Explanation
This ordinance authorizes the City Clerk to enter into a grant agreement with the Affordable Housing Trust for Columbus and Franklin County (AHT) to support the Building Small event. Building Small will be a three-day event series designed to inspire, educate, and connect Central Ohio’s housing stakeholders around small-scale development strategies.
The series will feature Jim Heid, founder of Building Small and nationally recognized leader in small-scale, community-based development. The event will showcase development strategies, highlight examples from across the U.S., explore barriers, and identify actionable local solutions as a way to equip emerging developers with tools, frameworks, and peer-learning opportunities to advance their next projects.
The Affordable Housing Trust for Columbus and Franklin County (AHT) combines public and private funding through a variety of sources to support the development of housing within the City and has supported an Emerging Developers Accelerator Program (EDAP), which aims to increase the number of affordable housing units by building developer pipelines (Ordinance 0595-2023).
Funding may support personnel costs, equipment costs, or marketing costs. These include but are not limited to event rentals, contracts with speakers, and materials. No funds will be used for the purchase of food or beverages. This ordinance authorizes the reimbursement of costs incurred prior to the creation of the purchase order.
Title
To authorize the City Clerk to enter into a grant agreement with the Affordable Housing Trust for Columbus and Franklin County (AHT) for a Building Small event series; and to authorize an expenditure within the Neighborhood Initiatives subfund. ($20,000.00)
Body
WHEREAS, the Affordable Housing Trust for Columbus and Franklin County is a non-profit organization that supports affordable housing development; and
WHEREAS, Columbus City Council seeks to support the growing pipeline of affordable...
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