Explanation
Background: This ordinance authorizes the Director of the Office of Violence Prevention to enter into summer youth programming grant agreements with the following registered 501c3 nonprofit organizations for the listed amount.
From January 13, 2025, through February 14, 2025, the City of Columbus accepted applications through an open and competitive process to provide funding to support nonprofit organizations looking to establish or grow summer youth programs focused on promoting improved academic performance, health and well-being, and/or enhanced career readiness and workplace skills. These areas are designed to empower youth to learn, grow and develop during the summer months and beyond.
Funding proposals were then evaluated by an interdepartmental review committee comprised of representatives from various Departments.
The services included in these grant agreements cannot be provided by existing city employees because these services are beyond the City’s current responsibility and capacity to provide.
Award Amounts and Grantees:
$75,000.00 J.C. Broadus Center for Youth Advocacy, Inc.
$125,000.00 Mothers of Murdered Columbus Children
$75,000.00 Remember Us Urban Scouts, Inc.
$125,000.00 Somali Bantu Diverse Center
$75,000.00 City of Grace Church, Inc.
Fiscal Impact: This ordinance authorizes the expenditure of $475,000.00 in grant proceeds for financial support of summer youth engagement and employment programs. This ordinance will reduce Rec and Parks Operating fund subsidy and appropriations by $49,421.00 and transfer $49,421.00 of appropriations within, and expenditure from the General Fund
Emergency action is requested to ensure that funding can be disbursed prior to the start of the summer youth program period on May 1, 2025.
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To authorize the Director of the Office of Violence Prevention to enter into advance-pay grant agreements with five (5) local registered 501c3 non-profit organizations in support of summer youth engagement and employment programs; to authorize a reduction of appropriation in the Rec and Parks Operating Fund; to authorize the transfer of $1,050,000.00 within the general fund; to authorize the expenditure of $475,000.00 from the general fund; and to declare an emergency ($475,000.00).
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WHEREAS, the City of Columbus is looking to invest in our community partners that are so vital to the success of our kids and teens; and
WHEREAS, the Office of Violence Prevention desires to enter into advance-pay grant agreements with 5 local registered 501c3 non-profit organizations, as listed above, to help fund summer 2025 youth programming in Columbus; and
WHEREAS, it is necessary to reduce the Rec and Parks Operating fund appropriations by $49,421.00; and
WHEREAS, summer youth engagement and employment programs provide safe, constructive venues for youth to learn, grow and develop during the summer months; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Office of Violence Prevention in that it is immediately necessary to authorize the Director to enter into advance-pay grant agreements to allow funding to be disbursed prior to the start of the summer youth program period on May 1, 2025, all for the immediate preservation of the public health, peace, property, and safety; NOW, THEREFORE,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1: That the Director of the Office of Violence Prevention be and is hereby authorized to enter into advance-pay grant agreements in the following amounts with the respectively listed registered 501c3 non-profit organizations for Summer 2025 programming opportunities, the term of which will begin on May 1, 2025 and will end on September 30, 2025. The aggregate total of all grants shall be $475,000.00.
$75,000.00 J.C. Broadus Center for Youth Advocacy, Inc.
$125,000.00 Mothers of Murdered Columbus Children
$75,000.00 Remember Us Urban Scouts, Inc.
$125,000.00 Somali Bantu Diverse Center
$75,000.00 City of Grace Church, Inc.
SECTION 2. That the transfer of appropriations of $276,330.00, or so much thereof as may be needed in regard to the action authorized in Section 1, is hereby authorized within the General Fund 1000 from Dept-Div 48-01, Object Class 05 to Dept-Div 40-07, Object Class 05 per the accounting codes in the attachment to this ordinance.
SECTION 3. That the transfer of appropriations of $24,249.00, or so much thereof as may be needed in regard to the action authorized in Section 1, is hereby authorized within the General Fund 1000 from Dept-Div 45-01, Object Class 10 to Dept-Div 40-07, Object Class 05 per the accounting codes in the attachment to this ordinance.
SECTION 4. That the Rec and Parks Operating Fund appropriations are reduced and the transfer of $49,421.00, or so much thereof as may be needed in regard to the action authorized in Section 1, is hereby authorized within the Rec and Parks Operating Fund 2285 from Dept-Div 51-01, Object Class 05 to Dept-Div 40-07, Object Class 05 per the accounting codes in the attachment to this ordinance.
SECTION 5. That the General Fund appropriations are reduced and the transfer of $49,421.00, or so much thereof as may be needed in regard to the action authorized in Section 1, is hereby authorized within the General Fund 1000 from Dept-Div 51-01, Object Class 10 to Dept-Div 40-07, Object Class 05 per the accounting codes in the attachment to this ordinance.
SECTION 6. That the transfer of appropriation of $400.000.00, or so much thereof as may be needed in regard to the action authorized in Section 1, is hereby authorized within the General Fund 1000 from Dept-Div 40-07, Object Class 05 to Dept-Div 40-07, Object Class 03 per the accounting codes in the attachment to this ordinance.
SECTION 7. That the transfer of appropriation of $300.000.00, or so much thereof as may be needed in regard to the action authorized in Section 1, is hereby authorized within the General Fund 1000 from Dept-Div 40-07, Object Class 02 to Dept-Div 40-07, Object Class 03 per the accounting codes in the attachment to this ordinance.
SECTION 8. That the expenditure of $475,000.00, or so much thereof as may be needed in regard to the action authorized in Section 1, is hereby authorized from the General Fund 1000 in Object Class 05 per the accounting codes in the attachment to this ordinance.
SECTION 9. That the monies in the foregoing Sections shall be paid upon order of the Director of the Office of Violence Prevention, 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 10. That the funds necessary to carry out the purpose of this ordinance are hereby deemed appropriated, and the City Auditor shall establish such accounting codes as necessary.
SECTION 11. That the City Auditor is authorized to make any accounting changes to revise the funding source for all contracts or contract modifications associated with this ordinance.
SECTION 12. That for reasons stated in the preamble hereto, which is hereby made a part hereof, this ordinance is hereby declared an emergency measure and shall take effect and be enforced from and after its passage and approval by the Mayor, or ten days after passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.