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 declare an emergency. ($43,000.00)
Body
WHEREAS, the Walmart Foundation, through National League of Cities Institute, was accepting grant applications for the expansion of summer food programming and after-school feeding program and has awarded the City of Columbus Recreation and Parks Department a grant in the amount of $43,000.00; and
WHEREAS, it is necessary for the Recreation and Parks Department to enter into an agreement with the Walmart Foundation, acting through the National League of Cities Institute, to expand the summer food program and after-school feeding program; and
WHEREAS, it is necessary to appropriate said funds to the Recreation and Parks Department for expenditures; and
WHEREAS, the Recreation and Parks Department will be awarding a portion of the grant not to exceed $6,000.00 to E.L. Hardy Community Enrichment Center for support of their summer feeding program; 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 apply for and accept a grant in the amount of $43,000.00 from the Walmart Foundation for the summer food program and after-school feeding 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, 2013, the sum of $43,000.00 and any eligible interest earned during the grant period is hereby appropriated to the Recreation and Parks Department as follows:
Department: 51-01, Fund: 291, Grant#: To be assigned, OCA#: To Be Assigned, Object Level 3 as follows:
1112 $17500.00
1120 $1050.00
1160 $2450.00
1171 $300.00
1173 $700.00
3336 $15,000.00
3337 $6,000.00
$43,000.00
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 appropriate.
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