Explanation
BACKGROUND
This ordinance authorizes the Administrative and Presiding Judge of the Franklin County Municipal Court to accept a grant in the amount of $2,147,440 from the State of Ohio, Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, and to appropriate the funds from the unappropriated balance of the general government grant fund.
The purpose of this Justice Reinvestment and Incentive Grant is to provide funds to the Franklin County Municipal Court Department of Probation and Pre-trial Services to adopt policies and practices based on the latest research on how to reduce the number of offenders on probation supervision who violate the conditions of their supervision.
This grant will continue to fund the salaries and fringe benefits of 11 existing probation officers and an exisiting 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 in custody for criminal misdemeanor and/or OVI. The program will not include the following charge categories: Traffic and Felony (conducted by Common Pleas pre-trial program). The grant will also pay for continued services through Alvis Inc. (Safe Housing residential beds, Move-In Kits, and 3 GRaSP Facilitators).
Emergency Legislation is requested so the grant funds can be used as close to the July 1, 2019 start date as possible.
FISCAL IMPACT
$2,147,440 will be expended from the General Government Grant Fund following an appropriation of funds.
Title
To authorize and direct the Administrative and Presiding Judge of the Franklin County Municipal Court to accept a grant award from the State of Ohio, Department of Rehabilitation and Correction with the purpose of providing funding to the Probation and Pre-trial Services Department; to appropriate $2,147,440.00 from the unappropriated balance of the general gov...
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