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A resolution appropriating a total of $56,779 to increase the individual grant amounts and amend grant contracts from the Nashville Public Library to specific non-profit organizations for the provision of summer programming to youth for rising 5th-9th graders in June 2024.
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WHEREAS, Section 7-3-314 of the Tennessee Code Annotated states that metropolitan forms of government may provide financial assistance to nonprofit organizations in accordance with the guidelines of the Metropolitan Government; and,
WHEREAS, Section 5.04.070 of the Metropolitan Code of Laws provides that the Council may, by Resolution, appropriate funds for the financial aid of nonprofit organizations; and,
WHEREAS, the Metropolitan Council passed Resolution No. RS2023-2282, pursuant to which the Metropolitan Government appropriated a total of $2,938,965.00 from the Nashville Public Library to various non-profit organizations for the provision of free and high-quality afterschool programs through the Library’s Nashville After Zone Alliance (“NAZA”) program; and,
WHEREAS, Resolution No. RS2023-2282 authorized the Metropolitan Government to enter into grant contracts with certain non-profit organizations; and,
WHEREAS, Resolution No. RS2023-2375 authorized the Metropolitan Government to enter into amendments to the grant contracts approved in Resolution No. RS2023-2282; and,
WHEREAS, pursuant to BL2023-1867 additional funds are available to increase the individual grant amounts to expand free and high-quality afterschool and summer programming through the Library’s NAZA program; and,
WHEREAS, in accordance with the terms of the grant contracts, amendments to the grant contract must be in writing and passed by resolution by the Metropolitan Council; and,
WHEREAS, it is to the benefit of the citizens of The Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County that these funds be appropriated to these nonprofit organizations.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE METROPOLITAN GOVERNMENT OF NASHVILLE AND DAVIDSON COUNTY:
Section 1. There is hereby appropriated Fifty-six Thousand Seven Hundred Seventy-Nine dollars ($56,779.00) from the Public Library to nonprofit organizations as follows:
$34,843 to Backfield in Motion;
$15,486 to Moves and Grooves, Inc.;
$6,450 to YMCA of Middle Tennessee.
Section 2. The Metropolitan Government is hereby authorized to amend the grant contracts, attached hereto and incorporated herein, with the nonprofit organizations listed in Section 1 for the amounts provided herein and the purposes stated. Such contracts shall specify the terms and conditions under which the grant funds are to be spent.
Section 3 That this Resolution shall take effect from and after its adoption, the welfare of The Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County requiring it.
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Analysis
This resolution amends grant contracts with three non-profit organizations that that provide free and high-quality afterschool programming through Nashville Public Library’s Nashville After Zone Alliance (“NAZA”) program. The original grant contracts were approved by RS2023-2282 and were amended to provide additional funding through RS2023-2375.
The resolution under consideration amends three grant contracts to appropriate an additional $56,779, as follows:
• $34,843 to Backfield in Motion (for a new grant total of $353,788);
• $15,486 to Moves and Grooves, Inc. (for a new grant total of $145,276);
• $6,450 to YMCA of Middle Tennessee (for a new grant total of $193,900).