Explanation
BACKGROUND
This ordinance authorizes the Administrative and Presiding Judge of the Franklin County Municipal Court to accept a grant in the amount of $3,750.00 from the Franklin County Office of Homeland Security & Justice Programs, and to appropriate the total amount of the grant from the unappropriated balance of the general government grant fund to the Probation Department of the Franklin County Municipal Court. This grant will fund training to administer the Ontario Domestic Assault Risk Assessment (ODARA) to identify the risk of future assaults against intimate partners.
Emergency Legislation is requested so that the grant funds can be used as soon as possible.
FISCAL IMPACT
$3,750.00 will be expended from the General Government Grant Fund.
Title
To authorize and direct the Administrative and Presiding Judge of the Franklin County Municipal Court to accept a grant award from the Franklin County Office of Homeland Security & Justice Programs; to appropriate $3,750.00 from the unappropriated balance of the general government grant fund to the Franklin County Municipal Court; and to declare an emergency. ($3,750.00)
Body
WHEREAS, it is in the city's best interest that the Franklin County Municipal Court receive support to be responsive to the unique needs and issues faced by those under its care who are victims of domestic violence by their intimate partner; and
WHEREAS, grant monies from the Franklin County Office of Homeland Security & Justice Programs, in the amount of $3,750.00 are available to provide for ODARA training; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Court in that it is immediately necessary to approve the acceptance of this grant so that the grant funds can be used as soon as possible; 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 be and is hereby authorized to accept a ...
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