Explanation
Background: The Central Ohio Workforce Investment Corporation (COWIC) is responsible for determining policy on a variety of workforce issues, recommending certification of training program providers and overseeing the establishment of the JobSight office centers for workforce development. The goal of COWIC is to ensure that Central Ohio's labor supply is prepared to meet the needs of local employers now and in the future. This legislation will authorize a grant agreement with the COWIC to provide $50,000 for lease costs associated with 1111 E. Broad Street. This support will decrease the burden of non-profits participating in workforce development programs geared at placements of unemployed residents of Columbus.
Emergency action is requested so that the lease payment can be made on time.
Fiscal Impact: This legislation appropriates $50,000 from the unallocated balance of the Neighborhood Economic Development Fund to provide support to the Central Ohio Workforce Investment Corporation for leasing costs.
Title
To authorize the appropriation of $50,000 from the unappropriated balance of the Neighborhood Economic Development Fund; to authorize the Director of the Development Department to enter into a grant agreement with the Central Ohio Workforce Investment Corporation to provide funds for lease costs associated with 1111 E. Broad Street; to authorize the expenditure of $50,000 from the Neighborhood Economic Development Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($50,000.00)
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Whereas, the Central Ohio Workforce Investment Corporation (COWIC) is responsible for determining policy on a variety of workforce issues, recommending certification of training program providers and overseeing the establishment of the JobSight office centers for workforce development; and
Whereas, the goal of COWIC is to ensure that Central Ohio's labor supply is prepared to meet the needs of local employers now and in the future; and
Whereas, this legislation authorizes a grant agreement with the COWIC to provide $50,000 for lease costs associated with 1111 E. Broad Street; and
Whereas, this support will decrease the burden of non-profits participating in workforce development programs geared at placements of unemployed residents of Columbus; and
Whereas, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Department of Development in that it is immediately necessary to provide an appropriation and authorize a grant agreement with the Central Ohio Workforce Investment Corporation, all for the immediate preservation of the public health, peace, property, safety, and welfare; now, therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
Section 1. That from the unallocated monies in the Neighborhood Economic Development Fund, Fund No. 237, and from any and all sources unallocated for any other purpose during the fiscal year ending December 31, 2007, the sum of $50,000 be and hereby is appropriated to the Department of Development, Economic Development Division, Division 44-02, Object Level One 03, Object Level Three 3337, Purpose-Support of Community Agencies, OCA Code 495032.
Section 2. That the Director of the Department of Development is hereby authorized to enter into a grant agreement with the Central Ohio Workforce Investment Corporation to provide funds for lease costs associated with 1111 E. Broad Street.
Section 3. That the expenditure of $50,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be and is hereby authorized from the Department of Development, Economic Development Division, Division No. 44-02, Neighborhood Economic Development Fund, Fund 237, Object Level One 03, Object Level Three 3337, OCA Code 495032.
Section 4. 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.