Explanation
BACKGROUND
This legislation authorizes the Administrative and Presiding Judge of the Franklin County Municipal Court to accept a grant from U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance through the Franklin County Board of Commissioners for NIC (National Institute of Corrections) certified training for facilitators and training material. This legislation also will appropriate $13,282.00 from the general government grant fund.
FISCAL IMPACT No general fund resources are needed.
EMERGENCY LEGISLATION is requested so that the Court can expend the funds prior to the grant’s expiration date of 9/30/16. This grant was awarded mid-cycle.
Title
To authorize the Administrative and Presiding Judge of the Franklin County Municipal Court to accept a grant award from U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance through the Franklin County Board of Commissioners, for training of probation staff; to appropriate $13,282.00 from the unappropriated balance of the general government grant fund; and to declare an emergency. ($13,282.00)
Body
WHEREAS, grant monies from U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance through the Franklin County Board of Commissioners, in the amount of $13,282.00 are available to provide training of probation staff; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operations of the city in that it is immediately necessary to accept the aforesaid grant and to appropriate the aforementioned funds to assure that funds can be expended prior to the grant end date, 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 and Presiding Judge of the Franklin County Municipal Court is authorized to accept a grant award in the amount of $13,282.00 from the U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance through the Franklin County Board of Commissioners, for train...
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