Explanation
BACKGROUND
This ordinance authorizes the Administrative and Presiding Judge of the Franklin County Municipal Court to accept two grants totaling $749,121.00 from OneOhio Recovery Foundation and appropriate them from the unappropriated balance of the private grant fund. The first grant ($297,000) will pay for assessors in the MARCH Program. The second grant ($452,121) will pay the salaries for additional drug lab technicians.
Emergency Legislation is requested so we can buy the necessary equipment for new staff from the grant before they start. Otherwise, it will have to be purchased from another fund, and expenditure corrections will need to be completed to move the charges back to the grant.
FISCAL IMPACT: $749,121.00 will be expended from the Private Grant Fund.
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To authorize the Administrative and Presiding Judge of the Franklin County Municipal Court to accept two grant awards from OneOhio Recovery Foundation; to appropriate $749,121.00 from the unappropriated balance of the private grant fund to assessors and drug lab technicians; and to declare an emergency. ($749,121.00)
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WHEREAS, two grants from OneOhio Recovery Foundation in the amount of $749,121.00 has been awarded to provide assessors and drug lab technicians to the Franklin County Municipal Court; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Franklin County Municipal Court in that it is immediately necessary to approve the acceptance of this grant so that the Court can acquire necessary onboarding supplies from grant funding to support new staff who are set to start imminently; and now, therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That the Administrative and Presiding Judge of the Franklin County Municipal Court be and is hereby authorized to accept a grant in the amount of $749,121.00 from OneOhio Recovery Foundation for assessors and drug lab technicians.
SECTION 2. The sum of 749,121.00 is hereby authorized to be appropriated upon receipt of funds from the grantor to the Franklin County Municipal Court according to the account codes in the attachment.
SECTION 3. That the monies appropriated in the foregoing Section 2 shall be paid upon the order of the Administrative and Presiding Judge of the Franklin County Municipal Court, and that no order shall be drawn or money paid except by voucher, the form of which shall be approved by the City Auditor.
SECTION 4. At the end of the grant period, any repayment of unencumbered balances required by the grant is hereby authorized, and any unused City match monies may be transferred back to the City fund from which they originated in accordance with all applicable grant agreements.
SECTION 5. That for the reasons stated in the preamble hereto, which is hereby made a part hereof, this ordinance is hereby declared to be an emergency measure and shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval by the Mayor, or ten days after passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.