Explanation
This ordinance authorizes the City Clerk to enter into a grant agreement with Community Development for All People to support the All People Freedom School Program.
The mission of Community Development for All People (CD4AP) is to develop deep relationships with community and partners to create diverse neighborhoods where All People thrive on the South Side and beyond.
Community Development for All People provides programming in two South Side schools, Siebert Elementary and Lincoln Park Elementary. During the school year, the After School program works to support families at Lincoln Park and Siebert Elementary Schools with a positive learning environment and develop young leaders who will ultimately succeed academically, professionally and personally. The program is offered at no cost to families and provides healthy meals and snacks for each participating child.
During the summer months, CD4AP provides a Children's Defense Fund Freedom Schools program. CDF Freedom Schools is a national, literacy-education movement, impacting the lives of children across the nation by cultivating a love of reading, encouraging high self-esteem, and offering amazing program opportunities.
Each summer, CD4AP provides Children's Defense Fund Freedom Schools at these locations. Staff members work with small groups with special focus on literacy enrichment, extended learning opportunities, academic enrichment, leadership and character development, social emotional learning, STEM enrichment and arts enrichment. The All People Freedom School Program is offered at no cost to families and provide healthy meals and snacks for each participating child.
Fiscal Impact: Funding to support this grant is within the Neighborhood Initiatives subfund.
Emergency action is requested in order to immediately provide CD4AP with the resources necessary for the effective execution of summer programming.
Title
To authorize the City Clerk to enter into a grant agreement with Community Development for All People to support the All People Freedom School Program; to authorize an appropriation and expenditure within the Neighborhood Initiatives subfund; and to declare an emergency. ($75,000.00)
Body
WHEREAS, the mission of Community Development for All People is to develop deep relationships with community and partners to create diverse neighborhoods where All People thrive on the South Side and beyond; and
WHEREAS, Community Development for All People provides programming in two South Side schools, Siebert Elementary and Lincoln Park Elementary; and
WHEREAS, During the summer months, Community Development for All People provides a Children's Defense Fund Freedom Schools program; and
WHEREAS, staff members work with small groups with special focus on literacy enrichment, extended learning opportunities, academic enrichment, leadership and character development, social emotional learning, STEM enrichment and arts enrichment; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily business of the City Clerk in that it is immediately necessary to authorize the City Clerk to enter a grant agreement to provide Community Development for All People with the resources necessary for the effective execution of summer programming, all for the immediate 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 City Clerk is hereby authorized to enter into a grant agreement with Community Development for All People to support the All People Freedom School Program.
SECTION 2: That the City Auditor is hereby authorized and directed to appropriate $75,000.00 in the Neighborhood Initiatives subfund, fund 1000, subfund 100018, to Columbus City Council per the accounting codes in the attachment to this ordinance.
SECTION 3: That for the purpose authorized in Section 1 of this ordinance, the expenditure of $75,000.00, or so much thereof as is necessary, is hereby authorized in the Neighborhood Initiatives subfund per the accounting codes in the attachment to this ordinance.
SECTION 4: That the Council hereby finds the expenditure of funds for the purchase of reasonable food and non-alcoholic beverages for participants in the All People Freedom School Program to serve a proper public purpose by feeding students that may otherwise lack access to sufficient healthy food.
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 legislation.
SECTION 6: 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.