EXPLANATION
BACKGROUND
Passage of this legislation will authorize Columbus City Council to expend $10,000.00 from the Jobs Growth Fund, and to enter into a contract with the Greater Columbus Arts Council (GCAC) for program development, implementation, and management of the Columbus Keepsake Program.
The program is a partnership between Columbus City Council, GCAC, and Experience Columbus to give local artists an opportunity to have their work be given as gifts to visiting dignitaries, and to be displayed for sale in a prominent downtown location.
A considerable outreach and promotion campaign was conducted to invite local Columbus artists to submit renderings, details and schematics for keepsake items to be produced as giveaways to visiting officials / dignitaries, and for sale in a prominent downtown location. Following an extensive review of submitted concepts/items, a panel of judges selected three winning pieces. Judges for the contest were Councilmember Eileen Paley; Mark Becker from the Pizzuti Collection; Tony Cordo from Experience Columbus; Mark Poeppelman from Columbus International; and Diane Nance from the Ohio Arts Council.
FISCAL IMPACT: Funding for such sponsorship was allotted in the Jobs Growth Fund, Fund 015.
EMERGENCY DESIGNATION: It is requested that this Ordinance be handled in an emergency manner due to time sensitive deadlines.
TITLE
To authorize Columbus City Council to appropriate and expend $10,000.00 from the Jobs Growth Fund, to enter into a contract with the Greater Columbus Arts Council (GCAC) for program development, implementation, and management of the Columbus Keepsake Program, and to declare an emergency. ($10,000.00)
BODY
WHEREAS, passage of this legislation authorizes Columbus City Council to appropriate and expend $10,000.00 from the Jobs Growth fund, and to enter into contract with the Greater Columbus Arts Council (GCAC) for the development, implementation and management of the Columbus Keepsake Program; and
WHEREAS, following an extensive outreach effort conducted by GCAC, local artists were invited to submit renderings, details and schematics for keepsake items; and
WHEREAS, a panel of local judges reviewed submitted items and chose three winning items; and
WHEREAS, items produced as a result of the program will be sold at a prominent downtown location by project partner Experience Columbus and to be given to visiting dignitaries; 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 the City Auditor be and he is hereby authorized and directed to appropriate $10,000.00 in the Jobs Growth Fund as follows:
Dept: 20
Fund Type: Jobs Growth
Fund: 15
Object Level 1: 3336
OCA Code: 200115
Amount: $10,000
SECTION 2. That Columbus City Council is hereby authorized to enter into contract with the Greater Columbus Arts Council for the program development, implementation, and management of the Columbus Keepsake Program.
SECTION 3. That the expenditure of $10,000.00 be and hereby is authorized in:
Dept: 20
Fund Type: Jobs Growth
Fund: 15
Object Level 1: 3336
OCA Code: 200115
Amount: $10,000
SECTION 4. 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.