Explanation
This ordinance authorizes Columbus City Council to enter into a grant agreement with the National CEO Leadership Institute in support of the 6th Annual Franklin County Youth Lemonade Festival.
The Franklin County Youth Lemonade Festival aims to provide access to the entrepreneurial experience of business ownership to youth from all walks of life. The youths will learn business and life skills which will follow them into adulthood and help develop them into strong community leaders.
The Festival is unique in that its total focus is on entrepreneurship and education. The goal of the 6th Annual Franklin County Youth Lemonade Festival is to give youth of all socio-economic backgrounds, in all Franklin County neighborhoods, the opportunity to start their own micro-business, and to earn their own summer allowance.
The targeted constituencies are youth between the ages of 5-18 who live in Franklin County. The 2019 planning committee estimates that between 1,000-1,500 youth will register and participate.
Fiscal Impact: Funding is available within the Jobs Growth subfund.
Title
To authorize Columbus City Council to enter into a grant agreement with the National CEO Leadership Institute in support of the 6th Annual Franklin County Youth Lemonade Festival; and to authorize an appropriation and expenditure within the Jobs Growth subfund. ($5,000.00)
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WHEREAS, the Franklin County Youth Lemonade Festival aims to provide access to the entrepreneurial experience of business ownership to youth from all walks of life; and
WHEREAS, youths will learn business and life skills which will follow them into adulthood and help develop them into strong community leaders; and
WHEREAS, the goal of the 6th Annual Franklin County Youth Lemonade Festival is to give youth of all socio-economic backgrounds, in all Franklin County neighborhoods, the opportunity to start their own micro-business, and to earn their own summer allowance; and
WHEREAS, it is expected that 1,000-1,500 youths will register and participate in the 2019 Festival; now, therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That Columbus City Council is hereby authorized to enter into a grant agreement with the National CEO Leadership Institute in support of the 6th Annual Franklin County Youth Lemonade Festival.
SECTION 2. That the City Auditor be and is hereby authorized and directed to appropriate $5,000.00 in the Jobs Growth subfund, fund 1000, subfund 100015, to the Columbus City Council, in Object Class 03 - Contractual Services, per the accounting codes in the attachment to this ordinance.
SECTION 3. That the expenditure of $5,000.00 or so much thereof as may be needed pursuant to the actions authorized in SECTION 1, is hereby authorized in the Jobs Growth subfund, fund 1000, subfund 100015, in Object Class 03 - Contractual Services, per the accounting codes in the attachment to this ordinance.
SECTION 4. That this ordinance shall take effect at the earliest date allowable by law.