Explanation
This ordinance authorizes the City Clerk to enter into a grant agreement with the Greater Columbus Arts Council in support of Deliver Black Dreams.
Deliver Black Dreams is an aspirational call to action of, by, and for Black people. Delivering Black Dreams is about imagining a Columbus where Black, Brown, Indigenous, and White people are able to choose a destiny free from oppression and repression.
In 2020 the Greater Columbus Arts Council (GCAC) conducted a community survey receiving nearly 250 responses, 97% of which supported public mural exhibitions intended to preserve the current movement in history. The role of Black artists in designing and leading the creation of murals is intended to catalyze a more integrated and far-reaching project that touches on education, healthcare, safety, and more.
Fiscal Impact: Funding for this grant is available within the Neighborhood Initiatives subfund.
Emergency action is requested in order to support the installation of work during the warmer fall weather.
Title
To authorize the City Clerk to enter into a grant agreement with the Greater Columbus Arts Council in support of Deliver Black Dreams; to authorize an appropriation and expenditure within the Neighborhood Initiatives subfund; and to declare an emergency. ($50,000.00)
Body
WHEREAS, it is necessary to authorize the City Clerk to enter into a grant agreement with the Greater Columbus Arts Council in support of Deliver Black Dreams. Deliver Black Dreams is an aspirational call to action of, by, and for Black people; and
WHEREAS, Delivering Black Dreams is about imagining a Columbus where Black, Brown, Indigenous, and White people are able to choose a destiny free from oppression and repression; and
WHEREAS, the role of Black artists in designing and leading the creation of murals is intended to catalyze a more integrated and far-reaching project that touches on education, healthcare, safety, and more; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily business of City Council in that it is immediately necessary to authorize the City Clerk to enter into a grant agreement with GCAC in order to support Deliver Black Dreams so the installation of work can occur during the warmer fall weather, for the immediate preservation of the public health, property, safety and welfare; now, therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That the City Clerk is hereby authorized to enter into a grant agreement with the Greater Columbus Arts Council in support of Deliver Black Dreams.
SECTION 2. That the City Auditor is hereby authorized and directed to appropriate $50,000.00 within 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 in regard to the action authorized in Section 1 of this ordinance, the expenditure of $50,000.00 within the Neighborhood Initiatives subfund is hereby authorized 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 approval by the Mayor, or ten days after passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.