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File #: 2715-2012    Version: 1
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 11/27/2012 In control: Public Safety & Judiciary Committee
On agenda: 12/10/2012 Final action: 12/12/2012
Title: To authorize the Administrative and Presiding Judge of the Franklin County Municipal Court to accept a grant award from U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance through the Ohio Office of Criminal Justice Services, for treatment of defendants from MAVSS court; to appropriate $20,000.00 from the unappropriated balance of the general government grant fund; and to declare an emergency. ($20,000.00)
Explanation
 
This legislation authorizes the Administrative and Presiding Judge of the Franklin County Municipal Court to accept a grant from U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance through the Ohio Office of Criminal Justice Services for treatment of defendants from the Military and Veterans Servicer Specialty Docket (MAVSS).  This will allow defendants to receive dependency and/or mental health treatment.    This legislation also will appropriate $20,000 from the general government grant fund.  Grant monies will fund treatment of defendants from MAVSS court through August 31, 2013
 
EMERGENCY ACTION is requested so that treatment may begin as soon as possible.
 
Title
 
To authorize the Administrative and Presiding Judge of the Franklin County Municipal Court to accept a grant award from U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance through the Ohio Office of Criminal Justice Services, for treatment of defendants from MAVSS court; to appropriate $20,000.00 from the unappropriated balance of the general government grant fund; and to declare an emergency. ($20,000.00)
 
Body
 
WHEREAS, grant monies from U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance through the Ohio Office of Criminal Justice Services, in the amount of $20,000.00 are available to provide for  treatment of defendants from MAVSS court; 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 treatment, and to appropriate the aforementioned funds to assure that this grant cycle can and will be able to commence as close to October 1, 2012 as possible, 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 U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance through the Ohio Office of Criminal Justice Services, for treatment of defendants from MAVSS court.
 
SECTION 2.   That from the unappropriated monies in the general government grant fund, fund 220 and from all monies estimated to come into said fund from any and all sources and unappropriated for any other purpose during the twelve months ending August 31, 2013, the sum of $20,000 is appropriated to the Franklin County Municipal Court, department number 2501, grant number 251204, oca 251204 as follows: $20,000 to object level 1 - 03, object level3 - 3336  
 
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. 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 agreements.
 
SECTION 5.  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 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.