the Scioto Mile, and this year’s festival included a new partnership with the Columbus Diaper Coalition; and
WHEREAS, in exchange for providing volunteers to staff the event and funding to support security measures and entertainment, the Columbus Diaper Coalition was featured prominently at the event in an effort to raise awareness of the need for supplies and to raise the profile of the agency’s mission; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily business of the city in that it is immediately necessary to reimburse the organization for costs incurred to ensure the ongoing fiscal stability of the organization and to ensure that mission-critical services are not disrupted, 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 the Columbus Diaper Coalition to reimburse the organization for expenses incurred in support of the Columbus Food Truck Festival.
SECTION 2. That the Auditor is hereby authorized and directed to appropriate $20,000.00 within the Neighborhood Initiatives subfund, fund 1000, subfund 100018, per the accounting codes in the attachment to this ordinance.
SECTION 3. That per the action authorized in Section 1 of this ordinance, the expenditure of $20,000.00, or so much thereof as is necessary, is hereby authorized in the Neighborhood Initiatives subfund, fund 1000, subfund 100018, per the accounting codes in the attachment to this ordinance.
SECTION 4. That the 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 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 its passage and approval by the Mayor or ten days after passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.