Explanation
BACKGROUND:
This ordinance authorizes the City Clerk to modify a grant agreement with Union Grove Baptist Church by updating the grant agreement to reflect that the fiscal sponsor for the agreement shall be Life Transformation Church-An Evangelical Covenant Church and Union Grove Baptist Church shall be a subrecipient as a term of the grant agreement.
Original Agreement $20,000.00 Ord. 1442-2024
Modification No. 1 $ 0.00
Total Agreement Amount $20,000.00
On May 20, 2024, Columbus City Council passed Ordinance 1442-2024 which authorized multiple grant agreements to be held by the City Clerk, including a $20,000.00 grant to Union Grove Baptist Church in support of neighborhood and community programming.
In the process of executing the grant agreement, Union Grove Baptist Church requested a modification to the grant agreement and asked that funds be disbursed to Life Transformation Church-An Evangelical Covenant Church. Life Transformation will serve as a fiscal sponsor and will disburse the funds to Union Grove Baptist Church as a subrecipient. These changes were requested as a result of complications associated with vendor registration
Emergency action is requested in order to allow the grant modification to be executed in a timely manner for the reimbursement of eligible expenses incurred over the summer.
FISCAL IMPACT: None.
Title
To authorize the City Clerk to modify a grant agreement with Union Grove Baptist Church to change the recipient to Life Transformation Church-An Evangelical Covenant Church as a fiscal sponsor; and to declare an emergency. ($0.00)
Body
WHEREAS, due to challenges associated with the vendor registration portal and process, Union Grove Baptist Church found it necessary to identify a fiscal sponsor to serve as party to the grant agreement, of which Union Grove Baptist Church shall be a subrecipient; and
WHEREAS, the City Clerk desires to modify the grant agreement to grant the awarded funds to Life Transformation Church-An Evangelical Covenant Church, who shall serve as a fiscal sponsor for Union Grove Baptist Church; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the City Clerk in that it is immediately necessary to authorize this grant modification in order to provide timely support for the reimbursement of expenses incurred starting in May, for the immediate preservation of the public health, peace, property, safety and welfare; and NOW, THERFORE,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That the City Clerk is hereby authorized to modify a grant agreement with Union Grove Baptist Church by updating the recipient party of the grant agreement to Life Transformation Church-An Evangelical Covenant Church, and to reflect that Life Transformation Church-An Evangelical Covenant Church shall serve as a fiscal sponsor for Union Grove Baptist Church for the purposes of the agreement.
SECTION 2. 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 approval by the Mayor, or ten days after passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.