Explanation
Background: As part of the Consent Order and Settlement Agreement between the City of Columbus and Penn National Gaming, Inc., the parties agreed to create the Westside Community Fund. Both the City of Columbus and Penn National Gaming agreed to contribute $2.5 million to the Westside Community Fund, with the first payment of $1 million to be made in 2012. Additional contributions of $750,000.00 were to be made by each party in 2013. The parties further agreed to each contribute $500,000.00 in 2014 and $250,000.00 in 2015.
The Westside Community Fund will be used for a variety of projects related to the neighborhood(s) immediately surrounding the Casino development and/or the citizens thereof, including but not limited to job training, minority affairs, economic development and/or capital projects.
This ordinance authorizes the appropriation and expenditure of $50,000.00 from the Westside Community Fund for support of The Buckeye Ranch. This funding will be used to assist The Buckeye Ranch with debt reduction on the recently remodeled West Broad Street Family Center. This center serves the residents of the Westside by providing youth and their families with comprehensive and individualized mental health and substance abuse treatment.
Fiscal Impact: Funds have been deposited into the Westside Community Fund from proceeds from the city’s allocation of State Casino Tax Revenues to support this expenditure.
Title
To authorize the Director of the Development Department to enter into contract with The Buckeye Ranch to provide support to the remodeling and opening of the West Broad Street Family Center; to authorize the appropriation and expenditure of $50,000.00 from the Westside Community Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($50,000.00)
Body
WHEREAS, on June 6, 2011, Columbus City Council passed Ordinance 0889-2011, which authorized the execution of the Consent Order and Settlement Agreement in the case of CD Gaming v. City of Columbus, et al;...
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