Explanation
BACKGROUND
This ordinance authorizes the Administrative and Presiding Judge of the Franklin County Municipal Court to accept a grant in the amount of $40,000 from the Franklin County Office of Justice Policy & Programs and to appropriate the total amount of the grant from the unappropriated balance of the general government grant fund. This grant will fund the training of probation staff. New staff assigned to the BIP program will be trained on batterer's intervention prevention. All staff will receive evidence based training to change offender behavior.
Emergency Legislation is requested so that the training can be started and so such training can be paid with grant funds instead of general fund monies.
FISCAL IMPACT
$40,000.00 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 Franklin County Office of Justice Policy & Programs to train probation staff; to appropriate $40,000.00 from the unappropriated balance of the general government grant fund to the Franklin County Municipal Court Department of Probation and Pretrial Services for the purpose of staff training; and to declare an emergency. ($40,000.00)
Body
WHEREAS, it is in the city's best interest that the Franklin County Municipal Court receive new training; and
WHEREAS, grant monies from the Franklin County Office of Justice Policy & Programs, in the amount of $40,000.00, are available to provide probation training and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the City in that it is immediately necessary to authorized the Administrative and Presiding Judge of the Franklin County Municipal Court to accept the grant from the Franklin County Office of Justice Policy & Program in the amount of $40,000 so that the training of the probation staff can begin as soon as possible so such training cost can be paid for with grant funds i...
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