Explanation
This ordinance authorizes the Director of the Recreation and Parks Department to enter into a grant agreement with the Children’s Hunger Alliance in support of the organization’s summer meals program.
Food security for children living in poverty remains a critical concern within Columbus neighborhoods. The issue is especially profound during the summer months, when children who may normally receive a free or reduced lunch during the school year lose access to those meals when school is not in session. This grant will allow the Children’s Hunger Alliance, in partnership with the Department of Recreation and Parks and Columbus City Schools, to pilot five open summer meal sites located in the City of Columbus during the summer of 2020.
Fiscal Impact: $100,000.00 is budgeted and available from and within the Recreation and Parks Operating Fund to meet the financial obligations of these various expenditures.
Emergency Justification: This ordinance will allow summer meals for children at a critical time.
Principal Parties:
Childrens Hunger Alliance
1105 Schrock Rd., #505
Columbus, OH 43229
Title
To authorize the Director of the Recreation and Parks Department to enter into a grant agreement with the Children’s Hunger Alliance in support of the organization’s summer meals program; to authorize the expenditure of $100,000.00 from the Recreation and Parks General Fund, and to declare an emergency. ($100,000.00)
Body
WHEREAS, food security for children living in poverty remains a critical concern within Columbus neighborhoods; and
WHEREAS, the Children’s Hunger Alliance will pilot five open summer meal sites during the summer of 2020; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual operations of the City of Columbus that this Council deems it an effective use of funds to support the Children’s Hunger Alliance in their effort to provide food security to food-insecure children; NOW, THEREFORE:
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That the Director of the Recreation and Parks Department is hereby authorized and to enter into a grant agreement with the Children’s Hunger Alliance in support of the organization’s summer meals program.
SECTION 2. That the expenditure of $100,000.00 or so much thereof as may be needed pursuant to the action authorized in SECTION 1 of this ordinance, is hereby authorized in the Recreation and Parks general fund budget per the accounting codes in the attachment to this ordinance.
SECTION 3. 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 4. That for the reasons stated in the preamble hereto, which is hereby made a part hereof this Ordinance is declared to be emergency measure and shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval by the Mayor or ten days after its passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.