Explanation
This ordinance authorizes the Director of the Department of Building and Zoning Services to enter into a grant agreement with Creating Central Ohio Futures in support of the Building Back Better Together Program. This program will provide training and certifications that can be translated into career opportunities in the trades. Participants will be paid a weekly stipend, given the necessary tools and equipment and referred for opportunities after graduation.
The Building Back Better Together Program will host their second cohort in January 2022.
Fiscal Impact: Funds will be appropriated and transferred from the Development Services Fund to the Construction Trades Education Fund. This ordinance also authorizes the transfer and appropriation of $500,000.00 in Recovery Fund proceeds to the Department of Building & Zoning Services in support of this program.
Emergency action is requested to allow for the purchase of tools and equipment before the program begins in January 2022.
Title
To authorize the appropriation of $500,000 within the Development Services Fund; to authorize and direct the City Auditor to transfer $500,000 from the Development Services Fund to the City’s Special Purpose Fund; to authorize an appropriation in the City’s Special Purpose Fund; to authorize the transfer of $500,000.00 within the Recovery Fund; to authorize the Director of the Department of Building and Zoning Services to enter into a grant agreement with Creating Central Ohio Futures in support of the Building Back Better Together Program; to authorize an expenditure within the Construction Trades Education subfund; and to declare an emergency. ($250,000.00)
Body
WHEREAS, it is necessary to authorize the Director of the Department of Building and Zoning Services to enter into a grant agreement with the Creating Central Ohio Futures in the amount of $250,000.00 for the Building Back Better Together Program; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily ...
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