Explanation
BACKGROUND: This legislation authorizes the Director of the Department of Development to enter into a Subrecipient Agreement - Not for Profit Services Contract with YMCA of Central Ohio to provide rental and utility assistance using federal Emergency Rental Assistance 2 funds, to authorize payment of expenses starting October 1, 2022, from an existing Purchase Order (PO336559), and to extend the contract term.
The department entered into a contract with YMCA in 2021 and modified it in 2022. While writing the legislation for the modification, adding a request to extend the term of the contract was inadvertently omitted. While this contract executed in 2023 will be an ‘original’ contract, it will contain the same scope of services as the contract executed in 2021. The original contract expired September 30, 2022.
Original grant amount $500,000.00 Ord. 2306-2021 PO293482
Mod. 1 grant amount $500,000.00 Ord. 1552-2022 PO336559
Total grant amount $1,000,000.00
Ordinance 2275-2021 authorized the City of Columbus to accept and appropriate $22,355,562.60 of federal Emergency Rental Assistance (ERA2) program funds, as passed by the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021.
In this contract, at least 60% of the funding will support households with an AMI at 50% or below and/or have a member of the household who has been unemployed for 90 days; up to 40% of the funding can be used for households with an AMI at 80% or below; and up to 15% of the funding will be utilized for Administrative costs.
YMCA of Central Ohio will continue to manage a program to provide rental and utility assistance to residents in the local area who qualify for the assistance as provided in the laws regulations and other current guidance provided by the U.S. Department of Treasury.
It is expected that the guidance from the U.S. Department of Treasury will be modified while this contract is in effect and it is requested that the Director of Development be given the au...
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