Explanation
BACKGROUND: This legislation authorizes the Director of the Department of Development to enter into a grant agreement with Strategies Against Violence Everywhere (SAVE) to provide violence prevention activities for a total amount of $8,000.
The funding will be used to finance and support SAVE's Students Network at South High School. Funds will be used to provide salaries and fringe costs to program staff and trainers. The program is a school-based, youth development, violence prevention service for at-risk youth with an emphasis on developing the skills attitude and protective factors needed to keep children from becoming a victim or perpetrator of crime and to graduate and become successful and responsible adults. The program and grant application have been reviewed by City Council and it was determined that they have articulated a need for Emergency Human Services funds that is sufficient to justify approval of said grant.
Emergency action is necessary to avoid causing interruptions in the delivery of program services.
FISCAL IMPACT: Funding for this activity is allocated from the Emergency Human Services Fund.
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To authorize the appropriation of $8,000 from the unappropriated balance of the Emergency Human Services Fund to the Department of Development; to approve the grant application of Strategies Against Violence Everywhere (SAVE) seeking financial assistance to address an emergency human service need pursuant to Columbus City Codes, 1959; to authorize the Director of Development to execute a grant agreement with Strategies Against Violence Everywhere (SAVE) to provide violence prevention activities; to authorize the expenditure of $8,000 from the Emergency Human Services Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($8,000.00)
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WHEREAS Strategies Against Violence Everywhere (SAVE) has submitted a grant application seeking financial assistance for Emergency Human Services Funds; and
WHEREAS, City Council has reviewed the grant application and hereby declares that the agency has articulated a need for Emergency Human Services funds that is sufficient to justify approval of said grant; and
WHEREAS, the Director of the Department of Development has reviewed and approved the Grant Application and desires to enter into a grant agreement with Strategies Against Violence Everywhere (SAVE) for the continued provision of social services and violence prevention activities; and
WHEREAS, City Council is authorized to allocate funds annually to assist social service agencies in the city with the operating costs of delivering programs; and
WHEREAS, the grant will be funded with Emergency Human Services Funds, and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Department of Development in that it is immediately necessary to enter into a grant agreement with the Strategies Against Violence Everywhere (SAVE) to avoid causing interruptions in the delivery of program services, all for the preservation of the public health, peace, property, 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 Emergency Human Services Fund, and from any and all sources unappropriated for any other purpose during the fiscal year ending December 31, 2011, the sum of $8,000.00 be and is hereby appropriated to the Department of Development, Department 44-01, Fund 232, Object Level One 03, Object Level Three 3337, OCA Code 499043.
Section 2. That the grant application of Strategies Against Violence Everywhere (SAVE) seeking financial assistance to address an Emergency Human Service need pursuant to Section 371.02 (c) of the Columbus City Codes, 1959, is hereby approved.
Section 3. That the Director of the Department of Development be and is hereby authorized to enter into a grant agreement with Strategies Against Violence Everywhere (SAVE) for the provision of violence prevention activities for the period of August 1, 2011 to December 31, 2011.
Section 4. That for the purpose as stated in Section 3, the expenditure of $8,000.00 or so much thereof as may be necessary, be and is hereby authorized to be expended from the Emergency Human Services Fund, Department of Development, Department No. 44-01, Fund 232, Object Level One 03, Object Level Three 3337, OCA Code 499043.
Section 5. That the expenditures authorized herein are in accordance with Section 371.02 (c) of the Columbus City Codes, 1959.
Section 6. Payments are expressly contingent upon the availability of sufficient monies in the Emergency Human Services Fund to cover the obligation set forth in this contract and in no case shall payments exceed available cash in this fund. In this event that there is not sufficient cash in the fund to cover the obligation set forth in this contract, the City Auditor shall have the authority to make all necessary adjustments at his discretion.
Section 7. 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.