Explanation
Background: This ordinance authorizes the amendment of Ordinance No. 1397-2024, which authorizes the Finance and Management Director to enter into a non-profit service contract with Impact Community Action to implement the Empowered! program and support energy efficient, sustainable neighborhoods in line with the City’s Columbus Climate Action Plan. Empowered! is a clean-energy jobs program geared toward Columbus residents ages 18-24. The program will provide training and on-the-job experience for careers in the clean-energy sector and focus on recruiting participants from communities of color and women in Opportunity Neighborhoods. These services cannot be provided by current city employees.
Ordinance No. 1397-2024 was approved by City Council on June 3, 2024. There are no amendments needed for the programmatic elements of the contract. However, a change of funding sources is needed. Ordinance No. 1397-2024 authorized the transfer of $2,350,000.00 from the General Fund Income Tax Set Aside Subfund to the Sustainable Columbus Fund and the eventual expenditure of $2,350,000.00 from the Sustainable Columbus Fund. It has become necessary to reduce the transfer amount from the General Fund Income Tax Set Aside Subfund and to replace these funds with proceeds from the Sustainable Columbus Workforce Development Subfund. The amount of the contract, totaling $2,350,000.00 will not change.
Emergency action is requested so that necessary amendments can be processed quickly so that program implementation can begin immediately.
Title
To amend Ordinance No. 1397-2024, which was approved by Columbus City Council on June 3, 2024, to modify funding sources; and to declare an emergency. ($0.00)
Body
WHEREAS, Ordinance No. 1397-2024 was approved by City Council on June 3, 2024; and
WHEREAS, Ordinance No. 1397-2024 authorized the transfer of $2,350,000.00 from the General Fund Income Tax Set Aside Subfund to the Sustainable Columbus Fund and the eventual expenditure of $2,350,000.00 from the Sustainable Columbus Fund; and
WHEREAS, It has become necessary to reduce the transfer amount from the General Fund Income Tax Set Aside Subfund and to replace these funds with proceeds from the Sustainable Columbus Workforce Development Subfund; and
WHEREAS, There are no amendments needed for the programmatic elements of the contract, however a change of funding sources is needed; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Department of Finance and Management in that it is immediately necessary to amend Ordinance No. 1397-2024, passed by Columbus City Council June 3, 2024, to adjust funding sources for the related contract so that program implementation can begin without delay, 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, OHIO:
Section 1. That Ordinance No. 1397-2024 is hereby amended to adjust funding sources as follows, with additions in underline and deletions in strikethrough:
Fiscal Impact: This ordinance authorizes a transfers and appropriations of $2,350,000.00 $2,181,279.42 from the General Fund Income Tax Set Aside subfund and $168,720.58 from the Sustainable Columbus Workforce Development subfund to the Sustainable Columbus Fund and the expenditure of $2,350,000.00 from the Sustainable Columbus Fund, to Impact Community Action for implementation of the Empowered! Program and neighborhood
energy efficiency measures.
Title
To authorize the Director of the Department of Finance and Management to enter into a not-for-profit service contract with Impact Community Action for implementation of the Empowered! Program, a clean-energy jobs program and Sustainable Columbus Workforce Development subfund to the Sustainable Columbus Fund; to authorize the appropriation of $2,350,000.00 within the Sustainable Columbus Fund; and to authorize the expenditure of $2,350,000.00 from the Sustainable Columbus Fund. ($2,350,000.00)
WHEREAS, it is necessary to appropriate and transfer funds from the General Fund Income Tax Set Aside Subfund and the Sustainable Columbus Workforce Development subfund; and
SECTION 2. That from the unappropriated balance of the General Fund Income Tax Set Aside Subfund No. 1000-100099, 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, 2024, the sum of $2,350,000 $2,181,279.42 is hereby appropriated to the Department of Finance and Management per the account codes in the attachment to this ordinance in order
to carry out the purpose of this ordinance.
See Attached File: Ord 1397-2024 Legislation Template.xls
SECTION 3. That the transfer of $2,350,000.00, or so much thereof as may be needed in regard to the action authorized in Section 1, is hereby authorized from the General Fund Income Tax Set Aside Subfund to the Sustainable Columbus Fund, per the accounting codes in the attachment to this ordinance. That from the unappropriated balance of the Sustainable Columbus Workforce Development subfund No. 2260-226002, 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, 2024, the sum of $168,720.58 is hereby appropriated to the Department of Finance and Management per the account codes in the attachment to this ordinance in order to carry out the purpose of this ordinance
See Attached File: Ord 1397-2024 Legislation Template.xls
SECTION 4. That the appropriation of $2,350,000.00, or so much thereof as may be needed in regard to the action authorized in Section 1, is hereby authorized within the Sustainable Columbus Fund, per the accounting codes in the attachment to this ordinance. That the transfer of $2,181,279.42 from the General Fund Income Tax Set Aside Subfund and $168,720.58 from the Sustainable Columbus Workforce Development subfund or so much thereof as may be needed in regard to the action authorized in Section 1, is hereby authorized to the Sustainable Columbus Fund, per the accounting codes in the attachment to this ordinance.
See Attached File: Ord 1397-2024 Legislation Template.xls
Section 2. That existing Fiscal Impact, Title, 8th WHEREAS Clause, Section 2, Section 3, and Section 4 of Ordinance No. 1397-2024 is hereby repealed.
Section 3. That for 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 veto the same.