Explanation
Background:
This legislation will authorize the City Attorney to accept two grants from the Columbus City Schools for the continued operation of the Project S.M.A.R.T. program within the Diversion Program. $77,300.00 has been provided for the school year 02-03 and $123,500.00 for the school year 03-04.
Project S.M.A.R.T. is a program designed to reduce truancy and absenteeism by instituting mediation programs in Columbus City elementary and middle schools. It is a cooperative effort between the City Attorney's Office and the Columbus City School District.
Emergency action is requested to allow for the uninterrupted continuation of the grant program.
Fiscal Impact: The Project S.M.A.R.T. program is entirely grant funded.
Principal party:
The Board of Education
Columbus City School District
270 E. State Street
Columbus, Ohio 43215
Title
To authorize the City Attorney to accept two grants in the total amount $200,800.00 from the Columbus City School District for the Project S.M.A.R.T. program, to appropriate the grant funds for that purpose and to declare an emergency.
Body
WHEREAS, the Board of Education of the Columbus City School District has offered the City Attorney's Office two grants to be used to further the efforts of its Project S.M.A.R.T. program. A grant in the amount of $77,300.00 for the school year 2002-2003 and a second grant in the amount of $123,500.00 for the school year 2003-2004, and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the City Attorney's Office, in that it is necessary to immediately accept the grant money for the continuance of the program and for the preservation the pubic health, peace, property, safety and welfare, and, now therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS, OHIO:
SECTION 1. That the City Attorney be and hereby is authorized to accept two grants in the amounts of Seventy-seven Thousand Three Hundred and no/100 ($77,300.0...
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