Explanation
This ordinance authorizes the City Clerk to enter into a grant agreement with the Urban Lacrosse Academy, a non-profit corporation, in support of organizational programming.
The grant request will be directed towards supporting all of Urban Lacrosse Academy’s current initiatives. The organization uses the game of lacrosse as a vehicle to mentor young boys and girls based on four pillars: integrity, respect, goal setting, and determination. These pillars not only help participants become better teammates but better people.
Urban Lacrosse Academy offers several programs that simply introduce the game of lacrosse to students in grades K-6. These programs include physical education classes in Columbus City Schools and other schools that are in Columbus City proper. The organization works with after school programs to fulfill their physical activity requirement. Urban Lacrosse Academy also provides services to Columbus Recreation and Parks, as well as lacrosse programming year around for entities such as Ethiopian Social Taewahedo Services and Ohio Hispanic Coalition and Whitehall City Schools. Academy students will participate in mentoring programs and community service projects and will also learn other skills such as equipment maintenance.
Fiscal Impact: Funding is available within the Neighborhood Initiatives subfund.
Emergency action is requested in order to provide Urban Lacrosse Academy with the resources necessary to expand programming to additional schools this school year.
Title
To authorize the City Clerk to enter into a grant agreement with Urban Lacrosse Academy in support of organizational programming; to authorize an appropriation and expenditure within the Neighborhood Initiatives subfund; and to declare an emergency. ($15,000.00)
Body
WHEREAS, Urban Lacrosse Academy offers several programs that simply introduce the game of lacrosse to students in grades K-6; and
WHEREAS, the organization uses the game of lacrosse as a vehicle to mentor young boys and girls based on four pillars: integrity, respect, goal setting, and determination; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily business of the city in that it is immediately necessary to authorize a grant agreement in order to provide allow Urban Lacrosse Academy with the resources necessary to expand programming to additional schools this school year, all 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 Urban Lacrosse Academy in support of organizational programming.
SECTION 2. That the Auditor is hereby authorized and directed to appropriate $15,000.00 within 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 per the action authorized in Section 1 of this ordinance, the expenditure of $15,000.00 from the Neighborhood Initiatives subfund, fund 1000, subfund 100018, is hereby authorized per the accounting codes in the attachment to this ordinance.
SECTION 4. Funds are hereby deemed appropriated and expenditures and transfers authorized to carry out the purposes of this ordinance, and the City Auditor shall establish such accounting codes as necessary.
SECTION 5. 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 6. 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.