Explanation
Background:
This ordinance will enable the Director of Recreation and Parks to accept a grant from and enter into an agreement with the Franklin County Board of Commissioners (dba: Franklin County Senior Options) for funding to support the 2007 50+ Fitness program, and provide for the appropriation of said funds to the Recreation and Parks Grant Fund.
Grant funding will be used to continue the 50+ Fitness programs at the various Multigenerational Adult Program (MAP) Centers during 2007.
.A match of $1,120.00 is required from the Recreation and Parks Department. The match will be made up from the Fitness 55 Special Purpose Account.
Previous expenditures were 2006, $10,805 (Ord. No. 0640-2006); 2005, $10,595 (Ord. No. 0113-2005); and, 2004, $8,856 (Ord. No. 0287-2004).
Fiscal Impact:
The fiscal impact of this ordinance will be to reduce the Recreation and Parks Grant Fund's unappropriated balance by $11,129.00.
Title
To authorize and direct the Director of Recreation and Parks to accept a grant in the amount of $11,129.00 and enter into an agreement with the Franklin County Board of Commissioners (dba: Franklin County Senior Options) for funding to support the 50+ Fitness programs, and to authorize an appropriation of $11,129.00 from the unappropriated balance to the Recreation and Parks Grant Fund to the Recreation and Parks Department, and to declare an emergency. ($11,129.00)
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WHEREAS, the Franklin County Board of Commissioners (dba: Franklin County Senior Options) has awarded the City of Columbus, Recreation and Parks Department, a grant to support the 50+ Fitness programs at various senior recreation centers; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Recreation and Parks Department in that it is immediately necessary to enter into said contract to having funding available for necessary expenditures; now, therefore
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS...
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