Explanation
Background: This ordinance authorizes the City Auditor to establish a certificate in the amount of $850,000.00 to fund a Spring 2025 community grant program implemented by the Office of Violence Prevention. Encumbering funds in 2024 is necessary as the grant application process will begin in early 2025. This will ensure that community violence prevention programming is effective on or before Spring 2025. The Office of Violence Prevention will utilize a competitive Request for Proposals (RFP) process to solicit grant proposals from community organizations.
After proposals have been accepted, The Office of Violence Prevention will submit ordinances seeking Council authorization to enter into related grants agreements. This ordinance also authorizes the expenditure of $850,000.00 for the purposes described above.
EMERGENCY DESIGNATION: Emergency action is being requested so that a certificate can be established prior to the City Auditor’s 2024 year-end deadline.
Fiscal Impact: $850,000.00 was expressly budgeted, and is available in the 2024 General Fund operating budget to undertake the project outlined above.
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To authorize and direct the City Auditor to establish a certificate in the amount of $850,000.00 to develop and implement a Spring 2025 community violence prevention grant program on behalf of the Office of Violence Prevention; to authorize the transfer of $850,000 within the General Fund; to authorize the expenditure of $850,000.00 from the General Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($850,000.00)
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WHEREAS, The Office of Violence Prevention plans to solicit proposals from community organizations, in accordance with the relevant provisions of the City Code Chapter 329, for a Spring 2025 community violence prevention grants program; and
WHEREAS, funds totaling $850,000.00 were budgeted in the Office of Violence Prevention 2024 operating budget for the purposes noted above; and
WHEREAS, to ensure the availability of moneys bud...
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