Explanation
This legislation is contingent on the passage of Ordinance # 0542-2012. This ordinance will authorize the appropriation and expenditure of $105,000.00 from the Neighborhood Initiatives fund for the United Way, Columbus Kids: Ready, Set, Learn initiative FID#31-4393712, located at 360 S. Third Street, Columbus, Ohio 43215.
The funding of $105,000.00 will be used in combination with Community Development Block Grant funding of $145,000.00 from that programs 2012 HUD Action Plan, per Ordinance 0542-2012. The total commitment to the United Way, Columbus Kids: Ready, Set, Learn initiative will be $250,000.00.
Columbus City Council and the Recreation and Parks Department recognize that nearly 40% of the children entering Columbus City Schools (CCS) kindergarten classrooms require intervention because they lack foundational skills. The United Way, Columbus Kids initiative is designed to decrease those numbers and increase the number of children who enter CCS kindergarten classrooms ready to learn. With support from more than 100 community partners, United Way of Central Ohio is leading an effort to provide school readiness screening and referral services for approximately 8,245, 2&1/2 to 4 year old children and their families in five neighborhoods of the CCS district. This number represents one half of the 2 & 1/2 to 4 yr old children in the CCS system. The 2012 initiative will focus on the communities of greatest need: Central City Columbus, Weinland Park, South Linden, Westside and Southside neighborhoods.
FISCAL IMPACT: That funding for this ordinance is made available from the City Council 2012 budget amendment to the Neighborhood Initiatives Fund 018 and from the Community Development Block Grant Fund 248.
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To authorize the appropriation of $105,000.00 within the Neighborhood Initiatives Fund; to authorize the Director of Recreation and Parks to enter into contract with United Way of Columbus United Way of Central Ohio for the impleme...
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