Explanation
Background:
This ordinance will enable the Director of Recreation and Parks to accept a grant from the Walmart Foundation through the National Recreation and Parks Association (NRPA) in the amount of $50,000.00 and to appropriate these monies to the Recreation and Parks Private Grant Fund.
The grant funds will be used to expand our summer food program.
Emergency action is requested in order to have funding available for necessary expenditures.
Fiscal Impact:
To accept a grant in the amount of $50,000.00 from the Walmart Foundation to the Recreation and Parks Private Grant Fund.
Title
To authorize and direct the Director of Recreation and Parks to accept a grant in the amount of $50,000.00 from the Walmart Foundation received through the National Recreation and Parks Association to expand our summer food program; to appropriate these funds to the Recreation and Parks Private Grant Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($50,000.00)
Body
WHEREAS, The Walmart Foundation, through an NRPA local member agency, has awarded the City of Columbus Recreation and Parks Department a grant in the amount of $50,000.00 for the expansion of summer food programming; and
WHEREAS, it is necessary to appropriate said funds to the Recreation and Parks Department for expenditures; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Recreation and Parks Department in that it is immediately necessary to accept said grant funds and appropriate said funds so that the funding is available for necessary expenditures; NOW, THEREFORE
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That the Director of Recreation and Parks be and he is hereby authorized and directed to accept a grant in the amount of $50,000.00 from the Walmart Foundation for the summer food program.
SECTION 2. That from the unappropriated monies in the Recreation and Parks Private Grant Fund No. 291, and from all monies est...
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