Explanation
CDBG funds are provided, for administrative costs, to the Columbus Urban League (CUL) to enable them to provide fair housing services to the residents of the city. The CUL will conduct activities to reduce and eliminate legal and social barriers to housing opportunities, investigate all valid housing discrimination complaints and seek redress, develop testing procedures to determine the extent of discrimination, promote awareness of equal housing opportunities and prepare and implement the Fair Housing Action Plan. As a grantee of federal Housing and Community Development funds from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the city is required to complete an Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice (AI). This AI, along with an annual action plan constitutes the required Fair Housing Action Plan. In 2007, $32,000 in additional funds are provided in the contract with the CUL for the completion of a new AI and Fair Housing Action Plan.
The Urban League is a non-profit organization. Contract Compliance # 31-4379453
Title
To authorize the Director of the Department of Finance and Management to enter into an agreement with the Columbus Urban League for the Fair Housing Program, to authorize the expenditure of $220,814.00 from the Community Development Block Grant fund, and to declare an emergency. ($220,814.00)
Body
WHEREAS, it is the desire of the Department of Finance and Management to expend monies from the Community Development Block Grant Fund for an agreement with the Columbus Urban League to administer the Fair Housing Program, and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual and daily operation of the Department of Finance and Management in that is immediately necessary to expend the aforementioned funds for the ongoing timely operation of the Fair Housing Program, Now, Therefore
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That, in accordance with Section 329.15 of the Columbus City Code, the Director of the Department of Fiance and Management is hereby authorized and directed to enter into an agreement with the Columbus Urban League for the administration of the Fair Housing Program.
SECTION 2. That the expenditure of $220,814.00, or so much thereof as may be necessary, from Division 45-01, fund 248, OCA Code 457613, Subfund 001, Object Level One 03, Object Level 3336 is hereby authorized for aforesaid purpose.
SECTION 3. That for 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.