Explanation
This ordinance authorizes the City Clerk to enter into a grant agreement with Remember Us Urban Scouts, Inc. (dba Remember Us Urban Legends), a non-profit corporation, in support of the organization’s after school programming.
Remember Us Urban Scouts (RUUS) in-school programs - Be the One and the Senior Capstone - are a collaboration with Linden McKinley High School. In Be The One, RUUS leads program activity building and developing community skills with students in grades 7 through 12 one day a week, involving over 300 students on a weekly basis. The Senior Capstone utilized Lead 4 Change workbooks and materials to provide a senior capstone project for the students to earn them completion in the class, an Ohio Jobs Readiness Seal, and points towards alternate paths towards graduation. During the Senior Capstone, students’ attendance, participation, and graduate status are collected and tracked.
The Remember Us Urban Legends Ambassador program serves teens ages 14-18 and builds leadership, community relations, civic engagement, personal and professional skills over a 12-month period. These teens plan, host, and implement RUUL monthly events, provide peer led trainings, and represent the organization at additional events in which RUUS/RUUL is involved. The students’ grades, behavior (in-school, at home, and in the community), attendance, and participation are tracked. The RUUL ambassadors are paid a monthly stipend of $250 paid bi-weekly.
Emergency action is requested in order to ensure that Remember Us Urban Legends has the adequate cash flow to sustain the above mentioned programs.
Fiscal Impact: Funding is available within the Neighborhood Initiatives subfund.
Title
To authorize the City Clerk to enter into a grant agreement with Remember Us Urban Scouts, Inc. (dba Remember Us Urban Legends) in support of the organization’s after school programming; to authorize an appropriation and expenditure within the Neighborhood Initiatives subfund; and...
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