Explanation
BACKGROUND: This legislation authorizes the Director of the Department of Development to enter into contract with the Columbus Compact Corporation to assist with the implementation of the business and seed loan programs to benefit enterprise community businesses. The time of this agreement will be from October 1, 2004 through December 31, 2004.
In December 1994, the 13 square mile area in Central City Columbus received the Enterprise Community designation from the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development because it met federal criteria for pervasive poverty and unemployment. The Columbus Compact Corporation is the governing body for Enterprise-funded activities.
This ordinance is an emergency measure to allow the Columbus Compact Corporation to expend the funds before the grant expiration date of December 31, 2004.
FISCAL IMPACT: Ordinance 2895-98, passed November 9, 1998, authorized the appropriation of $150,000 for the purpose of funding the business and seed loan programs from the Columbus Enterprise Title XX grant. This legislation will utilize the unexpended portion of that appropriation.
Title
To authorize the Director of the Department of Development to enter into contract with the Columbus Compact Corporation for the business and seed loan programs; to authorize the expenditure of $48,000 from the General Government Grant Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($48,000)
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WHEREAS, the U.S. Department of HUD awarded Enterprise Community designation in December 1994; and
WHEREAS, the City agreed to carry out the Columbus Enterprise Community Strategic Plan in the Memorandum of Agreement executed on October 24, 1995 between the City of Columbus, the State of Ohio and the U.S. Department of HUD; and
WHEREAS, the Department of Development entered into a grant agreement with the Ohio Department of Jobs & Family Services (formerly the Ohio Department of Human Services) on August 16, 1995 whereby the federal government, via the State, will provide $2,947,368 in Title XX funds for the Enterprise Community programs; and
WHEREAS, the City entered into a contract with the Columbus Compact Corporation on June 24, 1996 whereby the Compact agreed to implement, monitor, and evaluate the activities and strategies of the aforementioned Title XX funded program; and
WHEREAS, the Columbus Compact Corporation will implement the business and seed loan programs in the Enterprise Community; and
WHEREAS, the Director of the Department of Development desires to comply with the Columbus Enterprise Community Strategic Plan and the recommendations of the Columbus Compact's Board and thus, desires to enter into contract with the Columbus Compact Corporation to implement the business and seed loan programs; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the City in that it is immediately necessary to authorize the Director of the Department of Development to enter into contract with the Columbus Compact Corporation for the business and seed loan programs so that the funds can be expended before the grant expiration date of December 31, 2004, in order to preserve the public health, property, safety and welfare; 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 contract with the Columbus Compact Corporation for the period October 1, 2004 through December 31, 2004, for the purpose of funding the business and seed loan programs.
Section 2. That for the purposed as stated in Section 1, the expenditure of $48,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be and is hereby authorized to be expended from the Department of Development, Division 44-04, Fund 220, Object Level One 03, Level Three 3337, OCA Code 441493, Grant No. 448220.
Section 3. That this contract is awarded pursuant to Section 329.15 of the Columbus City Code, 1959, as amended.
Section 4. That for the reasons stated in the preamble hereto, which is hereby made a part hereof, this Ordinance is 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.