Explanation
This is a United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) sponsored program offered to Columbus Recreation and Parks Department (CRPD) through the Ohio Department of Education (ODE). As a sponsoring agency, the Recreation and Parks Department Summer Food Coordinator solicits other agencies, focusing on areas of need in and around the city, to act as sites for providing food services and determines their eligibility in the program. Each site can provide two of three meals (breakfast and lunch, breakfast and a snack, or lunch and a snack) to children ages 1 - 18 or of school aged eligibility. The 2011 Summer Food Program will operate from June 6 through August 19 serving approximately 150,000 breakfast meals, 340,000 lunch meals, and 25,000 snacks at 230 sites.
Benefits to Public:
Free breakfast, lunch and snacks are available to all those meeting income eligibility which is the same as the free school lunch program. Sites may also offer additional programming to Columbus youth in which they may participate.
Community Input/Issues:
Columbus Recreation and Parks has an ongoing partnership with Children's Hunger Alliance (CHA) to assist in targeting areas of need and potential sites. CHA also assists in advertising the available sites to the public via media releases, PSA's on local radio stations, interviews on the government access channel (CH 3), and articles in The Columbus Dispatch and area local newspapers.
Emergency Justification:
Emergency legislation is being requested so the contract for food services can be bid and in place in time for the operation of the 2011 program. A grant application was approved by the State of Ohio on January 19, 2011.
Fiscal Impact:
$2,119,192.00 in grant funding will be used exclusively for the operation of the 2011 Summer Food Service Program. The fiscal impact of this ordinance will be to reduce the Recreation and Parks Grant Fund's unappropriated balance by $2,119,192.00.
Title
To authorize the Director of Recreation and Parks to accept a grant from the Ohio Department of Education for the 2011 Summer Food Service Program; to appropriate $2,119,192.00 to the Recreation and Parks Grant Fund 286; and to declare an emergency. ($2,119,192.00)
Body
WHEREAS, the Ohio Department of Education has awarded the City of Columbus, Recreation and Parks Department, a grant in the amount of $2,119,192.00 for the operation of the 2011 Summer Food Service Program; and
WHEREAS, it is necessary to appropriate said funds to the Recreation and Parks Department for expenditures in conjunction with the 2011 Summer Food Service Program; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Recreation and Parks Department in that it is immediately necessary to accept said grant funds and appropriate said funds as the program begins June 6, 2011; NOW, THEREFORE
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That the Director of Recreation and Parks be and he is hereby authorized and directed to accept a grant in the amount of $2,119,192.00 from the Ohio Department of Education for the operation of the 2011 Summer Food Service Program.
SECTION 2. That from the unappropriated monies in the Recreation and Parks Grant Fund No. 286, 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, 2011, the sum of $2,119,192.00 is appropriated to the Recreation and Parks Department, Department No. 51-01, Fund No. 286, as follows:
Grant Title Fund O. L. 3 OCA Code Amount
2011 Summer Food Program 286 1112 TBD $141,072.00
2011 Summer Food Program 286 1120 TBD 6,424.32
2011 Summer Food Program 286 1160 TBD 14,990.08
2011 Summer Food Program 286 1171 TBD 1,552.54
2011 Summer Food Program 286 1173 TBD 5,353.60
2011 Summer Food Program 286 2201 TBD 6,000.00
2011 Summer Food Program 286 2140 TBD 18,000.00
2011 Summer Food Program 286 3295 TBD 1,600.00
2011 Summer Food Program 286 3329 TBD 20,000.00
2011 Summer Food Program 286 3337 TBD 1,900,000.00
2011 Summer Food Program 286 3353 TBD 1,500.00
2011 Summer Food Program 286 3372 TBD 1,200.00
2011 Summer Food Program 286 3408 TBD 1,500.00
$2,119,192.54
SECTION 3. That the monies in the foregoing Section 2 shall be paid upon order of the Director of Recreation and Parks, and that no order shall be drawn or money paid except by voucher, the form of which shall be approved by the City Auditor.
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, or 10 days after passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.