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File #: 3156-2022    Version: 1
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 11/7/2022 In control: Criminal Justice & Judiciary Committee
On agenda: 12/5/2022 Final action: 12/7/2022
Title: To authorize and direct the Administrative and Presiding Judge of the Franklin County Municipal Court to accept a grant award from the State of Ohio, Crime Victims Assistance Office; to appropriate $58,316.01 from the unappropriated balance of the general government grant fund to the Franklin County Municipal Court Department of Probation and Pretrial Services to provide continued funding of two staff to work with the victims of crime when a perpetrator has been on probation; and to declare an emergency. ($58,316.01)
Attachments: 1. VOCA Grant, 2. VOCA Grant Award and Acceptance Form 2022-2023 Corrected and Signed
Explanation

BACKGROUND
This ordinance authorizes the Administrative and Presiding Judge of the Franklin County Municipal Court to accept a grant in the amount of $58,316.01 from the State of Ohio, Attorney General, Crime Victim Assistance Office, and to appropriate from the unappropriated balance of the general government grant fund to the Probation Department of the Franklin County Municipal Court, the total amount of the grant. This grant will fund a portion of the salaries and fringe benefits of two (2) victim assistant staff for the continuation of a program to assist probation officers primarily in the domestic violence unit. The staff acts as liaisons to the City Prosecutor and works with the victims of crime when a perpetrator has been placed on probation.

Emergency Legislation is requested so the grant funds can be used as close to the start date as possible.

FISCAL IMPACT $58,316.01 will be expended from the General Governmental Grant Fund.


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To authorize and direct the Administrative and Presiding Judge of the Franklin County Municipal Court to accept a grant award from the State of Ohio, Crime Victims Assistance Office; to appropriate $58,316.01 from the unappropriated balance of the general government grant fund to the Franklin County Municipal Court Department of Probation and Pretrial Services to provide continued funding of two staff to work with the victims of crime when a perpetrator has been on probation; and to declare an emergency. ($58,316.01)



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WHEREAS, it is in the best interest of the City of Columbus to provide victim services in the Franklin County Municipal Court, Department of Probation Services; and

WHEREAS, a grant from the State of Ohio, Attorney General, Crime Victims Assistance Office in the amount of $58,316.01 has been awarded to provide a portion of the costs; and

WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Franklin County Municipal Court in that it is immediately necessary to aut...

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