Explanation
Background: This ordinance authorizes the Office of Education to enter into a grant agreement with the following non-profit organizations for the listed amount.
From January 13, 2025, through February 14, 2025, the City of Columbus accepted applications through an open and competitive process to provide funding to support non-profit organizations looking to establish or grow summer youth programs focused on promoting improved academic performance, health and well-being, and/or enhanced career readiness and workplace skills. These areas are designed to empower youth to learn, grow, and develop during the summer months and beyond.
Funding proposals were then evaluated by an interdepartmental review committee comprised of representatives from various Departments.
The services included in these grant agreements cannot be provided by existing city employees because these services are beyond the city’s current responsibility and capacity to provide.
Award Amounts and Grantees:
$170,000.00 Family Adolescent & Child Community Engagement Services (FACCES)
$65,740.00 Schealthness, Inc.
Fiscal Impact: This ordinance authorizes an expenditure of $235,740.00 from the general fund. These funds are budgeted and available in the general fund.
Emergency action is requested to ensure that funding can be disbursed prior to the start of the summer youth program period on May 1, 2025.
Title
To authorize the Director of the Office of Education to enter into a grant agreements with two (2) non-profit organizations in support of summer youth engagement and employment programs; to authorize the transfer of $75,740.00 within the general fund; to authorize the expenditure of $235,740.00 from the general fund; and to declare an emergency ($235,740.00).
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WHEREAS, the City of Columbus is looking to invest in our community partners that are so vital to the success of our children and teens; and
WHEREAS, the Office of Education desires to enter into a grant agreement with two (2) local registered non-profit organizations, as listed above, to help fund summer 2025 youth programming in Columbus; and
WHEREAS, summer youth engagement and employment programs provide safe, constructive venues for youth to learn, grow, and develop during the summer months; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Office of Education in that it is immediately necessary to authorize the Director to enter into a grant agreement with Family Adolescent & Child Community Engagement Services (FACCES) and Schealthness, Inc. to allow funding to be disbursed prior to the start of the summer youth program period on May 1, 2025, all for the immediate preservation of the public health, peace, property, and safety; NOW, THEREFORE,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1: That the Director of the Office of Education be and is hereby authorized to enter into a grant agreement in the following amounts with the respectively listed non-profit organizations for summer 2025 programming opportunities, the term of which will begin on May 1, 2025, and will end on September 30, 2025. The aggregate total of all grants shall be $235,740.00.
$170,000.00 Family Adolescent & Child Community Engagement Services (FACCES)
$65,740.00 Schealthness, Inc.
SECTION 2. That the transfer of $65,740.00, or so much thereof as may be needed in regard to the action authorized in Section 1, is hereby authorized within the General Fund 1000 from Dept-Div 48-01, Object Class 05 to Dept-Div 40-06, Object Class 05 per the accounting codes in the attachment to this ordinance.
SECTION 3. That the transfer of $10,000.00, or so much thereof as may be needed in regard to the action authorized in Section 1, is hereby authorized within the General Fund 1000 from Dept-Div 40-06, Object Class 03 to Dept-Div 40-06, Object Class 05 per the accounting codes in the attachment to this ordinance.
SECTION 4. That the expenditure of $235,740.00, or so much thereof as may be needed in regard to the action authorized in Section 1, is hereby authorized from the General Fund 1000 in Object Class 05 per the accounting codes in the attachment to this ordinance.
SECTION 5. That the monies in the foregoing Sections shall be paid upon order of the Director of the Office of Education, and that no order shall be drawn or money paid except by voucher, the form of which shall be approved by the City Auditor.
SECTION 6. That the funds necessary to carry out the purpose of this ordinance are hereby deemed appropriated, and the City Auditor shall establish such accounting codes as necessary.
SECTION 7. 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 8. That for reasons stated in the preamble hereto, which is hereby made a part hereof, this ordinance is hereby declared an emergency measure and shall take effect and be enforced from and after its passage and approval by the Mayor, or ten days after passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.