Explanation
BACKGROUND: This ordinances authorizes the Mayor of the City of Columbus to enter into an agreement with the Board of Commissioners of Franklin County to accept the FY 2012 Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Title 11 Grant award as part of a Block Grant issued by the Ohio Department of Youth Services. As the Local Criminal Justice Coordinating Council for Franklin County, the Franklin County Office of Homeland Security and Justice Programs shall be responsible for monitoring compliance with the terms of the grant agreement.
Funds from the grant will be used to establish Teens and Police Service Partners (TAPS) Academy in Columbus. This program is for at-risk juvenile aged between ages 12 to 15 years old who have been arrested and have shown a propensity of making bad decisions. These youths will receive intensive mentoring by Police Officers trained in the TAPS Academy curriculum developed by the Houston Police Department. Each session will last for 15 weeks and feature two Police Officer mentors working with ten juvenile delinquents for approximately 10 hours a week. The Academy will help these at-risk kids gain skills to manage real-life situations as they develop a deeper understanding of policing and the importance of respecting authority. The grant period is from June 15, 2013 to June 2014. This legislation is needed to authorize the acceptance of the grant award, and to appropriate the grant funds
Emergency Action is requested in order to receive the funds and initiate the program at the commencement of the grant agreement period of June 15, 2013.
FISCAL IMPACT: This ordinance authorizes the appropriation of $97,952.00 within the General Government Grant Fund in an agreement with Franklin County Commissioners for the FY 2012 Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Grant to pay for the cost of running the TAPS Academy by Columbus Police Officers. There are no matching funds to this grant.
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To authorize and direct the Mayor of the City of Columbus to enter into an agreement with the Board of Commissioners of Franklin County Ohio to accept the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Title 11 Grant award; to authorize the appropriation of $97,952.00 from the unappropriated balance of the General Government Grant Fund to pay for the cost of running a mentorship program by the Columbus Police Department; and to declare an emergency. ($97,952.00)
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WHEREAS, the Department of Public Safety, Division of Police, has been awarded grant funding through the FY12 Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Title 11 Grant to pay personnel and other costs associated with the mentorship of youths by Columbus Police Officers; and
WHEREAS, the Mayor of the City of Columbus needs to enter into an agreement with the Board of Commissioners of Franklin County in order to accept this award; and
WHEREAS, the Franklin County Office of Homeland Security and Justice Programs shall be responsible monitoring compliance to the terms of this agreement; and
WHEREAS, legislation is needed to process the grant acceptance documents and set up the city appropriation of the grant award; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exist in the usual daily operation of the Division of Police, Department of Public safety, in that it is immediately necessary for the Mayor to accept a grant and the City Auditor appropriate the grant funds and make it available to begin a mentorship program by the Division of Police, thereby preserving the public peace, property, health, 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 grant in the amount of $97,952.00 from the FY 2012 Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Title 11 Grant award as part of a Block Grant issued by the Ohio Department of Youth Services through the Franklin County Office of Homeland Security and Justice Program.
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 period, the sum of $97,952.00 is appropriated as follows:
DIV FD OBJLV#1 OBJLV#3 OCACD GRANT AMOUNT
30-03 220 01 1131 331306 331306 48,362.00
30-03 220 01 1127 331306 331306 2,152.00
30-03 220 01 1161 331306 331306 9,431.00
30-03 220 01 1171 331306 331306 701.00
30-03 220 01 1173 331306 331306 1,934.00
30-03 220 01 3336 331306 331306 31,000.00
30-03 220 01 3330 331306 331306 4,372.00
TOTAL $97,952.00
SECTION 3. That the monies appropriated in the foregoing Section 2 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 4. That at the end of the Grant period, any repayment of unencumbered balances required by the grantor is hereby authorized and any unused City match monies may be transferred back to the City fund from which they originated in accordance with all applicable grant agreement.
SECTION 5. That funds necessary to carry out the purpose of this ordinance are hereby deemed appropriated.
SECTION 6. That for the reasons stated in the preamble hereto, which is hereby made a part hereof, this ordinance is hereby declared 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.