Explanation
This ordinance authorizes and directs the Director of Public Safety to enter into contract with ArtSafe's Inside Out program: Building Community Around Youth, which is a pilot program focusing on the successful transition from detention/institutionalization back to the community for youthful offenders. ArtSafe is partnering with the South Side Settlement House and the Central Community House, both located in Empowerment Zone neighborhoods with high poverty and crime rates.
ArtSafe will provide its proven arts-based programming inside the institutions and will identify Franklin County youth who will be released after March 2008. ArtSafe will then join these young people in their communities-the "out" portion of the InSide/Out program-by continuing to provide arts programming at neighborhood settlement houses. The settlement houses will also offer participants a range of youth and family programs and provide intensive case management services for the young people in the program.
FISCAL IMPACT City Council allocates $12,500 from the Public Safety Initiatives fund to support the organization.
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To authorize and direct the appropriation of $12,500 within the Public Safety Initiatives Fund and to authorize and direct the Public Safety Director to enter into contract with the ArtSafe to provide transition services from detention/institutionalization back to the community for youthful offenders and to authorize the expenditure of $12,500 from the Public Safety Initiatives Fund ($12,500.00).
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WHEREAS, City Council has amended the annual budget in the past to set aside funds in the Public Safety Initiatives Fund to address specific public safety challenges; and
WHEREAS, ArtSafe is partnering with the South Side Settlement House and the Central Community House, both located in Empowerment Zone neighborhoods with high poverty and crime rates; and
WHEREAS, In 2006, nearly 2,000 youth in Ohio were returned to their communities from DYS facilities. During the same year, Franklin County was second in the state for admissions to Department of Youth Services facilities with well over 800 youth adjudicated for felonies; and
WHEREAS, ArtSafe's Inside Out program: Building Community Around Youth, is a pilot program focusing on the successful transition from detention/institutionalization back to the community for youthful offenders; and
WHEREAS ArtSafe will provide its proven arts-based programming inside the institutions and will identify Franklin County youth who will be released and then join these young people in their communities-the "out" portion of the InSide/Out program-by continuing to provide arts programming at neighborhood settlement houses; and
WHEREAS, Council deems it an appropriate use of the Public Safety Initiatives fund to support the organization's efforts; and
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That the City Auditor is hereby authorized to appropriate $12,500 within the Public Safety Initiatives Fund, 016, to the Public Safety Director, Department No. 30-01, OL One 03, OL Three 3337, OCA Code 300116.
SECTION 2. That the Director of Public Safety is hereby directed and authorized to enter into contract with ArtSafe to provide services for youthful offenders transitioning back into the community.
SECTION 3. That for the purpose stated in section 2, the expenditure of $12,500 or so much thereof as necessary, be and is hereby authorized to be expended from the Safety Initiative fund, 016, Department/Division No 30-01, Object Level One 03, Object Level Three 3337, OCA Code 300116.
SECTION 4. That this contract is awarded pursuant to Section 329.15 of the Columbus City Codes, 1959 as amended.
SECTION 5. That this Ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after the earliest period allowed by law.