Explanation
This legislation is to accept a grant and appropriate $296,168 from the FY 2007 Edward Byrne Discretionary Grants Program awarded to the Department of Public Safety by the U.S. Department of Justice, through the Ohio Office of Criminal Justice Programs. The Ohio Office of Criminal Justice will assess a ten percent administrative charge of $29,616.80. The total amount that will be made available to the city is $266,551.20. Through the Edward Byrne Memorial Byrne Discretionary Grants Program, the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) provides discretionary funds for crime and violence prevention and control activities to State and Local Governments. Funds from this grant will focus on activities conducted by the Neighborhood Safety Working Group in cooperation with Keep Columbus Beautiful (KCB). The NSWG and the KCB use Byrne funds to involve residents in conducting community improvement projects and operating community abatement teams. Funds from the grant are also earmarked for Juvenile activity programs and gang enforcement efforts.
FISCAL IMPACT:
There are no matching funds to this grant. This is the second consecutive year the Byrne Grant has been awarded to the Department of Public Safety. The FY 2006 Byrne Discretionary Grant awarded last year to the Department was for $296,168. Funds from the 2006 award were used for similar projects. All funds are to be expended and/or encumbered by the end of the grant period, October 31, 2008.
Title
To authorize and direct the Mayor of the City of Columbus to accept FY 2007 Edward Byrne Memorial Discretionary Grants award from the U. S Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance, through the Ohio Office of Criminal Justice Services to provide funds to bolster the Mayor's anti-gang initiative and enhance local law enforcement, to authorize the appropriation of $266,551.20 within the General Government Grant Fund, and to declare an emergency. ($266,551.20)
Body
WHEREAS, the City of Columbus has been granted a FY 2007 Congressionally mandated award; and
WHEREAS, this legislation seeks to direct the Mayor of the city of Columbus to accept this FY 2007 Edward Byrne Memorial Byrne Discretionary Grants award from the U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance through the Ohio Office of Criminal Justice Services; and
WHEREAS this legislation also seeks to appropriate the grant award of $296,168 less a ten percent State administrative fee of $29,616.80 for a total appropriated city share of $266,551.20
WHEREAS, these funds will be used to bolster the Mayor's anti-grant initiative by providing assistance to Law Enforcement, Neighborhood and Community/Social groups that combat gang activities; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the daily operation of the Department of Public Safety, Safety Administration Division, in that the grant was awarded in August and it is immediately necessary to show the City's intentions and authorize the Mayor to accept the FY 2007 Edward Byrne Memorial Byrne Discretionary Grant award to bolster the city's anti-gang initiative, and to authorize an appropriation 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 accept a FY 2007 Edward Byrne Memorial Byrne Discretionary Grants award to support the City's anti-gang initiative.
SECTION 2. That from the unappropriated monies in the General Government Grant Funds 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 $266,551.20 are appropriated to the Department of Public Safety, Safety Administration Division 30-01 as follows:
DIV FUND OBJ#1 OBJ#3 OCA CD GRANT # AMOUNT
30-01 220 01 1101 317001 317001 $ 37,316.20
30-01 220 02 2290 317001 317001 $ 79,966.00
30-01 220 03 3336 317001 317001 $149,269.00
TOTAL $266,551.20
SECTION 3. That the monies appropriated in the foregoing Section 2 shall be paid upon orders 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 4. That from the reason 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.