Explanation
Background: This Ordinance will authorize the transfer, appropriation and expenditure of $10,000.00 to award grants for the Landscape Enhancement and Beautification grant program. The Landscape Enhancement and Beautification grant program was initiated to provide funding assistance to organizations that have been maintaining flower gardens and other landscape areas on City controlled property. The amount of $10,000.00 has been earmarked for this grant program and each grantee is required to provide a 1:1 match with a maximum of $1,000.00 per grant from the City. Grant requirements include: the project must be on City controlled property; start-up projects are not eligible, but must be an existing garden or landscape area; the requesting organization must demonstrate an ability to sustain the project; and the landscape enhancement project must provide a clear benefit to the public. Each grantee will be responsible for providing receipts, invoices and other documentation to ensure expenditure accountability. In addition, at the end of the growing season, the grantee's will be required to submit a report to the Recreation and Parks Department indicating how the grant funds were used and how the community benefited from the landscape enhancement and beautification project.
Emergency action is requested in order for the grants to be distributed so that these projects can proceed in a time manner and to have funding available for necessary expenditures.
Fiscal Impact: $10,000.00 is being transferred from the General Fund to the Recreation and Parks Operating Fund, as shown in Section 1 of this Ordinance.
Title
To authorize and direct the transfer of $10,000.00 from the General Fund to the Recreation and Parks Operating Fund and the subsequent appropriation of $10,000.00 within the Recreation and Parks Operating Fund, and to declare an emergency. ($10,000.00)
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WHEREAS, the Landscape Enhancement and Beautification gr...
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