Explanation
BACKGROUND: This legislation authorizes the appropriation and expenditure of $170,000.00 from the Emergency Human Services Capital Fund to enable the Department of Development to enter into grant agreements with the following selected social services agencies:
MAP Furniture Bank, for $50,000.00 for emergency interior and exterior building repair, security systems and community room upgrades for the facility at 118 South Yale.
Gladden Community House, for $109,000.00 for emergency roof repairs and HVAC repairs of the Community Center at 183 Hawks.
Columbus AIDS Task Force, for $11,000 for emergency purchase and installation of security systems for the facility at 1751 E. Long Street.
This legislation represents agencies to be funded following the Emergency Human Service Application process. The legislation targets those social service agencies, with Capital expense needs, that will provide help to families and households through access to health and wellness services, material assistance programs, and community and neighborhood services and activities.
This legislation is presented as an emergency measure to facilitate the processing of incurred costs in a timely manner.
FISCAL IMPACT: Funds for these grants, $170,000.00, are allocated from the FY2006 Emergency Human Services Capital Fund.
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To authorize the appropriation of $170,000.00 from the unappropriated balance of the Emergency Human Services Capital Fund to the Department of Development; to approve the grant applications of selected social services agencies seeking financial assistance to address an emergency human service need pursuant to Section 371.02(c) of the Columbus City Codes, 1959; to authorize the Director of the Department of Development to provide grant assistance to said agencies; to authorize the expenditure of $170,000.00 from the Emergency Human Services Capital Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($170,000.00)
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WHEREAS, Gladden Community House has submitted a grant application seeking financial assistance for emergency roof repairs and HVAC repairs of their Community Center; and,
WHEREAS, MAP Furniture Bank has submitted a grant application seeking financial assistance for emergency interior and exterior building repair, security systems and community room upgrades; and,
WHEREAS, Columbus AIDS Task Force has submitted a grant application seeking financial assistance for emergency purchase and installation of security systems for their facility at 1751 E. Long Street; and
WHEREAS, City Council has reviewed the grant applications of these agencies and hereby declares that the Corporations have articulated an emergency human service need that is sufficient to justify approval of said grants; and
WHEREAS, it is the desire of the Director of the Department of Development to appropriate funds from the unappropriated balance of the Emergency Human Services Capital Fund and to enter into a grant agreements with the agencies; 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 provide grant assistance to said agencies so that assistance can be offered at the earliest possible date, all for the immediate preservation of the public health, peace, safety and welfare; and NOW, THEREFORE,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
Section 1. That the grant applications of the MAP Furniture Bank, Gladden Community House, and Columbus AIDS Task Force, seeking financial assistance to address an emergency human service need pursuant to Section 371.02 (c) of the Columbus City Codes, 1959, are hereby approved.
Section 2. That from the unappropriated monies in the Emergency Human Services Capital Fund and from any and all sources unappropriated for any other purpose during the fiscal year ending December 31, 2006, the sum of $170,000.00 be and is hereby appropriated to the Department of Development, Department No. 44-05, Fund 232, Object Level One 03, Object Level Three 3337, OCA Code 440508, Project 200001.
Section 3. That the Director of the Department of Development be and is hereby authorized to provide grant assistance to the MAP Furniture Bank ($50,000), Gladden Community House ($109,000), and Columbus AIDS Task Force ($11,000) to support these emergency remediation, repair and installation needs.
Section 4. That for the purpose as stated in Section 3, the expenditure of $170,000.00 or so much thereof as may be necessary, be and is hereby authorized to be expended from the Emergency Human Services Capital Fund, Department of Development, Department No. 44-05, Fund 232, Object Level One 03, Object Level Three 3337, OCA Code 440508, Project 200001.
Section 5. That these expenditures are in accordance with Chapter 371.02(c) of the Columbus City Codes.
Section 6. 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.