Explanation
BACKGROUND
This ordinance authorizes the Administrative and Presiding Judge of the Franklin County Municipal Court to accept a grant in the amount of $100,000.00 from Ohio Office of Criminal Justice Services / Ohio Department of Public Safety and to appropriate from the unappropriated balance of the general government grant fund and to enter into a not for profit services contract with Think Make Live Youth (TMLY), a not for profit corporation, in the amount of $100,000.00 from the grant funds.
This grant will fund a contract that provides supportive services to emerging adults (ages 18-25). TMLY helps participants access public assistance programs, acquire identification, secure reliable transportation, and receive mental and physical health assessments and treatment. It also provides housing, career, and education counseling, and ongoing mentorship and support.
These services cannot be provided by existing Court staff as they lack the capacity to do so.
Emergency Legislation is requested so the department can implement contracts and services immediately without using general fund funds.
FISCAL IMPACT $100,000.00 will be expended from the General Governmental Grant Fund.
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To authorize and direct the Administrative and Presiding Judge of the Franklin County Municipal Court to accept a grant in the amount of $100,000.00 from the Ohio Department of Public Safety and to appropriate from the unappropriated balance of the general government grant fund; to enter into a not for profit services contract with Think Make Live Youth (TMLY) for the provision of supportive services to emerging adults and to authorize the expenditure of up to an amount of $100,000.00 from the grant funds; and to declare an emergency. ($100,000.00)
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WHEREAS, a grant for the Ohio Department of Public Safety in the amount of $100,000.00 has been awarded to provide a contract with TMLY; and
WHEREAS, funds up to an amount not to exceed $100,000.00 is provided within this grant for a contractual agreement with TMLY; and
WHEREAS, it is in the city's best interest that the Franklin County Municipal Court receive support for these defendants; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Franklin County Municipal Court in that it is immediately necessary to approve the acceptance of this grant so that the department can implement contracts and services immediately without using general fund funds, all for the immediate preservation of the public health, peace, property, safety and welfare; and now, therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That the Administrative and Presiding Judge of the Franklin County Municipal Court be and is hereby authorized to accept a grant in the total amount of $100,000.00 from the Ohio Department of Public Safety.
SECTION 2. Funds necessary to carry out the purpose of this ordinance are hereby deemed appropriated, and the City Auditor shall establish such accounting codes as necessary.
SECTION 3. That from the unappropriated balance in the general government grant fund, fund 2220, and from all monies estimated to come into said fund from any and all sources and appropriated for any other purpose during the months ending July 31, 2026, the sum of $100,000.00 is appropriated to the Franklin County Municipal Court according to the account codes in the attachment.
SECTION 4. That the Administrating and Presiding Judge of the Franklin County Municipal Court be and is hereby authorized to enter into a not-for-profit services contract with TMLY LLC and authorized the expenditure for $100,000.00 to provide supportive services to emerging adults.
SECTION 5. That the monies appropriated in the foregoing Section 2 shall be paid upon the order of the Administrative and Presiding Judge of the Franklin County Municipal Court 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 6. At the end of the grant period, any repayment of unencumbered balances required by the grant 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 7. 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.