Explanation
Ordinance #1664-2010, passed November 23, 2010, authorized the City Clerk to contract with Columbus Cultural Leadership Consortium for the purpose of fostering and sustaining arts and cultural services that enrich the Columbus community and authorized the expenditure of $300,000.00 from the General Fund. The Columbus Cultural Leadership Consortium is a 16-member group created in 2006 to bring organization and voice to the city's major cultural and artistic "anchor" institutions, with a focus on policy and strategy in both the short term and extended time frame. Among its desired outcomes is the promotion of culture and arts to form a significant differentiator for Columbus to contribute to the city's overall economic development.
The CCLC established the "Thrive in Five" initiative to raise and leverage private and public funds for CCLC member organizations while a long-term cultural plan is developed. This amendment will provide a match to funding provided by Franklin County and will help to provide year-long support to CCLC members while work on the cultural plan continues.
Funding for this contract is included in the 2010 budget pursuant to a City Council amendment. This ordinance will repeal Section 4 in its entirety and will replace it with a new Section 4 thereby modifying the matching fund contingency.
Title
To amend Ordinance #1664-2010, passed November 23, 2010, by repealing Section 4 in its entirety and replacing it with a new Section 4 in order to modify the matching fund contingency in the contract between the City Clerk and Columbus Cultural Leadership Consortium; and to declare an emergency.
Body
Whereas, Ordinance #1664-2010, passed November 23, 2010, established a contract between the City Clerk and the Columbus Cultural Leadership Consortium that included a contingency that the Columbus Cultural Leadership Consortium secure matching fund dollars; and
Whereas, it is necessary to amend Ordinance #1664-2010, passed November 23, 2010, to modify the matching fund contingency to allow for the disbursal of funding based upon the amount secured from the private sector and Franklin County; and
Whereas, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the City, in that it is immediately necessary to modify the matching fund contingency requirements in order to nurture arts and cultural services that enrich the Columbus community, for the immediate preservation of the public health, peace, property, safety and welfare; now, therefore:
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
Section 1. That existing Section 4 of Ordinance #1664-2010, passed November 23, 2010, is hereby repealed in its entirety and replaced with a new Section 4 reading as follows:
SECTION 4. That the expenditure authorized by this ordinance shall be expressly contingent upon CCLC's first securing $161,000.00 in matching funds from Franklin County as well as $161,000.00 in private funds. The remaining $139,000.00 of the authorized expenditure shall be expressly contingent upon CCLC's first securing the additional matching funds from Franklin County as well as the private sector.
Section 2. That for reasons stated in the preamble hereto, which is hereby made a part hereof, this ordinance is 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 (10) days after passage if the Mayor neither approves or vetoes the same.