Explanation
Background:
This legislation will authorize the City Attorney to accept the VAWA Domestic Violence Prosecutors Grant #2011-WF-VA2-8758 from the Franklin County Board of Commissioners, Office of Homeland Security and Justice Programs.
This grant partially funds two Prosecuting Attorneys for the Domestic Violence Unit of the City Attorney's Office. The Domestic Violence Unit assists witnesses and victims of domestic violence through the legal process and provides counseling, referrals, and linkage with agencies and community resources.
Emergency action is requested to allow for the grant funded activities to begin on 01/01/12.
Fiscal Impact:
The required matching funds of $35,667.00 are included in the City Attorney's 2012 General Fund Budget and legislation will be submitted in 2012 to authorize the transfer and expenditure of the required match.
Project period: 01/01/12 - 12/31/12
Federal Share: $107,000.00
Matching funds: $35,667.00
Total Grant Award: $142,667.00
Title
To authorize the acceptance of a grant from the Franklin County Board of Commissioners, Office of Homeland Security and Justice Program; to authorize the appropriation of grant funds in the amount of One Hundred Seven Thousand Dollars for the Domestic Violence Prosecutors Program; and to declare an emergency. ($107,000.00)
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WHEREAS, the Franklin County Board of Commissioners, Office of Homeland Security and Justice Programs, has awarded the City of Columbus, City Attorney's Office, a grant in the amount of One Hundred Seven Thousand Dollars ($107,00.00) for the 2012 VAWA Domestic Violence Prosecutors Program, and
WHEREAS, the City Attorney desires authority to accept and expend said grant award; and, now therefore,
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 commence at the beginning of the grrant period of January 1, 2012 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 is hereby authorized to accept a grant award in the amount of One Hundred Seven Thousand Dollars ($107,000.00) from the Franklin County Board of Commissioners, Office of Homeland Security and Justice Programs.
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 One Hundred Seven Thousand Dollars ($107,000.00) is appropriated as follows: department 2401, fund 220, 2012 VAWA DV Prosecutors Grant, grant number 241106, organizational cost account 241106, object level three 1101.
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. 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.