Explanation
Background:
This ordinance authorizes the Director of Recreation and Parks to accept a grant and enter into an agreement with the Franklin County Department of Job and Family Services. This grant will provide tuition and cover administrative costs for the 2023 Recreation and Parks Summer Camps through the Recreation and Parks Grant Fund. The $57,600.00 grant will provide up to 80 children with eight weeks of summer camp each.
The summer camp programming offers a safe and enriching environment through program activities that incorporate math and reading enrichment activities to reduce summer learning loss and promote positive youth development. Camp activities will promote having fun through: cultural diversity, friendship, coordination, leadership, appropriate risk taking, reasoning, self-confidence, self-esteem, knowledge of alternative free time activities and conflict resolution.
Principal Parties:
Joy Bivens, Director
Franklin County Department of Job and Family Services
1721 Northland Park Ave.
Columbus, OH. 43229
Federal ID# 31 6400067
Emergency Justification: Emergency action is requested to comply with the terms of the grant and so that funds are available for the 2023 camp season.
Community Input Issues: It removes the barrier of access, thereby providing programmatic opportunity for children, who may otherwise, not have had the opportunity to do so.
Area(s) Affected: All community center camp locations of the City of Columbus, Ohio, ages 6-12.
Master Plan Relation: This project will help minimize the barrier for some households, assisting us in executing our mission of connecting the people of our community through the power of nature, wellness and creativity.
Fiscal Impact: This ordinance authorizes an acceptance of the $57,600.00 grant award and the appropriation of those funds from the Franklin County Department of Job and Family Services to the Recreation and Parks Grant Fund 2283.
Title
To authorize and direct the Director of Recreation and Parks to accept a grant in the amount of $57,600.00 and enter into an agreement with the Franklin County Department of Job and Family Services to provide camp tuition for children from low income families; to appropriate $57,600.00 to the Recreation and Parks Grant Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($57,600.00)
Body
WHEREAS, the Franklin County Department of Job and Family Services has awarded the City of Columbus, Recreation and Parks Department, a grant to provide funding for tuition for summer camps for children from low income families; and
WHEREAS, it is necessary to authorize and direct the Director of Recreation and Parks Department to accept the grant and enter into a grant agreement with the Franklin County Department of Job and Family Services; and
WHEREAS, it is necessary to appropriate $57,600.00 to the Recreation and Parks Grant Fund; 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 accept and appropriate said grant funds to comply with the terms of the grant and so that funds are available for the 2023 camp season; NOW, THEREFORE
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That the Director of Recreation and Parks be and is hereby authorized to accept a grant in the amount of $57,600.00 to provide funding for tuition for summer camps for children from low income families and to enter into an agreement with the Franklin County Department of Job and Family Services for that purpose.
SECTION 2. That from the unappropriated monies in the Recreation and Parks Grant Fund and from all monies estimated to come into said fund from any and all sources and unappropriated, upon receipt of an executed agreement, for any other purpose during the fiscal year ending December 31, 2023, the sum of $57,600.00 and any eligible interest earned during the grant period is hereby appropriated to the Recreation and Parks Department. See attached documents.
SECTION 3. That the monies in the foregoing Section 2 shall be paid upon order of the Director of Recreation and Parks, and that no order shall be drawn or money paid except by voucher, the form of which shall be approved by the City Auditor.
SECTION 4. That, at the end of the grant period, any repayment of unencumbered balances required by the grantor is hereby authorized and any unused City match monies may be transferred back to the City fund from which they originated in accordance with all applicable grant agreements.
SECTION 5. That the funds necessary to carry out the purpose of this ordinance are hereby deemed appropriated, and the City Auditor shall establish such accounting codes as necessary.
SECTION 6. 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.