Explanation
This ordinance authorizes the City Clerk to enter into a grant agreement with The Gladden Community House, a non-profit corporation, to sponsor the organization’s Marching for More 2025 event.
Marching for More is Gladden Community House’s annual fundraising gala, which produces crucial funds that sustain the agency's multiple community programs that serve more than 15,000 low-income families annually. For many years, The Ohio State University Marching Band has teamed up with The Gladden Community House to host Marching for More, an evening of celebration to raise awareness and vital funds for Gladden’s work on behalf of children and families in Franklinton. Partnering through tradition, music and community service, this annual event with The Ohio State University Marching Band has helped Gladden raise millions of dollars in support of Gladden’s life-impacting work and mission. Council’s support of the 2025 event will help to advance Gladden’s critical work in the community and increase the number of residents served through an array of programs.
Fiscal Impact: Funding is available within the Neighborhood Initiatives subfund.
Title
To authorize the City Clerk to enter into a grant agreement with The Gladden Community House to sponsor the organization’s Marching for More 2025 event; and to authorize an appropriation and expenditure within the Neighborhood Initiatives subfund. ($20,000.00)
Body
WHEREAS, Marching for More is Gladden Community House’s annual fundraising gala; and
WHEREAS, for many years, The Ohio State University Marching Band has teamed up with Gladden Community House to host Marching for More, an evening of celebration to raise awareness and vital funds for Gladden’s work on behalf of children and families in Franklinton; and
WHEREAS, Council’s support of the 2025 event will help to advance Gladden’s critical work in the community and increase the number of residents served through an array of programs; now, therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That the City Clerk is hereby authorized to enter into a grant agreement with The Gladden Community House, a non-profit corporation, to sponsor the organization’s Marching for More 2025 event.
SECTION 2. That the Auditor is hereby authorized and directed to appropriate $20,000.00 within the Neighborhood Initiatives subfund per the accounting codes in the attachment to this ordinance.
SECTION 3. That per the action authorized by Section 1 of this ordinance, the expenditure of $20,000.00 within the general fund, fund 1000, subfund 100018, is hereby authorized per the accounting codes in the attachment to this ordinance.
SECTION 4. That the City Auditor is authorized to make any accounting changes to revise the funding source for all contracts or contract modifications associated with this ordinance.
SECTION 5. That this ordinance shall take effect at the earliest date allowable by law.