Explanation
BACKGROUND: This ordinance authorizes the Director of Finance and Management to enter into a not-for-profit service contract with Eckerd Youth Alternatives, Inc. to implement workforce training programming.
Eckerd Youth Alternatives, Inc is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to transforming lives through workforce development, education, juvenile justice, child welfare, and evidence-based programs.
Eckerd Youth Alternatives, Inc.’s Green Advanced Manufacturing Workforce Development Program for residents of Franklin County, Ohio who are at least 16 years old and not currently in secondary school, aimed at providing opportunities to have the training and credentials necessary to perform entry-level work in Green Advanced Manufacturing.
These programs help achieve multiple policy priorities of the City of Columbus. Supporting workforce and job opportunity for residents in our Opportunity neighborhoods and sustainability goals by focusing on solar and green jobs and supporting a long-term vision for equitable participation in the region’s clean economy.
The services included in this agreement cannot be provided by existing city employees because these services are beyond the City’s current staffing capacity to provide.
This contract will include program expenses beginning Summer of 2025
FISCAL IMPACT: This ordinance authorizes the expenditure of $200,000.00 from the Sustainable Columbus Fund, to Eckerd Youth Alternatives, Inc to implement workforce training programming.
EMERGENCY DESIGNATION: This ordinance is being submitted as an emergency in order to expedite the approval of this contract so that the first cohorts of the program can be in place by Fall of 2025.
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To authorize the Director of the Department of Finance and Management enter into not-for-profit service contracts with Eckerd Youth Alternatives, Inc. to implement workforce training programming; to appropriate $200,000.00 from the unappropriated balance of the Sustainable Columbus Fund; to authorize the expenditure of $200,000.00 from the Sustainable Columbus Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($200,000.00)
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WHEREAS, Eckerd Youth Alternatives, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that supports workforce development for the solar and clean energy industry; and
WHEREAS, this program help achieve multiple policy priorities of the City of Columbus. Supporting workforce and job opportunity for residents in our Opportunity neighborhoods and sustainability goals by focusing on solar and green jobs.; and
WHEREAS, this contract is awarded pursuant to provisions relating to non-profit services of City Code Chapter 329.30; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Department of Finance and Management in that it is immediately necessary to authorize the Director to enter into a not-for-profit service contract with Eckerd Youth Alternatives, Inc. to implement workforce training programming, without delay to meet a targeted Fall 2025 date for the start of the first cohort, 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, OHIO:
SECTION 1. That the Director of the Department of Finance and Management is hereby authorized to enter into not-for-profit service contract with Eckerd Youth Alternatives, Inc. to implement workforce training programming.
SECTION 2. That from the unappropriated monies and from all monies estimated to come into said fund from any and all sources and unappropriated for any other purpose during the fiscal year ended December 31, 2025, the sum of $200,000.00 is appropriated in Fund 2260 (Sustainable Columbus Fund), Dept-Div 4550 (Finance Director’s Office) in object class 03 (Contractual Services) per the account codes in the attachment to this ordinance.
SECTION 2. That the expenditure of $200,000.00, or so much thereof as may be needed in regard to the action authorized in Section 1, is hereby authorized from the Sustainable Columbus Fund 2260 in object class 03 Contractual Services, per the accounting codes in the attachment to this ordinance.
SECTION 3. That the monies in the foregoing Sections shall be paid upon order of the Director of Finance and Management, 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 4. 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 5. 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 6. That this contract is awarded in accordance with the relevant provisions of Columbus City Code Chapter 329.30 relating to awarding not-for-profit service contracts.
SECTION 7. 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.