Explanation
This ordinance authorizes the Director of the Department of Neighborhoods to enter into a grant agreement with the Columbus Kappa Foundation in support of their programming for residents in the King-Lincoln District.
The Columbus Kappa Foundation serves the community through a Safe Sleep Initiative in conjunction with CelebrateOne and works with Harm Reduction Ohio to distribute NARCAN to help mitigate some of the challenges with the opioid crisis. The Columbus Kappa Foundation organizes an annual turkey giveaway that has fed thousands of families over the past several years and an annual toy giveaway at Christmas to help the less fortunate. The Columbus Kappa Foundation conducted and contributed to voter registration drives and census awareness promotion. All of these programs are based at the historic Kappa House on Mt. Vernon Ave. These initiatives help build strong neighborhoods by providing services greatly needed in the community. These services promote healthy living and help those living in poverty get some of their essential needs met.
Fiscal Impact: Funding is available within the Neighborhood Initiatives subfund.
Emergency action is requested in order to avoid any delay in supporting the Columbus Kappa Foundation to allow uninterrupted services to help those living in poverty meet some of their essential needs.
Title
To authorize the Director of the Department of Neighborhoods to enter into a grant agreement with the Columbus Kappa Foundation in support of their programming for residents in the King-Lincoln District; to authorize an appropriation and expenditure within the Neighborhood Initiatives subfund; and to declare an emergency. ($5,000.00)
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WHEREAS, the Columbus Kappa Foundation engages in community rehabilitation with an emphasis on the King-Lincoln District; and
WHEREAS, the purpose of the Columbus Kappa Foundation serves people and provides a better quality of life for all through education, redevelopment and service; and
WHEREAS, the Columbus Kappa Foundation provides young people academically oriented services such as mentoring, career exposure and financial assistance to schools of higher learning in the form of scholarship; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Department of Neighborhoods in that it is immediately necessary to authorize the Director to enter into a grant agreement with the Columbus Kappa Foundation to allow uninterrupted services to help to residents living in poverty, for the preservation of the public health, safety and welfare; now, therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That the Director of the Department of Neighborhoods is hereby authorized to enter into a grant agreement with the Columbus Kappa Foundation in support of their programming for residents in the King-Lincoln District.
SECTION 2. That the City Auditor is hereby authorized and directed to appropriate $5,000.00 in the Neighborhood Initiatives subfund, fund 1000, subfund 100018, to the Department of Neighborhoods per the accounting codes in the attachment to this ordinance.
SECTION 3. That the expenditure of $5,000.00 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 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.