Explanation
This ordinance authorizes the City Clerk to enter into a grant agreement with Alla Baba Temple #53 in support of their Shriners Helping Others Win events and to allow reimbursement of expenses incurred since December 1, 2022.
Alla Baba Temple #53 is a non-profit Masonic Fraternal organization located on the Eastside of Columbus, centered on the ideals of community service and charity.
Shriners Helping Others Win is an ongoing program dedicated to helping all ages. The requested funds will help support two events.
The event in December 2022 was a week-long event celebrating families who have been emotionally and financially effected through hardship. There were also professional counselors and local pastors to support those in attendance. The event in July 2023 will provide free meals, school supplies, backpacks and other resources to families in need.
Emergency legislation is required to provide reimbursement to Alla Baba Temple #53 for their December 2022 event and to provide funding for their July 2023 in as timely a manner as possible.
Fiscal Impact: Funding is available within the Neighborhood Initiatives subfund.
Title
To authorize the City Clerk to enter into a grant agreement with Alla Baba Temple #53, to support the Shriners Helping Others Win events; and to authorize an appropriation and expenditure within the Neighborhood Initiatives subfund; and to declare an emergency. ($5,000.00)
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WHEREAS, Alla Baba Temple #53 is a non-profit Masonic Fraternal organization located on the Eastside of Columbus, centered on the ideals of community service and charity; and
WHEREAS, Shriners Helping Others Win events celebrating families who have been emotionally and financially effected through hardship; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Clerk's Office in that it is immediately necessary to authorize the Clerk to enter into a grant agreement with Alla Baba Temple #53 to provide reimbursement in as timely a manner as possible for their December 2022 Shriners Helping Others Win event; 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 Alla Baba Temple #53, for support of the of their Shriners Helping Others Win events as described above which are hereby deemed to be a valid public purpose.
SECTION 2. That the City Auditor is hereby authorized and directed to appropriate $5,000.00 in the Neighborhood Initiatives subfund, fund 1000, subfund 100018, to Columbus City Council per the accounting codes in the attachment to this ordinance.
SECTION 3. That the expenditure of $5,000.00 or so much thereof as may be needed pursuant to the action authorized in SECTION 1, is hereby authorized in the Neighborhood Initiatives subfund, fund 1000, subfund 100018, per the accounting codes in the attachment to this ordinance.
SECTION 4. 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 5. 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 6. That for the reason 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.