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Charitable Donation of $1,000
Mayor's Office of Neighborhood Safety and Engagement
Malcolm Cunningham
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Authorizing the Mayor to accept a charitable donation of $1,000 from Stand Up Ohio to the Mayor's Office of Neighborhood Safety and Engagement for the purpose of furthering community and youth safety and engagement and addressing the causes and impacts of violence; and declaring an emergency.
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SUMMARY & BACKGROUND:
On July 9th, 2022 17-year-old St. Francis De Sales High School Student Marvelous Walton was shot and killed in Toledo. Walton was preparing to enter his senior year at St. Francis, where he played football. In his memory, Josh and Andrew Maassel, and other classmates and teammates started Stand Up Ohio, a nonprofit organization aimed at combatting gun violence while helping victims and their families and supporting youth through mentorship and school safety. Since its inception, they have brought area football teams together to take pledges against gun violence, partnered with the city, TPS, and Washington Local Schools to create the 'Pass on Gun Violence" video campaign, and raised money through the sale of wristbands. They now wish to donate the proceeds from the wristbands to the Mayor's Office of Safety and Engagement (MONSE) to be used in our fight against gun violence.
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NOW, THEREFORE, Be it ordained by the Council of the City of Toledo:
SECTION 1. That the Mayor is authorized to accept and deposit a gift of $1,000 from Stand Up Ohio, a nonprofit Ohio organization founded in 2022 by students then enrolled at St. Francis De Sales High School, into General Fund Account Code 1001-10201-3325001STDRGV for the purposes of furthering community and youth safety and engagement and addressing the causes and impacts of gun violence;
SECTION 2. That one-thousand dollars ($1,000) is appropriated and authorized for expenditure from the account code stated in Section 1 for the above stated purposes.
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