Explanation
BACKGROUND: This legislation authorizes the Director of the Department of Development to enter into a contract with City Year Columbus for the program City Year Capital Kids at Linmoor Middle School as a pilot project at a Columbus Public School. The contract amount is $53,400.
City Year Columbus Corps members will facilitate an after-school program for 35, 6-8th grade students four days a week, for 2 hours per day for 32 weeks. Students will participate in academic enrichment programs designed to build core literacy skills through community service activities during one school year period.
FISCAL IMPACT: Funds are allocated from the FY2006 General Fund.
Title
To authorize the Director of the Department of Development to enter into contract with City Year Columbus for the program City Year Capital Kids at Linmoor Middle School as a pilot project at a Columbus Public School; to authorize the expenditure of $53,400.00 from the General Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($53,400.00)
Body
WHEREAS, it is the desire of the Director of the Department of Development to contract with City Year Columbus for the program City Year Capital Kids at Linmoor Middle School as a pilot project at a Columbus Public School; and
WHEREAS, City Year will use the appropriated funds to conduct an after-school academic enrichment program for 6-8th grade students with the assistance from City Year Corps Members; and
WHEREAS, this project, City Year Capital Kids at Linmoor Middle School as a pilot project at a Columbus Public School, will provide after-school programs to use a program model emphasizing using literacy skills in problem solving through community service and in the development of healthy lifestyle habits; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Department of Development in that it is immediately necessary to enter into contract with City Year Columbus, all for the immediate preservation of...
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