Explanation
This ordinance authorizes awarding $51,700.00 in summer programming funds to Columbus College of Art and Design (CCAD). Award of these funds to CCAD, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, will assist with their College Preview program, a 3-week intensive program for high school students that helps prepare them for college. College Preview is aimed at high school students in grades 10 through 12 that are interested in (or have selected) majors in advertising and graphic design; animation; comics and narrative practice; fashion design; fine arts; illustration; industrial design; interior architecture and design; and photography, film, and video.
The services being offered by CCAD cannot be provided by existing city employees as they are outside the scope of the City’s current responsibility and capacity.
This ordinance also authorizes entering into contract with the above-named nonprofit organization for the above-described services. The term of this contract will begin on the date of a confirmed purchase order and will end on December 31, 2023.
Finally, this ordinance authorizes the expenditure of $51,700.00 from the Information Services Operating Fund for the above described purpose.
Emergency Designation
Emergency action is requested to ensure that the funds are in place by summer break.
Fiscal Impact
Funds for this transaction will be available in the Information Services Operating Fund with passage of companion ordinance 1542-2023.
Title
To authorize the Director of the Department of Technology to enter into a non-profit service agreement with the Columbus College of Art and Design to provide summer programming services; to authorize the expenditure of $51,700.00 from the Information Services Operating Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($51,700.00)
Body
WHEREAS, the Department of Technology desires to enter into a non-profit service contract with CCAD to help fund summer 2023 programming; and
WHEREAS, funds for the above-described contr...
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