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File #: 3252-2025    Version: 1
Type: Ordinance Status: First Reading
File created: 11/20/2025 In control: Public Safety & Criminal Justice Committee
On agenda: 12/8/2025 Final action:
Title: To authorize and direct the Administrative and Presiding Judge of the Franklin County Municipal Court to accept a grant award from the Ohio Attorney General; to appropriate $12,206.07 from the unappropriated balance of the general government grant fund to the Franklin County Municipal Court. ($12,206.07)
Attachments: 1. AG Grant, 2. Grant award
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Explanation

BACKGROUND
This ordinance authorizes the Administrative and Presiding Judge of the Franklin County Municipal Court to accept a grant in the amount of $12,206.07 from the Ohio Attorney General, and to appropriate from the unappropriated balance of the general government grant fund.

The purpose of this grant is to provide funds to the Franklin County Municipal Court for the purchase of bulletproof vests for the security guards. The vest will provide the guards with more protection from the public.

FISCAL IMPACT
$12,206.07 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 Attorney General; to appropriate $12,206.07 from the unappropriated balance of the general government grant fund to the Franklin County Municipal Court. ($12,206.07)


Body

WHEREAS, it is in the city's best interest that the Franklin County Municipal Court receive support for the purchase of bulletproof vests; and

WHEREAS, grant monies from the Ohio Attorney General, in the amount of $12,206.07, are available to provide for bulletproof vests; and

WHEREAS, it has become necessary in the usual daily operation of the Franklin County Municipal Court to approve the acceptance of this grant; 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 $12,206.07 from the Ohio Attorney General.

SECTION 2. That funds necessary to carry out the purpose of this ordinance are hereby deemed appropriated. That from the unappropriated balance in the general government grant fund, fund 2220, and from all monies estimated to come into said fund from any and all sources and appropriated for any other purpose during the months ending September 30, 2026, the sum of $12,20...

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