Explanation
Background:
This legislation will authorize the City Attorney to accept the Domestic Violence Equipment Grant from the Franklin County Board of Commissioners, Office of Homeland Security and Justice Programs.
This grant will purchase equipment to be used by the Domestic Violence Unit of the City Attorney's Prosecution section in providing services to domestic violence victims.
Emergency action is requested to allow for the purchase of the equipment within the term of the grant.
Fiscal Impact:
Project period: 08/25/09 - 09/31/09
Federal Share: $7,877.00
There are no required matching funds for this grant award.
Title
To authorize the acceptance of a grant from the Franklin County Board of Commissioners, Office of Homeland Security and Justice Programs; to authorize the appropriation and expenditure of said funds in the amount of Seven Thousand Eight Hundred Seventy-seven Dollars for the purchase of equipment for the Domestic Violence Unit of the City Attorney's Office; and to declare an emergency. ($7,877.00)
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WHEREAS, the Franklin County Board of Commissioners, Office of Homeland Security and Justice Programs, has awarded the City of Columbus, City Attorney's Office, a grant in the amount of Seven thousand Eight Hundred Seventy-seven Dollars ($7,877.00) for equipment for the Domestic Violence Unit Grant #06-CPEG-4001; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the daily operation of the City Attorney's Office in that it is necessary to immediately accept and appropriate the grant funds in order that the equipment may be purchased within the grant period and for the preservation of the public health, peace, property, safety and welfare, and now therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS, OHIO:
SECTION 1. That the City Attorney be and hereby is authorized to accept a grant in the amount of Seven Thousand Eight Hundred Seventy-seven Dollars ($7,877.00) from the Franklin County Board of Commissioners, Office of Homeland Security and Justice Programs, for Domestic Violence Equipment Grant.
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 Seven Thousand Eight Hundred Seventy-seven Dollars ($7,877.00) is appropriated as follows: department 2401, DV Equipment Grant, grant number 249017, fund number 220, organizational cost account 249017, object level three 2201.
SECTION 3. That funds appropriated in the foregoing Section 2 shall be paid upon order of the City Attorney 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 the expenditure of Seven Thousand Eight Hundred Seventy-seven Dollars ($7,877.00), or so much thereof as may be necessary, from the City Attorney's Office, 24-01, grant number 249017, fund number 220, organizational cost account 249017, object level three 2201 for the aforesaid purpose is hereby authorized.
SECTION 5. 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.