Explanation
Background:
This ordinance will enable the Director of Recreation and Parks to accept a grant from the NFL/NRPA local agency Grant in the amount of $2,000.00 and to appropriate these monies to the Recreation and Parks Private Grant Fund.
These funds will provide funding for the purchase of supplies and advertising for summer football camps. The equipment will be used for individual skill development. The summer football camps will be held at various sites for youth ages 8-14 years of age.
Emergency action is requested to have funding available for necessary expenditures.
Fiscal Impact:
There is no match required
Title
To authorize and direct the Director of Recreation and Parks to accept a grant in the amount of $2,000.00 from the NFL/NRPA local agency to enhance the youth football program, to appropriate these funds to the Recreation and Parks Private Grant Fund, and to declare an emergency. ($2,000.00)
Body
WHEREAS, The NFL/NRPA local agency has awarded the City of Columbus, Recreation and Parks Department, a grant in the amount of $2,000.00 for the youth football Program; 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 to have funding available for necessary expenditure; 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 $2,000.00 from the NFL/NRPA for youth football Program.
SECTION 2. That from the unappropriated monies in the Recreation and Parks Private Grant Fund No. 291, and from all monies estimated to come into said fund from any and all sources and unappropriated for any other pu...
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