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 2014 Recreation and Parks summer camps. The $65,701.49 grant will provide 102 children with eight weeks of summer camp each.
Principal Parties:
Contact is Anthony Trotman, Director
1721 Northland Park Ave.
Columbus, Oh. 43229
The Federal ID# is 31-6400067
Emergency Justification:
Emergency action is requested to comply with the terms of the grant and so that funds are available for the 2014 camp season.
Fiscal Impact:
A grant amount of $65,701.49 will be accepted from Franklin County Department of Job and Family Services and appropriated to the Recreation and Parks grant fund 286.
Title
To authorize and direct the Director of Recreation and Parks to accept a grant in the amount of $65,701.49 and enter into an agreement with the Franklin County Department of Job and Family Services to provide camp fees for children from low-income families; to appropriate $65,701.49 to the Recreation and Parks Grant Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($65,701.49)
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 and so that funds are available for the 2014 camp season; 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 $65,701.4...
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