Background
Stop the Summer Slide summer camp is an academic camp that is focused on the Common Core Reading standards for grades K-3 which will help students to continue their learning over the summer. The effects of summer learning differences is a primary cause of widening achievement gaps between students of lower and higher socioeconomic levels. This camp will help students beat the odds, by gaining cumulative summer learning gains.
Stop the Summer Slide, which takes place at Parkmoor Elementary School, will provide help and support to make sure students are on track for reading success by the end of camp for students entering the third grade according to the requirements of Ohio's Third Grade Reading Guarantee. In Kindergarten through grade three, stop the summer slide will evaluate all children to determine if they are reading as well as they should be. If a child appears to be falling behind, summer slide will immediately start a reading improvement plan. Children enrolled in the program will be provided breakfast and lunch.
Emergency legislation is required so that the contract can be in place for the beginning of this program on June 15, 2015.
Fiscal Impact
Funding for this ordinance is made available from the city's Jobs Growth Fund 015.
Title
To authorize and direct City Council to enter into contract with Lazarus Arise Christian Community Development for the Stop the Summer Slide Reading Intervention Program; to authorize the appropriation and expenditure of $20,000.00 from the Jobs Growth Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($20,000.00)
Body
WHEREAS, the Stop the Summer Slide summer camp is an academic camp that is focused on the Common Core Reading standards for grades K-3 which will help students to continue their learning over the summer; and
WHEREAS, this camp will help students beat the odds, by gaining cumulative summer learning gains to combat the effects of summer learning differences as a primary cause of widening achievement gaps between students of lower and higher socioeconomic levels; and
WHEREAS, City Council amended the 2015 budget to further emphasize the importance of making strategic investments in projects that will ultimately improve the quality of life within the City, and Council deems this project an appropriate use of $20,000.00; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the City in that it is immediately necessary to appropriate and expend funds to support the efforts of the Columbus City Schools, and for the 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 $20,000.00 in the Jobs Growth Fund, Fund 015, to City Council Department No. 20-01, Object Level One 03, Object Level Three 3337, OCA Code 200115.
SECTION 2. That City Council is hereby authorized to contract with Lazarus Arise Christian Community Development in the amount of $20,000 for the Stop the Summer Slide Reading Intervention Program.
SECTION 3. That this contract is awarded pursuant to the relevant provisions of City Code Chapter 329 relating to not-for-profit service contracts.
SECTION 4. That for the reason stated in the preamble here to, 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.