Explanation
This legislation authorizes the Administrative and Presiding Judge of the Franklin County Municipal Court to accept a grant from the State of Ohio, Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, for enhanced probationary services with two probation officers. These two probation officers supervise individuals with multiple convictions for operating a vehicle under the influence of alcohol or drugs. This legislation also will appropriate $146,205.00 from the general government grant fund. Grant monies will fund the salaries and benefits of two probation officers in the Franklin County Municipal Court from July 1, 2005 through June 30, 2006.
EMERGENCY ACTION is requested in order for this new cycle of funding to be in place on July 1, 2005.
Title
To authorize the Administrative and Presiding Judge of the Franklin County Municipal Court to accept a grant award from the State of Ohio, Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, for enhanced probationary services with two probation officers, to appropriate $146,205.00 from the unappropriated balance of the general government grant fund, and to declare an emergency. ($146,205.00)
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WHEREAS, it is in the city's best interest to continue enhanced probationary services with two probation officers that supervise individuals with multiple convictions for operating a vehicle under the influence of alcohol or drugs in the Franklin County Municipal Court, and
WHEREAS, grant monies from the State of Ohio, Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, in the amount of $146,205.00 are available to provide for salaries and benefits of the two probation officers, and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operations of the city in that it is immediately necessary to accept the aforesaid grant for enhanced probationary services, and to appropriate the aforementioned funds to assure that this grant cycle can and will be able to commence on July 1, 2005, thereby preserving the public health, peace, property, safety and welfare; now, therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. To authorize the Administrative and Presiding Judge of the Franklin County Municipal Court to accept a grant award from the State of Ohio, Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, for enhanced probationary services with two probation officers.
SECTION 2. That from the unappropriated monies in the general government grant fund, fund 220, sub fund 003, and from all monies estimated to come into said fund from any and all sources and unappropriated for any other purpose during fiscal year ending December 31, 2005, the sum of $146,205.00 is appropriated to the Municipal Court Judges, department number 2501, project no. 255002, oca 255002, in object level one -- 01.
SECTION 3. That the grant submitted to City Council is hereby approved and accepted in all respects, and, the monies appropriated in the foregoing Section 1 shall be paid upon order of the Administrative and Presiding Judge; 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 for the reasons stated in the preamble hereto which is hereby made a part hereof, this ordinance in 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.