Explanation
Background:
This ordinance will enable the Director of Recreation and Parks to accept a grant from the NFL/NRPA local agency in the amount of $3,000.00 and to appropriate these monies to the Recreation and Parks Private Grant Fund.
The Columbus Recreation and Parks football program provides instruction and play experiences to youth ages 6 to 14 during the summer and fall months. The program serves approximately 600 participants in the flag football, summer football camp and therapeutic football programs. The grant funds will be used to purchase supplies and equipment for the football program. The equipment will be used for individual skill development.
Emergency action is requested in order to have funding available for necessary expenditures.
Fiscal Impact:
There is no match required
Title
To authorize and direct the Director of Recreation and Parks to accept a grant in the amount of $3,000.00 from the NFL/NRPA local agency to enhance the youth football program, to appropriate these funds to the Recreation and Parks Private Grant Fund, and to declare an emergency. ($3,000.00)
Body
WHEREAS, The NFL/NRPA local agency has awarded the City of Columbus, Recreation and Parks Department, a grant in the amount of $3,000.00 for the youth football program; and
WHEREAS, it is necessary to appropriate said funds to the Recreation and Parks Department for expenditures; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Recreation and Parks Department in that it is immediately necessary to accept said grant funds and appropriate said funds so that the funding is available for necessary expenditures; now, therefore
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That the Director of Recreation and Parks be and he is hereby authorized and directed to accept a grant in the amount of $3,000.00 from the NFL/NRPA for the youth football program.
SECTION 2. That from the unappropriated monies in the Recreation and Parks Private Grant Fund No. 291, and from all monies estimated to come into said fund from any and all sources and unappropriated for any other purpose during the fiscal year ending December 31, 2007, the sum of $3,000.00 is appropriated to the Recreation and Parks Department as follows:
Department Number: 51-01, Grant Number: , OCA Code: , Object Level 3: 2269
SECTION 3. That the monies in the foregoing Section 2 shall be paid upon order of the Director of Recreation and Parks, and that no order shall be drawn or money paid except by voucher, the form of which shall be approved by the City Auditor.
SECTION 4. That for the reasons stated in the preamble hereto, which is hereby made a part hereof, this ordinance is hereby declared to be an emergency measure and shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval by the Mayor, or ten days after passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.