Explanation
This ordinance authorizes the City Clerk to enter into a grant agreement with the Community Shelter Board, a non-profit corporation, to support extreme weather activities within the shelter system across the city of Columbus.
The Community Shelter Board seeks to improve accessibility and foster self-sufficiency while inspiring, growing, and strengthening communities-barrier free. As the primary coordinator for shelter and programming supporting the homeless population in Columbus, they are also the coordinator for programming that seeks to protect the unsheltered homeless population and other vulnerable residents during extreme weather conditions, especially when temperatures drop to dangerous conditions.
This funding will support supplemental shelter services and programming that would be activated whenever conditions warrant the need to offer safety and shelter because of inclement weather.
Emergency action is required because the winter weather has arrived for the season and waiting poses risk to the health of city residents.
FISCAL IMPACT: Funding for this grant agreement is available within the Neighborhood Initiatives subfund.
Title
To authorize the to authorize the City Clerk to enter into a grant agreement with the Community Shelter Board to support extreme weather activities within the shelter system across the city of Columbus; to authorize an appropriation and expenditure within the Neighborhood Initiatives subfund; and to declare an emergency. ($200,447.00)
Body
WHEREAS, Community Shelter Board seeks to improve accessibility and foster self-sufficiency while inspiring, growing, and strengthening communities-barrier free; and
WHEREAS, Columbus City Council seeks to support Columbus’ residents across all neighborhoods, and the organization’s mission furthers those goals; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Clerk's Office in that it is immediately necessary to authorize a grant agre...
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