Explanation
Background:
This ordinance will enable the Director of Recreation and Parks to apply for, accept a grant from, and enter into agreement with the National Recreation and Parks Association (NRPA) in the amount of $10,000.00 and to appropriate these monies to the Recreation and Parks Private Grant Fund. The grant will support summer and before/after school food programs for children from low income families as part of United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) reimbursement programs. As the Columbus Recreation and Parks Department conducts a Summer Food Program funded by the USDA through the Ohio Department of Education, it has been selected to receive funding from the NRPA.
Emergency Justification:
Emergency action is requested in order to have funding available for necessary expenditures related to expanding the department's food program.
Fiscal Impact:
To accept a grant in the amount of $10,000.00 from the NRPA to the Recreation and Parks Private Grant Fund.
Title
To authorize and direct the Director of the Recreation and Parks Department to apply for and accept a grant in the amount of $10,000.00 from the National Recreation and Parks Association to expand the department's summer food program; to appropriate these funds to the Recreation and Parks Private Grant Fund; to authorize the expenditure of $10,000.00; and to declare an emergency. ($10,000.00)
Body
WHEREAS, the National Recreation and Parks Association (NRPA) local member agency, was accepting grant applications for the expansion of summer food programming and has awarded the City of Columbus Recreation and Parks Department a grant in the amount of $10,000.00; and
WHEREAS, it is necessary for the Recreation and Parks Department to enter into an agreement with the National Recreation and Parks Association to expand the summer food program; and
WHEREAS, it is necessary to appropriate said funds to the Recreation and Parks Department for expenditures; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Recreation and Parks Department in that it is immediately necessary to accept said grant funds and appropriate said funds so that the funding is available for necessary expenditures related to expanding the department's food program; 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 apply for, accept and enter into an agreement for a grant in the amount of $10,000.00 from the National Recreation and Parks Association for the summer food program.
SECTION 2. That from the unappropriated monies in the Recreation and Parks Private Grant Fund No. 291, and from all monies estimated to come into said fund from any and all sources and unappropriated for any other purpose during the fiscal year ending December 31, 2015, the sum of $10,000.00 and any eligible interest earned during the grant period is hereby appropriated upon receipt of an executed grant agreement to the Recreation and Parks Department as follows:
Department: 51-01, Fund: 291, 2015 2015 NRPA Summer Food Program, Grant No. to be assigned by City Auditor, Object Level 3 as follows:
OL 3 1101 $7,000
3336 $3,000.00
$10,000.00
SECTION 3. That for the purpose stated in Section 3, the expenditure of $10,000.00 or so much thereof as may be necessary to pay the cost thereof, be and is hereby authorized from the Recreation and Parks Grant Fund 291 as follows:
Grant OCA Code O.L. 3 Amount
TBD TBD 1101 $7,000.00
TBD TBD 3336 $3,000.00
SECTION 4. That the monies in the foregoing Section 4 shall be paid upon order of the Director of Recreation and Parks, and that no order shall be drawn or money paid except by voucher, the form of which shall be approved by the City Auditor.
SECTION 5. At the end of the grant period, any repayment of unencumbered balances required by the grantor is hereby authorized and any unused City match monies may be transferred back to the City fund from which they originated in accordance with all applicable grant agreements.
SECTION 6. Funds necessary to carry out the purpose of this ordinance are hereby deemed appropriate.
SECTION 7. 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.