Explanation
This ordinance authorizes the City Clerk to enter into a grant agreement with Urban Resurrection Community Development Corporation in support of the S.M.A.R.T. Summer Enrichment Program.
The S.M.A.R.T. Summer Enrichment Program offers high quality programming, targeting 50 children in grades K through 8. In-person, appropriate activities program activities are led by community partners who are committed to serving the youth of the Central Ohio area. The organization strives to address academic, physical, and socio-emotional needs in a safe, caring, and healthy environment, as well as provide a variety of experiences that will help children make better choices. Program measurements for success will include improved reading assessment scores (pre- and post-program) and 75% successful attendance rate for attendees.
Fiscal Impact: Funding for this grant is available in the Neighborhood Initiatives subfund.
Emergency action is requested in order to provide the organization with the funds necessary to sustain programming in August at the current level.
Title
To authorize the City Clerk to enter into a grant agreement with Urban Resurrection Community Development Corporation in support of the S.M.A.R.T. Summer Enrichment Program; to authorize an appropriation and expenditure within the Neighborhood Initiatives subfund; and to declare an emergency. ($20,000.00)
Body
WHEREAS, the S.M.A.R.T. Summer Enrichment Program offers high quality programming, targeting 50 children in grades K through 8; and
WHEREAS, the organization strives to address academic, physical, and socio-emotional needs in a safe, caring, and healthy environment, as well as provide a variety of experiences that will help children make better choices; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily business of the City Clerk's Office in that it is immediately necessary to authorize a grant agreement to sustain programming in August at the current level, for the immediate pre...
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