Explanation
BACKGROUND: The City of Columbus has been awarded a Federal Fiscal Year 2016 Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) Award from the Bureau of Justice Assistance, Office of Justice Programs via the State of Ohio Office of Criminal Justice Services. The JAG program provides funding to allow states and local governments to support a broad range of activities to prevent and control crime and improve the criminal justice system.
The FY16 JAG Award #2016-JG-A02-V6717 will provide additional overtime funds for Columbus Division of Police Critical Incident Team Officers to increase support of the Division of Fire Rapid Response Emergency Addiction Crisis Team (RREACT), a collaborative strategic response effort originally launched in May 2017 between CFD, the Alcohol, Drug and Mental Health Board of Franklin County (ADAMH) and Southeast Healthcare Services, Inc. intended to provide rapid response and follow-up services to City of Columbus residents who overdose on opiates and other drugs. In 2017, CPD received a two-year, Ohio Attorney General grant to fund OT for the addition of CPD CIT Officers to the RREACT Team to provide much needed outreach and support to the growing population of substance abusers refusing additional clinical services after being revived with Narcan. This grant project goal seeks to help stabilize households in an effort to reduce barriers to accessing treatment for the substance abuse user, and this new grant award addresses the gap in funding based on the increase in outreach activities related to this project work. The City will act as subgrantee to the U.S. Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Assistance via the State of Ohio Department of Public Safety, Office of Criminal Justice Services. Therefore, the Mayor is required to sign a subgrantee award on behalf of the City and to appropriate $50,000.00 for expenditure.
EMERGENCY DESIGNATION: Emergency legislation is necessary to make the funds available as soon as possible fo...
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