Explanation
This ordinance authorizes the City Clerk to enter into a grant agreement with the Harmony Project to provide programming support.
The Harmony Project seeks to build a more connected community by breaking down social barriers, bridging community divides, and empowering the voices of the people through arts, education, and volunteer service.
This grant will support initiatives that expand workforce engagement, community development, and neighborhood revitalization in Columbus’s urban core.
Emergency action is required because the Harmony Project in order to ensure programmatic activity can continue without interruption.
FISCAL IMPACT: Funding for this grant agreement is available within the Neighborhood Initiatives subfund.
Title
To authorize the City Clerk to enter into a grant agreement with the Harmony Project to provide programming support; to authorize an expenditure within the Neighborhood Initiatives subfund; and to declare an emergency. ($10,000.00)
Body
WHEREAS, The Harmony Project builds a more connected community by breaking down social barriers, bridging community divides, and empowering the voices of the people through arts, education, and volunteer service. ; and
WHEREAS, Columbus City Council seeks to support Columbus’ families across all neighborhoods, and the Alliance’s mission furthers those goals; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Clerk's Office in that it is immediately necessary to authorize the Clerk to enter into a grant agreement with the Harmony Project in support of their programming and City support is needed in order to award the funds to ensure continuity of programming, for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, property, and safety; 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 the Harmony Project to provide programming support.
SECTION 2. That per the action authorized in Section 1 of this ordinance, the expenditure of $10,000.00, or so much thereof as necessary, is hereby authorized in the Neighborhood Initiatives subfund, fund 1000, subfund 100018, per the accounting codes in the attachment to this ordinance.
SECTION 3. 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 4. 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 5. That for the reasons stated in the preamble hereto, which is hereby made a part hereof, the 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.