Explanation
This ordinance authorizes Columbus City Council to enter into contract with Cohear for the execution of a Policy Pitch Night.
The focus of the Policy Pitch Night project will be to organize and hold an event that solicits creative policy ideas from the “everyday experts” -- the people living the issues every day -- and is inclusive of a diverse set of constituents at every stage of the process.
Emergency action is requested in order to remain within Cohear’s proposed timeline for execution of the event in 2020.
Fiscal Impact: Funding is available within the Neighborhood Initiatives subfund.
Title
To authorize Columbus City Council to enter into contract with Cohear for the execution of a Policy Pitch Night; to authorize an appropriation and expenditure within the Neighborhood Initiatives subfund; and to declare an emergency. ($10,000.00)
Body
WHEREAS, the focus of the Policy Pitch Night project will be to organize and hold an event that solicits creative policy ideas from the “everyday experts;” and
WHEREAS, the Policy Pitch Night will be inclusive of a diverse set of constituents at every stage of the process; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily business of City Council in that it is immediately necessary to authorize a contract in order to remain within Cohear’s proposed timeline for execution of the event in 2020; 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 contract with Cohear for the execution of a Policy Pitch Night.
SECTION 2. That the City Auditor is hereby authorized and directed to appropriate $10,000.00 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 $10,000.00 or so much thereof as may be needed pursuant to the actions authorized in SECTION 1, is hereby authorized in the ...
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