Explanation
BACKGROUND: This legislation authorizes the Director of the Department of Development to enter into a grant agreement with Clintonville-Beechwold Community Resources Center (CRC) for the provision of services for a twelve-month period. The total amount of this grant agreement is $20,000.00.
The legislation targets a social service program that falls into one or more of the City’s three priority areas including emergency and basic needs, employment and self-sufficiency, and social success for our residents and neighborhoods. The agency receiving funding is:
As a community based social service agency, CRC delivers an array of human services to address needs that have been identified within a defined geographic area. The core service area includes the northern Ohio State University district from Hudson Avenue on the south to the border of Worthington on the north, and between Interstate 71 on the east and the Olentangy River on the west. CRC programs include Family Services, Youth Services, Kinship Care, Senior Supportive Services, Senior Personal Finance Management, and Village in the Ville. Through these services, CRC helps individuals throughout their lifespan build upon their strengths.
Senior Support Services begins each case with a comprehensive assessment in order to identify needs in five areas: health, food, clothing, housing, and social integration. Then a senior-directed service plan focusing specific goals and objectives is completed with the client. In addition, CRC offers an array of services to seniors including transportation to the grocery store, food pantry, medical appointments, and fun trips such as the zoo. Outreach workers also organize social and educational opportunities such as potlucks, speakers on health & safety, and support groups.
Emergency action is necessary to avoid causing interruptions in the delivery of program services.
FISCAL IMPACT: Funding for these expenditures is allocated from the Emergency Human Services Fund and Neighborhood Initiatives Fund ($20,000.00).
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To approve the grant application of Clintonville-Beechwold Community Resources Center seeking financial assistance to address emergency human service needs pursuant to Columbus City Code; to authorize the appropriation and expenditure of $20,000.00 from the Emergency Human Services Fund and Neighborhood Initiatives Fund; to authorize the Director of Development to execute a grant agreement with Clintonville-Beechwold Community Resources Center to address and provide for senior support services; and to declare an emergency. ($20,000.00)
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WHEREAS, Clintonville-Beechwold Community Resources Center has submitted a grant application seeking financial assistance; and
WHEREAS, City Council is authorized to allocate funds annually to assist social service agencies in the city with the operating costs of delivering programs; and
WHEREAS, the Director of the Department of Development desires to enter into a grant agreement with Clintonville-Beechwold Community Resources Center for the continued provision of social services; and
WHEREAS, Clintonville-Beechwold Community Resources Center will be funded with Emergency Human Services and Neighborhood Initiatives funds; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Department of Development in that it is immediately necessary to enter into a grant agreement with Clintonville-Beechwold Community Resources Center to avoid causing interruptions in the delivery of vital program services, all 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 from the unappropriated monies 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 ended December 31, 2016, the sum of $20,000 is appropriated in the Emergency Human Services Fund 2231 and the Neighborhood Initiatives Fund 1000 per the accounting codes in the attachment to this ordinance.
SECTION 2. That the Director of the Department of Development is hereby authorized to enter into a grant agreement with the Clintonville-Beechwold Community Resources Center for the purpose of providing the City’s support of the Senior Supportive Services Program.
SECTION 3. That this contract is entered into pursuant to the relevant provisions of City Code Chapter 329 relating to not-for-profit service contracts.
SECTION 4. That for the purpose as stated in Section 2, the expenditure of $20,000.00, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be and is hereby authorized in Fund 2231 Emergency Human Services Fund and Fund 1000 the Neighborhood Initiatives Subfund in Object Class 03 Contractual Services per the accounting codes in the attachment to this ordinance.
SECTION 6. 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 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 approval by the Mayor, or ten days after passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.