Explanation
This ordinance authorizes the City Clerk to enter into a grant agreement with Urban Resurrection Community Development Corporation in support of the S.M.A.R.T. Summer Enrichment Program.
The S.M.A.R.T. Summer Enrichment Program offers high quality programming, targeting 50 children in grades K through 8. In-person, appropriate activities program activities are led by community partners who are committed to serving the youth of the Central Ohio area. The organization strives to address academic, physical, and socio‐emotional needs in a safe, caring, and healthy environment, as well as provide a variety of experiences that will help children make better choices. Program measurements for success will include improved reading assessment scores (pre- and post-program) and 75% successful attendance rate for attendees.
Fiscal Impact: Funding for this grant is available in the Neighborhood Initiatives subfund.
Emergency action is requested in order to provide the organization with the funds necessary to sustain programming in August at the current level.
Title
To authorize the City Clerk to enter into a grant agreement with Urban Resurrection Community Development Corporation in support of the S.M.A.R.T. Summer Enrichment Program; to authorize an appropriation and expenditure within the Neighborhood Initiatives subfund; and to declare an emergency. ($20,000.00)
Body
WHEREAS, the S.M.A.R.T. Summer Enrichment Program offers high quality programming, targeting 50 children in grades K through 8; and
WHEREAS, the organization strives to address academic, physical, and socio‐emotional needs in a safe, caring, and healthy environment, as well as provide a variety of experiences that will help children make better choices; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily business of the City Clerk's Office in that it is immediately necessary to authorize a grant agreement to sustain programming in August at the current level, for the immediate preservation of the public peache, health, property, and safety; now, therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That the City Clerk is authorized to enter into a grant agreement with Urban Resurrection Community Development Corporation in support of the S.M.A.R.T. Summer Enrichment Program.
SECTION 2. That the appropriation and expenditure of $20,000.00, or so much thereof as may be needed pursuant to the action authorized in SECTION 1, is authorized in the Neighborhood Initiatives subfund, fund 1000, subfund 100018, per the accounting codes in the attachment to this ordinance.
SECTION 3. That the funds necessary to carry out the purpose of this ordinance are deemed appropriated, and the City Auditor shall establish such accounting codes as necessary.
SECTION 4. 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 5. That for the reason 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.