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)
Body
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 Columbus City Council to identify opportunities to support various Neighborhood Initiatives that enhance our communities; and
WHEREAS, this legislation will authorize the Recreation and Parks Department to hire staff, buy equipment, and pay other costs related to the aforementioned expansion, and
WHEREAS, funds are being appropriated and transferred from the Neighborhood Initiatives Fund to the Recreation and Parks Operating Fund for salaries and other costs needed to facilitate the expansion of this program; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the City of Columbus in that it is immediately necessary to appropriate and transfer said funds to have funding available for necessary expenditures; NOW, THEREFORE
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That the City Auditor be and he is hereby authorized and directed to appropriate and transfer $200,000.00 from the Neighborhood Initiatives Fund to the Recreation and Parks Operating Fund as follows:
FROM:
Fund Type Fund Object Level 3 OCA Code Amount
Neighborhood Initiatives 018 5501 512851 $200,000.00
TO:
Fund Type Dept # Fund Object Level 3 OCA Code Amount
Operating 51-01 285 0886 901306 $200,000.00
SECTION 2. That $200,000.00 is hereby appropriated to the Recreation and Parks Operating Fund 285 as follows:
Fund Type Dept # Fund OCA Code Object Level 3 Amount
Summer Food
Operating 51-01 285 510420 1101 25,000.00
Operating 51-01 285 510420 1112 51,000.00
Operating 51-01 285 510420 1150 9,600.00
Operating 51-01 285 510420 1160 9,100.00
Operating 51-01 285 510420 1171 1000.00
Operating 51-01 285 510420 1173 2,400.00
Operating 51-01 285 510420 2201 5,000.00
Operating 51-01 285 510420 3302 5,000.00
Operating 51-01 285 510420 3329 11,000.00
Operating 51-01 285 510420 3336 5,000.00
Operating 51-01 285 510420 3353 70,900.00
Operating 51-01 285 510420 3402 5,000.00
$200,000.00
SECTION 3. That the City Auditor is authorized to make any accounting changes to revise the funding source for all contracts or contract modifications associated with this ordinance.
SECTION 4. 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.