Explanation
Background:
This ordinance will enable the Director of the Office of Edcuation to accept and appropriate monies from the Columbus Foundation and and expend said funds from the Mayor's Charitbale Trust fund 224 . Funding will be used for after school programming for City Year at Linmoor Middle School.
Title
To authorize theDirector of the Office of Education to accept monies from the Columbus Foundation in the amount of $50,000.00 and to enter into contract with City Year, to authorize the appropriation and expenditure from the unappropiated balance of Mayor's Charitable Trust fund 224. ; and to declare an emergency. ($50,000.00)
Body
WHEREAS, the Columbus Foundation has awarded the City of Columbus, Office of Education monies for after school programming through City Year with Linmoor Middle School; and
WHEREAS, Linmoor students 6th-8th grades will be engaged in positive learning environment with adults who serve as mentors and role models during after school hours; and
WHEREAS, the students will learn about a healthy lifestyle choices and use the critical literacy model; now, therefore and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the City of Columbus in that it is immediately necessary to accept, appropriate and expend said funds for the preservation of public health, peace and property and safety; now, therefore;
Section 1. That the Director of the Office of Education be and is hereby authorized and directed to accept monies, appropriate and expend $50,000 by entering into to contract with City Year for after school programming.
Section 2. That from the unappropriated monies in the Education Private Fund 224 and from all monies estimated to come into said fund the sum of $50,000.00 is appropriated to the Office of Education Department 40-04 and authorized to be expended through a contract with City Year for After School programming at Linmoor Middle School as follows:
Charitable Trust OCA code Obj Level Amount
After School Projects 404012 3336 $50,000.00
City Year/Linmoor
Section 3. That the monies in the foregoing Section 2 shall be paid upon order of the Director of the Office of Education, 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 4. 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. That this ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after the earliest period allowed by law.