Explanation
BACKGROUND: This legislation authorizes the Director of the Department of Development to enter into an agreement with the German Village Society to support Project ResiDenCity. Project ResiDenCity is a small group project for Leadership Columbus. The German Village Society is serving as the class' fiscal agent. This legislation also authorizes the appropriation of $7,500 and the expenditure of $7,500 from the Jobs Growth Fund for this purpose.
The goal of Project ResiDenCity is to increase the number of middle and upper-middle income households living in the Downtown Columbus through this attraction campaign directed at professionals who are being recruited from outside the region and relocating to the area. The objective of the project is to produce a video and interactive DVD highlighting the benefits of urban living and distribute to local corporations' HR departments and area real estate professionals while encouraging each group to incorporate the DVD into relocation packets.
Emergency action is requested to allow the project to be completed with Leadership Columbus' class cycle.
FISCAL IMPACT: Funding for this contract will consist of $7,500 from the Jobs Growth Fund.
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To authorize the appropriation of $7,500 from the Jobs Growth Fund to the Development Department; to authorize the Director of the Department of Development to enter into an agreement with the German Village Society to support Project ResiDenCity; to authorize the expenditure of $7,500 from the Jobs Growth Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($7,500)
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WHEREAS, the Director of the Department of Development desires to enter into an agreement with the German Village Society to support Project ResiDenCity; and
WHEREAS, Project ResiDenCity is a small group project for Leadership Columbus; and
WHEREAS, the German Village Society is serving as the class' fiscal agent; and
WHEREAS, the goal of Project ResiDenCity is to increase the number of middle and upper-middle income households living in the Downtown Columbus through this attraction campaign directed at professionals who are being recruited from outside the region and relocating to the area; and
WHEREAS, the objective of the project is to produce a video and interactive DVD highlighting the benefits of urban living and distribute to local corporations' HR departments and area real estate professionals while encouraging each group to incorporate the DVD into relocation packets; and
WHEREAS, emergency action is requested to allow the project to be completed with Leadership Columbus' class cycle; 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 contract with the German Village Society and to appropriate and expend said funds, thereby preserving the public health, peace, property, safety and welfare; and, 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 $7,500 in the Jobs Growth Fund, Fund 015 to the Development Department, Office of the Director, Division 44-01, Object Level One 03, Object Level Three 3336, OCA 447015.
Section 2. That the Director of Development is hereby authorized to enter into an agreement with the German Village Society to act as the fiscal agent for Leadership Columbus in support of Project ResiDenCity.
Section 3. That the expenditure of $7,500 or so much thereof as may be necessary, be and is hereby authorized to be expended from the Development Department, Office of the Director, Division 44-01, Jobs Growth Fund, Fund 015, Object Level One 03, Object Level Three 3336, OCA 447015.
Section 4. That this contract is awarded pursuant to Section 329.15 of the Columbus City Code.
Section 5. 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.