BACKGROUND: This ordinance authorizes the Director of The Department of Neighborhoods to enter into an agreement with Franklin County Department of Job and Family Services to help coordinate efforts for the My Brother’s Keeper (MBK) Village program and to enter to various grant agreements with non-profit agencies. This ordinance authorizes to encumber and expend grant funding for the purchase of food and/or beverage items at various outreach events, which serve the public purpose of young engagement to advance equity an address youth violence. Food and/or beverage purchases will be subject to what is allowable in the respective grant agreements. Costs will not exceed $15 per person and any purchase of alcohol is strictly prohibited.
In 2014 President Obama called on cities, non-profits, and the private sector to collaborate and close opportunity gaps for boys and young men of color (B&YMOC). Columbus was one of the first cities to answer this call. The city and partner organizations brought together more than 500 B&YMOC to ensure that Columbus’ My Brother’s Keeper (MBK) work was grounded in testimony from the target population. Numerous non-profit service providers, schools, and companies have created programs to serve vulnerable youth of color since the launch of the national MBK initiative.
The services included in this contract will include food and beverage and cannot be provided by existing city employees because these services are beyond the City’s current responsibility and capacity to provide.
Emergency Action is requested in order to receive the funds as soon as possible to continue My Brother’s Keeper programming.
FISCAL IMPACT: This ordinance authorizes the acceptance and appropriation and expenditure of $185,000.00 within the General Governments Grant Fund in an agreement with Franklin County Department of Job and Family Services for the financial support of My Brother’s Keeper.
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