Explanation
This ordinance authorizes the Director of the Office of Diversity and Inclusion to enter into a grant agreement with the Driven Foundation in support of the Career Exposure Program.
The Driven Foundation is a 501c3 non-profit organization founded in 2008 by former NFL and Ohio State University Football teammates Roy Hall and Antonio Smith. Driven’s infrastructure is built on three core principles: perseverance, resilience, and assistance. Through outreach events and programs, they use their platform for a purpose to assist in solving various community challenges.
The Career Exposure Program, known as CE100, is Driven Foundation’s second phase of programming surrounding career exploration. The program is designed to help create exposure and provide an inside look into various jobs, careers, and professions, and to help navigate individuals toward occupational opportunities.
The Driven Foundation will partner with the City of Columbus to offer CE100 to constituents. CE100 will highlight career opportunities within the various city departments and serve as a resource for recruiting purposes. This amendment will allow Driven to highlight opportunities that lie within the City’s Division of Police and Fire.
Fiscal Impact: Funding is available within the Jobs Growth subfund.
Emergency action is requested in order to avoid any delay in allowing the Driven Foundation to begin implementing the CE100 program for Columbus residents.
Title
To authorize the Director of the Office of Diversity and Inclusion to enter into a grant agreement with the Driven Foundation in support of the Career Exposure Program; to authorize an appropriation and expenditure within the Jobs Growth subfund; and to declare an emergency. ($7,500.00)
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WHEREAS, the Driven Foundation is a 501c3 non-profit organization founded in 2008 by former NFL and Ohio State University Football teammates Roy Hall and Antonio Smith; and
WHEREAS, the infrastructure of the Driven Foundation is built on three core principles of perseverance, resilience, and assistance; and
WHEREAS, the Career Exposure Program, known as CE100, is designed to help create exposure and provide an inside look into various jobs, careers, and professions, and to help navigate individuals toward occupational opportunities; and
WHEREAS, CE100 will highlight career opportunities within the various city departments and serve as a resource for recruiting purposes; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Office of Diversity and Inclusion in that it is immediately necessary to authorize the Director to enter into a grant agreement with the Driven Foundation to avoid any delay in implementing the CE100 program; now, therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That the Director of the Office of Diversity and Inclusion is hereby authorized to enter into a grant agreement with the Driven Foundation in support of the Career Exposure Program.
SECTION 2. That the City Auditor is hereby authorized and directed to appropriate $7,500.00 in the Jobs Growth Initiatives subfund, fund 1000, subfund 100015, to the Office of Diversity and Inclusion per the accounting codes in the attachment to this ordinance.
SECTION 3. That the expenditure of $7,500.00 or so much thereof as may be needed pursuant to the action authorized in SECTION 1 of this ordinance, is hereby authorized in the Jobs Growth subfund, fund 1000, subfund 100015 per the accounting codes in the attachment to this ordinance.
SECTION 4. That for reasons stated in the preamble hereto, which is hereby made a part hereof, this ordinance is hereby declared an emergency measure and shall take effect and be enforced from and after its passage and approval by the Mayor, or ten days after passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.