Explanation
This ordinance authorizes the Director of Recreation and Parks to enter into a sublease agreement with Community for New Direction Incorporated to occupy, provide services and manage the first and second floor of the Sawyer Recreation Center, located at 1000 Atcheson St., Columbus, Ohio 43204.
Background: The sublease will be for 2023 with the option to extend for one additional year if agreed upon by both parties. This will replace and extend an existing sublease agreement. The agreement contains language that it can be terminated with 60 days’ written notice and is for one dollar each year. The Community for New Direction will provide community services for youth/adults/families for health and wellness as well as job related assistance. Family and youth job programming workshops are offered as well as health care screenings and programs associated with educational assistance for the community.
Principal Parties:
Community for New Direction Inc.
2323 W. Fifth Avenue
Gregory Jefferson, 614-272-1464
Emergency Justification: The current sublease expired at the end of 2021 and it is the hope of CRPD to allow sub-lessee to continue operations with a valid sublease agreement rather than a holdover from the previous sublease.
Benefits to the Public: This will allow sub-lessee to continue to provide services to the community that would otherwise not be offered. The community will have continued assistance with workshops and services associated with health, wellness, and job support.
Community Input/Issues: The community is requesting that these services be continued.
Area(s) Affected: Planning Area 18
Number of residents served: Sub-lessee will serve the community as needed based on their capacities.
Master Plan Relation: This meets partnerships, community based programming, and health and wellness initiatives as well as youth and family services.
Fiscal Impact: None
Title
To authorize the Director of Recreation and Parks to enter into a sublease agreement with Community for New Direction, Inc. to occupy, provide services and manage the first and second floor of the Sawyer Recreation Center, located at 1000 Atcheson St., Columbus, Ohio 43204; and to declare an emergency.
Body
WHEREAS, the City of Columbus, Ohio leases real property with a community center located at 1000 Atcheson St., Columbus, Ohio 43204; and
WHEREAS, the City of Columbus and Community for New Direction ("CND") desire to enter into a sub-lease agreement to extend CND's occupancy and providing community services for youth/adults/families; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Recreation and Parks Department in that it is immediately necessary to authorize the Director to enter into a sub-lease agreement with CND to avoid interruption of services provided to the youth, adults & families in the community, thereby preserving the public health, peace, property, safety, and welfare; NOW, THEREFORE
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That the Director of Recreation and Parks be, and hereby is, authorized to execute those documents, as approved by the Department of Law, Division of Real Estate, necessary to enter into a sub-lease agreement for the rental of real property located at 1000 Atcheson St., Columbus, Ohio 43204 by and between the City of Columbus and Community for New Direction, Inc.
SECTION 2. That the terms and conditions of this lease shall be in a form approved by the City Attorney's Office and shall include the following:
a) This sub-lease agreement, subject to the terms and conditions of the prime lease between the City of Columbus, Ohio, and the Columbus Metropolitan Housing Authority, shall be effective for One (1) year commencing on January 1, 2023 and terminating on December 31, 2023.
b) Such other terms and conditions as are required and/or approved by the City Attorney's Office.
SECTION 3. That for 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.