Explanation
BACKGROUND:
Need: The U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, has awarded the City of Columbus Division of Police a FY2004 Bureau of Justice (BJA) Congressionally Mandated Award for the Greater Columbus Area Crime Fighting AFIS Project. This award will provide partial funding for the project to upgrade the automated fingerprint identification system (AFIS) to include the electronic storage of palm prints, fast ID, and the ability to connect a latent camera workstation. These new features will contribute to a decrease in processing time, an increase in the number of suspects identified, and a deterrrence in identity theft. The offical program contact authorized to act in connection with this application is Safety Director Mitchell Brown.
EMERGENCY DESIGNATION: Emergency legislation is needed to respond in a timely manner to the on-line application and acceptance process required by this award.
FISCAL IMPACT:
There is no impact for the City General Fund Account. The grant project expenditures will be reimbursed by the awarded grant funds.
Title
To authorize the Mayor of the City of Columbus to apply for and accept a FY2004 Byrne Memorial Grant from the U.S. Department of Justice, to authorize Safety Director Mitchell Brown as the official representative to act in connection with this application and award, to authorize an appropriation of $819,000.00 from the unappropriated balance of the General Government Grant Fund to the Division of Police for the Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) project and to declare an emergency. ($819,000.00).
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WHEREAS, the U.S. Department of Justice through the Office of Justice Programs has awarded a FY2004 Bureau of Justice Assistance Congressionally Mandated Award to the City of Columbus, Division of Police; and
WHEREAS, Safety Director Mitchell Brown has been identified as the official representative to act in connection with the application and acceptance and to provide information as required; and
WHEREAS, the City of Columbus, Division of Police is in need of funding for the Greater Columbus Area Crime Fighting Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) Project to enhance and expand the current AFIS system; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the daily operation of the Division of Police, Department of Public Safety, in that it is immediately necessary to authorize and direct the Mayor of the City of Columbus to apply for and accept a FY2004 Bureau of Justice Assistance Congressionally Mandated Award and to authorize an appropriation for the AFIS Project 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:
Section 1. That the Mayor of the City of Columbus be and is hereby authorized and directed to apply for and accept a FY2004 Congressionally Mandated Award from the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA).
Section 2. That Safety Director Mitchell Brown is designated as the official program contact and authorized to act in connection with the FY2004 BJA Congressionally Mandated Award application and to provide any additional information required.
Section 3. 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 purposes during the grant award period the sum of $819,000.00 is appropriated as follows:
DIV FUND OBJ #1 OBJ #3 OCACD GRANT AMT
30-03 220 06 6643 334024 334024 $819,000.00
Section 4. That for 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.