Explanation
BACKGROUND: This legislation authorizes the Director of the Department of Development to enter into contract with the Neighborhood Design Center (NDC) in an amount up to $143,000.00 to provide design services to businesses in the Neighborhood Commercial Revitalization (NCR) districts as part of the NCR Interior/Exterior Renovation Grant program, as well as businesses throughout the City of Columbus as appropriate.
NDC, a non-profit organization, provides the design services for the City’s NCR Interior/Exterior Renovation Grant program. The NCR Areas include Franklinton, Hilltop, Main Street, Parsons Avenue, Long Street, Mount Vernon and Cleveland Avenue in Linden. Construction funding is provided by the City under a separate ordinance. The City has been sponsoring this program for about 12 years and NDC has been a partner throughout the program.
The services included in this agreement cannot be provided by existing city employees because these services are beyond the City’s current staffing capacity to provide.
Emergency action is necessary to allow the Neighborhood Design Center to provide services to the business community without interruption.
FISCAL IMPACT: Funding for the Neighborhood Design Center in an amount up to $143,000.00 is available in the Division of Economic Development’s 2021 General Fund Budget.
CONTRACT COMPLIANCE: The vendor’s contract compliance 006529 is active and expires on 3/12/23.
Title
To authorize the Director of the Department of Development to enter into a contract with the Neighborhood Design Center (NDC) in an amount up to $143,000.00 to provide design services to businesses in the Neighborhood Commercial Revitalization (NCR) districts, as well as businesses throughout the City of Columbus as appropriate, as part of the NCR Interior/Exterior Renovation Grant program; to authorize the expenditure of $143,000.00 from the Division of Economic Development’s General Fund budget; and to declare an emergency. ($...
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