Explanation
BACKGROUND: The City of Columbus has been awarded a Federal Fiscal Year 2014 Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) Award from the Bureau of Justice Assistance, Office of Justice Programs via the Franklin County Office of Homeland Security and Justice Programs. The JAG program provides funding to allow states and local governments to support a broad range of activities to prevent and control crime and improve the criminal justice system. The FY14 JAG award will provide funds for security upgrades to the Police Central Headquarters building and surrounding area. The project will involve the design and implementation of an upgraded security system. Expenditures for the project will include equipment (i.e. cameras, servers, routers, storage devices, workstations) software (i.e. operating systems), applicable licenses and training for administrators and users of the system. The City will act as subgrantee to the Franklin County Office of Homeland Security and Justice Programs. Therefore, the Mayor is required to sign a subgrantee award on behalf of the City.
Emergency Designation: Emergency legislation is necessary to make the funds available as soon as possible for the grant award start date of January 1, 2015.
FISCAL IMPACT: All appropriated funds will be reimbursed by the grant award.
Title
To authorize and direct the Mayor of the City of Columbus to accept a subgrantee award through the FY14 Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) Program from the Bureau of Justice Assistance via the Franklin County Office of Homeland Security and Justice Programs; to authorize an appropriation of $202,424.00 from the unappropriated balance of the General Government Grant Fund to the Division of Police to cover the costs associated with the FY14 Justice Assistance Grant Security Upgrades Project; and to declare an emergency. ($202,424.00)
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WHEREAS, the current security system in the Police Headquarters building is in need of updated equipment and software; an...
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