Explanation
Background:
This ordinance will enable the Director of Recreation and Parks to accept a grant from the National Recreation and Parks Association in the amount of $15,000.00 and to appropriate these monies to the Recreation and Parks Private Grant Fund. These funds from the Anchor Community Grant will provide fishing and boating education programs to be completed by November 1, 2007.
Emergency action is requested so the grant can be accepted as soon as possible to allow funding to be available for necessary expenditures.
Fiscal Impact:
The fiscal impact of this ordinance will be to reduce the Recreation and Parks Private Grant Fund's unappropriated balance by $15,000.00
Title
To authorize and direct the Director of Recreation and Parks to accept a grant in the amount of $15,000.00 from the National Recreation and Parks Association Anchor Community Grant, to appropriate these funds to the Recreation and Parks Private Grant Fund, and to declare an emergency. ($15,000.00)
Body
WHEREAS, the National Recreation and Parks Association has awarded the City of Columbus, Recreation and Parks Department, a grant in the amount of $15,000.00 for the operation of the 2007 fishing and boating education programs; and
WHEREAS, it is necessary to appropriate said funds to the Recreation and Parks Department for expenditures in conjunction with the 200& fishing and boating education programs; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Recreation and Parks Department in that it is immediately necessary to accept said grant funds and appropriate said funds to have available for necessary expenditures; now, therefore
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That the Director of Recreation and Parks be and he is hereby authorized and directed to accept a grant in the amount of $15,000.00 from the National Recreation and Parks Association for the operation of the 2007 fishing an...
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