Explanation
Background:
This ordinance will enable the Director of Recreation and Parks to accept a grant from the Children's Hunger Alliance in the amount of $2,500.00 and to appropriate these monies to the Recreation and Parks Private Grant Fund.
These funds will provide funding for advertisements in area newspapers, on area radio and television stations, and printed materials to be distributed to the community for the promotion of the Summer Food Program.
Emergency action is requested to have funding available for necessary expenditures.
Fiscal Impact:
The fiscal impact of this ordinance will be to reduce the Recreation and ParksPrivate Grant Fund's unappropriated balance by $2,500.00.
Title
To authorize and direct the Director of Recreation and Parks to accept a grant in the amount of $2,500.00 from the Children's Hunger Alliance in the amount of for advertisement of the Summer Food Program, to appropriate these funds to the Recreation and Parks Private Grant Fund, and to declare an emergency. ($2,500.00)
Body
WHEREAS, the Children's Hunger Alliance has awarded the City of Columbus, Recreation and Parks Department, a grant in the amount of $2,500.00 for advertisement for the 2006 Summer Food Service Program; and
WHEREAS, it is necessary to appropriate said funds to the Recreation and Parks Department for expenditures; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Recreation and Parks Department in that it is immediately necessary to accept said grant funds and appropriate said funds to have funding available for necessary expenditure; now, therefore
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That the Director of Recreation and Parks be and he is hereby authorized and directed to accept a grant in the amount of $2,500.00 from the Children's Hunger Alliance for advertisement for the 2006 Summer Food Program.
SECTION 2. That from the unappropriated monies i...
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