Explanation
BACKGROUND: This ordinance authorizes the Director of Finance and Management to enter into a not-for-profit service contract with Eckerd Youth Alternatives, Inc. to implement workforce training programming.
Eckerd Youth Alternatives, Inc is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to transforming lives through workforce development, education, juvenile justice, child welfare, and evidence-based programs.
Eckerd Youth Alternatives, Inc.’s Green Advanced Manufacturing Workforce Development Program for residents of Franklin County, Ohio who are at least 16 years old and not currently in secondary school, aimed at providing opportunities to have the training and credentials necessary to perform entry-level work in Green Advanced Manufacturing.
These programs help achieve multiple policy priorities of the City of Columbus. Supporting workforce and job opportunity for residents in our Opportunity neighborhoods and sustainability goals by focusing on solar and green jobs and supporting a long-term vision for equitable participation in the region’s clean economy.
The services included in this agreement cannot be provided by existing city employees because these services are beyond the City’s current staffing capacity to provide.
This contract will include program expenses beginning Summer of 2025
FISCAL IMPACT: This ordinance authorizes the expenditure of $200,000.00 from the Sustainable Columbus Fund, to Eckerd Youth Alternatives, Inc to implement workforce training programming.
EMERGENCY DESIGNATION: This ordinance is being submitted as an emergency in order to expedite the approval of this contract so that the first cohorts of the program can be in place by Fall of 2025.
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To authorize the Director of the Department of Finance and Management enter into not-for-profit service contracts with Eckerd Youth Alternatives, Inc. to implement workforce training programming; to appropriate $200,000.00 from the unappropriated balance of the Sustainable Columb...
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