Explanation
This ordinance authorizes the City Clerk to enter into a grant agreement with Columbus Fashion Council in support of their Fashion Week event and programming.
The Columbus Fashion Council supports small, local businesses, including minority and women entrepreneurs, by giving emerging brands a platform for creative and business opportunities. Over the last 14 years, the Columbus Fashion Council has elevated hundreds of brands and evolved into a business resource organization.
Emergency legislation is needed in order to provide funds to the Columbus Fashion Council in advance of the September Fashion Week event, including providing upfront funding for deposits and other payments on necessary supplies and rentals for the event.
Fiscal Impact: Funding to support this expenditure is available within the general fund and the Job Growth subfund.
Title
To authorize the City Clerk to enter into a grant agreement with Columbus Fashion Council to support the Fashion Week event and programming; to authorize an appropriation within the Job Growth subfund; to authorize a transfer of appropriations within the general fund; to authorize an expenditure from the general fund; and to declare an emergency. ($50,000.00)
Body
WHEREAS, the Columbus Fashion Council is a business resource organization that is leading the way in providing opportunities to local fashion entrepreneurs; and
WHEREAS, Columbus City Council seeks to promote pathways out of poverty and good-paying jobs, including through entrepreneurship; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Clerk's Office in that it is immediately necessary to authorize the Clerk to enter into a grant agreement with Columbus Fashion Council to support their Fashion Week event and programming; NOW, THEREFORE,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That the City Clerk is hereby authorized to enter into a grant agreement with the Columbus Fashion Council in suppor...
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