Explanation
Background:
This ordinance will enable the Director of Recreation and Parks to accept a grant in the amount of $20,459.00, enter into an agreement with the Ohio Arts Council, and provide for the appropriation of said funds to the Recreation and Parks Grant Fund.
Grant funding will be used to support the 2007 Festival Latino. Funding will be used for artist's fees, marketing/publicity, and accessibility expenses. A match of $20,459.00 is required from the Recreation and Parks Department. The match will be made up of existing administration and personnel costs.
Previous grant awards were $19,238 for the 2006 Festival Latino and $13,582 for the 2005 Festival Latino.
Emergency action is requested in order to have monies available for necessary expenditures.
Fiscal Impact:
$20,459.00 in grant funding will be used exclusively to support the 2007 Festival Latino.
The fiscal impact of this ordinance will be to reduce the Recreation and Parks Grant Fund's unappropriated balance by $20,459.00.
Title
To authorize and direct the Director of Recreation and Parks to accept a grant in the amount of $20,459.00 and enter into an agreement with the Ohio Arts Council for funding to support the 2007 Festival Latino, to authorize an appropriation of $20,459.00 from the unappropriated balance of the Recreation and Parks Grant Fund to the Recreation and Parks Department, and to declare an emergency. ( $20,459.00)
Body
WHEREAS, the Ohio Arts Council has awarded the City of Columbus, Recreation and Parks Department, a grant to support the 2007 Festival Latino; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Recreation and Parks Department in that it is immediately necessary to accept grant and appropriate funds to have monies available for 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 aut...
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