Explanation
This ordinance authorizes the City Clerk to enter into a grant agreement with Southfield Community Missionary Baptist Church in support of the Southfield Cares program.
Southfield Cares is dedicated to changing lives, restoring families and uniting the community. The organization provides youth mentorship programs for ages 3-18, job placement, computer training, counseling and conflict resolution, music classes and arts. Southfield Cares leverages social media, its website, and door to door engagement to share program information with Southfield residents.
This funding is intended to support heightened youth engagement during the summer months.
Fiscal Impact: Funding is available within the Neighborhood Initiatives subfund.
Emergency action is requested in order to immediately provide Southfield Cares with the funding necessary to initiate summer youth programming.
Title
To authorize the City Clerk to enter into a grant agreement with Southfield Community Missionary Baptist Church in support of the Southfield Cares program; to authorize an appropriation and expenditure within the Neighborhood Initiatives subfund; and to declare an emergency. ($10,000.00)
Body
WHEREAS, Southfield Cares is dedicated to changing lives, restoring families and uniting the community; and
WHEREAS, the organization provides youth mentorship programs for ages 3-18, job placement, computer training, counseling and conflict resolution, music classes and arts; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operations of the City Clerk in that it is immediately necessary to authorize a grant agreement to provide Southfield Cares with the funding necessary to initiate summer youth program; 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 Southfield Community Missionary Baptist Church in support of the Southfield Cares program.
SECTION 2. That the Auditor is hereby authorized and directed to appropriate $10,000.00 within the Neighborhood Initiatives subfund, fund 1000, subfund 100018, per the accounting codes in the attachment to this ordinance.
SECTION 3. That for the purpose stated in Section 1, the expenditure of $10,000.00 or so much thereof as may be needed, is hereby authorized per the accounting codes in the attachment to this ordinance.
SECTION 4. That the funds necessary to carry out the purpose of this ordinance are hereby deemed appropriated and the City Auditor shall establish such accounting codes as necessary.
SECTION 5. 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 6. 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.