Explanation
BACKGROUND
This ordinance authorizes the Administrative and Presiding Judge of the Franklin County Municipal Court to accept a grant in the amount of $50,000 from the Franklin County Office of Justice Policy & Programs and to appropriate the total amount of the grant from the unappropriated balance of the general government grant fund. This grant will fund the training of Municipal Court staff.
Emergency Legislation is requested so that the training can be started and we do not have to use general fund monies.
FISCAL IMPACT
$50,000.00 will be expended from the General Government Grant Fund.
Title
To authorize and direct the Administrative Judge of the Franklin County Municipal Court to accept a grant award from the Franklin County Office of Justice Policy & Programs; to appropriate $50,000.00 from the unappropriated balance of the general government grant fund to the Franklin County Municipal Court Department of Probation and Pretrial Services for the purpose of staff training; and to declare an emergency. ($50,000.00)
Body
WHEREAS, it is in the city's best interest that the Franklin County Municipal Court receive new training; and
WHEREAS, grant monies from the Franklin County Office of Justice Policy & Programs, in the amount of $50,000.00, are available to provide training and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Franklin County Municipal Court in that it is immediately necessary to authorize the Administrative Judge to approve the acceptance of this grant so that the training can begin as soon as possible and general fund monies are not used, all for the immediate preservation of the public health, peace, property, safety and welfare; and now, therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That the Administrative Judge of the Franklin County Municipal Court be and is hereby authorized to accept a grant in the amount of $50,000.00 from the Franklin County Office of Justice...
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