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File #: 2180-2024    Version: 1
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 7/15/2024 In control: Neighborhoods, Recreation, & Parks Committee
On agenda: 7/22/2024 Final action: 7/24/2024
Title: To authorize the City Clerk to enter into a grant agreement with Education Foundation for Freedom in support of the 2024 Women & Girls Fest; to authorize an appropriation and expenditure within the Neighborhood Initiatives subfund; and to declare an emergency. ($30,000.00)
Sponsors: Nicholas Bankston, Lourdes Barroso De Padilla, Rob Dorans, Shayla Favor, Shannon G. Hardin
Attachments: 1. 2180-2024

Explanation

This ordinance authorizes the City Clerk to enter into a grant agreement with Education Foundation for Freedom in support of the 2024 Women & Girls Fest: Empowering Young Voices event in August.

 

Education Foundation for Freedom’s missions focuses on promoting collective empowerment for diverse women and girls through arts, culture, education, entrepreneurship, and community well-being. The Women & Girls Fest provides a professional environment to support women and girl musicians and artists that promotes community equity by disrupting race-, gender-, and class-based opportunity gaps. The festival showcases women and girls in the arts, provides education and entrepreneurship opportunities, and connects to the Foundation’s larger programming available to uplift women and girls.

 

This grant agreement will support personnel, supplies, and services costs associated with the preparation for and operations of the 2024 Women & Girls Fest. No funds will be used for food and beverage costs.

 

Emergency legislation is required as the 2024 Women & Girls Fest takes place in August 25th, and funds used for deposit payments to contractors will be needed in advance of the event.

 

FISCAL IMPACT: Funding for this grant agreement is available within the 2024 Neighborhood Initiatives subfund.

 

Title

To authorize the City Clerk to enter into a grant agreement with Education Foundation for Freedom in support of the 2024 Women & Girls Fest; to authorize an appropriation and expenditure within the Neighborhood Initiatives subfund; and to declare an emergency.  ($30,000.00)

 

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WHEREAS, the Education Foundation for Freedom seeks to disrupt gender-based opportunity gaps and provide a showcase for women and girls in the arts; and

 

WHEREAS, gender-based discrimination is an ongoing issue in the arts, resulting in a multi-billion-dollar gap in auction sales, an overwhelming bias towards men in artistic leadership roles, and deep disparities in creative roles in the film industry, to name a few examples; and

 

WHEREAS, Columbus City Council seeks to promote pathways to prosperity, equitable opportunities in the arts, and the local organizations that further these 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 Education Foundation for Freedom in support of the 2024 Women & Girls Fest scheduled to take place August 25, 2024, 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:

 

SECTION 1. That the City Clerk is hereby authorized to enter into a grant agreement with Education Foundation for Freedom in support of the 2024 Women & Girls Fest, in an amount not to exceed $30,000.00.

 

SECTION 2.  That the City Auditor is hereby authorized and directed to appropriate $30,000.00 in the Neighborhood Initiatives subfund, fund 1000, subfund 100018, to the City Clerk per the accounting codes in the attachment to this ordinance.

 

SECTION 3.  That the expenditure of $30,000.00 or so much thereof as may be needed pursuant to the action authorized in SECTION 1 of this ordinance, is hereby authorized in the Neighborhood Initiatives subfund, fund 1000, subfund 100018 per the accounting codes in the attachment to this ordinance.

 

SECTION 4.  That expenses incurred on or after June 1, 2024 may be reimbursed.

 

SECTION 5. 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 6. 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 7. 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 ten days after passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.