Explanation
BACKGROUND
This ordinance authorizes the Administrative and Presiding Judge of the Franklin County Municipal Court to accept a grant in the amount of $750,000.00 from the federal Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice Assistance, and to appropriate the total amount of the grant from the unappropriated balance of the general government grant fund to the Franklin County Municipal Court.
This funding is provided through the Adult Drug Court and Veterans Treatment Courts: Adult Drug Court award. This funding will support and enhance the Franklin County Municipal Court Adult Drug Courts and Veteran’s Treatment Specialized Docket programs by providing an additional Probation Officer to the HART Program; contract for Peer Support Specialists to the be assigned to each Drug Court and the Veteran’s Court; mindfulness programming; and MAT case flow in OCSS.
Emergency Legislation is requested so that the grant funds can be utilized as soon as possible so there is no interruption in critical services.
FISCAL IMPACT
$750,000.00 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 award from the federal Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice Assistance; to appropriate $750,000.00 from the unappropriated balance of the general government grant fund to the Franklin County Municipal Court in order to support and enhance the Franklin County Municipal Court Adult Drug Courts and Veteran’s Treatment Specialized Docket programs; and to declare an emergency. ($750,000.00)
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WHEREAS, it is in the city's best interest that the Franklin County Municipal Court receive funding to support and enhance the Adult Drug Courts and Veteran’s Treatment Specialized Docket programs; and
WHEREAS, grant monies from the federal Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice Assistance, in the amount of $750,000.00 are available to provide suppor...
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