Explanation
Background:
This ordinance will enable the Director of Recreation and Parks to accept a grant and enter into an agreement with the State of Ohio, acting by and through the Ohio Cultural Facilities Commission, and provide for the appropriation of said funds to the Recreation and Parks Grant Fund.
At a later date, an ordinance will be submitted to add the grant funding to the Park Construction Agreement for the Scioto Mile Project with Columbus Downtown Development Corporation, which was authorized by Ordinance No. 1746-2007 and used to pay for construction of the proposed bandshell in Bicentennial Park.
This ordinance is submitted as an emergency to meet deadlines imposed by the Ohio Cultural Facilities Commission for execution of the agreement necessary to receive the grant.
Fiscal Impact:
$1,000,000.00 in grant funding will be used for construction of the bandshell as part of the Scioto Mile Riverfront Park system.
The fiscal impact of this ordinance will be to reduce the Recreation and Parks Grant Fund's unappropriated balance by $1,000,000.00.
Title
To authorize the Director of Recreation and Parks to accept a grant in the amount of $1,000,000.00 and enter into an agreement with the State of Ohio, acting by and through the Ohio Cultural Facilities Commission, to appropriate these funds to the Recreation and Parks Grant Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($1,000,000.00)
Body
WHEREAS, the State of Ohio, acting by and through the Ohio Cultural Facilities Commission has awarded the City of Columbus, Recreation and Parks Department, a grant in the amount of $1,000,000.00 for development of parkland in the downtown riverfront area from Battelle Park to Bicentennial Park, and
WHEREAS, it is necessary to appropriate said funds to the Recreation and Parks Grant Fund for expenditures; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Recreation and Parks Department in that it is immediately necessary to accept said grant funds and appropriate said funds so that the funding is available for necessary expenditures; now, therefore
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That the Director of Recreation and Parks be and is hereby authorized and directed to accept a grant in the amount of $1,000,000.00 and enter into an agreement with the Ohio Facilities Commission for the Scioto Mile Park system.
SECTION 2. That from the unappropriated monies in the Recreation and Parks Grant Fund No. 286, 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 ending December 31, 2009, the sum of $1,000,000.00 is appropriated to the Recreation and Parks Department, Department No. 51-01, as follows:
OCA Object
Grant Title Grant No. Code Level 3 Amount
Scioto Mile- 519053 519053 6621 $1,000,000.00
Ohio Facilities
Commission 2009
SECTION 3. 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.