Explanation
BACKGROUND
This ordinance authorizes the Administrative Judge of the Franklin County Municipal Court to accept a second addendum to a grant in the amount of $60,000 from the State of Ohio, Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, 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 addendum will fund salary for a new training and development project manager.
FISCAL IMPACT
$60,000 will be expended from the General Government Grant Fund.
EMERGENCY JUSTIFICATION
Emergency legislation is requested so that we may get the employee on staff and used the grant funds by the end of the grant cycle of 6/30/16.
Title
To authorize and direct the Administrative Judge of the Franklin County Municipal Court to accept a grant addendum from the State of Ohio, Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections; to appropriate $60,000.00 from the unappropriated balance of the general government grant fund to the Franklin County Municipal Court; and to declare an emergency. ($60,000.00)
Body
WHEREAS, it is in the City's best interest that the Franklin County Municipal Court continue to receive support for its enhanced probationary services for offenders with electronic monitoring; and
WHEREAS, grant addendum monies from the State of Ohio, Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, in the amount of $60,000 are available to provide for a new training and development project manager; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the city, in that it is immediately necessary to authorize the Administrative Judge of the Franklin County Municipal Court to accept these funds and to provide new personnel, 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 Judge of the Franklin ...
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