Explanation
BACKGROUND: This legislation authorizes the Director of Development to enter a grant agreement with the Community Shelter Board in an amount up to $31,000.00 to provide additional case management services for the former residents of the Colonial Village apartment complex, and to authorize expenditures beginning May 1, 2024. Funding will be advanced to the agency on a predetermined schedule.
Throughout December 2023 and January 2024 approximately 1,300 tenants were relocated to temporary housing due to unsafe and unhealthy conditions at the Colonial Village Apartment complex. The City of Columbus began providing temporary housing support to the families who were vacated from Colonial Village in November of 2023. Many of the families being served are asylum seekers who are working to navigate language barriers, immigration processes and the housing landscape simultaneously. Additional case management services are needed for these families in order to help them navigate these processes so that they may successfully exit the shelter system.
That Columbus City Council acknowledges and defines as operating costs inherent to the mission of this non-profit the purchase of food and non-alcoholic beverages for populations experiencing homelessness, housing insecurity, and/or food insecurity. Any or all of the expenditure authorized by this ordinance may be spent toward payment of food and non-alcoholic beverage expenses for such populations. Expenses incurred prior to the creation of a purchase order may be reimbursed. However, in no case may food and non-alcoholic beverage expenses incurred prior to the date of the original legislation adoption be reimbursed. City Council declares that the expenditure on food and non-alcoholic beverage expenses authorized by this ordinance to be for a proper public purpose.
EMERGENCY DESIGNATION: Families are currently residing in hotels throughout the City, additional capacity is needed to provide case management as...
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