Explanation
Background:
This ordinance authorizes the Director of Recreation and Parks to accept a grant and enter into an agreement with the Franklin County Department of Job and Family Services. This grant will provide tuition and cover administrative costs for the 2023 Recreation and Parks Summer Camps through the Recreation and Parks Grant Fund. The $57,600.00 grant will provide up to 80 children with eight weeks of summer camp each.
The summer camp programming offers a safe and enriching environment through program activities that incorporate math and reading enrichment activities to reduce summer learning loss and promote positive youth development. Camp activities will promote having fun through: cultural diversity, friendship, coordination, leadership, appropriate risk taking, reasoning, self-confidence, self-esteem, knowledge of alternative free time activities and conflict resolution.
Principal Parties:
Joy Bivens, Director
Franklin County Department of Job and Family Services
1721 Northland Park Ave.
Columbus, OH. 43229
Federal ID# 31 6400067
Emergency Justification: Emergency action is requested to comply with the terms of the grant and so that funds are available for the 2023 camp season.
Community Input Issues: It removes the barrier of access, thereby providing programmatic opportunity for children, who may otherwise, not have had the opportunity to do so.
Area(s) Affected: All community center camp locations of the City of Columbus, Ohio, ages 6-12.
Master Plan Relation: This project will help minimize the barrier for some households, assisting us in executing our mission of connecting the people of our community through the power of nature, wellness and creativity.
Fiscal Impact: This ordinance authorizes an acceptance of the $57,600.00 grant award and the appropriation of those funds from the Franklin County Department of Job and Family Services to the Recreation and Parks Grant Fund 2283.
Title
To authorize and direct the Dir...
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