Explanation
Background:
This legislation will authorize the City Attorney to accept a grant award from the State of Ohio, Office of the Attorney General, for the funding of the Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) 2015 NOVA Conference grant award. Said funding is for the attendance by staff of the Domestic Violence Unit of the City Attorney’s Office at a seminar held by the National Organization of Victim Advocates (NOVA). This ordinance will further authorize the appropriation of the grant funds and the transfer and appropriation of the matching funds required by the grant award.
Fiscal Impact:
State Share: 1,564.00
Match Required: 391.00
Total Grant Award: 1,955.00
Grant Award Period 10/01/14 - 09/30/15
Emergency Action:
The City Attorney’s Office is requesting emergency action due to the timing of the award and the conference.
Title
To authorize the City Attorney to accept the 2015 VOCA NOVA grant award from the State of Ohio, Office of the Attorney General in the amount of $1,564.00; to authorize the appropriation of said grant funds; to authorize the transfer and appropriation of matching funds in the amount of $391.00 from the General Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($1,955.00)
Body
WHEREAS, the State of Ohio, Office of the Attorney General, has awarded the City of Columbus, City Attorney's Office, a grant in the amount of One Thousand Five Hundred Sixty-four Dollars ($1,564.00) for the 2015 VOCA NOVA Conference Grant, 2015-VOCA-14590067; and
WHEREAS, the acceptance of said grant requires the City Attorney to supply matching funds in the amount of Three Hundred Ninety-one Dollars ($391.00); and
WHEREAS, the grant award is to fund attendance of one staff of the City Attorney’s Domestic Violence Unit at the 2015 NOVA conference; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the City Attorney's Office in that it is immediately necessary to accept and appropriate funds and transfer and appropriate the matching funds so that the activities supported may commence, all for the preservation of the public health, peace, property, safety and welfare, and now therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS, OHIO:
SECTION 1. That the City Attorney be and hereby is authorized to accept a grant award from the State of Ohio, Office of the Attorney General in the amount of One Thousand Five Hundred Sixty-Four Dollars ($1,564.00), for the 2015 VOCA NOVA grant, 2015-VOCA-14590067.
SECTION 2. That the amount of Three Hundred Ninety-one Dollars ($391.00) is hereby transferred from the General Fund of the City Attorney's Office as follows:
FROM: department 2401, general fund, fund number 010, organizational cost account 240101, object level three 3000.
TO: department 2401, general fund, fund number 010, organizational cost account 240101, object level three 5501.
FROM: department 2401, general fund, fund number 010, organizational cost account 240101, object level three 5501.
TO: department 2401, general government grant fund, fund number 220, 2015 VOCA NOVA Grant, grant number 241507, organizational cost account 241507, object level three 0886.
SECTION 3. 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 One Thousand Nine Hundred Fifty-five Dollars ($1,955.00) is appropriated as follows: department 2401, fund number 220, 2015 VOCA NOVA Grant, grant number 241507, organizational cost account 241507, object level three 3000.
SECTION 4. That funds necessary to carry out the purpose of this ordinance are hereby deemed appropriated, and the City Auditor shall establish such accounting codes as necessary.
SECTION 5. That funds appropriated in the foregoing Section 3 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 6. That at the end of the grant period, 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 7. 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.