Explanation
BACKGROUND: This legislation authorizes the appropriation and expenditure of $15,000 from the Emergency Human Services Fund. These funds will be used by the Department of Development to enter into a grant agreement with the Community Shelter Board.
Community Shelter Board is requesting $15,000.00 for consulting costs with the Center for Urban Community Services, Inc. to conduct a comparative analysis of the shelter, transitional and permanent housing inventory in Columbus between 1998 and 2005.
This legislation is presented as an emergency in order to provide assistance to the organization in a timely manner.
FISCAL IMPACT: Funds will be allocated from the FY2006 Emergency Human Services Fund.
Title
To authorize the appropriation of $15,000 from the unappropriated balance of the Emergency Human Services Fund to the Department of Development; to approve the grant application of the Community Shelter Board seeking financial assistance to address an emergency human service need pursuant to Section 371.02(c) of the Columbus City Codes, 1959; to authorize the Director of the Department of Development to provide grant assistance to the Community Shelter Board and authorize the expenditure of $15,000 from the Emergency Human Services Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($15,000)
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WHEREAS, the Community Shelter Board has submitted a grant application seeking financial assistance for assistance with consulting costs; and
WHEREAS, City Council has reviewed the grant application of Community Shelter Board and hereby declares that Community Shelter Board has articulated an emergency human service need that is sufficient to justify approval of said grant; and
WHEREAS, it is the desire of the Director of the Department of Development to appropriate funds from the unappropriated balance of the Emergency Human Services Fund and to enter into a grant agreement with the Community Shelter Board; and
WHEREAS, the grant will assist with consulting costs with the Center for Urban Community Services, Inc. to conduct a comparative analysis of the shelter, transitional and permanent housing inventory in Columbus between 1998 and 2005; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Department of Development in that it is immediately necessary to appropriate said funds and to provide grant assistance to the Community Shelter Board, all for the immediate preservation of the public health, peace, safety and welfare; NOW, THEREFORE,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
Section 1. That the grant application the Community Shelter Board seeking financial assistance to address an emergency human service need pursuant to Section 371.02(c) of the Columbus City Codes, 1959 is hereby approved.
Section 2. That the Director of Development is hereby authorized and directed to provide grant assistance to the Community Shelter Board to assist with consulting costs with the Center for Urban Community Services, Inc. to conduct a comparative analysis of the shelter, transitional and permanent housing inventory in Columbus between 1998 and 2005.
Section 3. That from the unappropriated monies in the Emergency Human Services Program Operating Fund, and from any and all sources unappropriated for any other purpose during the fiscal year ending December 31, 2006, the sum of $15,000.00 be and is hereby appropriated to the Department of Development, Department No. 44-05, Fund 232, Object Level One 03, Object Level Three 3337, OCA Code 445205.
Section 4. That for the purpose as stated in Section 2, the expenditure of $15,000.00 or so much thereof as may be necessary, be and is hereby authorized to be expended from the Emergency Human Services Fund, Department of Development, Department No. 44-05, Fund 232, Object Level One 03, Object Level Three 3337, OCA Code 445205.
Section 5. That the expenditure authorized herein is in accordance with Section 371.02(c) of the Columbus City Codes, 1959.
Section 6. That for the reasons stated in the preamble hereto, which is made a part hereof, this ordinance is declared to be an emergency measure and shall take effect and shall 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.