Explanation
This ordinance authorizes the City Clerk to execute a contract modification to the contract the City entered into with Columbus Cultural Leadership Consortium on April 15, 2008. This contract was approved by Columbus City Council on April 7, 2008 pursuant to Ordinance No. 0442-2008. The purpose of this modification is to provide for a deadline of December 31, 2009 for the CCLC to raise private funds. Furthermore, the modification contains certain reporting and performance requirements that were not set forth in the original contract.
Fiscal Impact: None.
Emergency Designation: This ordinance is being submitted as an emergency in order for the City to obtain more accountability from CCLC at the earliest possible date.
Title
To authorize and direct the City Clerk to modify the contract with Columbus Cultural Leadership Consortium; and to declare an emergency.
Body
WHEREAS, the City of Columbus, Office of the City Clerk (hereinafter "the City"), and Columbus Cultural Leadership Consortium (hereinafter "CCLC") entered into contract on April 15, 2008 pursuant to and authorized by Ordinance No. 0442-2008, passed by Columbus City Council on April 7, 2008; and
WHEREAS, this ordinance authorized the City Clerk to enter into an agreement with the CCLC for the purpose of fostering and sustaining arts and cultural services in Columbus; and
WHEREAS, the Contract called for the CCLC to receive a total of $700,000 of City funds, additional funds of $600,000 from Franklin County, and for the CCLC to secure private financing of no less than $1.3 million to match, on a dollar for dollar basis, the funding provided by the City and Franklin County; and
WHEREAS, the CCLC has already received $700,000 from the City but has only raised a total of $650,000 in private matching funds; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the City in that it is immediately necessary to amend this Contract to clarify the obligations and responsibilities of the CCLC and to provide for an expiration date for the contract; now, therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
Section 1. That the City Clerk is authorized and directed to enter into a contract modification with Columbus Cultural Leadership Consortium for the purpose of clarifying the obligations and responsibilities of this organization.
Section 2. That this contract modification shall provide for an expiration date of December 31, 2009 or CCLC's satisfaction of its obligations under the contract, whichever event comes first.
Section 3. That for the 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 days after passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.