Explanation
BACKGROUND
This ordinance authorizes the Administrative Judge of the Franklin County Municipal Court to accept a grant in the amount of $611,273 from the State of Ohio, Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, and to appropriate from the unappropriated balance of the general government grant fund. The Court is required to provide a cash match of $16,902 to cover 40% of the supervisor’s salary. The Court will need to appropriate these funds.
This grant is a pilot program that will fund the salaries and fringe benefits of five probation officers and a supervisor who will provide pretrial assessments and supervision to defendants in custody awaiting arraignment in the Municipal Court. With regard to charge severity, pre-trial services will be limited to those defendants appearing in Municipal Court arraignment for a minor misdemeanor, criminal misdemeanor and/or OVI. The program will not include the following charge categories: Traffic, Felony (conducted by Common Pleas pre-trial program), and Domestic Violence. Aggregate data from CY2014 suggests the pre-trial pilot program could potentially provide screening services for close to 800 individuals over the 18-month performance period with a sub-set of that population eligible to receive pre-trial supervision and case management services.
The grant will also pay for computers and bus passes.
FISCAL IMPACT
$611,273.00 will be expended from the General Government Grant Fund.
$16,902 will be expended from the Probation User Fees Fund.
Title
To authorize and direct the Administrative Judge of the Franklin County Municipal Court to accept a grant award from the State of Ohio, Department of Rehabilitation and Correction; to appropriate $16,902.00 in matching funds from the probation user fees fund and transfer said funds to the general government grant fund; to appropriate $628,175.00 from the unappropriated balance of the general government grant fund to the Franklin County Municipal Court; an...
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