Explanation
This ordinance authorizes Columbus City Council to enter into a grant agreement with the 22nd Foundation in support of the Summer614 music festival.
Summer614 is an outdoor music festival held on June 1, 2019 at the Columbus Commons. It is a celebration of yesterday and today’s Hip Hop and R&B stars. This concert helps to support efforts of the 22nd Foundation. This Columbus-based non-profit organization works to expose and educate low-opportunity youth to diverse sports options and healthy lifestyle through tennis, lacrosse, field hockey, baseball and golf with high quality training.
Last year, Summer614 saw an attendance of 4,300. Targeting the diverse African American culture of Columbus and surrounding cities, vendors and drinks will be available for the audience to enjoy throughout the concert. This year, Summer614 is anticipating 5,000+ attendees. The nationally recognized and widely received entertainment acts draw large crowds. This only benefits 22nd Foundation, which benefits youth currently served in Olde Towne East, making for stronger neighborhoods and a stronger city.
22nd Foundation will host two tennis summer camps in 2019 in Olde Towne East, with approximately 50-75 youth on the Near East side of Columbus. This initiative targets the Strong Neighborhoods initiatives established by Columbus City Council. Working in this underexposed area with quality coaches and training, educating youth and their families on healthy lifestyle, tennis and providing relevant resources will help build consistency and positive outcomes directly for this neighborhood. Youth engagement builds a connectedness within the greater community; 22nd Foundation is working to build this connectedness through sports. Providing an earlier opportunity for youth to be introduced to tennis gives them an even playing field with their peers in suburban schools who are being introduced to tennis as young as 11 years old. Currently, Columbus City Schools does not offer tennis as an organized sport until 9th grade.
Fiscal Impact: Funding is available within the Neighborhood Initiatives subfund.
Emergency action is requested in order to provide the 22nd Foundation with the resources necessary to execute the Summer614 event on June 1.
Title
To authorize Columbus City Council to enter into a grant agreement with the 22nd Foundation in support of the Summer614 music festival; to authorize an appropriation and expenditure within the Neighborhood Initiatives subfund; and to declare an emergency. ($5,400.00)
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WHEREAS, the 22nd Foundation is a non-profit organization working to expose and educate low-opportunity youth to diverse sports options and healthy lifestyles; and
WHEREAS, the 22nd Foundation hosts the Summer614 music festival, an outdoor music festival held on June 1, 2019 at the Columbus Commons with anticipated attendance of 5,000+; and
WHEREAS, the Summer614 festival elevates the work of the 22nd Foundation and its efforts to serve youths in Olde Towne East; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily business of the city in that it is immediately necessary to authorize a grant agreement with the 22nd Foundation in order to provide the resources necessary to execute the Summer614 event on June 1; 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 22nd Foundation in support of the Summer614 music festival.
SECTION 2. That the City Auditor is hereby authorized and directed to appropriate $5,400.00 in the Neighborhood Initiatives subfund, fund 1000, subfund 100018, to Columbus City Council per the accounting codes in the attachment to this ordinance.
SECTION 3. That the expenditure of $5,400.00 or so much thereof as may be needed pursuant to the action authorized in SECTION 1 of this ordinance, is hereby authorized in the Neighborhood Initiatives subfund, fund 1000, subfund 100018 per the accounting codes in the attachment to this ordinance.
SECTION 4. That the City Auditor is authorized to make any accounting changes to revise the funding source for all contracts or contract modifications associated with this legislation.
SECTION 5. That for the 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.