Explanation
Background:
This legislation will authorize the appropriation of matching funds for the 2013 Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) Domestic Violence Prosecutors Grant. The acceptance of said grant and the transfer of the required matching funds were authorized by Ordinance 0079-13 passed 02/14/13.
Fiscal Impact:
The required matching funds of $35,667.00 were included in the City Attorney's 2013 General Fund Budget.
Emergency Designation:
Emergency action is requested to allow the grant activities to proceed without interruption.
Title
To authorize the appropriation of funds within the General Government Grant fund for the funding of the 2013 VAWA DV Prosecutors grant in the amount of Thirty-five Thousand Six Hundred Sixty-seven Dollars and to declare an emergency. ($35,667,00)
Body
WHEREAS, the Franklin County Board of Commissioners, Office of Homeland Security and Justice Programs awarded the City of Columbus, City Attorney's Office a grant for the 2013 VAWA Domestic Violence Prosecutors program, and
WHEREAS, the acceptance of said grant required matching funds in the amount of Thirty-five Thousand Six Hundred Sixty-seven Dollars; and
WHEREAS, the transfer of said matching funds into the General Government Grant Fund was authorized by ordinance 0079-13, and
WHEREAS, there is now a need to appropriate said matching funds; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the daily operation of the City Attorney's Office in that it is necessary to immediately appropriate the matching grant funds in order that the services supported may continue without interruptions and for the preservation of the public peace, property, health, safety and welfare, now therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS, OHIO
SECTION 1. That from the unappropriated monies in the General Government Grant Fund and from all monies estimated to come into said fund from any and all sources and unappropriated for any other purpose during the project award period the sum of Thirty-five Thousand Six Hundred Sixty-seven Dollars ($35,667.00) is appropriated as follows: department 2401, fund 220, 2013 VAWA Domestic Violence Prosecutors Grant, grant number 241300, organizational cost account 241300, object level three 1101.
SECTION 2. At the end of the grant periods, any repayment of unencumbered balances required by the grantor is hereby authorized and any unused city match monies may be transferred back to the city fund from which they originated in accordance with all applicable grant agreements.
SECTION 3. Funds necessary to carry out the purpose of this ordinance are hereby deemed appropriated.
SECTION 4. That funds appropriated shall be paid upon order of the City Attorney and that no order shall be drawn or money
paid except by voucher, the form of which shall be approved by the City Auditor.
SECTION 5. That for the reasons stated in the preamble hereto, which is hereby made a part hereof, this ordinance is hereby declared to be an emergency measure and shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval by the Mayor, or ten days after passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.