Explanation
BACKGROUND: This legislation authorizes the Director of the Department of Development to enter into a grant agreement with VoiceCorps for a twelve-month period for a total amount of $80,000. Funding will support reading for blind, visually impaired, and other print disabled Columbus residents.
Emergency action is necessary to avoid causing interruptions in the delivery of program services.
FISCAL IMPACT: Funding for this expenditure is allocated from the Emergency Human Services Fund ($80,000).
Title
To authorize the Director of the Department of Development to enter into a grant agreement with VoiceCorps; to authorize an expenditure from the Emergency Human Services Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($80,000.00)
Body
WHEREAS, the Director of the Department of Development desires to enter into a grant agreement with VoiceCorps for the continued provision of social services; and
WHEREAS, funding will support reading for blind, visually impaired, and other print disabled Columbus residents; and
WHEREAS, the grant will be funded from Emergency Human Services Funds; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Department of Development in that it is immediately necessary to enter into a grant agreement with VoiceCorps to avoid causing interruptions in the delivery of program services, all for the 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 Director of the Department of Development is hereby authorized to enter into a grant agreement with VoiceCorps.
SECTION 2. That for the purpose as stated in Section 1, the expenditure of $80,000 or so much thereof as may be necessary is hereby authorized in Fund 2231 Hotel Motel Bed Tax Fund, in Object Class 03 Contractual Services per the accounting codes in the attachment to this ordinance.
SECTION 3. That the City Auditor is authorized to make any accounting...
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