Explanation
BACKGROUND
This ordinance authorizes the Administrative Judge of the Franklin County Municipal Court to accept an addendum to work release / electronic monitoring grant in the amount of $26,500 from the State of Ohio, Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, and to appropriate from the unappropriated balance of the general government grant fund to the Probation Department of the Franklin County Municipal Court, the total amount of the grant. This addendum will fund training of employees in evidence-based community corrections.
FISCAL IMPACT
$26,500 will be expended from the General Government Grant Fund.
EMERGENCY
Emergency legislation is requested to authorize the court to accept the grant addendum and begin training.
Title
To authorize and direct the Administrative Judge of the Franklin County Municipal Court to accept and appropriate a grant addendum of $26,500.00 from the unappropriated balance of the general government grant fund to the Franklin County Municipal Court; and to declare an emergency. ($26,500.00)
Body
WHEREAS, it is in the city's best interest that the Franklin County Municipal Court continue to receive support for its enhanced probationary services for offenders with electronic monitoring; and
WHEREAS, grant addendum monies from the State of Ohio, Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, in the amount of $26,500 are available to provide for training of employees; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the city, in that it is immediately necessary to authorize the Administrative and Presiding Judge of the Franklin County Municipal Court to accept these funds and to provide necessary training, 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. That the Administrative Judge of the Franklin County Municipal Court be and is hereby authorized to accept a grant addendum in the amoun...
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