Explanation
Background: This ordinance authorizes the Public Service Director to establish a $155,287.00 contract with the Private Industry Council, Incorporated (PIC) to provide resources (youth participants, adult team leaders, project coordinator/manager, support staff, tools and supplies) for the 2005 Columbus Neighborhood Clean-up Program. Keep Columbus Beautiful administers this program for the Refuse Collection Division. The Columbus Neighborhood Clean-up Program, or Clean Team, is program that strives to develop employability skills within up to eighty (80) low-income youth participants while providing services to the City of Columbus. Services provided by the Clean Team include Environmental Awareness and Outreach to the target neighborhoods, blight abatement in the form of clean-up operations in the streets and alleys, removing litter and graffiti within rights-of-ways and thoroughfares within and adjacent to Neighborhood Commercial Revitalization (NCR) strip areas. The Private Industry Council's contract compliance number is 31-1071765; they are a not-for-profit organization. This contract will run through December 31, 2005. This contract has been executed annually for many years.
This legislation is presented as an emergency so that hiring and staffing necessary for this program can be resolved before the start of the actual program in June.
Fiscal Impact: The Refuse Collection Division's 2005 Community Development Block Grant Fund budget contains $155,287.00 for this purpose. This represents a slight decrease from the amount of last year's contract ($156,072.00) and $158,000 in 2003.
Title
To authorize the Public Service Director to enter into a contract with the Private Industry Council, Incorporated, to operate a summer youth litter clean-up program on behalf of the Refuse Collection Division and to authorize the expenditure of $155,287.00 from the Community Development Block Grant Fund; and to declare an emergency. (...
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