Explanation
This ordinance authorizes the City Clerk to enter into a grant agreement with the Clintonville-Beechwold Community Resources Center in support of their Family Services program.
The mission of the Clintonville-Beechwold Community Resources Center (CRC) is to deliver responsive services, cultivate partnerships, and promote opportunities to foster a healthier community. The Family Services program serves more than 15,000 individuals through a choice food pantry and brief case management services each year. The program prioritizes nine north-end City of Columbus zip codes but provides access to fresh produce to all of Franklin County. Family Services also provides hygiene items, diapers, warming items, toiletries, pet food, and more. Family Services partners with Columbus City Schools to provide weekend feeding programs, provides food deliveries to older adults, provides pantry access one weekend a month to kinship families, and provides groceries for each weekend at CRC’s summer youth programs.
Since the organization lacks the funding necessary to operate the program fully on a reimbursement basis, funds will be advanced to the Clintonville-Beechwold Community Resources Center in support of their Family Services program.
Fiscal Impact: Funding ($15,000.00) is available within the Neighborhood Initiatives subfund.
Emergency Designation: Emergency legislation is requested in order to ensure a timely issuance of grant funds in support of the program to ensure program continuation.
Title
To authorize the City Clerk to enter into an advanced payment grant agreement with the Clintonville-Beechwold Community Resources Center in support of their Family Services program; to authorize an expenditure within the Neighborhood Initiatives subfund; and to declare an emergency. ($15,000.00)
Body
WHEREAS, the mission of the Clintonville-Beechwold Community Resources Center is to deliver responsive services, cultivate partnerships, and promote opportunities to fo...
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