Explanation
BACKGROUND: Columbus Public Health has been awarded a grant from the Greater Columbus Arts Council for the 2015 Art Walk Project. This ordinance is needed to accept and appropriate $4,000.00 in grant money to fund this project for the period of January 1, 2015, through December 31, 2015.
This ordinance is submitted as an emergency so as to comply with the grantor's requirements to design and develop a Near South Columbus Art Walk map, update the current Art Walk maps and continue to promote public engagement for all the Art Walks in 2015.
FISCAL IMPACT: The program is funded by Greater Columbus Arts Council and does not generate revenue or require a city match.
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To authorize and direct the Board of Health to accept a grant from the Greater Columbus Arts Council to design and develop a Near South Columbus Art Walk map, update the current maps and continue to promote public engagement for all the Art Walks in the amount of $4,000.00; to authorize the appropriation of $4,000.00 to the Health Department in the city’s private grants fund; and to declare an emergency. ($4,000.00)
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WHEREAS, $4,000.00 in grant funds have been made available to Columbus Public Health through the Greater Columbus Arts Council; and,
WHEREAS, this grant provides the research, design and development of public engagement of a new neighborhood Art Walk; and,
WHEREAS, this ordinance is submitted as an emergency so as to comply with the grantor's requirements to implement the grant deliverables in 2015; and,
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of Columbus Public Health in that it is immediately necessary to accept this grant from the Greater Columbus Arts Council to initiate the deliverables in 2015, and to appropriate these funds to the Health Department 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...
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