Explanation
This legislation is contingent on the passage of Ordinance # 0542-2012. This ordinance will authorize the appropriation and expenditure of $105,000.00 from the Neighborhood Initiatives fund for the United Way, Columbus Kids: Ready, Set, Learn initiative FID#31-4393712, located at 360 S. Third Street, Columbus, Ohio 43215.
The funding of $105,000.00 will be used in combination with Community Development Block Grant funding of $145,000.00 from that programs 2012 HUD Action Plan, per Ordinance 0542-2012. The total commitment to the United Way, Columbus Kids: Ready, Set, Learn initiative will be $250,000.00.
Columbus City Council and the Recreation and Parks Department recognize that nearly 40% of the children entering Columbus City Schools (CCS) kindergarten classrooms require intervention because they lack foundational skills. The United Way, Columbus Kids initiative is designed to decrease those numbers and increase the number of children who enter CCS kindergarten classrooms ready to learn. With support from more than 100 community partners, United Way of Central Ohio is leading an effort to provide school readiness screening and referral services for approximately 8,245, 2&1/2 to 4 year old children and their families in five neighborhoods of the CCS district. This number represents one half of the 2 & 1/2 to 4 yr old children in the CCS system. The 2012 initiative will focus on the communities of greatest need: Central City Columbus, Weinland Park, South Linden, Westside and Southside neighborhoods.
FISCAL IMPACT: That funding for this ordinance is made available from the City Council 2012 budget amendment to the Neighborhood Initiatives Fund 018 and from the Community Development Block Grant Fund 248.
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To authorize the appropriation of $105,000.00 within the Neighborhood Initiatives Fund; to authorize the Director of Recreation and Parks to enter into contract with United Way of Columbus United Way of Central Ohio for the implementation of the Columbus Kids: Ready, Set, Learn initiative; to authorize the expenditure of $105,000.00 from the Neighborhood Initiatives Fund and $145,000.00 from the Community Development Block Grant Fund for a total of $250,000.00; and to declare an emergency. ($250,000.00)
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WHEREAS, the City of Columbus desires to support the United Way, Columbus Kids: Ready, Set, Learn initiative; and
WHEREAS, funding from the Neighborhood Initiatives Fund and Community Development Block Grant Funding will be used in combination to support the Columbus Kids initiative; and
WHEREAS, funds are being appropriated from the Neighborhood Initiatives Fund for support of the Columbus Kids Initiative; and
WHEREAS, this legislation will authorize the Director of Recreation and Parks Department to enter into contract with United Way of Central Ohio; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the City of Columbus in that it is immediately necessary to appropriate said funds to have funding available for necessary expenditures; now, therefore
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That from the unappropriated monies in the Neighborhood Initiatives Fund, Fund No, 018, and from all monies estimated to come into said Fund from any and all sources for the period ending December 31, 2012, the sum of $105,000.00 is hereby appropriated to the Department of Recreation and Parks, Division 51-01, Object Level One - 03, Object Level Three - 3337, OCA 512851.
SECTION 2. That the Director of Recreation and Parks be authorized to enter into contract with United Way for the Columbus Kids: Ready, Set, Learn initiative.
SECTION 3. That the expenditure of $250,000.00 be and is hereby authorized as follows:
Fund Type Dept # Fund OCA Code Object Level 3 Amount
Neighborhood Initiatives 51-01 018 512851 3337 $105,000.00
CDBG 51-01 248 511249 3337 $145,000.00
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, 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 10 days after passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.