Explanation
BACKGROUND: This legislation authorizes the appropriation and expenditure of $15,000.00 from the Capital South Debt Service Fund. These funds will be used by the Department of Development to provide a grant to Passage Incorporated for the purpose of repairing the boiler system in the office building located at 821-827 East Long Street.
Passage Inc. began in the 1970's with a grant secured from the Juvenile Justice Act of 1975 for the purpose of developing a model foster parent network, which became Youth Advocate Services. By 1978 Passage Inc. developed the Women's Empowerment Center that provides leadership, cultural awareness and program development in areas such as economic and professional development, health awareness and family services. Passage Inc. is licensed through the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services for the purpose of recruiting, training and supervising a 'network' of Professional Treatment Home Providers (foster parents) who service youth and families in need of out of home placement as well as comprehensive adoption services consisting of recruiting, screening and preparing adoptive homes for Ohio's waiting adoptive children. The requested funds will be used to repair the boiler system in the office building located at 821-827 East Long Street. Repairs to the boiler system will then enable Passage Inc. to rent currently unoccupied spaces in the building thereby providing organization's programming to the community. Repairs will include draining and flushing the entire boiler system, repair and replacement of any valves, stops or leaking pipes where needed, clean and service boiler burner cage, install sump pump to control standing water and the inspection of all repairs by a licensed professional.
This legislation is presented as an emergency in order to assist the organization in timely manner.
FISCAL IMPACT: Funds will be allocated from the Capital South Debt Service Fund.
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To authorize the appropriation of $15,000.00 from the unappropriated balance of the Capital South Debt Service Fund to the Department of Development; to authorize the Director of the Department of Development to enter into a grant agreement with Passage Incorporated; to authorize the expenditure of $15,000.00 from the Capital South Debt Service Fund.; and to declare an emergency. ($15,000.00)
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WHEREAS, it is the desire of the Director of the Department of Development to appropriate funds from the unappropriated balance of the Capital South Debt Service Fund; and to enter into a grant agreement with Passage Incorporated; and
WHEREAS, the grant will provide funds to repair the boiler system in the office building located at 821-827 East Long Street; and
WHEREAS, the repaired boiler system will enable Passage Incorporated to fill its empty rental spaces in the office building located at 821-827 East Long Street thereby providing program funds for the organization; NOW, THEREFORE and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Department of Development in that it is immediately necessary to appropriate said funds and to enter into a grant agreement with Passage, Incorporated, all for the immediate preservation of the public health, peace, safety and welfare; NOW, THEREFORE,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
Section 1. That from the unappropriated monies in the Capital South Debt Service Fund, Fund 481, and from any and all sources unappropriated for any other purpose during the fiscal year ending December 31, 2006, the sum of $15,000.00 be and is hereby appropriated to the Department of Development, Department No. 44-05, Object Level One 05, Object Level Three 5519, OCA Code 445601.
Section 2. That the Director of the Department of Development be authorized to enter into a grant agreement with Passage Incorporated for the repair of the boiler system located at 821-827 East Long Street.
Section 3. That for the purpose as stated in Section 2, the expenditure of $15,000.00 or so much thereof as may be necessary, be and is hereby authorized to be expended from the Capital South Debt Service Fund, Department of Development, Department No. 44-05, Fund 481, Object Level One 05, Object Level Three 5519, OCA Code 445601.
Section 4. That for the reasons stated in the preamble hereto, which is made a part hereof, this ordinance is declared to be an emergency measure and shall take effect and shall 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. That this ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after the earliest period allowed by law.