Explanation
Need: The City of Columbus Division of Police has been awarded funding through the Project Safe Neighborhood (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. This funding will provide crime lab personnel overtime to process firearms-related evidence. These funds will enable crime laboratory personnel to address the increase in firearms casework and allow for a quicker turnaround of cases targeted for federal prosecution. Crime Lab Manager, Jami St. Clair, is the designated project director and authorized city representative to act in connection with this grant.
Emergency Designation: Emergency legislation is necessary for the grant funds to be available at the earliest possible time because the grant start date is November 1, 2006.
FISCAL IMPACT
There are no matching funds required for this grant award. However, some city labor fringe benefit costs estimated at approximately $2,166.00 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 award.
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 Crime Lab Manager Jami. St. Clair as the official city representative to act in connection with this grant, to authorize an appropriation of $36,897.00 from the unappropriated balance of the General Government Grant Fund to the Division of Police to cover the costs of the Project Safe Neighborhoods Crime Lab Casework Support grant activities and to declare an emergency. ($36,897.00)
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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 the grant start date is November 1, 2006; and
WHEREAS, the Columbus Division of Police is in need of additional crime lab personnel overtime to address increases in firearms casework and a quicker turnaround of case evidence targeted for federal prosecution; and
WHEREAS, Columbus Crime Lab Manager, Jami St. Clair, 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, 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 crime lab personnel overtime to process firearms-related evidence.
Section 2. That Columbus Crime Lab Manager Jami St. Clair is designated as the official city program contact and authorized to act in connection with the Project Safe Neighborhoods Crime Lab Casework Support Grant and to provide information as 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 period the sum of $36,897.00 is appropriated as follows:
DIV 30-03| FD 220| OBJ LV #1 01| OBJ LV #3 1102| OCA 337037| GRANT 337037| AMOUNT 36,897.00
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.