Explanation
Need: The City of Columbus Division of Police has been awarded funding through the Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) Grant Program. Project Safe Neighborhoods is designed to create safer neighborhoods by reducing gun violence and gun crime and sustaining that reduction. It is based on the cooperation of local, state and federal agencies to address specific gun-crime problems in each of the 94 federal judicial districts. Columbus police officers have been working on a Task Force developing cases and the grant will provide overtime funding for additional officer hours to the area where the task force officers are working. This funding will enable the task force officers to continue their work and provide additional resources to patrol officers who can assist the task force. Patrol Commander William Mattei is the designated project director and authorized city representative.
Emergency Designation: Emergency legislation is necessary for the grant funds to be available at the November 1, 2006 start of the grant period.
FISCAL IMPACT:
There are no matching funds required for this grant award. However, some city labor fringe benefit costs estimated at approximately $2,102.00 will not be reimbursed by the grant. Those costs must be funded by the City General Fund budget. All other grant expenditures will be reimbursed by the grant awarded funding.
Title
To authorize the Mayor of the City of Columbus to accept a Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) Grant from the U. S. Attorney's Office via the Ohio Office of Criminal Justice Services, to authorize Columbus Police Commander William Mattei as the official city representative to act in connection with this grant, to authorize an appropriation of $40,725.00 from the unappropriated balance of the General Government Grant Fund to the Division of Police to cover the costs of the Project Safe Neighborhood grant activities and to declare an emergency. ($40,725.00)
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WHEREAS, the City of Columbus Division of Police has been awarded funding through a Project Safe Neighborhoods grant from the U. S. Attorney's Office; and
WHEREAS, the Columbus Division of Police is in need of additional Police Patrol activities and presences in the identified high gun crime and violence areas being worked by the joint task force officers; and
WHEREAS, Columbus Police Commander William Mattei has been identified as the official city representative to act in connection with this Project Safe Neighborhoods Grant and to provide information as required; and
WHEREAS, the grant funds need to be available as soon as possible for the grant period start date of November 1, 2006; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the daily operation of the City of Columbus Division of Police in that it is immediately necessary to authorize the Mayor to accept a 2006 Project Safe Neighborhoods grant for the Division of Police and to authorize an appropriation for the grant activities for the immediate preservation of the public health, peace, property, and safety; 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 accept a Project Safe Neighborhoods Grant for sworn patrol officer overtime work in target task force areas.
Section 2. That Columbus Police Commander William Mattei is designated as the official city program contact and authorized to act in connection with the Project Safe Neighborhood Grant 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 periods the sum of $40,725.00 is appropriated as follows:
DIV 30-03 | FUND 220| OBJ LEVEL (1) 01| OBJECT LEVEL (3) 1131| OCA# 336020| GRANT 336020|| AMOUNT $40,725.00
Section 4. That the monies appropriated in the foregoing Section 3 shall be paid upon order of the Director of Public Safety; 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 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.