Explanation
BACKGROUND:
This ordinance authorizes the appropriation of $5,000.00 from the Community Technology Grant Fund to the Department of Technology and authorizes the Director of the Department of Technology to enter into a grant agreement with Tech Corps Ohio to provide grant assistance sponsorship to its annual Techieloka event in the amount of $5,000.00. As a sponsor of Techieloka, Tech Corps' annual technology competition for elementary school students in Columbus, Ohio, is an exciting and competitive event wherein student teams present projects focused on a range of computer science and engineering concepts.
This grant fund was established with the passage of Ordinance 0722-2006 on April 27, 2006, and allows for the funds to be utilized for community-based technology projects as determined by the Director of the Department of Technology and approved by City Council.
Tech Corps Ohio is a national non-profit organization that strives for a technologically-literate society in which all students have equal access to the technology programs, resources and skills to enrich their education and allow them to compete successfully in the global workforce. Tech Corps Ohio is driven by local technology needs and draws on the expertise and enthusiasm of technology professionals from the local community.
As a 501(c)3 non-profit agency, Tech Corps Ohio, 112 Jefferson Avenue #3, Columbus, Ohio 43215, partners with the City in supporting the technology goals of the non-profit community. Tech Corps Ohio programs are not computer literacy programs but instead programs that put students in the role of actively creating and designing with technology, not just passively using and consuming it.
EMERGENCY:
Emergency action is requested so that payment may be made to Tech Corps at the earliest possible date.
FISCAL IMPACT:
A total of $5,000.00 has been allocated for this grant from the Department of Technology, Computer Technology Grant Fund. Funding for this grant agreement, in the amount of $5,000.00 is budgeted and available within the Computer Technology Grant Fund 291, Grant No. # 447291.
CONTRACT COMPLIANCE:
Vendor Name: Tech Corps Ohio CC #: 16-1703355 Expiration Date: 6/19/2016 (Non-Profit Organization)
Title
To authorize the appropriation of $5,000.00 from the Computer Technology Grant Fund to the Department of Technology and to authorize the Director of the Department of Technology to enter into a grant agreement with Tech Corps Ohio to provide grant sponsorship assistance to its annual Techieloka event; and to authorize the expenditure of $5,000.00 from the Community Technology Grant Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($5,000.00)
Body
WHEREAS, this ordinance authorizes the Director of the Department of Technology to enter into a grant agreement with Tech Corps Ohio to utilize $5,000.00 in grant funds to provide grant assistance sponsorship to its annual Techieloka event, a technology competition for elementary school students in Columbus, Ohio whereby student teams present projects focused on a range of computer science and engineering concepts; and
WHEREAS, the Director of the Department of Technology requests to appropriate $5,000.00 from the Computer Technology Grant Fund Grant Fund 291, Grant No. # 447291to provide assistance to the aforementioned non-profit agency for program administration; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exist in the usual daily operation of the Department of Technology in that it is immediately necessary for the Director of the Department of Technology to enter into a grant agreement with Tech Corps Ohio to provide grant assistance to Tech Corps Ohio by providing sponsorship to its annual Techieloka event to support daily operational activities for the immediate preservation of the public health, peace, property, safety and welfare; now, therefore
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That the City Auditor be and is hereby authorized and directed to appropriate $5,000.00 to the Computer Technology Grant Fund: 291, Grant No. # 447291|Obj. level 1:03 |Obj. level 3: 3337.
SECTION 2. That the Director of the Department of Technology is hereby authorized to enter into a grant agreement with Tech Corps Ohio to to provide grant assistance to Tech Corps Ohio by providing sponsorship to its annual Techieloka event.
SECTION 3. That the expenditure of $5,000.00 or so much thereof as may be necessary is hereby authorized to be expended from:
Div.: 47-01| Fund: 291|Grant: 447291| OCA Code: 447291| Obj. Level 1: 03| Obj. Level 3: 3337| Amount: $5,000.00
SECTION 4. That the City Auditor is authorized to make any accounting changes to revise the funding source for all contract and agreement modifications associated with this ordinance.
SECTION 5. That the funds necessary to carry out the purpose of this ordinance are hereby deemed appropriated, and the City Auditor shall establish such accounting codes as necessary
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 ten days after passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.