Explanation
The Columbus Area Labor-Management Committee (CALMC) is a not-for-profit organization that promotes the development of high-performance organizations through joint participation of labor and management. Since its founding in 1986, CALMC has worked with many private and public sector companies and organization and their unions to help them achieve their goals through the active involvement of its members and through effective training, communications, and leadership to benefit the citizens of Central Ohio. City Council has supported CALMC in the past to make strategic investments in projects that will ultimately create and retain jobs within the City. Council deems this project an appropriate use of $50,000.00 Jobs Growth Fund monies.
Title
To authorize and direct the Director of the Department of Human Resources to enter into contract with the Columbus Area Labor Management Committee; to authorize the expenditure of $50,000.00 from the Jobs Growth Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($50,000.00)
Body
WHEREAS, the Columbus Area Labor-Management Committee (CALMC) is a not-for-profit organization that promotes the development of high-performance organizations through joint participation of labor and management; and
WHEREAS, since its founding in 1986, CALMC has worked with many private and public sector companies and organization and their unions to help them achieve their goals through the active involvement of its members and effective training, communications, and leadership to benefit the citizens of Central Ohio; and
WHEREAS, City Council amended the 2015 budget to further emphasize that the importance of making strategic investments in projects that will ultimately create and retain jobs within the City, and Council deems this project an appropriate use of $50,000.00; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Department of Human Resources in that it is immediately necessary to authorize the Director to enter into contract with the Columbus Area Labor Management Committee, 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 $50,000.00 in the Jobs Growth Fund, Fund 015, to the Department of Human Resources, Division No. 46-01, Object Level One 03, Object Level Three 3336, OCA Code 460015 for the action taken in Section 2 below.
SECTION 2. That the Director of Human Resources is hereby authorized and directed to enter into contract with the Columbus Area Labor-Management Committee (CALMC) to support its efforts to promote the development of high-performance organizations through joint participation of labor and management.
SECTION 3. 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 passage and approval by the Mayor, or ten days after passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.