Explanation
This ordinance authorizes Columbus City Council to enter into a grant agreement with J. Jireh Development Corporation in support of the organization’s Youth Summer Enrichment program.
The objectives for the JJDC Youth Summer Enrichment Program are to address nutrition/wellness, food production, children's education, and job training. The JJDC Youth Enrichment Program was established for children who are in foster care at Franklin County Children Services and the students at Fairwood Alternative Elementary School. The vision for the summer camp is to cause learning through gardening, because it teaches children and adults to make healthier food choices and take better care of their environment, all while making learning more exciting for them.
This summer enrichment program plays a significant role in enhancing the physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being necessary to build a healthy and socially-sustainable community. This summer camp results in a broad range of positive physical and psychological well-being outcomes for the youth and The Community of Kimball Farms.
JJDC will conduct surveys for the students, parents, and teachers. These surveys will measure change-over-time when used to monitor pre-program conditions against post-program conditions. They will be used to gather extensive data regarding perceptions of participants when it is important to judge a participant’s motivation during a program, and they will ensure the consistent collection of data because all respondents receive exactly the same questions in exactly the same way.
Fiscal Impact: Funding is available within the Neighborhood Initiative subfund.
Emergency action is requested in order to avoid any delay in the delivery of the Summer Enrichment programming.
Title
To authorize City Council to enter into a grant agreement with J. Jireh Development Corporation in support of the organization’s Youth Summer Enrichment program; to authorize an appropriation and expenditure within the Neighborhood Initiatives subfund; and to declare an emergency. ($15,000.00)
Body
WHEREAS, the JJDC Youth Summer Enrichment Program addresses nutrition/wellness, food production, children's education, and job training; and
WHEREAS, the summer enrichment program plays a significant role in enhancing the physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being necessary to build a healthy and socially-sustainable community; and
WHEREAS, the summer camp results in a broad range of positive physical and psychological well-being outcomes for the youth and The Community of Kimball Farms; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily business of City Council in that it is immediately necessary to authorize a grant agreement with J. Jireh Development Corporation to avoid any delay in the delivery of the Summer Enrichment programming; now, therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That City Council is hereby authorized to enter into a grant agreement with J. Jireh Development Corporation in support of the organization’s Youth Summer Enrichment program.
SECTION 2. That the City Auditor is hereby authorized and directed to appropriate $15,000.00 in the Neighborhood Initiatives subfund, fund 1000, subfund 100018, to City Council per the accounting codes in the attachment to this ordinance.
SECTION 3. That the expenditure of $15,000.00 or so much thereof as may be needed pursuant to the actions authorized in SECTION 1, 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 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.