Explanation
BACKGROUND: This ordinance authorizes the Director of Neighborhoods to enter into an agreement with Per Scholas via their partnership with KeyBank Business Boost & Build Powered by Jumpstart initiative.
Funds from the grant will be used to provide financial support to My Brother’s Keeper for engagement events that focus on education and information related to exploring tech career pathways, as well as an opportunity to seek relevant industry training and certification through Per Scholas Columbus. The grant period is from July 1, 2019 to June 30, 2020. This legislation is needed to authorize the acceptance of the grant award, and to appropriate the grant funds.
Principal Parties:
Per Scholas
112 Jefferson Ave
Columbus, OH. 43215
Federal ID# 04-3252955
Emergency Action is requested in order to receive the funds and initiate the program as soon as possible and so that funds are available for the 2019 My Brother’s Keeper Conference.
FISCAL IMPACT: This ordinance authorizes the acceptance and appropriation of $7,500.00 within the Department of Neighborhoods Grant Fund in an agreement with Per Sholas via their partnership with Key Bank Business Boost & Build Powered by Jumpstart Initiative for the financial support of My Brother’s Keeper.
Title
To authorize and direct the Director of Neighborhoods to accept a grant from and enter into a grant agreement with Per Scholas in the amount of $7,500.00 to host engagement events that focus on education and information related to exploring tech career pathways to boys and young men of color; to authorize the appropriation of $7,500.00 within the Department of Neighborhoods Grant Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($7,500.00)
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WHEREAS, Per Scholas via their partnership with the KeyBank Business Boost & Build Powered by Jumpstart initiative has awarded the City of Columbus, Department of Neighborhoods, a grant to provide outreach opportunities to My Brother’s Keeper participants; and
WHEREAS, it is necessary to authorize and direct the Director of the Department of Neighborhoods to enter into an agreement with Per Sholas and accept this award; and
WHEREAS, it is necessary to appropriate $7,500.00 within the Department of Neighborhoods Grant Fund; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Department of Neighborhoods in that it is immediately necessary authorize the Director to accept and enter into an agreement with Per Scholas, and for the City Auditor to appropriate said grant funds, making them available to comply with the terms of the grant and so that funds are available for the 2019 My Brother’s Keeper Conference, thereby preserving the public peace, property, health, safety, and welfare; now, therefore:
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That the Director of Department of Neighborhoods be and is hereby authorized to accept a grant in the amount of $7,500.00 and enter into an agreement with Per Scholas via their partnership with the KeyBank Business Boost & Build Powered by Jumpstart initiative.
SECTION 2. That from the unappropriated monies in the Department of Neighborhoods Grant Fund and from all monies estimated to come into said fund from any and all sources and unappropriated for any other purpose during the grant period ending June 30, 2020, the sum of $7,500.00 and any eligible interest earned during the grant period is hereby appropriated within fund 2291, Department of Neighborhoods Grant Fund per the account codes in the attachment to this ordinance.
SECTION 3. That the monies in the foregoing Section 2 shall be paid upon order of the Director of Department of Neighborhoods, and that no order shall be drawn or money paid except by voucher, the form of which shall be approved by the City.
SECTION 4. At the end of the grant period, any repayment of unencumbered balances required by the grantor is hereby authorized and any unused City match monies may be transferred back to the City fund from which they originated in accordance with all applicable grant agreements.
SECTION 5. 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 6. 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.