BACKGROUND: This legislation authorizes the appropriation of Public Safety Initiatives Funds monies to City Council to enter into contract with the Tray Lee Center for youth services and operational support. The Tray Lee Community Center was established in 1956 in the American Addition which is among the oldest African American communities in Central Ohio. The Center provides facilities as well as educational and recreation programs for the youth and families of the neighborhood. Statistics have shown that the availablility of youth service centers improves the safety of the youth that take advantage of the programming provided. The total amount of this contract is $20,000.00. Council deems this an appropriate use of General Fund monies.
FISCAL IMPACT: Council amended the 2015 budget to allow for these expenditures that fall under the purview of public safety initiatives.
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To authorize City Council to enter into a grant agreement with the Tray Lee Center for youth services; to authorize the appropriation and expenditure of $20,000.00 from the Public Safety Initiatives Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($20,000.00)
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WHEREAS, this legislation authorizes the appropriation of Public Safety Initiatives Funds monies to City Council to enter into a grant agreement with the Tray Lee Center for youth services and operational support; and
WHEREAS, the Tray Lee Center was established in 1956 in the American Addition which is among theoldest African American communities in Central Ohio; and
WHEREAS, the Center provides facilities as well as educational and recreational programs for the youth and families of the neighborhood; and
WHEREAS, City Council amended the 2015 budget to further emphasize that the importance of making strategic investments in projects that will ultimately improve the quality of life within the City and Council deems this project an appropriate use of $20,000.00; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the City in that it is immediately necessary to enter a grant agreement and appropriate funds to support the efforts of the Tray Lee Center for the preservation of the public health, peace, property, safety and welfare; now therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That the City Auditor be and is hereby authorized and directed to appropriate $20,000.00 in the Public Safety Initiatives Fund, Fund 016, to City Council Department No. 20-01, Object Level One 03, Object Level Three 3337, OCA Code 200116.
SECTION 2. That City Council is hereby authorized to enter into a grant agreement with Tray Lee Center in the amount of $20,000 to provide support for facilities as well as educational and recreational programs for the youth and families of the American Additions neighborhood.
SECTION 3. That the encumbrance of $20,000.00, or so much thereof as may be needed, be and the same is hereby authorized as follows: Fund 016, Department 20-01, Object Level One 03, Object Level Three 3337, OCA Code 200116.
SECTION 4. That for the reason stated in the preamble here to, 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.