Explanation
Background: The City is the owner of an office building located at 1111 East Broad Street, Columbus, Ohio 43205. Since its purchase of the property in 2006, the City has leased space in the building for work force development purposes. The original lease of office space for work force development purposes was with the Central Ohio Workforce Investment Corporation (COWIC). Due to 2016 changes in federal workforce regulations that required organizational separation of responsibilities for operation and delivery of job training services from policy and governance, the original COWIC organization was divided into two entities. The Workforce Development Board of Central Ohio (“Workforce Development Board”) was created as the separate entity providing policy and governance oversight of workforce program delivery and COWIC was designated as the interim operator of the Ohio Means Jobs Columbus/Franklin County Job Center located in the City’s 1111 E. Broad building. Under federal law, the Workforce Development Board is required to competitively procure the operator of the Job Center which means that COWIC will no longer be the Tenant thus necessitating a new lease with the Workforce Development Board of Central Ohio as the Tenant responsible for the lease of office space used for the operation of the Ohio Means Jobs Columbus/Franklin County Job Center.
This legislation authorizes the Director of the Department of Finance and Management to enter into a lease agreement with the Workforce Development Board of Central Ohio, an Ohio non-profit corporation, for lease of office space for operation of the Ohio Means Jobs Columbus/Franklin County Job Center identified as Suite 102 and three training rooms, for an initial one-year term beginning on July 1, 2017.
Emergency action is requested for approval of the lease in order to allow Workforce Development Board of Central Ohio to occupy and operate the Ohio Means Jobs Columbus/Franklin County Job Center in office sp...
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