Explanation
This legislation authorizes the Administrative and Presiding Judge of the Franklin County Municipal Court to accept a grant from Franklin County (Court of Common Pleas), for management of the Franklin County Foreclosure Mediation Project. The Courts Mediation Department will mange and provide the County’s foreclosure mediations. This legislation also will appropriate $200,000 from the general government grant fund. Grant monies will fund all program cost, supplies, and administrative costs for the Franklin County Municipal Court from January 1, 2014 through December 31, 2014
EMERGENCY ACTION is requested in order for this new cycle of funding to be in place as close to January 1, 2014 as possible
Title
To authorize the Administrative and Presiding Judge of the Franklin County Municipal Court to accept a grant award from Franklin County for management of the Franklin County Foreclosure Mediation Project; to appropriate $200,000 from the unappropriated balance of the general government grant fund; and to declare an emergency. ($200,000.00)
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WHEREAS, grant monies from Franklin County, in the amount of $200,000 are available to provide for implementation and management of the Franklin County Foreclosure Mediation Project; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operations of the city in that it is immediately necessary to accept the aforesaid grant for mediation services, and to appropriate the aforementioned funds to assure that this grant cycle can and will be able to commence as close to January 1, 2014 as possible, thereby preserving the public health, peace, property, safety and welfare; now, therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. To authorize the Administrative and Presiding Judge of the Franklin County Municipal Court to accept a grant award from the Franklin County, for management of the Franklin County Foreclosure Mediation Project.
SECTION 2. That from the unappropriate...
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