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Background: This ordinance authorizes the Director of the Department of Neighborhoods to enter into an advance pay grant agreement with the South Side Thrive Collaborative in support of the Parsons Avenue Outreach Program and the Livingston Avenue Initiative as part of the Clean and Safe Corridors Initiative.
South Side Thrive Collaborative (SSTC) is a non-profit organization with a mission of bringing people together to create a strong and resilient South Side. SSTC envisions a diverse and vibrant South Side community where everyone has the opportunity to thrive. SSTC formed from a simple idea, that the community can accomplish more together than by working alone. The need is significant in Columbus’ South Side. To achieve impact, it requires a collaborative and coordinated effort to identify and address the complex, often overlapping, circumstances that cause hardship for South Side low-income individuals and families.
The 2026 Clean & Safe Corridors Initiative is a cross-departmental investment model that delivers concentrated public safety, beautification, economic development, and community engagement efforts while addressing quality of life concerns along key commercial corridors through direct engagement with residents, small businesses and civic leaders, providing business support, code compliance, and property stabilization, enhanced public safety operations and violence prevention interventions, and intensive refuse removal and beautification.
The purpose of the Parsons Avenue Outreach Program and the Livingston Avenue Initiative is to build relationships with residents, businesses, service providers, and people accessing services along the Parsons Avenue corridor and Livingston Avenue while promoting public safety, cleanliness, general order, and access to coordinated services. In its second year of implementation, the Parsons Outreach Program team will continue to cultivate relationships with the residents and business along Parso...
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