EXPLANATION
BACKGROUND
Passage of this legislation will authorize Columbus City Council to expend $10,000.00 from the Jobs Growth Fund, and to enter into a contract with the Greater Columbus Arts Council (GCAC) for program development, implementation, and management of the Columbus Keepsake Program.
The program is a partnership between Columbus City Council, GCAC, and Experience Columbus to give local artists an opportunity to have their work be given as gifts to visiting dignitaries, and to be displayed for sale in a prominent downtown location.
A considerable outreach and promotion campaign was conducted to invite local Columbus artists to submit renderings, details and schematics for keepsake items to be produced as giveaways to visiting officials / dignitaries, and for sale in a prominent downtown location. Following an extensive review of submitted concepts/items, a panel of judges selected three winning pieces. Judges for the contest were Councilmember Eileen Paley; Mark Becker from the Pizzuti Collection; Tony Cordo from Experience Columbus; Mark Poeppelman from Columbus International; and Diane Nance from the Ohio Arts Council.
FISCAL IMPACT: Funding for such sponsorship was allotted in the Jobs Growth Fund, Fund 015.
EMERGENCY DESIGNATION: It is requested that this Ordinance be handled in an emergency manner due to time sensitive deadlines.
TITLE
To authorize Columbus City Council to appropriate and expend $10,000.00 from the Jobs Growth Fund, to enter into a contract with the Greater Columbus Arts Council (GCAC) for program development, implementation, and management of the Columbus Keepsake Program, and to declare an emergency. ($10,000.00)
BODY
WHEREAS, passage of this legislation authorizes Columbus City Council to appropriate and expend $10,000.00 from the Jobs Growth fund, and to enter into contract with the Greater Columbus Arts Council (GCAC) for the development, implementation and management of the Columbus Keepsake Program; and
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