Explanation
BACKGROUND: This legislation authorizes the cancellation of Contract No.DL011001, appropriates and expends $23,150.60 from the Emergency Human Services Fund and authorizes the Director of the Department of Development to execute a Grant Agreement with the Salvation Army of Greater Columbus to serve as the fiscal agent for the Columbus Workforce Alliance.
The City Attorney Office has established a policy that City Council-approved Emergency Human Services Fund agreements or any previously established EHS contract being altered, be henceforth submitted as grant agreements. The contract referenced above was established in 2005 prior to this new policy.
The Columbus Workforce Alliance is using EHS funds to conduct a project to determine and highlight the effectiveness of current workforce development programs designed for helping low-income employed and/or underemployed individuals residing in the Empowerment Zone find jobs. Due to unanticipated contract delays with its primary project funder (Ohio Department of Development), the Alliance was required to amend the original timeline for the Meeting the Needs of Low-Income Unemployed and Underemployed Job Seekers research and demonstration project. The extension of time will enable the Alliance to implement and evaluate elements of Phase II of the project, which includes the piloting of services identified as critical to labor force attachment by central city residents surveyed in Phase I.
Emergency action is requested to facilitate processing of project expenses without interruption.
FISCAL IMPACT: Funds for this grant are allocated from the Emergency Human Services Fund. The funds remaining from the cancellation of Contract No. DL011001 will be used for this grant agreement.
Title
To authorize the cancellation of an existing contract with the Salvation Army; to execute a grant agreement with the Salvation Army of Greater Columbus; to appropriate and expend $23,150.60 from the Emergency Human Services Fund; and to declare an emergency ($23,150.60).
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WHEREAS, in April 2005 City Council reviewed the grant application of the Columbus Workforce Alliance to conduct a research and demonstration project, `Meeting the Needs of Unemployed and Underemployed Job Seekers' and declared that the Alliance had articulated an emergency human service need that is sufficient to justify approval of said grant; and
WHEREAS, City Council passed Ordinance No. 0803-05 on May 9, 2005 to approve funding from the Emergency Human Services Fund for the project; and
WHEREAS, that Ordinance authorized Contract No.DL011001 with the Salvation Army, which serves as fiscal agent for the Workforce Alliance; and
WHEREAS, the City Attorney Office has established a policy that Emergency Human Services Fund agreements or any established EHS contract being altered, be henceforth submitted as a grant agreement; and
WHEREAS, due to unanticipated delays with its primary funder, the Ohio Department of Development, it has become necessary for the Alliance to amend the original timeline for its project; and
WHEREAS, the Director of the Department of Development desires to cancel Contract No.DL011001, to appropriate and expend $23,150.60 from the Emergency Human Services Fund, and to execute a grant agreement with the Salvation Army of Greater Columbus; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Department of Development in that it is immediately necessary to cancel the existing contract with the Salvation Army and to appropriate and expend said funds for a new grant agreement 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 cancel Contract No.DL011001 with the Salvation Army of Greater Columbus.
Section 2. That the Director of the Department of Development is hereby authorized to execute a grant agreement with the Salvation Army of Greater Columbus, which serves as fiscal agent for the Columbus Workforce Alliance. The Alliance is using these funds to conduct the research and demonstration project Meeting the Needs of Unemployed and Underemployed Job Seekers.
Section 3. That for the purpose as stated in Section 2, the appropriation and expenditure of $23,160.60, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be and is hereby authorized from the Emergency Human Services Fund, Department of Development, Division 44-05, Fund 232, Object Level One 03, Object Level Three 3337, OCA Code 445205.
Section 4. That the expenditure authorized herein is in accordance with Section 317.02(c) of the Columbus City Codes, 1959, as amended.
Section 5. That for 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 or vetoes the same.