Explanation
This ordinance authorizes the Director of the Department of Building and Zoning Services to enter into a grant agreement with Creating Central Ohio Futures in support of the Building Back Better Together Program. This program will provide training and certifications that can be translated into career opportunities in the trades. Participants will be paid a weekly stipend, given the necessary tools and equipment and referred for opportunities after graduation.
The Building Back Better Together Program will host their second cohort in January 2022.
Fiscal Impact: Funds will be appropriated and transferred from the Development Services Fund to the Construction Trades Education Fund. This ordinance also authorizes the transfer and appropriation of $500,000.00 in Recovery Fund proceeds to the Department of Building & Zoning Services in support of this program.
Emergency action is requested to allow for the purchase of tools and equipment before the program begins in January 2022.
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To authorize the appropriation of $500,000 within the Development Services Fund; to authorize and direct the City Auditor to transfer $500,000 from the Development Services Fund to the City’s Special Purpose Fund; to authorize an appropriation in the City’s Special Purpose Fund; to authorize the transfer of $500,000.00 within the Recovery Fund; to authorize the Director of the Department of Building and Zoning Services to enter into a grant agreement with Creating Central Ohio Futures in support of the Building Back Better Together Program; to authorize an expenditure within the Construction Trades Education subfund; and to declare an emergency. ($250,000.00)
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WHEREAS, it is necessary to authorize the Director of the Department of Building and Zoning Services to enter into a grant agreement with the Creating Central Ohio Futures in the amount of $250,000.00 for the Building Back Better Together Program; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Department of Building and Zoning Services in that it is immediately necessary to authorize the Director to enter into a grant agreement with Creating Central Ohio Futures in order to provide resources for the Building Back Better Together Program before the program begins in January 2022; now, therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That from the unappropriated monies in the Development Services Fund, Fund 2240, Subfund 000000, and from all monies estimated to come into said fund from any and all sources and unappropriated for any other purpose during the fiscal year ending December 31, 2021, the sum of $500,000 be and hereby is appropriated per the account codes in the attachment to this ordinance.
SECTION 2. That the City Auditor is hereby authorized to transfer $500,000 from the Development Services Fund to the City’s Special Purpose Fund, Fund 2223, Construction Trades Education Program Subfund, Subfund No. 222351, per the accounting codes in the attachment to this ordinance.
SECTION 3. That an amount up to, but not to exceed, the cash in the fund not encumbered for any other purpose is hereby appropriated within the City’s Special Purpose Fund, Fund 2223, Construction Trades Education Program Subfund, Subfund No. 222351, per the accounting codes in the attachment to this ordinance.
SECTION 4. That the transfer of $500,000.00, or so much thereof as may be needed, is hereby authorized within Fund 2209 Recovery Fund, from Dept-Div 4501, Object Class 03 to Dept-Div 4301 Building and Zoning Services, Object Class 05 per the account codes in the attachment to this ordinance.
SECTION 5. That the Director of the Department of Building and Zoning Services is hereby authorized to enter into a grant agreement in the amount of $250,000 with Creating Central Ohio Futures in support of Building Back Better Together Program.
SECTION 6. That per the action authorized in Section 5 of this ordinance, the expenditure of $250,000.00 within the Special Purpose Fund, Construction Trades Education subfund is hereby authorized per the accounting codes in the attachment to this ordinance.
SECTION 7. 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 8. 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.