Explanation
BACKGROUND
This ordinance authorizes the Administrative and Presiding Judge of the Franklin County Municipal Court to accept a grant in the amount of $15,000.00 from the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, and to appropriate from the unappropriated balance of the general government grant fund to the Probation Department of the Franklin County Municipal Court, the total amount of the grant. This grant will provide disposal fees and outreach materials.
FISCAL IMPACT
$15,000 will be expended from the General Government Grant Fund.
Title
To authorize and direct the Administrative and Presiding Judge of the Franklin County Municipal Court to accept a grant award from the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency to provide for disposal fees and outreach materials and to appropriate $15,000.00 from the unappropriated balance of the general government grant fund to the Franklin County Municipal Court. ($15,000.00)
Body
WHEREAS, a grant from the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency in the amount of $15,000 has been awarded to provide support to the Franklin County Municipal Court Community Service Program with the purpose of improving the community, reducing litter and illegal dumping in public areas and providing litter prevention awareness; and
WHEREAS, it has become necessary in the usual daily operation of the city, to authorize the Administrative and Presiding Judge of the Franklin County Municipal Court to accept the aforementioned grant to provide community disposal fees and outreach materials, 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. That the Administrative and Presiding Judge of the Franklin County Municipal Court be and is hereby authorized to accept a grant in the amount of $15,000 from the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency.
SECTION 2. Funds necessary to carry out the purpose of this ordinance are hereby deemed...
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