Explanation
This ordinance authorizes the City Clerk to enter into a grant agreement with Saint Stephen Community Services Inc. in support of Christmas Cares/Union Shares.
Saint Stephen Community Services Inc. and the Central Ohio Labor Council, AFL-CIO are collaborating to support individuals and families through the distribution of holiday food baskets. Many of these individuals and families are facing food insecurity, especially around the holiday season. Christmas Cares/Unions Shares distributes an 80-100 pound food basket to those individuals and families who find themselves in a critical position due to situations such as stretched incomes, job lay-offs, evictions, family illnesses and the impact of the Coronavirus pandemic. Each year, St. Stephen’s serves over 2,400 households through the program.
Columbus City Council deems this expenditure and the distribution of food and meals to be a public purpose in that it helps to feed residents in underserved neighborhoods and who disproportionately experience food insecurity.
Fiscal Impact: Funding is available within the Neighborhood Initiatives subfund.
Emergency action is requested to provide funding necessary to support St. Stephen’s in advance of the Christmas holiday.
Title
To authorize the City Clerk to enter into a grant agreement with Saint Stephen Community Services Inc. in support of Christmas Cares/Union Shares; to authorize an appropriation and expenditure within the Neighborhood Initiatives subfund; and to declare an emergency. ($48,000.00)
Body
WHEREAS, Saint Stephen Community Services Inc. and the Central Ohio Labor Council, AFL-CIO are collaborating to support individuals and families through the distribution of holiday food baskets; and
WHEREAS, Christmas Cares/Unions Shares distributes food baskets to those individuals and families who find themselves in a critical position due to situations such as stretched incomes, job lay-offs, evictions, and family illnesses; and
WHEREAS...
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