Explanation
BACKGROUND
This ordinance authorizes the Administrative and Presiding Judge of the Franklin County Municipal Court to accept an additional award of $2,500.00 from the Franklin County Commissioners, Office of Justice Policy & 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. The court was already awarded $30,800.00 through Ordinance 2501-2019, plus this new additional amount of $2,500.00 will bring the grant total to $ 33,300.00. These additional monies will fund technology equipment for 2 Domestic Violence Probation Officers.
FISCAL IMPACT
$2,500.00 will be expended from the General Government Grant Fund.
EMERGENCY LEGISLATION is requested so that the Court can begin expending the funds as soon as possible.
Title
To authorize and direct the Administrative and Presiding Judge of the Franklin County Municipal Court to accept an additional award of $2,500.00 from the Franklin County Commissioners, Office of Justice Policy & 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 to provide technology equipment to 2 Domestic Violence Probation Officers; and to declare an emergency. ($2,500.00)
Body
WHEREAS, it is in the city’s best interest that the Franklin County Municipal Court to continue to receive support for participants of the specialized dockets; and
WHEREAS, additional grant monies from the Franklin County Commissioners, Office of Justice Policy & Programs in the amount of $2,500.00 have been awarded to provide technology equipment to 2 Domestic Violence Probation Officers; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Court, in that it is immediately necessary to accept the aforementioned grant modification to provide technolog...
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