Explanation
BACKGROUND: The City of Columbus has been awarded a Federal Fiscal Year 2013 Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) Award from the Bureau of Justice Assistance, Office of Justice Programs via the Franklin County Office of Homeland Security and Justice Programs. The JAG program provides funding to allow states and local governments to support a broad range of activities to prevent and control crime and improve the criminal justice system. The FY13 JAG award, under the purpose area of technology improvements, is for the purchase of a 3D laser scanner system for the Division of Police. The laser scanning system will enable police personnel to document various law enforcement crime scenes in a more efficient and effective manner. The scanner also has applications in crash scene documentation, post blast investigations, and protection planning. The laser system 3D rendering of the scene can be “virtually revisited” after the scene has been cleared for additional analysis and measurements that are not possible with the current manual reconstruction process. The City must act as subgrantee to the Franklin County Office of Homeland Security and Justice Programs. Therefore, the Mayor is required to sign a subgrantee award on behalf of the City. The official City program contact authorized to act in connection with this grant is Police Commander Kelly Weiner.
Emergency Designation: Emergency legislation is necessary to make the funds available for the start of the grant award period which is January 1, 2014.
FISCAL IMPACT: All appropriated funds will be reimbursed by the grant award.
Title
To authorize and direct the Mayor of the City of Columbus to accept a subgrantee award through the FY13 Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) Program from the Bureau of Justice Assistance via the Franklin County Office of Homeland Security and Justice Programs; to authorize Police Commander Kelly Weiner as the official City representative to act in connection with this subgr...
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