Explanation
This ordinance authorizes Columbus City Council to enter into a grant agreement with the Clintonville-Beechwold Community Resources Center (CBCRC) in support of the Family Services and Choice Food Pantry.
CRC is a neighborhood-based Settlement House with a wide array of services and 48 years of experience. CRC’s Family Services Program (FSP) provides emergency food and basic necessities, referrals for housing and recovery, and more. FSP’s targeted constituencies are the underserved living in the City of Columbus. In 2018, FSP’s staff and volunteers provided support to over 7,800 unduplicated individuals at (or below) 200% poverty. 21% of these individals were seniors and 29% were children. Additionally, 40% self-reported as refugees/immigrants.
Emergency action is requested in order to avoid any disruption in service for at-risk residents.
Fiscal Impact: Funding is available within the Neighborhood Initiatives subfund.
Title
To authorize Columbus City Council to enter into a grant agreement with the Clintonville-Beechwold Community Resources Center in support of the Family Services and Choice Food Pantry; and to authorize an appropriation and expenditure within the Neighborhood Initiatives subfund; and to declare an emergency. ($40,000.00)
Body
WHEREAS, the Clintonville-Beechwold Community Resource Center (CBCRC) is a neighborhood-based Settlement House with a wide array of services and 48 years of experience; and
WHEREAS, Family Services Program (FSP) provides emergency food and basic necessities, referrals for housing and recovery, and more; and
WHEREAS, in 2018, FSP’s staff and volunteers provided support to over 7,800 unduplicated individuals at (or below) 200% poverty; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in that it is immediately necessary to authorize a grant agreement with the Clintonville-Beechwold Community Resource Center in order to avoid any delay in providing funding in support of at-risk residents, for the preservation of the public peace, property, health and safety; 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 Clintonville-Beechwold Community Resources Center in support of the Family Services and Choice Food Pantry.
SECTION 2. That the City Auditor is hereby authorized and directed to appropriate $40,000.00 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 $40,000.00 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 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 10 days after passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.