Explanation
This ordinance will authorize the appropriation and the transfer of $200,000 from the Neighborhood Initiatives Fund for operating expenses related to the Summer Food Program; a.k.a. SELF (Students Eating, Learning, and having Fun) Program.
Summer Food Program, Community Recreation Section:
$200,000 is being provided to help increase the participation of eligible youth during the summer and the school year. Eighty percent of Columbus children qualify and take advantage of free or reduced priced lunches during the school year, but only about 13 percent use the summer food sites. Funding will be used toward advertising the summer lunch program and after school meal program (SELF Program), renting trucks and taking food to the neighborhoods, increasing the part-time staff to handle increased monitoring responsibilities, and the increased number of food sites both during the summer and after school (SELF Program). The funding also would be used for a staff person year round to coordinate, promote, and solicit sites and participation for the after school meal program (SELF Program) as well as the summer meal program.
FISCAL IMPACT
Funding for this ordinance is made available from the city's Neighborhood Initiatives Fund 018 for transfer to the Columbus Recreation and Parks Fund. This ordinance is contingent on passage of the 2014 operating budget.
Title
To authorize and direct the appropriation of $200,000.00 within the Neighborhood Initiatives Fund; to direct the transfer and appropriation of $200,000.00 from the Neighborhood Initiatives Fund to the Recreation and Parks Operating Fund for expenditures related to the Summer Food Program; and to declare an emergency. ($200,000.00)
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WHEREAS, Columbus Recreation and Parks Department will have a greater and more efficient impact on the community with expansion to the Summer Food program as a result of this support from the Neighborhood Initiatives Fund; and
WHEREAS, it has been a priority of C...
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