Explanation
BACKGROUND: This Ordinance will repeal and replace Ordinance Number 3537-2022, which identified an incorrect vendor for support to the East High School Marching Band. Repealing and replacing this ordinance is necessary in order to execute a grant agreement. This ordinance also increases funding for support to the marching band programming.
This ordinance authorizes the City Clerk to enter into a grant agreement with the East High Band Boosters, a non-profit organization that supports the Columbus East High School Marching Band.
The Columbus East High School Marching Band provides opportunities for students to practice music, build community spirit, and develop dedication to their craft while serving their neighborhood through community events. Marching band engagement can also promote participation in post-secondary educational opportunities.
Columbus City Council’s support of the East High School Marching Band programming will cover travel expenses for college visits for students in the band, further promoting participant in post-secondary educational opportunities. The grant will also cover the costs of instruments to increase band participation by promoting access to musical opportunities.
Emergency action is requested in order to avoid any further delay in college visits for students and in access to musical instruments for students.
FISCAL IMPACT: Funds are available within the Job Growth subfund.
Title
To repeal and replace Ordinance 3537-2022; to authorize the City Clerk to enter into a grant agreement with East High Band Boosters in support of the Columbus East High School Marching Band; to authorize an appropriation and expenditure within the Job Growth subfund; and to declare an emergency. ($20,000.00)
Body
WHEREAS, Ordinance No. 3537-2022, passed December 12, 2022, authorized the City Clerk to enter into a grant agreement with Columbus City Schools; and
WHEREAS, at the time of agreement execution, that the grant recipient was incorrectly identified in order to support the East High School Marching Band; and
WHEREAS, the ordinance number listed in Ordinance 3537-2022, passed December 12, 2022, must be repealed and replaced by this Ordinance; and
WHEREAS, the East High School Marching Band provides opportunities for students to serve their community through music, develop their craft, exercise musical excellence, and gain additional exposure to post-secondary educational opportunities; and
WHEREAS, Columbus City Council seeks to promote youth engagement and pathways to financial stability including engagement in post-secondary educational opportunities; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the City Clerk, due to the need to avoid any further delay in college visits for students and in access to musical instruments for students, to immediately enter into this grant agreement in support the East High School Marching Band to promote student engagement in musical activities and post-secondary education exposure for the immediate preservation of the public health, peace, property, safety and welfare; NOW THEREFORE,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That Ordinance 3537-2022, passed December 12, 2022, is hereby repealed and is to be replaced with this Ordinance.
SECTION 2. That the City Clerk is hereby authorized to enter into a grant agreement East High Band Boosters in support of the Columbus East High School Marching Band.
SECTION 3. That the City Auditor is hereby authorized and directed to appropriate $20,000.00 in the Job Growth subfund, fund 1000, subfund 100015, to the City Clerk per the accounting codes in the attachment to this ordinance.
SECTION 4. That the expenditure of $20,000.00, or so much thereof as may be needed pursuant to the action authorized in SECTION 2 of this ordinance, is hereby authorized in the Job Growth subfund, fund 1000, subfund 100015 per the accounting codes in the attachment to this ordinance.
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 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 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.