Explanation
Background:
This legislation will authorize the City Attorney to accept the SVAA Domestic Violence Advocates Grant # 2013SADOME537 from the State of Ohio, Office of the Attorney General for the funding of the SVAA Domestic Violence Advocates program within the City Attorney's Office. The Domestic Violence unit of the City Attorney's Office assists witnesses and victims of domestic violence thorugh the legal process and provides counseling, referrals and linkage with agencies and community resources.
Emergency action is requested to allow for the uninterupted continuation of this grant program.
Fiscal Impact:
There are no matching funds required and therefore no cost to the general fund by accepting this grant.
Title
To authorize the acceptance of a grant from the State of Ohio, Office of the Attorney General; to authorize the appropriation of grant funds in the amount of Nine Thousand Seven Hundred Forty-three Dollars ($9,743.00) for the continued funding of the SVAA Domestic Violence Advocates program; and to declare an emergency. ($9,743.00)
Body
WHEREAS, the State of Ohio, Office of the Attorney General, has awarded the City of Columbus, City Attorney's Office, a grant in the amount of Nine Thousand Seven Hundred Forty-three Dollars ($9,743.00) for the 12-13 SVAA Domestic Violence Advocates Grant, 2013SADOME537, for the period of October 1, 2012 through September 30, 2013; and
WHEREAS, the City Attorney desires authority to accept said grant award; 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 services supported may continue uninterrupted and 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, OHIO:
SECTION 1. That the City Attorney is hereby authorized to accept a grant award in the amount of Nine Thousand Seven Hundred Forty-three Dollars ($9,743.00) from the State of Ohio, Office of the Attorney General.
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 Nine Thousand Seven Hundred Forty-three Dollars ($9,743.00) is appropriated as follows: department 2401, fund 220, 12-13 SVAA Domestic Violence Advocates Grant, 2013SADOME537, grant number 241203, organizational cost account 241203, object level three 1101.
SECTION 3. That the 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 Attorney.
SECTION 4. 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 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 days after passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.