Explanation
BACKGROUND: This ordinance authorizes the Office of the Mayor to modify a contract with Franklin Development Association dba Franklinton Urban Empowerment Lab (FUEL) to provide a neighborhood intervention in the Franklinton and Hilltop geographic areas. This contract will support the CelebrateOne goal to improve social and economic conditions in the designated neighborhood by addressing social determinates of health.
Ordinance 0463-2019 passed on February 28, 2019 authorized funding from Franklin County Department of Job and Family Services for this Westside Intervention. FUEL, in partnership with a Hilltop partner, will manage a community resource website for the Hilltop to connect residents to resources in the community. Financial Life skills program will be provided to residents to teach job training skills and money management.
Emergency action is requested in order to ensure that the work on the neighborhood intervention on the Westside is not interrupted.
FISCAL IMPACT: This legislation authorizes an expenditure of $69,280.00 from Franklin County Department of Jobs and Family Services Grant G401903.
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To authorize the Office of the Mayor to modify a contract with Franklinton Urban Empowerment Lab to provide neighborhood intervention initiatives to improve social and economic conditions for CelebrateOne ; to authorize the expenditure of $69,280.00 from the City’s General Government Grant Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($69,280.00)
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WHEREAS, there is a need for continued neighborhood intervention on the Westside to support the CelebrateOne goal to improve social and economic conditions in the designated neighborhood by addressing social determinates of health; and
WHEREAS, Franklin Development Association, dba Franklinton Urban Empowerment Lab (FUEL), has successfully provided these services to the Westside including Franklinton and Hilltop neighborhoods; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Office of the Mayor in that it is immediately necessary to authorize the office to enter into contract with Franklinton Urban Empowerment Lab to ensure that the work on the neighborhood intervention on the Westside is not interrupted, for the immediate 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 the Office of the Mayor is hereby authorized to modify a contract with Franklinton Urban Empowerment Lab for the neighborhood intervention on the Westside.
SECTION 2. That, to pay the costs of said modification, the expenditure of $69,280.00 is hereby authorized from the General Government Grants Fund, Fund No. 2220, per the accounting codes in the attachment to this ordinance.
SECTION 3. That this modification is in compliance with Section 329 of the Columbus City Code.
SECTION 4. 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 5. That for 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 passage and approval by the Mayor, or ten days after passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.