Explanation
This ordinance authorizes the City Clerk to enter into a grant agreement with 1DivineLine2Health in support of the organization’s Hilltop Drop-In Center and children’s programming.
1DivineLine2Health is a non-profit corporation and community driven organization. In addition to their morning and afternoon outreach work across the West side, they are initiating evening outreach events and programming. 1DivineLine2Health serves our residents experiencing homelessness, victims of human trafficking, and at-risk youth. In 2021, 1DivineLine2Health opened the first full-time Drop-In Center in Franklin County tailored to human trafficking victims, their children, and transgender individuals.
Emergency action is necessary to provide immediate assistance to individuals who are victims of human trafficking.
Fiscal Impact: $20,000 will be appropriated and expended from available funds within the Neighborhood Initiatives subfund.
Title
To authorize the City Clerk to enter into a grant agreement with 1DivineLine2Health, a non-profit corporation, in support of the organization’s Hilltop Drop-In Center and children’s programming; to authorize an appropriation and expenditure within the Neighborhood Initiatives subfund; and to declare an emergency. ($20,000.00)
Body
WHEREAS, 1DivineLine2Health is a community driven organization providing outreach services supporting the Hilltop and west side communities; and
WHEREAS, 1DivineLine2Health serves our residents experiencing homelessness, victims of human trafficking, and at-risk youth; and
WHEREAS, In 2021, 1DivineLine2Health opened the first full-time Drop-In Center in Franklin County tailored to human trafficking victims, their children, and transgender individuals; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Clerk's Office in that it is immediately necessary to authorize the City Clerk to enter into a grant agreement with 1DivineLine2Health to provide immediate assistance to ind...
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