Explanation
This ordinance will authorize the expenditure of $50,000.00 from the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Fund for the United Way program titled Columbus Kids: Ready, Set, Learn Initiative, FID 31-4393712, located at 360 S. Third Street, Columbus, Ohio 43215.
Columbus City Council and the Recreation and Parks Department recognize that nearly 40 percent of the children entering Columbus City School (CCS) kindergarten classrooms require intervention because they lack foundational skills. The United Way's Columbus Kids Initiative is designed to decrease those numbers and increase the number of children who enter CCS kindergarten classrooms ready to learn. With support from more than 100 community partners, United Way of Central Ohio is leading an effort to provide school readiness screening and referral services for approximately 7,300 2 1/2 to 4-year-old children and their families in five neighborhoods of the CCS district. This number represents one-half of the 2 1/2 to 4-year-old children in the CCS system. The 2015 initiative will focus on the communities of greatest need: Central City Columbus, Weinland Park, South Linden, Westside and Southside neighborhoods.
EMERGENCY JUSTIFICATION: Emergency action is requested in order to prevent a break in administering services that help prepare kids to enter into kindergarten.
FISCAL IMPACT: $50,000.00 from CDBG Fund 248.
Title
To authorize the Director of Recreation and Parks to enter into contract with the United Way of Central Ohio for the implementation of the Columbus Kids: Ready, Set, Learn Initiative; to authorize the expenditure of $50,000.00 from the Community Development Block Grant Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($50,000.00)
Body
WHEREAS, the City of Columbus desires to support the United Way's Columbus Kids: Ready, Set, Learn Initiative; and
WHEREAS, this legislation will authorize the Director of Recreation and Parks Department to enter into contract with the United Way of Central Ohio; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Department of Recreation and Parks in that it is immediately necessary to authorize a contract and 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 Director of Recreation and Parks is authorized to enter into contract with the United Way for their Columbus Kids: Ready, Set, Learn Initiative.
SECTION 2. That the expenditure of $50,000.00 be and is hereby authorized as follows:
Fund Type Dept # Fund OCA Code Object Level 3 Amount
CDBG Fund 51-01 248 511510 3336 $50,000.00
SECTION 3. 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 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.