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BACKGROUND: This legislation authorizes the Director of the Department of Development to enter into a grant agreement with Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) of Columbus, a not-for-profit Internal Revenue Code (IRC) 501(c)(3) entity, in an amount up to $30,000.00 to sponsor the Undesign the Redline exhibition.
Undesign the Redline is a traveling educational exhibit that explores the history of structural racism and inequality, and how community development policies such as redlining, slum clearance, highway construction and others designed structural racism into American cities. The immersive exhibit creates a platform for Columbus residents to learn the history of these policies, interact with the stories of individuals and neighborhoods impacted, and invent the future of undoing structural inequities.
Through its sponsorship of the exhibit, the City of Columbus will sponsor the Columbus launch of the exhibit at the YWCA’s Activists and Agitators program, and community-based deployments of the exhibit at six locations in Columbus between October and December of 2022.
FISCAL IMPACT: Funding for this agreement is included in the Department of Development’s 2022 General Fund Budget.
CONTRACT COMPLIANCE: Young Women's Christian Association’s vendor number is 006086 and expires 3/3/2024.
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To authorize the Director of the Department of Development to enter into a grant agreement with Young Women's Christian Association to sponsor the Undesign the Redline exhibition; to authorize a transfer of $30,000.00 between object classes within the Administration Division; and to authorize the expenditure of up to $30,000.00 from the 2022 General Fund Operating Budget. ($30,000.00) (AMENDED BY ORDINANCE 0529-2023 PASSED 2/27/2023) BA
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WHEREAS, Undesign the Redline is a traveling educational exhibit that explores the history of structural racism and inequality, and how community development policies such as redlining, slum c...
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