Explanation
The City of Columbus has been awarded a $296,168.00 grant by the United States Department of Justice to bolster anti-gang activity. This grant was authorized for acceptance and funds appropriated within the General Government Grant Fund by Ordinance 0356-2006 and was passed by City Council on March 6, 2006. Anti-gang initiatives will be pursued by the Public Safety Director's Office and the Public Service Department, Refuse Collection Division, Keep Columbus Beautiful program. That ordinance appropriated $220,168.00 to the Safety Director's Office and $76,000.00 to the Refuse Collection Division based on the preliminary grant budget.
The Refuse Collection Division, Keep Columbus Beautiful program desires to enter into a contract with the Africentric Personal Development Shop (APDS), Incorporated, to abate negative environmental conditions and develop community beautification projects within a target area bounded by Whittier Street, Mooberry Street, Parsons Avenue and Rhoads Avenue. These activities will primarily consist of litter collection and graffiti removal.
Africentric Personal Development Shop (APDS), Incorporated, is a 501 (C) 3, not-for profit organization whose mission is to provide culturally specific psychological treatment, prevention programs and social services to prevent, treat, and eliminate substance abuse and violence in Central Ohio. ADPS has successfully engineered community development initiatives for urban neighborhoods and produced collaborations between businesses, educational institutions, municipal, enforcement and health agencies, civic groups and social service organizations.
ADPS administers the Collective Action for Youth and Neighborhood Development (CAYND), a strategy created by the Mayor and the Neighborhood Safety Working Group (NSWG) to collectively provide and strategically implement a comprehensive network of intervention and prevention programs, focusing primarily on youth less than 22 years of age, in an effort to decrease criminal activity and gang violence in a targeted area bounded by Whittier Street, Mooberry Street, Parsons Avenue and Rhoads Avenue. ADPS will employ residents of the targeted area as a means of increasing the success of this program. The services envisioned under this contract cannot be provided by existing Refuse Collection Division employees as these employees must perform their normal job duties.
Fiscal Impact: This contract will utilize $23,500.00 of the $76,000.00 that has been appropriated the General Government Grant Fund to the Refuse Collection Division.
Emergency action is requested to allow these anti-gang initiatives to get underway as soon as possible and comply with program completion time parameters established within the grant.
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To authorize the Public Service Director to enter into contract with the Africentric Personal Development Shop (APDS), Incorporated, to abate negative environmental conditions and develop community beautification projects within a target area bounded by Whittier Street, Mooberry Street, Parsons Avenue and Rhoads Avenue for the Refuse Collection Division, Keep Columbus Beautiful Program, consistent with the anti-gang initiative intent of a grant received from the United States Department of Justice; to authorize the expenditure of $23,500.00 or so much thereof as may be needed from the General Government Grant Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($23,500.00)
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WHEREAS, the City of Columbus has been awarded a $296,168.00 grant by the United States Department of Justice to bolster anti-gang activity; and
WHEREAS, this grant was authorized for acceptance and funds appropriated within the General Government Grant Fund by Ordinance 0356-2006 passed by City Council March 6, 2006; and
WHEREAS, anti-gang initiatives will be pursued by the Public Safety Director's Office and the Public Service Department, Refuse Collection Division, Keep Columbus Beautiful program; and
WHEREAS, the Division desires to enter into a contract with the Africentric Personal Development Shop (APDS), Incorporated, to abate negative environmental conditions and develop community beautification projects within a target area bounded by Whittier Street, Mooberry Street, Parsons Avenue and Rhoads Avenue; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Public Service Department, Refuse Collection Division, Keep Columbus Beautiful program in that it is immediately necessary to enter into said contract to allow these anti-gang initiatives to get underway as soon as possible and comply with program completion time parameters established within the grant, thereby preserving the public health, peace, property, safety and welfare; now, therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That the Public Service Director be and hereby is authorized to enter into a contract with the Africentric Personal Development Shop (APDS), Incorporated, to abate negative environmental conditions and develop community beautification projects within a target area bounded by Whittier Street, Mooberry Street, Parsons Avenue and Rhoads Avenue for the Refuse Collection Division, Keep Columbus Beautiful Program, consistent with the anti-gang initiative intent of a grant received from the United States Department of Justice, in an amount not to exceed $23,500.00.
SECTION 2. That award of this contract is consistent with City Code Section 329.15 that outlines the process for awarding not-of-profit service contracts exceeding $20,000.00.
SECTION 3. That the expenditure of $23,500.00 or so much thereof as may be needed for this purpose be and hereby is authorized from Fund 220, the General Government Grant Fund, Department No. 59-02, Refuse Collection Division, Object Level One Code 03, Object Level Three Code 3336, OCA Code 596001 and Grant 316001.
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 ten days after passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.