Explanation
Background:
-This ordinance will enable the Director of the Office of Education to accept a grant, enter into an agreement with SBC, and provide for the appropriation of said funds to the Education Private Grant Fund No. 291.
-Private grant funding will be used in connection with community based technology initiatives of the City of Columbus. These particular dollars will purchase mobile community classroom lap top computers.
-The goals of the community based technology initiatives are: (1) To provide the availability of technology in a community based setting; and, (2) to improve the quality of technological access for the citizens of Columbus.
Fiscal Impact:
-$10,000.00 in private grant funding will be used for mobile community classroom lap top computers.
-This ordinance will be to reduce the Education Private Grant Fund No. 291 unappropriated balance by $10,000.00
-The expenditure of $10,000.00 is budgeted in the Education Private Grant Fund No. 291.
Title
To authorize and direct the Director of the Office of Education to accept a grant in the amount of $10,000.00 and enter into an agreement with SBC for funding to purchase mobile community classroom lap top computers, to authorize an appropriation of $10,000.00 from the unappropriated balance of the Education Private Grant Fund No. 291 to the Office of Education.($10,000.00)
Body
WHEREAS, SBC has awarded the City of Columbus, Office of Education, a grant to purchase mobile community classroom lap top computers; and,
WHEREAS, it is necessary to accept said grant and appropriate said funds; now, therefore;
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS
Section 1. That the Director of the Office of Education be and is hereby authorized and directed to accept a grant in the amounts of $10,000.00 and enter into an agreement with SBC for the purchase of mobile community classroom lap top computers.
Section 2. That from the unappropriated mon...
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