Explanation
This ordinance authorizes the City Clerk to enter into a grant agreement with The Columbus Urban League in support of various organizational programs.
The Columbus Urban League (CUL) is a community‐based, non‐profit advocacy organization founded in 1918. CUL is an affiliate of the National Urban League and is one of the largest and most prestigious community‐based organizations in Central Ohio. CUL prides itself on being Central Ohio's oldest and most effective family advocate. Fighting for equity and justice for over a century, the organization has emerged as a respected, relevant, and effective force in overcoming poverty and achieving economic mobility.
Funding provided by Columbus City Council will support a number of programs operated by Columbus Urban League:
• I Am My Brother’s Keeper: providing boys and young men of color with educational resources, mentorship, and social and emotional development opportunities that support academic and social success;
• F.R.E.S.H. Inside/Out of School: Columbus Urban League’s FRESH Afterschool and Young Geniuses programs provide free, comprehensive extracurricular learning opportunities that keep children safe and help them succeed in school and life;
• Father 2 Father: Father 2 Father (F2F) offers resources to empower fathers and their co-parents across Central Ohio at every stage of their parenting journey;
• Strive Toward Potential & Empowerment (STEP): STEP is a resource for youths and their parents that supports education enrichment, health and wellness, public speaking and job-skill development, conflict resolution, and personal and family development education to promote healthy adolescent, familial, and communal relationships and reduce justice involvement;
• Empowerment Day: The Columbus Urban League’s signature annual event, Empowerment Day recognizes and celebrates noteworthy corporations, businesses, and individuals who champion the principles of equal opportunity, civil rights, and social justice.
Fiscal Impact: Funding is available within the Neighborhood Initiatives subfund.
Emergency action is requested in order to provide support to The Columbus Urban League for imminent upcoming programming and events.
Title
To authorize the City Clerk to enter into a grant agreement with The Columbus Urban League in support of various organizational programs; to authorize an appropriation and expenditure within the Neighborhood Initiatives subfund; and to declare an emergency. ($270,000.00)
Body
WHEREAS, the Columbus Urban League (CUL) is a community‐based, non‐profit advocacy organization founded in 1918; and
WHEREAS, CUL operates a wide variety of programming, including IAMBK, FRESH, and STEP, serving vulnerable populations and working to alleviate poverty throughout central Ohio; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily business of the city in that it is immediately necessary to authorize a grant agreement with The Columbus Urban League in order to provide funding in advance of upcoming programs and events, all for the immediate 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 City Clerk is hereby authorized to enter into a grant agreement with Columbus Urban League in support of various organizational programs.
SECTION 2. That the Auditor is hereby authorized and directed to appropriate $270,000.00 within the Neighborhood Initiatives subfund, fund 1000, subfund 100018, to the City Clerk, per the accounting codes in the attachment to this ordinance.
SECTION 3. That per the action authorized in Section 1 of this ordinance, the expenditure of $270,000.00 from the Neighborhood Initiatives subfund, fund 1000, subfund 100018, is hereby authorized per the accounting codes in the attachment to this ordinance.
SECTION 4. Funds are hereby deemed appropriated and expenditures and transfers authorized to carry out the purposes of this ordinance, and the City Auditor shall establish such accounting codes as necessary.
SECTION 5. 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 6. 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 approval by the Mayor, or ten days after passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.