Explanation
This legislation authorizes the Administrative and Presiding Judge of the Franklin County Municipal Court to accept an addendum to the grant from the State of Ohio, Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, in order to establish a work release program. This legislation also will appropriate an additional $200,000 from the general government grant fund. Grant monies will fund the salaries and benefits and to provide alternatives for incarnation consistent with public safety in the Franklin County Municipal Court. The grant cycle ends on June 30, 2010.
EMERGENCY ACTION is requested in order for this new cycle of funding to be in place as close to November 1, 2010 as possible.
Title
To authorize the Administrative and Presiding Judge of the Franklin County Municipal Court to accept an addendum to the grant award from the State of Ohio, Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, for enhanced probationary services; to appropriate $200,000 from the unappropriated balance of the General Government Grant Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($200,000.00)
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WHEREAS, it is in the city's best interest that the Franklin County Municipal Court continue to receive support for its enhanced probationary services for indigent offenders; and
WHEREAS, grant monies from the State of Ohio, Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, in the amount of $200,000 are available to provide for salaries and benefits, as well as the service for a work release program; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operations of the city in that it is immediately necessary to accept the aforesaid grant addendum for enhanced probationary services, and to appropriate the aforementioned funds to assure that this grant cycle can and will be able to commence as close to November 1, 2009 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 State of Ohio, Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, for enhanced probationary services for indigent offenders.
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 ending June 30, 2010, the sum of $200,000 is appropriated to the Franklin County Municipal Court, department number 2501, grant number 259012, oca 259012 as follows: $60,000 to object level 1 - 01, object level 3 - 1101 and $140,000 to object level 1 - 01, object level 3 - 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. That the City Auditor is authorized to make any accounting changes necessary to ensure that these transactions are properly accounted for and recorded accurately on the city's financial records.
SECTION 5. 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.