Explanation
This ordinance authorizes the City Clerk to modify a grant agreement with Our Community Group in support of the Our Food Truck Festival event.
The City Clerk entered into an agreement with Our Community Group on June 23, 2023 to support the Our Food Truck Festival event.
This ordinance authorizes the modification of PO392751 by adding $5,000 to the grant agreement. This modification is to provide additional support for the entrepreneurs participating in the Our Food Truck Festival event.
Emergency action is necessary to ensure the organization receives the anticipated financial support in the form of reimbursement as soon as possible, as the food truck festival event took place on July 8th and 9th.
Fiscal Impact: Funding is available within the Neighborhood Initiatives subfund.
Title
To authorize the City Clerk to modify a grant agreement with Our Community Group; to authorize an appropriation and expenditure within the Neighborhood Initiatives subfund; and to declare an emergency. ($5,000.00)
Body
WHEREAS, Our Community Group hosts the annual Our Food Truck Festival event which is a community event in Columbus and creates opportunities for culinary entrepreneurs; and
WHEREAS, Columbus City Council seeks to support entrepreneurs in the City of Columbus to promote pathways to financial stability, wealth-building, and equity; and
WHEREAS, Columbus is a thriving incubation environment for culinary entrepreneurs and food truck festivals are a crucial element of this ecosystem and opportunities for business growth; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in that it is immediately necessary to authorize the City Clerk to modify into a grant agreement with Our Community Group to ensure timely reimbursement of expenses intended to be supported by the City of Columbus for the event which took place in early July; NOW, THEREFORE,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That the City Clerk is hereby authorized to modify a grant agreement with Our Community Group in support of the Our Food Truck Festival event.
SECTION 2. That the City Auditor is hereby authorized and directed to appropriate $5,000.00 in the Neighborhood Initiatives subfund, fund 1000, subfund 100018, to the City Clerk per the accounting codes in the attachment to this ordinance.
SECTION 3. That the expenditure of $5,000.00 or so much thereof as may be needed pursuant to the action authorized in SECTION 1 of this ordinance, is hereby authorized in the Neighborhood Initiatives subfund, fund 1000, subfund 100018 per the accounting codes in the attachment to this ordinance.
SECTION 4. 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 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 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.