Explanation
This legislation will authorize the City Attorney to accept a grant award from the State of Ohio, Office of the Attorney General, in the amount of $129,895.00 for the Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) Domestic Violence Advocates Grant #2009-VA-DSCE-537 for the funding of the VOCA Domestic Violence Advocates program within the City Attorney's Office. The Domestic Violence unit of the City Attorney's Office assists witnesses and victims of domestic violence through the legal process and provides counseling, referrals and linkage with agencies and community resources. This ordinance will further authorize the transfer and appropriation of matching funds required by the grant award.
The Grant award is as follows:
Grant Period: 10/01/08 - 09/30/09
State Share: $97,421.00
Matching funds: $32,474.00 (general fund)
Total Grant: $129,895.00
Title
To authorize the City Attorney to accept a grant from the State of Ohio, Office of the Attorney General, in the amount of $97,421.00 for the continued funding of the VOCA Domestic Violence Advocates; to authorize appropriation of said funds; to authorize the transfer and appropriation of matching funds required by the acceptance of this grant award in the amount of $32,474.00; and to declare an emergency. ($129,895.00)
Body
WHEREAS, the State of Ohio, Office of the Attorney General, has awarded the City of Columbus, City Attorney's Office, a grant in the amount of Ninety-seven Thousand Four Hundred Twenty-one Dollars ($97,421.00) for the period October 1, 2008 through September 30, 2009, Grant No. 2009-VA-DSCE-537 VOCA Domestic Violence Advocates; and
WHEREAS, the acceptance of this grant requires the City Attorney to supply matching funds in the amount of Thirty-two Thousand Four Hundred Seventy-four Dollars ($32,474.00); and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the daily operation of the City Attorney's Office in that it is necessary to immediately accept and appropriate the grant funds and transfer and appropriate the matching funds in order that the services supported may continue uninterrupted and for the preservation of the public health, peace, property, safety and welfare; now, therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS, OHIO
SECTION 1. That the City Attorney is hereby authorized to accept a grant award from the State of Ohio, Office of the Attorney General, in the amount of Ninety-seven Thousand Four Hundred Twenty-one Dollars ($97,421.00) for the VOCA Domestic Violence Advocates Grant No. 2009-VA-DSCE-537.
SECTION 2. That from the unappropriated monies in the General Government Grant Fund and from all monies estimated to come into said fund from any and all sources and unappropriated for any other purpose during the project award period the sum of One Hundred Twenty-nine Thousand Eight Hundred Ninety-five Dollars ($129,895.00) is appropriated as follows: department 2401, fund number 220, VOCA DV Advocates Grant, grant number 248295, organizational cost account 240853, object level three 1000.
SECTION 3. That the amount of Thirty-two Thousand Four Hundred Seventy-four Dollars($32,474.00) is hereby transferred from the General Fund of the City Attorney's Office as follows:
FROM: department 2401, general fund, fund number 010, organizational cost account 240564, object level three 1000.
TO: department 2401, general fund, fund number 010, organizational cost account 240564, object level three 5501.
FROM: department 2401, general fund, fund number 010, organizational cost account 240564, object level three 5501.
TO: department 2401, general government grant fund, fund number 220, VOCA DV Advocates Grant, grant number 248295, organizational cost account 240853, object level three 0886.
SECTION 4. That the funds appropriated in Section 2 shall be paid upon order of the City Attorney 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 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.