Explanation
BACKGROUND: This legislation authorizes and directs the appropriation of $150,000.00 within the Public Safety Initiatives Fund and authorizes and directs the Development Director to enter into a contract with Maryhaven, Inc. to support the Safe Pathways Program. The purpose of this program is to address the addiction recovery of women who have been arrested for solicitation/prostitution and to reduce criminal recidivism by participants completing the program. Safe Pathways is an intensive outpatient program, which features aftercare and case management as essential components. The program's target population is indigent women age eighteen (18) and over, who are residents of Columbus and in need of more intensive intervention than a traditional outpatient program can provide.
The program provides up to eight (8) weeks of intensive outpatient treatment and up to twelve (12) weeks of focused aftercare. Case management as well as mental health wellness services will be integral parts of the treatment process in both phases. This assistance enables women to take a first step toward a productive, law-abiding lifestyle.
Maryhaven has successfully operated the Safe Pathways Program for over seven years, with strong demand and high rates of utilization throughout that time. In 2005, the City Council allocated $50,000 from the Public Safety Initiatives Fund for the program, which assisted the agency in serving fifty seven (57) women during that program year. The ADAMH Board has committed $50,000 to the program in 2007. That amount combined with City support will allow ninety (90) women to be served.
This ordinance is presented as an emergency to facilitate processing of program expenses in a timely manner.
FISCAL IMPACT: Funds for this contract will be allocated from the 2007 Public Safety Initiatives Fund.
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To authorize and direct the appropriation of $150,000.00 within the Public Safety Initiatives Fund to the Department of Development; to authorize and direct the Development Director to enter into a contract with Maryhaven, Inc. to support the Safe Pathways Program; to authorize the expenditure of $150,000.00 from the Public Safety Initiatives Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($150,000.00)
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WHEREAS, the Director of the Department of Development desires to appropriate $150,000.00 within the Public Safety Initiatives Fund and enter into a contract with Maryhaven, Inc. to support operation of the Safe Pathways Program; and
WHEREAS, this program addresses the addiction recovery of women who have been arrested for solicitation/prostitution and seeks to reduce criminal recidivism by participants completing the program; and
WHEREAS, Safe Pathways is an intensive outpatient program which features aftercare and case management as essential components; and
WHEREAS, the program will provide up to eight (8) weeks of intensive outpatient treatment and up to twelve (12) weeks of focused aftercare; and
WHEREAS, case management as well as mental health wellness services will be integral parts of the treatment process in both phases; and
WHEREAS, City Council allocated $50,000 in 2005 from the Public Safety Initiatives Fund for the program, assisting the agency to serve fifty seven (57) women during that program year; and
WHEREAS, the ADAMH Board has committed $50,000 to the program in 2007, which when combined with support from the City will allow the agency to serve ninety (90) women.
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Department of Development in that it is immediately necessary to appropriate funds from the Public Safety Initiatives Fund and enter into a contract with Maryhaven, Inc. for the preservation of the public health, peace, property, safety, and welfare; NOW, THEREFORE,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That the City Auditor is hereby authorized to appropriate $150,000.00 within the Public Safety Initiatives Fund, Fund 016, to the Development Department, Neighborhood Services Division, Department No.44-05, Object Level One 03, Object Level Three 3337, OCA Code 440516.
SECTION 2. That the Director of the Department of Development be and is hereby authorized to enter into a contract with Maryhaven, Inc. to support operation of the Safe Pathways Program.
SECTION 3. That for the purpose as stated in Section 2, the expenditure of $150,000.00, or so much thereof as necessary, be and is hereby authorized to be expended from the Department of Development, Neighborhood Services Division, Division No. 44-05, the Public Safety Initiatives Fund, Fund 016, Object Level One 03, Object Level Three 3337, OCA Code 440516.
SECTION 4. That this contract is made pursuant to Section 329.15 of the Columbus City Codes, 1959, as amended.
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 (10) days after passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.