*Approve additional small grants funding recommendations made by Children’s Levy Allocation Committee

The City of Portland ordains: Section 1. The Council finds: The City proposed and voters approved a local option property tax levy at the November 5, 2002, general election to fund programs to help children in Portland. The levy created the Portland Children’s Levy to make targeted investments in proven programs. In May 2018 voters approved a third renewal of the local property tax levy to continue supporting the Portland Children’s Levy to invest in proven programs in the areas of early childhood, child abuse prevention and intervention, foster care, after-school, mentoring and hunger relief. A five-person citizen Allocation Committee was created to make recommendations regarding the expenditure of levy funds. In 2019 the Allocation Committee created a small grants fund to improve equity of access to Levy funds for smaller organizations arising out of and serving children and families from marginalized communities including people who identify as Black, Indigenous, People of Color, immigrant and refugee, LGBTQ2SIA+, and people with disabilities. On November 30, 2020, the Allocation Committee voted to fund the mentoring, after school, and hunger relief programs resulting from its community participatory small grants funding process. On December 16, 2020, City Council approved the Allocation Committee’s small grants funding recommendations in Ordinance 190237. In April 2021, one organization recommended for funding award declined its Portland Children’s Levy grant for several reasons, resulting in $144,000 small grants funds unallocated. On June 15, 2021, the Allocation Committee voted to distribute those funds across current grantees set forth in Portland Children’s Levy Small Grants: Allocations of Declined Grant Award (Exhibit A) and the supporting memorandum (Exhibit B). NOW, THEREFORE, the Council directs: The funding recommendations made by the Children’s Levy Allocation Committee described in Exhibit A and Exhibit B are approved . The Director is authorized to amend current grant agreements in accordance with these recommendations. In the event that any grantee becomes unwilling or unable to use City grant funds in a manner consistent with a grant agreement that is authorized by this ordinance, the Director is hereby authorized to terminate the grant agreement in accordance with its terms, and execute a new grant agreement with a different grantee provided that (1) the funding allocated for the new grant agreement is equal to the amount of unspent funds allocated by this ordinance for the terminated agreement, and (2) the scope of work stated in the new agreement is substantially the same as the scope of work in the terminated agreement. The Mayor and City Auditor are hereby authorized to pay for the grant awards from the Portland Children’s Levy. Section 2. The Council declares that an emergency exists because a delay may interrupt Children’s Levy's ability to carry out the activities as outlined in Exhibit A; therefore, this ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage by the Council.