Explanation
BACKGROUND: This ordinance authorizes the City of Columbus to accept, appropriate and expend payments totaling up to $36,850.00 through the 2013 Market Development Grant Program of the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency. The ordinance also authorizes the Director of the Department of Development to enter into an agreement with CleanTurn International LLC (CleanTurn, cc# 45-4144939, expires 2/6/2014) for the implementation of the 2013 Market Development Grant Program. CleanTurn was the specified vendor in the Ohio EPA grant agreement after being selected through the Ohio EPA request for proposals process. Therefore, the City’s agreement will be based on Section 329.07 (e) -Sole Source Procurement.
CleanTurn, headquartered in Columbus Ohio, was launched in January 2012 and has already become one of Ohio's leading social enterprise ventures providing unique training and career opportunities for men and women who have had significant obstacles to employment in their past. CleanTurn is focused on reducing the social costs associated with poverty, recidivism, substance abuse and chronic unemployment through an innovative and self-sustaining model focused on leveraging market opportunities in the service industry.
The 2013 Market Development Grant will provide for the outfitting three CleanTurn crews working on the City’s vacant and abandoned housing deconstruction initiative.
This legislation is submitted as an emergency to allow the program’s activities to begin immediately.
FISCAL IMPACT: This legislation authorizes the acceptance of a $36,850.00 grant from the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency and the appropriation and expenditure of those funds from the General Government Grant Fund.
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To authorize the Director of the Department of Development to accept payments totaling up to $36,850.00 from the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency for the 2013 Market Development Grant Program; to authorize the appropriation of $36,850.00 from the...
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