Explanation
BACKGROUND: The City of Columbus has been awarded the FY2017 Columbus Police Laboratory Forensic Grant in the amount of $235,000.00 from the State of Ohio Attorney General’s Office. This grant provides funding for direct expenses related to chemistry laboratory work to support accredited Ohio Crime Labs with the increased drug chemistry caseload as a result of the opioid epidemic. The CPD Crime Lab seeks to purchase $20,000.00 in casework supplies and drug reference standards that include the newly emerging fentanyl-related compounds. $215,000.00 will be expended for equipment to update and increase the lab’s capacity to process the increased caseload of fentanyl-related compounds.
Emergency Designation: Emergency legislation is necessary to make the funds available as soon as possible for the grant award, effective as of July 1, 2017.
FISCAL IMPACT: All appropriated funds will be reimbursed by the grant award.
The grant appropriation will be activated upon receipt of a fully-executed agreement.
Title
To authorize and direct the Public Safety Director of the City of Columbus to accept the FY17 Columbus Police Laboratory Forensic Grant from the Ohio Attorney General’s Office; to authorize an appropriation of $235,000.00 from the unappropriated balance of the General Government Grant Fund to the Division of Police to cover the costs associated with the FY17 Columbus Police Laboratory Forensic Grant; and to declare an emergency. ($235,000.00)
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WHEREAS, the City of Columbus, Division of Police, was awarded funding through the FY17 Columbus Police Laboratory Forensic Grant; and,
WHEREAS, the Columbus Division of Police Crime Laboratory seeks to address the increased drug chemistry caseload as a result of the opioid epidemic in Ohio by purchasing necessary supplies and equipment dealing with fentanyl-related compounds; and,
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operations of the Division of Police, Department of Public Safety...
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