Explanation
BACKGROUND: The purpose of this ordinance is to appropriate $17,000.00 for the development of a feasibility study that will best determine the viability and implementation of a mixed-use food incubator in the Southern Gateway area along Parsons Avenue.
The Parsons Avenue Merchants Association (PAMA) recognizes that innovative economic development activity is a recommendation of the "Roadmap to Revitalization" Southern Gateway Community Report issued in May 2014 as a part of the City's Southern Gateway Revitalization Collaborative. This initiative examines the use food production and consumption as an economic development tool in South Columbus.
This ordinance authorizes the transfer of appropriations within the General Fund from the Department of Development to the the Community Relations Commission. The ordinance also authorizes the Community Relations Commission to enter into contract with the Parsons Avenue Merchants Association for the completion of a Food Start feasibility study as a part of the Southern Gateway Initiative devoted to the revitalization of the Southern Gateway/ South Parsons Ave. area of the South Side of Columbus.
FISCAL IMPACT: $17,000.00 is available for this contract within the General Fund.
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To authorize and direct the City Auditor to transfer $17,000.00 of appropriation authority within the General Fund; to authorize and direct the City Auditor to transfer appropriations from the Department of Development to the Community Relations Commission for the Southern Gateway Revitalization Collaborative Project; to authorize the Community Relations Commission to enter into contract with the Parsons Avenue Merchants Association for a feasibility study to determine the viability and implementation of a mixed-use food incubator as a part of the Southern Gateway Initiative ($17,000.00).
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WHEREAS, Mayor Michael B. Coleman announced the creation of South Side Initiatives Fund for the Southern Gateway/South Parsons Avenue area of the city's South Side at the 2012 State of the City address; and
WHEREAS, The Southern Gateway Initiative has produced an implementation plan that calls for the creation of new initiatives aimed at economic and community development; and
WHEREAS, The Parsons Avenue Merchants Association (PAMA) has identified an opportunity to explore how to diminish the problem of fresh food access in neighborhoods along the spine of Parsons Avenue while supporting economic development activity; and
WHEREAS, the Parsons Avenue Merchant Association has identified YMT, Inc. to develop a feasibility study to determine the viability and implementation of a mixed-use food incubator located in the Southern Gateway community along Parsons Avenue; and
WHEREAS, the process and its final plan will provide this Council, the community and stakeholders with defined benefits, potential partners, a financial analysis and recommendations for implementation for the said incubator in the Southern Gateway area to improve the quality of residential life and civic and commercial activity; and 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 transfer appropriation authority within the General Fund, Department of Development, Division No. 44-01, totaling $17,000.00 from Obj. Level One - 03, Obj. Level Three -3337, OCA 499038 to the Community Relations Commission General Fund, Department 40-02, Obj. Level One - 03, Obj. Level Three 3337, OCA 400215.
SECTION 2. That the Community Relations Commission is hereby authorized to enter into contract with the Parsons Avenue Merchants Association (PAMA) for an amount not to exceed $17,000.00 to initiate and complete the Food Start Feasibility Plan for the communities within the Southern Gateway area.
SECTION 3. That for the purpose stated in Section 2 the expenditure of $17,000.00 is hereby authorized from the Community Relations Commission General Fund, Department No. 40-02, Object Level One 03, Object Level Three 3337, OCA 400215.
SECTION 4. That the monies appropriated in the foregoing Section 3 shall be paid upon the order of the Director of the Community Relations Commission, 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 this contract is awarded pursuant to Section 329.14 of the Columbus City Codes, 1959 as amended.
SECTION 6. That this ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after the earliest period allowed by law.