Explanation
Background:
This legislation will authorize the City Attorney to accept the VAWA Domestic Violence Prosecutors Grant #07-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. This ordinance will further authorize the transfer and appropriation of matching funds required by the grant award.
Emergency action is requested to allow for the uninterrupted continuation of this grant program.
Fiscal Impact:
The required matching funds of $33,333.00 are included in the City Attorney's 2008 General Fund Budget.
Project period: 01/01/08 - 12/31/08
Federal Share: $100,000.00
Matching funds: $33,333.00
Total Grant: $133,333.00
Title
To authorize the acceptance of a grant from the Franklin County Board of Commissioners, Office of Homeland Security and Justice Programs, and the appropriation of said funds in the amount of $100,000.00 for the funding of the VAWA Domestic Violence Prosecutors program, to authorize the transfer and appropriation of matching funds required by the acceptance of the grant in the amount of $33,333.00 and to declare an emergency. ($133,333.00)
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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 Thousand Dollar ($100,000.00) for the VAWA Domestic Violence Prosecutors program, #07-WF-VA2-8758; and
WHEREAS, the acceptance of this grant requires that the City Attorney supply matching funds in the amount of Thirty-Three Thousand Three Hundred Thirty-three Dollars ($33,333.00); 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 and transfer and appropriate the matching funds in order that the services supported may continue without interruption and 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 in the amount of One Hundred Thousand Dollars ($100,000.00) from the Franklin County Board of Commissioners, Office of Homeland Security and Justice Programs.
SECTION 2. That the amount of Thirty-threeThousand Three Hundred Thirty-three Dollars ($33,333.00) is hereby transferred as follows:
FROM: department 2401, general fund, fund number 010, organizational cost account 240119, object level three 1101.
TO: department 2401, general fund, fund number 010, organizational cost account 240119, object level three 5501.
FROM: department 2401, general fund, fund number 010, organizational cost account 240119, object level three 5501.
TO: department 2401, VAWA Domestic Violence Prosecutors Grant fund, grant #248270, fund number 220, organizational cost account 240754, object level three 0886.
SECTION 3. 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 Thirty-threeThousand Three Hundred Thirty-three Dollars ($133,333.00) is appropriated as follows: department 2401, VAWA Domestic Violence Prosecutors Grant, grant number 248270, fund number 220, organizational cost account 240754, object level three 1101.
SECTION 4. That funds appropriated in the foregoing Section 3 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 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.