Explanation
BACKGROUND
This ordinance authorizes the Administrative Judge of the Franklin County Municipal Court to accept a grant in the amount of $76,409.00 from the State of Ohio, Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, and to appropriate the same amount from the unappropriated balance of the general government grant fund.
This grant will fund the salaries and fringe benefits of five probation officers and a supervisor who will provide pretrial assessments and supervision to defendants in custody awaiting arraignment in the Municipal Court. With regard to charge severity, pre-trial services will be limited to those defendants appearing in Municipal Court arraignment for a minor misdemeanor, criminal misdemeanor and/or OVI. The program will not include the following charge categories: Traffic, Felony (conducted by Common Pleas pre-trial program), and Domestic Violence. Aggregate data from CY2014 suggests the pre-trial pilot program could potentially provide screening services for close to 800 individuals over the 18-month performance period with a sub-set of that population eligible to receive pre-trial supervision and case management services.
The amount of this grant is a temporary amount as an amendment to the grant should be coming next quarter. There was a delay in the State's budget and they gave a provisional amount to get started with until their budget is approved.
Emergency Legislation is requested so that the grant funds can be used as close to the start date of July 1 as possible.
FISCAL IMPACT $76,409.00 will be expended from the General Government Grant Fund.
Title
To authorize and direct the Administrative Judge of the Franklin County Municipal Court to accept a grant award from the State of Ohio, Department of Rehabilitation and Correction; to appropriate $76,409.00 from the unappropriated balance of the general government grant fund to the Franklin County Municipal Court; and to declare an emergency. ($76,409.00)
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