Title
Dept/ Agency: Administration/Office of Management and Budget
Action: (X) Ratifying (X) Authorizing ( ) Amending
Type of Service: Temporary Emergency Appropriation
Purpose: To provide funding for the expansion of the Gunshot Detection System.
Funding Source: State of New Jersey Division of Administration, Department of Law and Public Safety
Appropriation Amount: $1,019,417.93
Budget Year: 2023
Contract Period: December 1, 2022 through November 30, 2024
Contract Basis: ( ) Bid ( ) State Vendor ( ) Prof. Ser. ( ) EUS
( ) Fair & Open ( ) No Reportable Contributions ( ) RFP ( ) RFQ
( ) Private Sale (X) Grant ( ) Sub-recipient ( ) n/a
Additional Information:
Funds accepted by Apply and Accept Resolution 7R9-b adopted on July 19, 2023.
Operating Agency: Department of Public Safety, Division of Police
Two-Thirds vote of full membership required.
body
TE # 57
WHEREAS, an emergency has arisen in the Special Item of Appropriation in the amount of One Million Nineteen Thousand Four Hundred Seventeen Dollars and Ninety-Three Cents ($1,019,417.93) for the Gunshot Detection System Grant and no adequate provision has been made in the 2023 Temporary Budget for the aforesaid purpose and N.J.S.A. 40A:4-20 provides for the creation of an emergency appropriation for the purpose above-mentioned; and
WHEREAS, by the Notice of Award dated May 10, 2023, the State of New Jersey Division of Administration Department of Law and Public Safety awarded the City of Newark funds in the amount of $1,019,417.93. The aforementioned program will provide funds for the Gunshot Detection System; and
WHEREAS, N.J.S.A. 40A:4-20 provides that the Governing Body, by a two-thirds vote, may make temporary emergency appropriations for any purpose for which appropriations may lawfully be made for the period between the beginning of the current fiscal year and the date of the adoption of the budget for said year; and
WHEREAS, emergency appropriation adopted in 2023, pursuant to N.J.S.A. 40A: 4-20 including this Resolution total…………………$ 454,907,382.40.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE MUNICIPAL COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, THAT:
1. The Governing Body by a two-thirds vote of its full membership hereby amends its temporary budget by making the following temporary emergency appropriation:
2. A temporary emergency appropriation be and the same is hereby made for the following classification.
Program Amount
Gunshot Detection System $1,019,417.93
3. The temporary emergency appropriation shall be provided for in the 2023 budget.
4. A copy of this Resolution shall be filed with the Director of Local Government Services by the City Clerk.
STATEMENT
This Resolution establishes the temporary emergency appropriation for the Police Division’s Gunshot Detection System Grant, in the amount of One Million Nineteen Thousand Four Hundred Seventeen Dollars and Ninety-Three Cents ($1,019,417.93). The State of New Jersey Division of Administration Department of Law and Public Safety awarded the funds. The project period is December 1, 2022 through November 30, 2024.