Explanation
BACKGROUND: This legislation authorizes the appropriation and expenditure of $20,000 from the Emergency Human Services Fund. Funds will be appropriated to the Department of Development, Neighborhood Services Division, for use in a contract with the River of Life Christian Center. This contract will provide funding for renovation of the Center's building located on the near East side of Columbus. These renovations are necessary for the safe and comfortable conduct of program activities at the facility. The River of Life provides services and programs that offer alternatives to incarceration and lead to reintegration of the offender into the community.
FISCAL IMPACT: Funds for the contract are allocated from the FY2003 Emergency Human Services Fund.
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To authorize the appropriation of $20,000.00 from the unappropriated balance of the Emergency Human Services Fund to the Department of Development; to authorize the Director of the Department of Development to enter into contract with the River of Life Christian Center; to authorize the expenditure of $20,000.00 from the Emergency Human Services Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($20,000.00)
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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 contract with the River of Life Christian Center for renovation of a building located on the near East side of Columbus; and
WHEREAS, these renovations are necessary for the safe and comfortable conduct of activities at the facility; and
WHEREAS, the Center provides services and programs that offer alternatives to incarceration and lead to reintegration of the offender into the community;
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Department of Development, Neighborhood Services Division, in that it is immediately necessary to appropriate and expend the aforementioned f...
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