Explanation
BACKGROUND
This legislation authorizes the Franklin County Municipal Court, Clerk of Court (Municipal Court Clerk) to accept a grant in the amount of $5,000.00 from the Supreme Court of Ohio, 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 grant will fund an Online Notarization Pilot Project (“Project”). The project will explore the practical aspects of advancing the administration of justice by supporting, documenting, and evaluating online notarization projects in high-need courts and clerk of court’s offices. The information obtained on the challenges and benefits of implementing the Project will be distributed to Ohio courts to improve the efficient and effective implementation of similar projects across Ohio.
EMERGENCY: Emergency legislation is requested so that the grant funds can be used as soon as possible.
FISCAL IMPACT: $5,000.00 will be expended from the General Government Grant Fund.
Title
To authorize and direct the Franklin County Municipal Court Clerk of Court to accept a grant award from the Supreme Court of Ohio; to appropriate $5,000.00 from the unappropriated balance of the General Government Grant Fund to the Franklin County Municipal Court for an Online Notarization Pilot Project; and to declare an emergency. ($5,000.00)
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WHEREAS, it is in the city's best interest that the Municipal Court Clerk receive support for an Online Notarization Pilot Project to explore the practical aspects of advancing the administration of justice by supporting, documenting, and evaluating online notarization projects in high-need courts and clerk of court’s offices; and
WHEREAS, grant monies from the Ohio Supreme Court in the amount of $5,000.00 are available to provide for the Project; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Court in that it is immediately necessary to approve the accepta...
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