Explanation
BACKGROUND: The City of Columbus has been awarded a Federal Fiscal Year 2022 Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) Award from the Bureau of Justice Assistance, Office of Justice Programs via the Franklin County Office of Justice Policy and 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 FY22 JAG award will provide funds for the Columbus Division of Police, drug identification section of the crime lab, to purchase additional equipment. Items being purchased include gas chromatograph mass spectrometer systems and infrared attenuated total reflectance systems that are employed daily to meet case demands. The City will act as subgrantee to the Franklin County Office of Justice Policy and Programs. Therefore, the Mayor is required to sign a subgrantee award on behalf of the City.
FISCAL IMPACT: All appropriated funds spent will be reimbursed by the grant award.
Title
To authorize the Mayor of the City of Columbus to accept a subgrantee award through the FY22 Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) Program from the Bureau of Justice Assistance via the Franklin County Office of Justice Policy and Programs to purchase equipment for the Crime Lab; to authorize an appropriation of $106,000.00 from the unappropriated balance of the General Government Grant Fund to the Division of Police to cover the costs associated with the FY22 Justice Assistance Grant. ($106,000.00)
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WHEREAS, the City of Columbus, Division of Police, was awarded funding through the FY22 Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) Program to fund equipment for forensic crime lab; and,
WHEREAS, advancing technology and new Crime Lab employees have created a need for additional forensic science equipment; and,
WHEREAS, the grant award period begins on January 1, 2023 and ends June 30, 2024; and,
WHEREAS, it is necessary to accept and appropriate the FY22 J...
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