Explanation
BACKGROUND: The City of Columbus has been awarded the Law Enforcement Data Improvement Project from the Ohio Department of Health. The program provides funding to law enforcement agencies to improve the quality, availability, and timeliness of the law enforcement data as it is transmitted to the Ohio Violent Death Reporting System (OH-VDRS). These funds will improve law enforcement data by providing resources to allow civilian personnel to work overtime. This overtime will allow the monthly reports to be produced and submitted in a more timely manner to the State of Ohio.
Emergency Designation: Emergency legislation is necessary to make the funds available as soon as possible as the grant award start date was November 1, 2021.
FISCAL IMPACT: All appropriated funds will be reimbursed by the grant award.
Title
To authorize and direct the Director of Public Safety to accept an award from the Ohio Department of Health for the Law Enforcement Data Improvement Project; to authorize an appropriation of $21,000.00 from the unappropriated balance of the General Government Grant Fund to the Division of Police to cover overtime costs associated with the Law Enforcement Data Improvement Project; and to declare an emergency. ($21,000.00)
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WHEREAS, through the use of overtime, the Columbus Division of Police seeks to enhance and expand their ability to improve the quality, availability, and timeliness of the law enforcement data as it is transmitted to the Ohio Violent Death Reporting system (OH-VDRS); and,
WHEREAS, the City of Columbus, Division of Police, was awarded funding through the Ohio Department of Health; and,
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operations of the Division of Police, Department of Public Safety, in that it is immediately necessary to accept and appropriate the Law Enforcement Data Improvement Project award in order to make funds available for the grant award period, thereby preserving the public peace, heal...
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