Explanation
Background:
This ordinance will enable the Director of Recreation and Parks to apply for, accept a grant from, and enter into agreement with the National League of Cities Institute in the amount of $43,000.00 and to appropriate these monies to the Recreation and Parks Private Grant Fund. National League of Cities received a grant from the Walmart Foundation which will support summer and before/after-school food programs for children from low income families as part of United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) reimbursement programs. As the Columbus Recreation and Parks Department conducts a Summer Food Program funded by the USDA through the Ohio Department of Education, it has been selected to receive funding from National League of Cities. The Columbus Recreation and Parks Department will award an amount not to exceed $6,000.00 to a third organization, E.L. Hardy Community Enrichment Center, which will also use the money to support a summer feeding program in the City of Columbus.
Principal Parties:
Cities Combating Hunger through Afterschool and Summer Meals (CHAMPS)
Grant awarded by the National League of Cities (NCL). Supported by Walmart.
Emergency action is requested in order to have funding available for necessary expenditures.
Fiscal Impact:
To accept a grant in the amount of $43,000.00 from the National League of Cities Institute to the Recreation and Parks Private Grant Fund.
Title
To authorize and direct the Director of the Recreation and Parks Department to apply for and accept a grant in the amount of $43,000.00 from the Walmart Foundation received through the National League of Cities Institute to expand the department's summer food program and after-school feeding program; to appropriate these funds to the Recreation and Parks Private Grant Fund; to allow a portion of the grant, not to exceed $6,000.00, to be awarded to E.L. Hardy Community Enrichment Center for support of their summer feeding program; and to decla...
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