Explanation
BACKGROUND
This ordinance authorizes the Administrative Judge of the Franklin County Municipal Court to accept a grant incentive award in the amount of $106,000 from the State of Ohio, Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, and to appropriate from the unappropriated balance of the general government grant fund.
This grant incentive award is to pay for community correction programs/services within the probation department. Ordinance 2407-2015 accepted a grant from the State of Ohio, Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, which put forth performance measures that the department had to meet in order to receive the award. Those measures were met.
Emergency Legislation is requested so the grant funds can be used as closed to the start date as possible.
FISCAL IMPACT
$106,000.00 will be expended from the General Government Grant Fund.
Title
To authorize and direct the Administrative Judge of the Franklin County Municipal Court to accept a grant incentive award from the State of Ohio, Department of Rehabilitation and Correction; to appropriate $106,000.00 from the unappropriated balance of the general government grant fund to the Franklin County Municipal Court; and to declare an emergency. ($106,000.00)
Body
WHEREAS, it is in the city's best interest that the Franklin County Municipal Court receive additional support for this enhanced probationary services for defendants; and
WHEREAS, grant incentive monies from the State of Ohio, Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, in the amount of $106,000 are available to provide for program/service expenses; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the daily operation of the Franklin County Municipal Court in that it is immediately necessary to accept and appropriate the grant award and to transfer and appropriate the matching funds in order that the services supported may commence at the beginning of the grant period and for the preservation of the public health, peace, property, saf...
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