Explanation
BACKGROUND: The City of Columbus has been awarded a Federal Fiscal Year 2021 Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) Award from the Bureau of Justice Assistance, Office of Justice Programs via the Franklin County Office of Homeland Security and Justice Programs. 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 FY21 JAG award will provide funds for the Columbus Division of Police for the funding of overtime and a marketing campaign to educate the community on the Division’s Mobile Breath Testing Vehicle (MBTV), which is used to process OVIs. This campaign will educate the community on this Division resource and give them alternatives to drinking and driving through informative marketing tools. This campaign would use positive interaction to prevent negative interactions. The City will act as subgrantee to the Franklin County Office of Homeland Security and Justice Programs. Therefore, the Mayor is required to sign a subgrantee award on behalf of the City.
Emergency Designation: Emergency legislation is necessary to make the funds available as soon as possible for the grant award start date of March 1, 2022.
FISCAL IMPACT: All appropriated funds will be reimbursed by the grant award.
Title
To authorize the Mayor of the City of Columbus, on behalf of the Department of Public Safety, to accept a subgrantee award through the FY21 Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) Program from the Bureau of Justice Assistance via the Franklin County Office of Homeland Security and Justice Programs; to authorize an appropriation of $100,000.00 from the unappropriated balance of the General Government Grant Fund to the Division of Police to cover the costs associated with the FY21 Justice Assistance Grant; and to declare an emergency. ($100,000.00)
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WHEREAS, the Columbus Division of Police will work overtime and have a marketing ca...
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