Explanation
The Public Service Department, Refuse Collection Division, Keep Columbus Beautiful (KCB) program is eligible for grant dollars from Keep America Beautiful, Incorporated (KAB), Aquafina and Sam's Club for participation in "Students for Recycling", a "Great American Clean Up" campaign designed to facilitate partnering with local schools (kindergarten through twelfth grade) to remove plastic bottles (PET) from the waste stream through recycling. The plastic content of recycled bottles is used to manufacture backpacks.
Keep Columbus Beautiful has been awarded a $2,500.00 grant for meeting the promotions entry requirements and recruiting (5) schools (Charter) for participation in recycling. This legislation authorizes the Public Service Director to accept the monies and authorizes the appropriation and expenditure of these funds within the Private Grant Fund.
Keep America Beautiful will select the top fifty collecting schools that participate in the "Students for Recycling" program and their corresponding affiliate to each receive a grant of $1,000.00 in the form of a Sam's Club gift card. The top 100 winning schools will each receive a minimum of 100 backpacks made from recycled material. Results of the effort will be determined by Keep America Beautiful later this year.
Fiscal Impact: No city match is required for this award/grant.
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To authorize the Public Service Director to accept a "Students for Recycling" grant from Keep America Beautiful, Incorporated, designed to facilitate partnering with local schools to remove plastic bottles from the waste stream through recycling; to authorize the appropriation of $2,500.00 within the Private Grant Fund; and to authorize the expenditure of $2,500.00 or so much thereof as may be needed from the Private Grant Fund. ($2,500.00)
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WHEREAS, Keep Columbus Beautiful has been awarded a $2,500.00 grant sponsored by Keep America Beautiful, Incorporated (KAB), Aquafina and Sam's Club called "Students for Recycling" for meeting the promotions entry requirements and recruiting schools for participation in recycling; and
WHEREAS, this grant is designed to facilitate partnering with local schools (kindergarten through twelfth grade) with the goal of removing 45 million plastic bottles from the waste stream through recycling; and
WHEREAS, the plastic content of recycled bottles is used to manufacture backpacks for children across the country; and
WHEREAS, the top fifty collecting schools that participate in the "Students for Recycling" program will each receive a grant of $1,000.00 in the form of a Sam's Club gift card and the top 100 winning schools will each receive a minimum of 100 backpacks made from recycled material; now, therefore
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That the Public Service Director be and hereby is authorized to accept the Keep America Beautiful, Incorporated, "Students for Recycling" grant designed to facilitate partnering with local schools to remove plastic bottles from the waste stream through recycling.
SECTION 2. That from the unappropriated balance of the Private Grant Fund, Fund 291, and from all monies estimated to come into said fund from any and all sources and unappropriated for any other purpose during the fiscal year ending December 31, 2006, the sum of $2,500.00 be and hereby is appropriated to the Refuse Collection Division, Department No. 59-02, Object Level One Code 02, Object Level Three Code 2290, OCA Code 596015 and Grant 596015.
SECTION 3. That the Public Service Director be and hereby is authorized to expend $2,500.00 or so much thereof as may be needed to pay expenses related to the "Students for Recycling" grant program and KCB operational expenses from the Private Grant Fund, Fund 291, Refuse Collection Division, Department No. 59-02, Object Level One Code 02, Object Level Three Code 2290, OCA Code 596015 and Grant 596015.
SECTION 4. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after the earliest period allowed by law.