Explanation
This ordinance authorizes the Board of Health to enter into a grant agreement with Community Development for All People on behalf of ICANDO Community Development to support the South Side Family Farmstand.
The South Side Family Farms Farmstand, a project of ICANDO Community Development, can become a community marketplace, a central location for families to purchase and pick up fresh fruits and vegetables. This will provide the South Side neighborhood with fresh food access in addition to economic opportunity and agricultural education for youth. ICANDO Community Development envisions this as being part of a walkable community where residents can have fresh access to vegetables, receive cooking info and demonstrations, and see demonstrations of urban farming utilizing sustainable growing practices. The Farmstand will also build greater capacity to serve people traveling into our community by providing boxes of fresh vegetables through our on-line pre-order website.
In cooperation with the OSU InFact Buckeye ISA Program, ICANDO teaches youth of the South Side about growing practices with hands-on learning sessions in multiple garden plots. The Farmstand will give youth participating in The InFact Buckeye ISA program an aggregation point, cold storage and a delivery place for pick-up of their CSA style produce package boxes by customers.
Fiscal Impact: Funding is available within the Neighborhood Initiatives subfund.
Emergency action is requested in order to avoid any disruption in service for at-risk residents.
Title
To authorize the Board of Health to enter into grant agreement with Community Development for All People on behalf of ICANDO Community Development to support the South Side Family Farmstand; to authorize an appropriation and expenditure within the Neighborhood Initiatives subfund; and to declare an emergency. ($22,850.00)
Body
WHEREAS, the South Side Family Farms Farmstand, a project of ICANDO Community Development, can become a community marketplace, a central location for families to purchase and pick up fresh fruits and vegetables; and
WHEREAS, South Side Family Farms will give future generations their roadmaps for pathways out of poverty; and
WHEREAS, these funds will provide the South Side neighborhood with fresh food access in addition to economic opportunity and agricultural education for youth; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Board of Health in that it is immediately necessary to authorize a grant agreement with the Community Development for All People in order to avoid any disruption in service for at-risk residents; now, therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1: That the Board of Health is hereby authorized to enter into a grant agreement with the Community Development for All People on behalf of ICANDO Community Development to support the South Side Family Farmstand.
SECTION 2: That the City Auditor is hereby authorized and directed to appropriate $22,850.00 in the Neighborhood Initiatives subfund, fund 1000, subfund 100018, to Columbus City Council per the accounting codes in the attachment to this ordinance.
SECTION 3: That the expenditure of $22,850.00 or so much thereof as may be needed pursuant to the action authorized in SECTION 1 of this ordinance, is hereby authorized in the Neighborhood Initiatives subfund, fund 1000, subfund 100018 per the accounting codes in the attachment to this ordinance.
SECTION 4: That for reasons stated in the preamble hereto, which is hereby made a part hereof, this ordinance is 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.