Explanation
This ordinance will authorize the appropriation and expenditure of $243,723.00 from the Neighborhood Initiatives Fund and $56,277 from the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Fund for the United Way, Columbus Kids: Ready, Set, Learn Initiative FID#31-4393712, located at 360 S. Third Street, Columbus, Ohio 43215.
Columbus City Council and the Recreation and Parks Department recognize that nearly 40 percent of the children entering Columbus City School (CCS) kindergarten classrooms require intervention because they lack foundational skills. The United Way Columbus Kids initiative is designed to decrease those numbers and increase the number of children who enter CCS kindergarten classrooms ready to learn. With support from more than 100 community partners, United Way of Central Ohio is leading an effort to provide school readiness screening and referral services for approximately 8,245 2 1/2 to 4-year-old children and their families in five neighborhoods of the CCS district. This number represents one half of the 2 1/2 to 4-year-old children in the CCS system. The 2013 initiative will focus on the communities of greatest need: Central City Columbus, Weinland Park, South Linden, Westside and Southside neighborhoods.
FISCAL IMPACT: $243,723.00 Neighborhood Initiatives Fund 018
$56,277 CDBG Fund 248
Title
To authorize the appropriation of $243,723.00 within the Neighborhood Initiatives Fund; to authorize the Director of Recreation and Parks to enter into contract with United Way of Central Ohio for the implementation of the Columbus Kids: Ready, Set, Learn Initiative; to authorize the expenditure of $243,723.00 from the Neighborhood Initiatives Fund and $56,277 from the Community Development Block Grant Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($300,000.00)
Body
WHEREAS, the City of Columbus desires to support the United Way, Columbus Kids: Ready, Set, Learn initiative; and
WHEREAS, funds are being appropriated from the Neighborho...
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