Explanation
This ordinance authorizes the City Clerk to enter into a grant agreement with Creating Central Ohio Futures in support of a scholarship honoring the life of Casey Goodson Jr. through the organization’s Building Back Better Together training program. Casey Goodson Jr. is a community member and CDL driver who was taken way too soon.
Building Back Better Together is a workforce development program administered by the Creating Central Ohio Futures in partnership with the Columbus/Central Ohio Building and Construction Trades Council. The program benefits residents who have been traditionally underserved, underemployed, or economically disadvantaged and creates paths to the middle class.
Building Back Better Together is an 8-week program through which previously incarcerated and underemployed people receive training and career placement after earning their Class A Commercial Driver’s License. This program helps fill critically needed positions while creating true economic mobility for participants. After the 8-week program, drivers embark on a career with one of many affiliated trades employers - all providing a great starting wage, health, and retirement benefits.
This grant agreement will support a scholarship honoring the life of Casey Goodson Jr., a Columbus resident and CDL driver, for Columbus residents who are interested in gaining their CDL and creating a sustainable income source for them and their families.
Fiscal Impact: Funding is available within the Job Growth subfund.
Title
To authorize the City Clerk to enter into a grant agreement with the Creating Central Ohio Futures to support of a scholarship honoring the life of Casey Goodson Jr. through the organization’s Building Back Better Together training program; and to authorize an appropriation and expenditure within the Job Growth subfund. ($100,000.00)
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WHEREAS, in memoriam of Casey Goodson Jr., a Columbus resident and commercial driver’s license holder whose life was ...
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