Explanation
BACKGROUND: This ordinance authorizes and directs the City Auditor to transfer and appropriate $50,000.00 from the Office of Diversity and Inclusion General Fund 1000 to the Department of Neighborhoods General Fund 1000 and authorizes the Director of the Department of Neighborhoods to enter into a service agreement with Ours Brothers Keepers, a not-for-profit agency, for the purposes of providing youth intervention services that strengthen families and restore the lives of troubled youth. The services included in these agreements cannot be provided by existing city employees because these services are beyond the City’s current responsibility and capacity to provide.
FISCAL IMPACT: Funding for this agreement is budgeted within the General Fund.
Title
To authorize the Director of the Department of Neighborhoods to enter into a non-profit service agreement with Ours Brothers Keepers; to authorize the transfer of appropriation between departments within the General Fund; to authorize the expenditure of $50,000.00 from the General Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($50,000.00).
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WHEREAS, the city has seen an increased need to support youth through effective interventions; and
WHEREAS, Our Brothers Keepers has provided after-school programming, drop-in and intervention services for youth residents; and
WHEREAS, The Mayor and City Council are committed to improving economic stability, stronger health and wellbeing, and safer, more resilient neighborhoods; and,
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Department of Neighborhoods that it is immediately necessary to authorize the Director to enter into a non-profit service agreement with Our Brother Keeper to allow it to administer youth intervention services that strengthen families and restore the lives of troubled youth, for the immediate preservation of the public health, peace, property, safety and welfare; NOW, THEREFORE,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CO...
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