Explanation
BACKGROUND: This ordinance authorizes the Director of the Department of Development to accept a grant in the amount of $254,944.00 from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to contract with the YWCA to support the completion of the Family Center project. The grant funds will be appropriated to the Department of Development for use by the YWCA to assist in completion of the Family Center to serve 50 homeless families with short-term housing needs and supportive services. The grant funds were included as part of Special Projects grant as funded by the Congress in the VA-HUD Independent Agencies Appropriation Act for FY 2005 (PL 108-447).
This ordinance is presented as an emergency to ensure timely and expedient acceptance of the Special Project grant.
FISCAL IMPACT: The grant will provide $254,944.00 for the YWCA Family Center project.
Title
To authorize the Director of the Department of Development to accept a Special Project Grant of $254,944.00 from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development; to authorize the appropriation of $254,944.00 from the General Government Grant Fund to the Department of Development; to authorize the Director of the Department of Development to enter into an agreement with the YWCA to complete the Family Center project; to authorize the expenditure of $254,944.00 from the General Government Grant Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($254,944.00)
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WHEREAS, the Department of Development has been awarded a Special Project grant by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development; and
WHEREAS, it is necessary to accept and appropriate the Special Project grant from the federal agency in the amount of $254,944.00; and
WHEREAS, the Director of the Department desires to enter into an agreement with the YWCA; and
WHEREAS, this ordinance is presented as an emergency to ensure the implementation and completion of the YWCA Family Center; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Department of Development in that it is immediately necessary to accept, appropriate and expend said grant funds with the YWCA for the preservation of the public health, peace, property, safety and welfare; and NOW THEREFORE,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
Section 1. That the Director of the Department of Development is hereby authorized to accept
A Special Project grant award of $254,944.00 from the U.S. Department of
Housing and Urban Development.
Section 2. That from the unappropriated monies in the fund known as the General Government
Grant Fund, the sum of $254,944.00 be and is hereby appropriated to the Department
of Development, Department No. 44-10, Fund No.220, Grant No.445018, YWCA
Special Project, Level One 03, Object Level Three 3337, OCA Code 445018.
Section 3. That the monies appropriate in the foregoing Section 2 shall be paid upon the order of the Department of Development 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 the Director of the Department of Development is hereby authorized to enter
into an agreement with the YWCA to ensure completion of the YWCA Family
Center.
Section 5. That for the purpose as stated in Section 4, the expenditure of $254,944.00, or so
much there of as may be necessary, be an is hereby authorized to be expended from
the General Government Grant Fund, Department of Development, Department No.
44-10, Fund 220, Grant No. 445018, YWCA Special Project, Object Level One 03,
Object Level Three 3337, OCA Code 445018.
Section 6. That for the reasons stated in the preamble hereto, which 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.