Explanation
BACKGROUND: This legislation authorizes the Director of the Department of Development to enter into a contract with Catholic Social Services to support the operation of the Chores Program. The contract will provide $50,000 from the Community Development Block Grant Fund.
The Chores Program provides minor home maintenance and repair services to low and low/moderate-income elderly and disabled homeowner-occupants in the City of Columbus. Examples of program services include replacement or repair of leaking faucets and commodes, faulty light fixtures and switches, loose or missing sections of porch decking or steps and installation of handrails, smoke detectors and deadbolt locks. Eligible homeowners may receive up to $800 in home repairs within one calendar year. Catholic Social Services will be the program provider to neighborhoods on the south and west sides of the City. This program will help about 100 households.
Emergency action is required to allow program services to continue without interruption.
FISCAL IMPACT: Funds for this expenditure are allocated from the 2004 Community Development Block Grant Fund budget.
Title
To authorize the Director of the Department of Development to enter into a contract with Catholic Social Services for the Chores Program; to authorize the expenditure of $50,000 from the Community Development Block Grant Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($50,000.00)
Body
WHEREAS, the Director of the Department of Development desires to enter into a contract with Catholic Social Services to fund the Chores Program; and
WHEREAS, the Chores Program will provide minor home maintenance and repair services to low and moderate-income elderly and disabled homeowner-occupants in the City of Columbus; and
WHEREAS, Catholic Social Services is a non-profit organization; and
WHEREAS, emergency action is required to allow program services to continue without interruption; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the City in that it is immediately necessary to enter into contract with Catholic Social Services so that necessary services can continue uninterrupted all for the 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 Director of the Department of Development is
hereby authorized to enter into a contract with Catholic
Social Services to fund the Chores basic home maintenance
and repair program.
Section 2. That this contract is awarded pursuant to Section 329.15 of
the Columbus City Codes, 1959, as amended.
Section 3. That for the purpose as stated in Section 1, the expenditure
$50,000.00 or so much thereof as necessary, be and is
hereby authorized to be expended from the Department of
Development, Department No. 44-10, Fund 248, Subfund
001, Object Level One 03, Object Level Three 3337,OCA
444009.
Section 4. That for the reasons stated in the preamble hereto, which
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.