Explanation
Background:
This ordinance will enable the Director of Recreation and Parks to accept a grant from the Children's Hunger Alliance in the amount of $2,500.00 and to appropriate these monies to the Recreation and Parks Private Grant Fund.
These funds will provide funding for advertisements in area newspapers, on area radio and television stations, and printed materials to be distributed to the community for the promotion of the Summer Food Program.
Emergency action is requested to have funding available for necessary expenditures.
Fiscal Impact:
The fiscal impact of this ordinance will be to reduce the Recreation and ParksPrivate Grant Fund's unappropriated balance by $2,500.00.
Title
To authorize and direct the Director of Recreation and Parks to accept a grant in the amount of $2,500.00 from the Children's Hunger Alliance in the amount of for advertisement of the Summer Food Program, to appropriate these funds to the Recreation and Parks Private Grant Fund, and to declare an emergency. ($2,500.00)
Body
WHEREAS, the Children's Hunger Alliance has awarded the City of Columbus, Recreation and Parks Department, a grant in the amount of $2,500.00 for advertisement for the 2006 Summer Food Service Program; and
WHEREAS, it is necessary to appropriate said funds to the Recreation and Parks Department for expenditures; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Recreation and Parks Department in that it is immediately necessary to accept said grant funds and appropriate said funds to have funding available for necessary expenditure; now, therefore
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That the Director of Recreation and Parks be and he is hereby authorized and directed to accept a grant in the amount of $2,500.00 from the Children's Hunger Alliance for advertisement for the 2006 Summer Food Program.
SECTION 2. That from the unappropriated monies in the Recreation and Parks Private Grant Fund No. 291, and from all monies estimated to come into said fund from any and all sources and unappropriated for any other purpose during the fiscal year ending December 31, 2006, the sum of $2,500.00 is appropriated to the Recreation and Parks Department, Department No. 51-01, Grant No. 516033, OCA Code 516035, and Object Level 3 No. 3353.
SECTION 3. That the monies in the foregoing Section 2 shall be paid upon order of the Director of Recreation and Parks, and that no order shall be drawn or money paid except by voucher, the form of which shall be approved by the City Auditor.
SECTION 4. 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 passage and approval by the Mayor, or ten days after passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.