Explanation
BACKGROUND
This ordinance authorizes the Administrative and Presiding Judge of the Franklin County Municipal Court to accept a three year grant in the amount of $135,000.00 from the Center for Court Innovations, a project of the Fund for the City of New York, and to appropriate the total amount of the grant from the unappropriated balance of the private grants fund to the Specialized Docket of the Franklin County Municipal Court. This grant will fund two Peer Support Specialists to be assigned to the Changing Actions To Change Habits (CATCH) Human Trafficking Specialty Court. The Specialized Dockets have increased their understanding of and value for that of a Peer Support Specialist, an individual with lived experience and specific training to assist in the rehabilitation of participants. The Peer Support Specialists will be mentors specifically to the participants of the CATCH Specialty Court.
Emergency Legislation is requested so that the grant funds can be utilized as soon as possible during the grant period (January 1, 2020-December 31, 2022).
FISCAL IMPACT
$135,000.00 will be expended from the Private Grants Fund.
Title
To authorize and direct the Administrative Judge of the Franklin County Municipal Court to accept a grant award from the Center for Court Innovations, a project of the Fund for the City of New York; to appropriate $135,000.00 from the unappropriated balance of the private grants fund to the Franklin County Municipal Court Specialized Docket for the purpose of contracting with two Peer Support Specialists to be assigned to the CATCH Human Trafficking Specialty Court; and to declare an emergency. ($135,000.00)
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WHEREAS, it is in the city's best interest that the Franklin County Municipal Court receive support to provide Peer Support Specialists to act as mentors to the participants of the CATCH Specialty Court; and
WHEREAS, grant monies from the Center for Court Innovations, a project of the Fund for the City of N...
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