Explanation
To authorize the Director of the Recreation & Parks Department to accept a grant and enter into an agreement with The Columbus Foundation, and provide for the appropriation of said funds to the Columbus Recreation & Parks Grant Fund. $75,000.00 has been awarded to renovate the Carriage Place playground to a universally accessible playground. The target completion date for this project is December 31, 2009.
The total grant amount from the Henry E. Coyle Fund of The Columbus Foundation is $75,000. This City of Columbus is to contribute a minimum of $45,000 from Fund 702, Voted Bond funds, to support the installation of the playground. The grantee is to secure the remaining $125,000 (cash or in-kind, including the value of corporate discounts) necessary to complete the installation of the playground.
Financial Information
75,000.00 in grant funding will be used exclusively to playground improvements to Carriage Place.
The fiscal impact of this ordinance will be to reduce the Recreation and Parks Grant Fund's unappropriated balance by $75,000.00.
The expenditure of $75,000.00 is budgeted in the Recreation and Parks Grant Fund 291.
Title
To authorize the Director of the Recreation & Parks Department to accept a grant and enter into an agreement with The Columbus Foundation to appropriate said funds to the Recreation & Parks Grant Fund. ($75,000.00)
Body
WHEREAS, The Henry E. Coyle Fund of The Columbus Foundation has awarded the City of Columbus, Recreation and Parks Department, a grant to renovate the Carriage Place playground to a universally accessible playground; and
WHEREAS, the total grant amount being awarded is $75,000. The required local match will be through in-kind services and community build and Columbus Recreation & Parks CIP funding; and
WHEREAS, the need exists at Carriage Place Recreation Center to renovate to a universally accessible playground. The target completion date for this project is December 31, 2009; and
WHEREAS, That this ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after the earliest date allowed by law; now, therefore
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That the Director of the Recreation and Parks Department is hereby authorized to accept a grant of $75,000 and enter into an agreement with The Columbus Foundation, and provide for the appropriation of said funds to the Columbus Recreation & Parks Grant Fund.
SECTION 2. That the need exists at Carriage Place Recreation Center to renovate to a universally accessible playground. The target completion date for this project is
December 31, 2009.
SECTION 3. That from the unappropriated monies in the Recreation and Parks Private Grant Fund No. 291, 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 $75,000.00 is appropriated to the Recreation and Parks Department as follows:
Department Number: 51-01, Grant Number:519043 , OCA Code:519043 , Object Level 3: 6621
SECTION 4. That the monies in the foregoing Section 3 shall be paid upon order of the Director of Recreation and Parks, and that no order shall be drawn or money paid except by voucher, the form of which shall be approved by the City Auditor.
SECTION 5. That the City Auditor is authorized to make any accounting changes to revise the funding source for all contracts or contract modifications with this legislation.
SECTION 6. That this ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after the earliest date allowed by law.