Explanation
This ordinance authorizes the City Clerk to enter into a grant agreement with Community Refugee and Immigration Services (CRIS) for general operating support.
Community Refugee and Immigration Services (CRIS) is a 30-year old community organization that serves immigrants and refugees in Columbus. The mission of CRIS is to help refugees and immigrants reach safety and stability, sustain self-sufficiency, and achieve successful integration into the Central Ohio community. Among other things, CRIS is a refugee resettlement agency. As an affiliate of Church World Service, CRIS has a cooperative agreement with the Department of State to directly receive and place refugees in our community.
Funding provided via this grant agreement is for general operating support. CRIS has experienced increase demand for services, and sustaining CRIS’ mission is in the best interests of all residents of the city. For that reason, this ordinance also authorizes an advanced distribution of funding to CRIS.
Emergency action is requested in order to provide CRIS with critically-needed resources in response to increased demand for services.
Title
To authorize the City Clerk to enter into a grant agreement with Community Refugee and Immigration Services (CRIS) for general operating support on a predetermined, advance payment schedule; to authorize an appropriation and expenditure within the Neighborhood Initiatives subfund; and to declare an emergency. ($50,000.00)
Body
WHEREAS, Community Refugee and Immigration Services (CRIS) is a 30-year old community organization that serves immigrants and refugees in Columbus; and
WHEREAS, the mission of CRIS is to help refugees and immigrants reach safety and stability, sustain self-sufficiency, and achieve successful integration into the Central Ohio community; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily business of City Council in that it is immediately necessary to authorize a grant agreement in order to provide CRIS w...
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