Explanation
This ordinance authorizes the City Clerk to enter into a grant agreement with the City of Refuge GoodLife Foundation, a non-profit corporation, in support of their Skilled Trades Training Program.
The GoodLife Foundation provides skilled trades training certified by the National center for Construction Education & Research. Focusing on entry-level positions, this training sets students up for success in pursuing apprenticeships in the skilled trades. Skilled trades careers are economically sustainable and promote a stable financial and personal life. Support from Columbus City Council will allow multiple students to participate in the next cohort of the GoodLife program.
In addition to the pre-apprenticeship curriculum, the GoodLife Foundation provides a variety of wraparound services to participating students, from HR training to transportation support to financial literacy courses. The network of support to students helps ensure their completion of the program and future career success.
Emergency Designation: Emergency action is requested to provide timely support to the organization and the participants of its skilled trades programming.
Fiscal Impact: Funding is available within the Jobs Growth subfund.
Title
To authorize the City Clerk to enter into a grant agreement with the City of Refuge GoodLife Foundation in support of their Skilled Trades Training Program; to authorize an appropriation and expenditure within the Jobs Growth subfund; and to declare an emergency. ($50,000.00)
Body
WHEREAS, skilled trades training provides a path to meaningful, financially empowering work for Columbus residents; and
WHEREAS, the City of Refuge GoodLife Foundation, a non-profit corporation, provides a pre-apprenticeship program to student cohorts throughout the year to set them on a path towards a successful, high-wage career in the skilled trades; and
WHEREAS, the GoodLife Foundation program is focused on serving residents in the Southeast side, with a priority of serving historically disadvantaged communities; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the office of the city clerk in that it is immediately necessary to authorize the City Clerk to enter into this grant agreement in support of the imminent, upcoming cohort of the City of Refuge GoodLife Foundation skilled training program; 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 City of Refuge GoodLife Foundation in support of their Skilled Trades Training Program.
SECTION 2. That the City Auditor is hereby authorized and directed to appropriate $50,000.00 in the Jobs Growth subfund, fund 1000, subfund 100015, to the City Clerk per the accounting codes in the attachment to this ordinance.
SECTION 3. That the expenditure of $50,000.00, or so much thereof as may be needed pursuant to the action authorized in SECTION 1 of this ordinance, is hereby authorized in the Jobs Growth subfund, fund 1000, subfund 100015 per the accounting codes in the attachment to this ordinance.
SECTION 4. 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 ordinance.
SECTION 5. 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 ten days after passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.