Explanation
This ordinance authorizes the Director of the Office of Education to enter into a not-for-profit service contract with the W.E. Upjohn Unemployment Trustee Corporation ("Upjohn"), a non-profit corporation, for evaluation of the Columbus Promise program.
The Columbus Promise is a transformational college access, success, and workforce program made possible by a coalition that includes Columbus City Schools, Columbus State Community College, I Know I Can, the Columbus Foundation, Upjohn, and other partners. Announced in the fall of 2021, the first cohort enrolled in the fall of 2022 and the second cohort enrolled in the fall of 2023, currently enabling Columbus City Schools students to attend Columbus State Community College.
Ordinance 2186-2022 was passed on July 25, 2022 and authorized the first contract with Upjohn , for a contract term of November 1, 2022 to October 31, 2023. The initial contract’s scope included analysis and feedback on best practices of Promise programs across the country and analysis and feedback on the impact and implementation of such a program in Columbus.
Columbus City Council seeks continued research, analysis, and feedback from Upjohn as the Columbus Promise program expands and matures. Under this contract, Upjohn will also provide continued technical assistance and an evaluation of the second year of the Columbus Promise program, a function not performed by existing city employees.
Fiscal Impact: Funding to support this agreement is available within the Job Growth subfund.
Emergency Justification: Emergency legislation is required in order to avoid an interruption in services. The current contract expires on October 31, 2023.
Title
To authorize the Director of the Office of Education to enter into a not-for-profit service contract with the W.E. Upjohn Unemployment Trustee Corporation for evaluation of the Columbus Promise program; to authorize an appropriation and expenditure up to $100,000.00 within the Job Growth subfund; and to declare an emergency. ($100,000.00)
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WHEREAS, the Columbus Promise is a transformational college access, success, and workforce program with its second cohort of Columbus City Schools students enrolled at Columbus State Community College; and
WHEREAS, Upjohn, a private, not-for-profit, nonpartisan, independent research organization, has studied policy-related issues of employment and unemployment since its founding in 1945 and is an expert in college promise programs; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual operation of the Office of Education in that it is immediately necessary to enter into a not-for-profit services contract with the W.E. Upjohn Unemployment Trustee Corporation to avoid an interruption in services; NOW, THEREFORE,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That the Director of the Office of Education is hereby authorized and directed to enter into a not-for-profit service contract with the W.E. Upjohn Unemployment Trustee Corporation for evaluation of the Columbus Promise program.
SECTION 2. That this agreement is awarded pursuant to the relevant provisions of Chapter 329 of the Columbus City Codes relating to the process for awarding not-for-profit service agreements.
SECTION 3. That the City Auditor is hereby authorized and directed to appropriate $100,000.00 in the Job Growth subfund, fund 1000, subfund 100015 per the accounting codes in the attachment to this ordinance.
SECTION 4. That the expenditure of $100,000.00 or so much thereof as may be needed pursuant to the action authorized in SECTION 1 of this ordinance, is hereby authorized in the Job Growth subfund, fund 1000, subfund 100015 per the accounting codes in the attachment to this ordinance.
SECTION 5. 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 6. 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 7. 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.