Explanation
The City of Columbus has been awarded a $296,168.00 grant by the United States Department of Justice to bolster anti-gang activity. This grant was authorized for acceptance and funds appropriated within the General Government Grant Fund by Ordinance 0356-2006 passed by City Council March 6, 2006. Anti-gang initiatives are being pursued by the Public Safety Director's Office and the Public Service Department, Refuse Collection Division, Keep Columbus Beautiful program. That ordinance appropriated $220,168.00 to the Safety Director's Office and $76,000.00 to the Refuse Collection Division based on the preliminary grant budget.
Ordinance 0840-2006E passed by Council May 22, 2006 authorized the Refuse Collection Division, Keep Columbus Beautiful program to enter into a contract with the Africentric Personal Development Shop (APDS), Incorporated, to abate negative environmental conditions and develop community beautification projects within a target area bounded by Whittier Street, Mooberry Street, Parsons Avenue and Rhoads Avenue. These activities primarily consist of litter collection and graffiti removal.
The original dates of this contract must be modified to reflect a time extension for the Edward Byrne Memorial Grant that has been sanctioned by the Department of Justice. The effective dates of the APDS contract are being changed to July 1, 2006 (contract commencement date) and November 30, 2006 (contract termination date). All other existing terms and conditions of this contract will remain unchanged.
Fiscal Impact: None.
Emergency action is requested to allow this contract to more closely mirror the effective dates of the Edward Byrne Memorial Grant that provides its funding.
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To authorize the Public Service Director to modify an existing contract with the Africentric Personal Development Shop (APDS), Incorporated, to abate negative environmental conditions and develop community beautification projects within a target area bounded by Whittier Street, Mooberry Street, Parsons Avenue and Rhoads Avenue for the Refuse Collection Division, Keep Columbus Beautiful Program, consistent with the anti-gang initiative intent of a grant received from the United States Department of Justice by extending the commencement and termination dates of this contract to July 1and November 30, 2006, respectively, and to declare an emergency. ($-0-)
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WHEREAS, the City of Columbus has been awarded a $296,168.00 grant by the United States Department of Justice to bolster anti-gang activity; and
WHEREAS, this grant was authorized for acceptance and funds appropriated within the General Government Grant Fund by Ordinance 0356-2006 passed by City Council March 6, 2006; and
WHEREAS, anti-gang initiatives are being pursued by the Public Safety Director's Office and the Public Service Department, Refuse Collection Division, Keep Columbus Beautiful program; and
WHEREAS, Ordinance 0840-2006E passed by Council May 22, 2006 authorized the Division to enter into a contract with the Africentric Personal Development Shop (APDS), Incorporated, to abate negative environmental conditions and develop community beautification projects within a target area bounded by Whittier Street, Mooberry Street, Parsons Avenue and Rhoads Avenue; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Public Service Department, Refuse Collection Division, Keep Columbus Beautiful program in that it is immediately necessary to modify and extend said contract to change its effective dates with all other contract terms and conditions remaining intact, thereby preserving the public health, peace, property, safety and welfare; now, therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That the Public Service Director be and hereby is authorized to modify and extend an existing $23,500.00 contract with the Africentric Personal Development Shop (APDS), Incorporated, to abate negative environmental conditions and develop community beautification projects within a target area bounded by Whittier Street, Mooberry Street, Parsons Avenue and Rhoads Avenue for the Refuse Collection Division, Keep Columbus Beautiful Program, consistent with the anti-gang initiative intent of a grant received from the United States Department of Justice and that the effective commencement and termination dates of said contract be and hereby are extended to July 1 and November 30, 2006, respectively, with no other changes in existing contract terms and conditions.
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 passage and approval by the Mayor or ten days after passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.