ORDINANCE
WHEREAS, The City of Chicago ("City") is a home rule unit of local government under the Illinois Constitution of 1970; and
WHEREAS, A Safe Haven Foundation, an Illinois not-for-profit organization, maintains an on-the-job training program for the homeless in the skills of horticulture, planting, landscaping, and landscape maintenance; and
WHEREAS, A Safe Haven Foundation requires projects on which to train the homeless in these skills, and the City, through certain of its departments, has numerous projects for which such . services are needed and funds budgeted; now, therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO:
SECTION 1. The above recitals are incorporated as if set forth herein.
SECTION 2. Subject to the availability of funds budgeted for landscape-related work, the Purchasing Agent is authorized to negotiate and enter into contracts from time to time with A Safe Haven Foundation at reasonable compensation to provide landscaping and landscape maintenance and ancillary services for the City. In addition to the terms and conditions customarily included by the Purchasing Agent in contracts for similar services, any such contract must require A Safe Haven Foundation to maintain during the life of the contract a program to train the homeless in the skills of horticulture, planting, landscaping, and landscape maintenance and to employ homeless persons on the projects for which the City contracts with A Safe Haven Foundation.
SECTION 3. The landscape-related contract in place with A Safe Haven Foundation (P.O. 25742), pursuant to an ordinance assigning said contract from CCIL, which is scheduled to expire by its terms on October 30, 2012, is hereby extended until such time as the City executes a new contract with A Safe Haven Foundation pursuant to this ordinance.
SECTION 4. Following passage and approval of this ordinance, Section 3 thereof shall be in full force and effect and shall be deemed to apply retroactively to...
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