Explanation
Background:
This ordinance will enable the Director of Recreation and Parks to accept a grant and enter into an agreement with the Franklin County Department of Job and Family Services. This ordinance also appropriates these monies to the Recreation and Parks Grant Fund in order to provide tuition and cover administrative costs for 2013 Recreation and Parks summer camps. The $62,991.34 grant will provide 101 children with 8 weeks of summer camp each. A total of 808 weeks of camp.
Contact is Anthony Trotman, Director
1721 Northland Park Ave.
Columbus, Oh. 43229
The Federal ID# is 31-6400067
Title
To authorize and direct the Director of Recreation and Parks to accept a grant in the amount of $62,991.34 and enter into an agreement with the Franklin County Department of Job and Family Services to provide camp fees for 101 children with 8 weeks of summer camp each; to appropriate $62,991.34 to the Recreation and Parks Grant Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($62,991.34)
Body
WHEREAS, Franklin County Department of Job and Family Services has awarded the City of Columbus, Recreation and Parks Department, a grant to provide funding for tuition for summer camps; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Recreation and Parks Department in that it is immediately necessary to accept and appropriate said grant funds to comply with the terms of the grant for the preservation of public health, peace, property and safety; 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 $62,991.34 and enter into an agreement with the Franklin County Department of Job and Family Services.
SECTION 2. That from the unappropriated monies in the Recreation and Parks Grant Fund 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, 2013, the sum of $62,991.34, and any eligible interest earned during the grant period is hereby appropriated to the Recreation and Parks Department No. 51-01, effective upon receipt of executed grant agreement, as follows:
Dept. Fund OCA Grant Object Level 3
51-01 286 TBD TBD 1112
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. At the end of the grant period, any repayment of unencumbered balances required by the grantor is hereby authorized and any unused City match monies may be transferred back to the City fund from which they originated in accordance with all applicable grant agreements.
SECTION 5. Funds necessary to carry out the purpose of this ordinance are hereby deemed appropriated.
SECTION 6. 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 10 days after passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.