Explanation
BACKGROUND: This legislation authorizes the Director of the Department of Development to enter into contracts with Columbus Housing Partnership dba Homeport (Homeport), Homes on the Hill CDC, OSU Extension Services and the Columbus Urban League to provide HUD Certified homeowner counseling services. Homeowner counseling includes, but is not limited to, pre-purchase education, financial literacy, individual homebuyer counseling and foreclosure counseling. The total amount of these contracts is $72,604 from the Community Development Block Grant Fund (CDBG).
Emergency action is requested to allow program services to continue without interruption.
FISCAL IMPACT: Funds for this expenditure are budgeted within the 2015 Community Development Block Grant Fund.
Title
To authorize the Director of the Department of Development to enter into contracts with Columbus Housing Partnership dba Homeport (Homeport), Homes on the Hill CDC, OSU Extension Services and Columbus Urban League to provide HUD Certified homeowner counseling services; to authorize the expenditure of $72,604.00 from the Community Development Block Grant Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($72,604.00)
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WHEREAS, the Director of the Department of Development desires to enter into contracts with various non-profit organizations to provide HUD Certified homeowner counseling services; and
WHEREAS, Columbus Housing Partnership dba Homeport (Homeport), Homes on the Hill CDC, OSU Extension Services and Columbus Urban League, are non-profit organizations with the capacity to provide HUD Certified homeowner counseling services; and
WHEREAS, homeowner counseling includes, but is not limited to, pre-purchase education, financial literacy, individual homebuyer counseling and foreclosure counseling; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the City in that it is immediately necessary to enter into contracts with Columbus Housing Partnership dba Homeport (Homeport), Homes on the Hill CDC, OSU Extension Services and Columbus Urban League, so that necessary services will not be interrupted, 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 enter into contracts with Columbus Housing Partnership dba Homeport (Homeport), Homes on the Hill CDC, OSU Extension Services and Columbus Urban League, for the purpose of providing HUD Certified homeowner counseling services.
SECTION 2. That these contracts are awarded in accordance with the relevant provisions of City Code Chapter 329 relating to not-for-profit service contracts.
SECTION 3. That for the purpose as stated in Section 1, the expenditure of $72,604.00 or so much thereof as necessary, be and is hereby authorized to be expended from the Department of Development, Department 44-10, Fund 248, Object Level One 03, Object Level Three 3337, OCA 445241 as follows:
AGENCY AMOUNT
Homeport $36,249
Homes on the Hill CDC $25,823
OSU Extension Services $ 7,645
Columbus Urban League $ 2,887
Total Allocation $72,604
SECTION 4. 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 5. That for the reasons stated in the preamble hereto, which 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.