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 training of probation officers.
SECTION 2. That funds necessary to carry out the purpose of this ordinance are hereby deemed appropriated. That from the unappropriated balance in the general government grant fund, fund 2220, and from all monies estimated to come into said fund from any and all sources and appropriated for any other purpose during the months ending September 30, 2016, the sum of $13,282.00 is appropriated to the Franklin County Municipal Court, see attachment.
SECTION 3. That the monies appropriated in the foregoing Section 2 shall be paid upon the order of the Administrative Judge of the Franklin County Municipal Court 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 4. That at the end of the grant period, any repayment of unencumbered balances required by the grant 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 5. 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.