Explanation
BACKGROUND: This legislation authorizes the Director of the Department of Development to enter into contract with Columbus Housing Partnership dba Homeport (Homeport) to provide HUD Certified housing counseling services in an amount up to $125,000.
Housing counseling includes, but is not limited to, pre-purchase education, financial literacy, individual homebuyer counseling and foreclosure counseling.
This contract is awarded pursuant to the relevant provisions of Chapter 329 of City Code relating to the process for awarding not-for-profit service contracts.
The services provided by Homeport are not able to be provided directly by the city because the city staff does not have the expertise or infrastructure to provide these services.
Emergency action is requested to allow program services to continue without interruption.
FISCAL IMPACT: Funds for this expenditure are allocated in the Housing Division’s FY2019 general fund budget.
Title
To authorize the Director of the Department of Development to enter into a contract with Columbus Housing Partnership, dba Homeport (Homeport), to provide housing counseling services; to authorize the expenditure of $125,000.00 from the general fund; and to declare an emergency. ($125,000.00)
Body
WHEREAS, the Director of the Department of Development desires to enter into a contract with Homeport to provide HUD Certified housing counseling services; and
WHEREAS, Columbus Housing Partnership, dba Homeport, is a non-profit organization with the capacity to provide HUD Certified housing counseling services; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Department of Development in that it is immediately necessary to authorize the Director to enter into contracts with Homeport so that necessary services will not be interrupted, all for the preservation of the public health, peace, property, safety and welfare; and NOW THEREFORE,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
S...
Click here for full text