Explanation
BACKGROUND:
This ordinance authorizes the appropriation and expense of $86,000 for fiscal year 2015 within the Franklin County Municipal Court's fund for Assisted Civil Self Help - Indigent. The Franklin County Municipal Court Assisted Civil Self-Help Center will begin operating sometime in August or September of 2015. The program will provide information about the court system and non-legal assistance to civil litigants qualifying as indigent and appearing pro se before the Court.
To support the program, the Franklin County Municipal Court instituted a special project cost as authorized by Ohio Revised Code, ยง 1901.26(B)(1). The project cost is a $1.00 charge for all civil, traffic, and criminal cases.
Funds are to be used for the Franklin County Municipal Court to contract with the Moritz College of Law for services of an attorney to staff and provide services at the Help Center.
Contract Compliance Number: Moritz College of Law (Ohio State University) 316025986 expires 4/10/15
EMERGENCY: Emergency action is requested.
Title
To authorize the appropriation of $86,000 for 2015 from the unappropriated balance of the Franklin County Municipal Court Judges assisted civil self-help fund; and to authorize the Administrative and Presiding Judge to enter into contract with the Moritz College of Law; and to declare an emergency. ($86,000.00)
Body
WHEREAS, an appropriation of these funds is necessary in order to start the Help Center; and
WHEREAS, it is necessary to authorize the Administrative and Presiding Judge to enter into this contract with Moritz College of Law to provide service for the Help Center; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Franklin County Municipal Court in that it is immediately necessary to appropriate funds and enter into said contract with Moritz College of Law to continue Help Center services, and for the preservation of the public health, peace, safety, and welfare; now, therefo...
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