Explanation
This ordinance authorizes the Director of Recreation and Parks to enter into a grant agreement with Gladden Community House in support of its Youth Team Sports program.
Gladden Community House has served the Franklinton and near west side neighborhoods since 1905. For over four decades Gladden has provided a large, year-round community-based team sports program for community children. In 2017, the youth team sports program engaged 549 children and 77 community volunteer coaches, providing 11,481 hours of healthy, constructive, positive activity for Franklinton and near west side children.
The opportunity for youth team sports in Franklinton has become more limited over the years. Gladden Community House team sports program is critical in maintaining the outreach necessary for the youth of the Franklinton community to experience positive, healthy sports activity.
Gladden is fortunately located were the youth live, learn, and play, in the center of the Franklinton community. The program draws its youth heavily from schools and the surrounding neighborhood. In addition, Gladden provides preschool and afterschool programs that draw large numbers of youth into the team sports program.
Gladden additionally coordinates the Kids Inner City Soccer League serving inner city youth from throughout central Columbus. This league includes teams from multiple organizations, including settlement houses, charter schools, YMCA, Boys & Girls Club, and Independent League-CAP City, with the majority of teams in KIDS coming from Department of Recreation and Parks community centers.
Fiscal Impact: Funding is available within the Neighborhood Initiatives subfund.
Title
To authorize the Director of the Department of Recreation and Parks to enter into a grant agreement with Gladden Community House in support of its Youth Team Sports program; and to authorize an appropriation and expenditure within the Neighborhood Initiatives subfund. ($60,000.00)
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WHEREAS, Gladde...
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