Explanation
Background:
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 $9,743.00 for the State Victims Assistance Act (SVAA) Domestic Violence Advocates Grant #2009-SA-DSCE-537 for the funding of the SVAA 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.
Emergency action is requested to allow for the uninterrupted continuation of this grant program.
Fiscal Impact:
There are no matching funds required and therefore no cost to the general fund by accepting this grant.
Title
To authorize the City Attorney to accept, and to authorize the appropriation of, a SVAA grant award from the State of Ohio, Office of the Attorney General, in the amount of Nine Thousand Seven Hundred Forty-three Dollars for the funding of the SVAA Domestic Violence Advocates program, and to declare an emergency. ($9,743.00)
Body
WHEREAS, the State of Ohio, Office of the Attorney General, has awarded the Columbus City Attorney's Office a grant in the amount of Nine Thousand Seven Hundred Forty-three Dollars ($9,743.00) for the SVAA Domestic Violence Advocates Grant No. 2009-SA-DSCE-537 for the grant period of October 1, 2008 through September 30, 2009. There is no required match for this grant.
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the daily operation of the Columbus City Attorney's Office in that it is necessary to immediately accept and appropriate the grant award 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 Columbus City Attorney is hereby authorized to accept a grant award from the State of Ohio, Office of the Attorney General, in the amount of Nine Thousand Seven Hundred Forty-three Dollars ($9,743.00) for the SVAA Domestic Violence Advocates Grant No. 2009-SA-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 Nine Thousand Seven Hundred Forty-three Dollars ($9,743.00) is appropriated as follows: department 2401, SVAA Domestic Violence Advocates Grant, grant number 248695, fund number 220, organizational cost account 248695, object level three 1000, $8,243.00 and object level three 3000 $1,500.00.
SECTION 3. That the funds appropriated in the foregoing Section 2 shall be paid upon order of the Columbus City Attorney and that no order shall be drawn or money paid except by voucher, the form of which shall be approved by the Columbus City Auditor.
SECTION 4. 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.