Explanation
Background:
This legislation will authorize the Mayor to accept the Cyber Crime Investigator and Domestic Violence Victim Advocate Grant from the U.S. Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Assistance, the Ohio Office of Criminal Justice Services. The Columbus City Attorney's Office will be the implementing agency for said grant.
This grant partially funds a Cyber Crime Investigator and a Domestic Violence Victim Advocate to serve the Franklin County community within the City Attorney's Prosecution section. The Cyber Crime Investigator investigates telecommunication harassment allegations and frequently assists in stalking cases helping to identify the suspect. The DV Victim Advocate works with victims of domestic violence and stalking in their initial court appearances, frequently within days of the incident, as well as assisting them with obtaining emergency protection orders.
Emergency action is requested to allow for the commencement of the grant activities.
Fiscal Impact:
Project period: 01/01/2011 - 12/31/11
Federal Share: $91,124.00
Matching funds: $30,374.67
Total Grant: $121,498.67
The required matching funds of $30,274.67 are included in the City Attorney's 2011 General Fund budget.
Title
To authorize the acceptance of a grant from the U.S. Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Assistance, the Ohio Office of Criminal Justice Services in the amount of $91,124.00 for the funding of the Cyber Crime Investigator and Domestic Violence Victim Advocate program; to authorize the appropriation and expenditure of said funds; to authorize the transfer and appropriation of matching funds required by the acceptance of the grant in the amount of $30,374.67 from the General Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($121,498.67)
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WHEREAS, the U.S. Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Assistance, the Ohio Office of Criminal Justice Services has awarded the City of Columbus, City Attorney's Office, a grant in the amount of Ninety-one Thousand One Hundred Twenty-four Dollars ($91,124.00) for the Cyber Crime Investigator and Domestic Violence Victim Advocate program, Grant #2010-JG-D01-6873, for the period of January 1, 2011 through December 31, 2011; and
WHEREAS, the acceptance of this grant requires the City to supply matching funds in the amount of Thirty Thousand Three Hundred Seventy-four and 67/100 Dollars ($30,374.67); and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the daily operation of the City in that it is necessary to immediately accept and appropriate the grant funds and transfer and appropriate the matching funds, in order that the services supported may commence 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 Mayor is hereby authorized to accept a grant award from the U.S. Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Assistance, the Ohio Office of Criminal Justice Services in the amount of Ninety-one Thousand One Hundred Twenty-four Dollars ($91,124.00) for the Cyber Crime Investigator and Domestic Violence Victim Advocate program, Grant No. 2010-JG-D01-6873.
SECTION 2. That the amount of Thirty Thousand Three Hundred Seventy-four and 67/100 Dollars ($30,374.67); is hereby transferred from the General Fund of the City Attorney's Office as follows:
FROM: department 2401, general fund, fund number 010, organizational cost account 240564, object level three 1000.
TO: department 2401, general fund, fund number 010, organizational cost account 240564, object level three 5501.
FROM: department 2401, general fund, fund number 010, organizational cost account 240564, object level three 5501.
TO: department 2401, general government grant fund, fund number 220, 2011 Cyber Crime Investigator and Domestic Violence Victim Advocate Grant , grant number, 241022, organizational cost account 241022, object level three 0886.
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 purpose during the project award period the sum of One Hundred Twenty-one Thousand Four Hundred Ninety-eight Dollars and Sixty-seven Cents ($121,498.67) is appropriated and authorized to be expended as follows: department 2401, fund number 220, 2011 Cyber Crime Investigator and Domestic Violence Victim Advocate Grant, grant number 241022, organizational cost account 241022, object level three 1000.
SECTION 4. That funds appropriated in the foregoing Section 3 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 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.