Explanation
Background:
This legislation will authorize the City Attorney to accept a supplemental grant award from the State of Ohio, Office of the Attorney General, for the 11-12 VOCA Domestic Violence grant award. Said funding is for the attendance by staff of the Domestic Violence Unit of the City Attorney's Office at a seminar held by the National Organization of Victim Advocates (NOVA) August 19 through August 22, 2012 in San Diego, CA. m
The original grant award acceptance was authorized by ordinance 1621-2011 passed 10/19/2011.
Emergency action is requested due to the timing of the award and the seminar.
Fiscal Impact:
Original Grant Supplemental Total Grant
Federal Amount $ 97,422.00 $4,000.00 $101,422.00
City Match Required $ 32,474.00 __ $ 32,474.00
Total Grant Award $129,896.00 $4,000.00 $133,896.00
Grant Period: 10/01/11 - 09/30/12
Title
To authorize the acceptance of a supplemental grant award from the State of Ohio, Office of the Attorney General, for the 11-12 VOCA Domestic Violence grant; to authorize the appropriation of said funds in the amount of Four Thousand Dollars; and to declare an emergency. ($4,000.00)
Body
WHEREAS, the State of Ohio, Office of the Attorney General, originally awarded the City of Columbus, City Attorney's Office, a grant in the amount of Ninety-seven Thousand Four Hundred Twenty-two Dollars ($97,422.00) for the 11-12 VOCA Domestic Violence grant, 2012-VA-DOME-537; and
WHEREAS, the acceptance of said grant required the City Attorney to supply matching funds in the amount of Thirty-two Thousand Four Hundred Seventy-four Dollars ($32,474.00); and
WHEREAS, acceptance of said grant was authorized on October 19, 2011 by ordinance 1621-2011; and
WHEREAS, the State of Ohio, Office of the Attorney General, has subsequently awarded the City of Columbus, City Attorney's Office, a supplemental grant award in the amount of Four Thousand Dollars ($4,000.00); and
WHEREAS, the acceptance of said supplemental grant award does not require the City Attorney to supply matching funds; and
WHEREAS, the supplemental grant award is to fund attendance of two staff of the City Attorney's Domestic Violence Unit at the 2012 NOVA conference in San Diego, California, August 19 thorough August 22, 2012; 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 activities 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 City Attorney be and hereby is authorized to accept a supplemental grant award in the amount of Four Thousand Dollars ($4,000.00) from the State of Ohio, Office of the Attorney General, for the 2012-VA-DOME-537 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 Four Thousand Dollars ($4,000.00) is appropriated as follows: department 2401, fund number 220, 11-12 VOCA Domestic Violence Advocates Grant, grant number 241101, organizational cost account 241101, object level three 3330.
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. 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 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.