Explanation
BACKGROUND: This legislation authorizes the appropriation and expenditure of $10,000.00 from the Emergency Human Services Fund to the Department of Development, Neighborhood Services Division, for the purpose of entering into a grant agreement with the United Way of Central Ohio, as the fiscal agent of The Franklin County EITC Coalition, to support their coordination of the 2008 tax season Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) Program.
Emergency action is requested so that program services can be available at the beginning of the tax season.
FISCAL IMPACT: Funds for the grant are allocated from the FY2008 Emergency Human Services Fund.
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To authorize the appropriation of $10,000.00 from the unappropriated balance of the Emergency Human Services Fund to the Department of Development; to approve the grant application of Franklin County EITC Coalition and United Way of Central Ohio; to authorize the Director of the Department of Development to enter into an agreement to provide emergency grant assistance to the United Way of Central Ohio, as the fiscal agent for Franklin County EITC Coalition, for support of their work in coordinating the 2008 tax-year Earned Income Tax Credit program; to authorize the expenditure of $10,000.00 from the Emergency Human Services Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($10,000.00)
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WHEREAS, it is the desire of the Chair of Columbus City Council's Heath, Housing and Human Services Committee to appropriate funds from the unappropriated balance of the Emergency Human Services Fund and to distribute these funds to the Franklin County EITC Coalition, via their fiscal agent the United Way of Central Ohio, to support their coordination of the 2008 tax-season Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) program; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 371.02(c) of the Columbus City Codes, 1959, City Council is authorized to allocate funds annually to assist social service agencies in the city with the emergency costs o...
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