Explanation
This ordinance authorizes the City Clerk to enter into a grant agreement with the Reeb Avenue Center, a non-profit corporation, in support of the organization’s Love Kindness program.
The Reeb Avenue Center strives to connect neighbors with services they need to transform their lives by providing access to wraparound, long-term case management services for neighbors that focuses on intentional and holistic connections to tools, resources, and services necessary for economic and social stabilization.
The Love Kindness program at the Reeb Center provides essential materials like food, clothing, and hygiene products to stabilize vulnerable populations, particularly those experiencing homelessness or housing insecurity in the South Side zip codes of 43207 and 43206. In addition to addressing immediate needs, the program connects neighbors to case management and broader services that promote long-term stability, aligning with the Reeb Center’s mission to transform lives.
Emergency action is necessary to provide immediate assistance to individuals who are experiencing homelessness or housing insecurity.
Fiscal Impact: $40,000 will be appropriated and expended from available funds within the Neighborhood Initiatives subfund.
Title
To authorize the City Clerk to enter into a grant agreement with the Reeb Avenue Center in support of the organization’s Love Kindness program; to authorize an appropriation and expenditure within the Neighborhood Initiatives subfund; and to declare an emergency. ($40,000.00)
Body
WHEREAS, the Reeb Avenue Center strives to connect neighbors with services they need to transform their lives and;
WHEREAS, the Love Kindness program at the Reeb Avenue Center provides essential materials like food, clothing, and hygiene products to stabilize vulnerable populations, particularly those experiencing homelessness or housing insecurity in the South Side zip codes of 43207 and 43206; and
WHEREAS, the program connects neighbors...
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