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Welcome TLC’s Strategic Plan Project
Human Relations Commission
Caryn Maloney (x1476)
Revised
Title
Authorizing the Mayor to enter into agreement with Language Equity & Access Partners, LLC. (LEAP) for the provision of an organizational needs assessment and strategic planning process for Welcome Toledo Lucas County’s (Welcome TLC) Project; authorizing the expenditure of an amount not to exceed $30,000 from the General Fund; waiving the competitive bidding requirements of TMC Chapter 187; and declaring and emergency.
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SUMMARY & BACKGROUND:
The purpose of this ordinance is to enter into a contract for Phase 2 of Welcome TLC’s Strategic Plan Project that was budgeted for in HRC’s 2024 budget.
In partnership with Lucas County and the Toledo Lucas County Public Library, HRC provided limited support to phase 1 of Welcome TLC’s project with Language Equity & Access Partners (LEAP) to do a series of community conversations in native languages to assess the needs of immigrants in the Toledo area along with a demographic analysis. The next phase of the project is an organizational needs assessment and strategic planning process to further build a welcoming and inclusive community for immigrants, refugees, and people of diverse cultures in the Toledo and Lucas County community. HRC agreed to support Welcome TLC in Phase 2 which will include the Organizational Scan, Needs Assessment Report, and Strategic Planning portions of the project.
Summary
NOW THEREFORE Be it ordained by the Council of the City of Toledo:
SECTION 1. That the Mayor is authorized to enter into an agreement with Language Equity & Access Partners, LLC. (LEAP) for the provision of an organizational needs assessment and strategic planning process for Welcome Toledo Lucas County’s (Welcome TLC) Project upon terms and conditions acceptable to the Director of Law and the Commissioner of the Human Relations Commission.
SECTION 2. That the expenditure of an amount not to exceed $30,000 is authorized from the General Fund Account Code 1001-10600- 1127001STDSTD for the purpose authorized in Section 1.
SECTION 3. That this Council finds and determines it is in the best interest of the City to waive the competitive procurement provisions of Toledo Municipal Code Chapter 187 for the reason that this is phase 2 of Welcome TLC’s Project and LEAP has previously completed and delivered phase 1 with other project partners and is otherwise solely qualified as a local organization able to complete said project.
SECTION 4. That the Finance Director is authorized to draw warrant or warrants against the above Account Code in an amount not to exceed $30,000 in payment of the above-authorized obligations upon the proper voucher or vouchers.
SECTION 5. That this Ordinance is declared to be an emergency measure and shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. The reason for the emergency lies in the fact that this ordinance is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, safety and property, and for the further reason that this ordinance must be immediately effective in order to timely continue this project that is occurring in 2024.
Vote on emergency clause: yeas 10, nays 0.
Passed: June 18, 2024, as an emergency measure: yeas 10, nays 0.
Attest:
Julie A. Gibbons Carrie Hartman
Clerk of Council President of Council
Approved: June 18, 2024
Wade Kapszukiewicz
Mayor