Explanation
BACKGROUND:
This legislation authorizes the Director of the Department of Development to enter into a grant agreement with The Young Women's Christian Association, a not-for-profit Internal Revenue Code (IRC) 501(c)(3) entity, in an amount up to $30,000.00 to sponsor the YWCA’s Activists and Agitators program exhibit, and to pay for expenses incurred before the purchase order was approved.
Columbus City Council passed Ordinance 2647-2022 to enter into a grant agreement with the YWCA of Columbus, in an amount up to $30,000.00 to sponsor the Undesign the Redline exhibition. This ordinance was then amended by Ordinance 0529-2023 to establish that costs from October 17, 2022 until the creation of the purchase order be eligible for reimbursement. The grant agreement could not be executed before the Undesign the Redline exhibits were facilitated.
Undesign the Redline is a traveling educational exhibit that explores the history of structural racism and inequality, and how community development policies such as redlining, slum clearance, highway construction and others designed structural racism into American cities. The immersive exhibit creates a platform for Columbus residents to learn the history of these policies, interact with the stories of individuals and neighborhoods impacted, and invent the future of undoing structural inequities.
At the time of producing Ordinance 2467-2022 and 0529-2023, there was a miscommunication on the sponsorship amount that was requested. Through its sponsorship of the exhibit, the City of Columbus not only provided sponsorship for the facilitation of the Undesign the Redline exhibit at six locations in Columbus between October and December of 2022, but also the Columbus launch of the exhibit at the YWCA’s Activists and Agitators program. Therefore, the sponsorship of the YWCA’s Activists and Agitators program results in an additional request of up to $30,000.00 to sponsor the YWCA’s Activists and Agitators pro...
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