Explanation
BACKGROUND:
This ordinance authorizes the City Clerk to modify a grant agreement with Union Grove Baptist Church by updating the grant agreement to reflect that the fiscal sponsor for the agreement shall be Life Transformation Church-An Evangelical Covenant Church and Union Grove Baptist Church shall be a subrecipient as a term of the grant agreement.
Original Agreement $20,000.00 Ord. 1442-2024
Modification No. 1 $ 0.00
Total Agreement Amount $20,000.00
On May 20, 2024, Columbus City Council passed Ordinance 1442-2024 which authorized multiple grant agreements to be held by the City Clerk, including a $20,000.00 grant to Union Grove Baptist Church in support of neighborhood and community programming.
In the process of executing the grant agreement, Union Grove Baptist Church requested a modification to the grant agreement and asked that funds be disbursed to Life Transformation Church-An Evangelical Covenant Church. Life Transformation will serve as a fiscal sponsor and will disburse the funds to Union Grove Baptist Church as a subrecipient. These changes were requested as a result of complications associated with vendor registration
Emergency action is requested in order to allow the grant modification to be executed in a timely manner for the reimbursement of eligible expenses incurred over the summer.
FISCAL IMPACT: None.
Title
To authorize the City Clerk to modify a grant agreement with Union Grove Baptist Church to change the recipient to Life Transformation Church-An Evangelical Covenant Church as a fiscal sponsor; and to declare an emergency. ($0.00)
Body
WHEREAS, due to challenges associated with the vendor registration portal and process, Union Grove Baptist Church found it necessary to identify a fiscal sponsor to serve as party to the grant agreement, of which Union Grove Baptist Church shall be a subrecipient; and
WHEREAS, the City Clerk desires to modify the grant agreement to grant the awarded funds to Life Tr...
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