Explanation
BACKGROUND: This legislation authorizes the appropriation of $25,000 and the expenditure of $60,000 to engage the professional services of Columbus Sister Cities International, Inc. to administer the Columbus Sister Cities International Program (CSCI) for the purpose of promoting business, government, and educational exchanges between our Sister Cities who are Dresden In Germany, Genoa in Italy, Hefei in China, Herzliya in Israel, Odense in Demark, Seville in Spain and Tainan in Taiwan, for long-term economic development. City funding was provided in 2005 to support staffing and administrative costs of CSCI. CSCI has worked diligently to raise capital for its overall operation but additional support is required to maintain a full-time executive director and to defray miscellaneous administrative costs.
FISCAL IMPACT: The funding for this contract will come from two different sources, $25,000 from the Jobs Growth Fund and $35,000 from the 2006 General Fund budget for a total budget of $60,000. This legislation authorizes the appropriation and expenditure of $25,000 from the Jobs Growth Fund and the expenditure of $35,000 from the General Fund for a single contract with Columbus Sister Cities International, Inc.
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To authorize the appropriation of $25,000 within the Jobs Growth Fund to the Department of Development; to authorize the Director of the Department of Development to enter into an agreement with Columbus Sister Cities International, Inc.; to authorize the expenditure of $25,000 from the Jobs Growth Fund; to authorize the expenditure of $35,000 from the General Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($60,000)
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WHEREAS, the Sister Cities International Program promotes business, government and educational exchanges between out Sister Cities; and
WHEREAS, our current Sister Cities are Dresden, Germany; Genoa, Italy; Hefei, China; Herzliya. Israel; Odense, Denmark; Seville, Spain; Tainan, Taiwan; and
WHEREAS, Jobs Growth funds and General funds have been budgeted for the Columbus Sister Cities International, Inc.; and
WHEREAS, emergency action is necessary to allow Sister Cities International, Inc. to provide services to our Sister Cities uninterrupted; 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 authorize the Director of the Department of Development to enter into an agreement with the Columbus Sister Cities International, Inc., thereby, continuing the City's effort to promote cultural and economic exchanges with the City's existing sister cities and to explore the possibility of recruiting new sister cities worldwide, NOW THEREFORE,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
Section 1. That the City Auditor be and is hereby authorized and directed to appropriate
$25,000 from the Jobs Growth Fund, Fund 015 to the Department of
Development, Economic Development Division, Division 44-02, Object Level
One 03, Object Level Three 3336, OCA Code 440215.
Section 2. That the Director of the Department of Development is authorized to enter into an
agreement for the purpose of engaging professional services of the Columbus
Sister Cities International, Inc. to administer the Columbus Sister Cities
International Program.
Section 3. That this contract is awarded pursuant to Section 329.15 of the Columbus City Codes, 1959 as amended.
Section 4. That for the purpose stated in Section 2 the expenditure of $25,000 or so much
thereof as may be necessary, be and is hereby authorized to be expended from the
Jobs Growth Fund, Department of Development, Economic Development Division, Division 44-02, Fund 015, Object Level One 03, Object Level Three 3336, OCA Code 440215.
Section 5. That for the purpose stated in Section 2 the expenditure of $35,000 or so much
thereof as may be necessary, be and is hereby authorized to be expended from the
General Fund, Department of Development, Economic Development Division,
Division 44-02, Fund 010, Object Level One 03, Object Level Three 3336, OCA
Code 440314.
Section 6. That for 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 an be in force from the after is approval by the Mayor, or ten days after
passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.