Explanation
BACKGROUND: This legislation authorizes the Director of the Department of Development to enter into a contract with the Community Development Collaborative of Greater Columbus (Collaborative). The contract will provide funds to support the Collaborative in its role as a funding intermediary, facilitator of training, and builder of organizational capacity for Community Development Corporations (CDCs) and Community Housing Development Organizations (CHDOs) in Columbus. This funding represents a commitment from the City to the long-term goal of building strong, viable CDCs and CHDOs in Columbus that can significantly contribute to neighborhood revitalization. The CD Collaborative contracts with the Affordable Housing Trust for Columbus and Franklin County to provide administrative support. The amount of the contract will be $45,000.00.
Emergency action is requested to allow program services to continue without interruption.
FISCAL IMPACT: Funds for this contract are allocated from the Community Development Block Grant Fund.
Title
To authorize the Director of the Department of Development to enter into a contract with the Community Development Collaborative of Greater Columbus; to authorize the expenditure of $45,000 from the Community Development Block Grant Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($45,000.00)
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WHEREAS, the Director of the Department of Development desires to enter into contract with the Community Development Collaborative of Greater Columbus to promote continuity, provide for accountability and in general, focus the efforts of the CDCs and CHDOs in the City of Columbus; and
WHEREAS, the Collaborative will fill the role of funding intermediary, facilitator of training, and builder of organizational capacity for both CHDOs and CDCs; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the City in that it is immediately necessary to enter into contract with the Community Development Collaborative of Greater Columbus to allow program services to continue without interruption, all for the preservation of 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 Director of the Department of Development be and is hereby authorized to contract with the Community Development Collaborative of Greater Columbus to promote continuity, provide for accountability and in general, focus the efforts of the CDCs and CHDOs in the City of Columbus.
Section 2. That this contract is awarded in accordance with Chapter 329.15 of the Columbus City Codes, 1959, as amended.
Section 3. That for the purpose as stated in Section 1, the expenditure of $45,000.00 or so much thereof as necessary, be and is hereby authorized to be expended from the Department of Development, Department No. 44-10, Fund 248, Object Level One 03, Object Level Three 3337, OCA 441148.
Section 4. That for the reasons stated in the preamble hereto, which 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.