File #: 23-0549    Version: 1 Name: Resolution: Acceptance of Grant Funds - Truancy
Type: Resolution Status: Adopted
File created: 4/5/2023 In control: Mayor's Office
On agenda: 6/7/2023 Final action: 6/7/2023
Title: Dept/ Agency: Office of the Mayor and Agencies/Newark Municipal Court Action: (X) Ratifying (X) Authorizing ( ) Amending Type of Service: Acceptance of Grant Funds Purpose: Truancy Alternative Program (TAP) Entity Name: Essex County Youth Services Commission Entity Address: 50 South Clinton Street, 3rd Floor, East Orange, New Jersey 07017 Grant Amount: $72,868.00 Total Project Cost: $0.00 City Contribution: No municipal funds required Other Funding Source/Amount: State/Community Partnership Program Grant Period: January 1, 2023 through December 31, 2023 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:
Sponsors: Council of the Whole
Related files: 23-1363

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Dept/ Agency: Office of the Mayor and Agencies/Newark Municipal Court

Action:  (X) Ratifying     (X) Authorizing     (   ) Amending

Type of Service:  Acceptance of Grant Funds

Purpose: Truancy Alternative Program (TAP)

Entity Name: Essex County Youth Services Commission

Entity Address: 50 South Clinton Street, 3rd Floor, East Orange, New Jersey 07017

Grant Amount: $72,868.00

Total Project Cost: $0.00

City Contribution: No municipal funds required

Other Funding Source/Amount: State/Community Partnership Program   

Grant Period: January 1, 2023 through December 31, 2023

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:                   

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WHEREAS, the Essex County Youth Services Commission (the “County”), receives funds through the State/Community Partnership Program to provide an array of services to assist the needs and rehabilitate detained youths from their involvement in criminal activities and from a life of crime; and

 

WHEREAS, the City of Newark (the “City”), is in need of funding for its Truancy Alternative Program (TAP), which is an ongoing collaborative project administered by the Newark Municipal Court, subject to N.J.S.A. 18A:38-25 and N.J.S.A. 18A:38-31, that provides family strengthening social services that empowers the parent/guardian’s parenting skills and motivates at-risk youth to curb truant behavior; and

 

                     WHEREAS, the Essex County Youth Services Commission submitted an application on its own behalf and in part on behalf of the City, requesting grant funding from the State/Community Partnership Program in the amount of Seventy-Two Thousand Eight Hundred Sixty-Eight Dollars and Zero Cents ($72,868.00) for TAP; and

 

WHEREAS, the City, has been awarded a grant in the amount of Seventy-Two Thousand Eight Hundred Sixty-Eight Dollars and Zero Cents ($72,868.00) from the Essex County Youth Services Commission to continue to provide services through TAP for the period commencing on January 1, 2023 and terminating on December 31, 2023; and

 

WHEREAS, the City must execute a grant agreement with the Essex County Youth Services Commission, in order to obtain the grant award with no City funds required.

 

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE MUNICIPAL COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, THAT:

 

1.                     The Mayor of the City of Newark and/or his designee, the Chief Judge of the Newark Municipal Court, are hereby authorized to submit program information to the Essex County Youth Services Commission, 50 South Clinton Street, 3rd Floor, East Orange, New Jersey 07017, in order to request grant funding in the amount of Seventy-Two Thousand Eight Hundred Sixty-Eight Dollars and Zero Cents ($72,868.00) from the State/Community Partnership Program, for the renewal of TAP with no City funds required (a copy of the relevant part of the County’s Program Profile is attached hereto and made a part hereof). 

 

2.                     The Municipal Council hereby ratifies its authorization of this Program Profile, from the date of application submission to the date of adoption this authorizing Resolution.

 

3.                     The grant award in the amount of Seventy-Two Thousand Eight Hundred Sixty-Eight Dollars and Zero Cents ($72,868.00) from the County is hereby accepted.

 

4.                     The Mayor of the City of Newark and/or his designee, the Chief Judge of the Newark Municipal Court, are hereby authorized to enter into and execute grant documents with the County to receive and expend the grant award in the amount of Seventy-Two Thousand Eight Hundred Sixty-Eight Dollars and Zero Cents ($72,868.00) for TAP for the period commencing on January 1, 2023 and terminating on December 31, 2023 (a copy of the Agreement is attached hereto and made a part hereof).

 

5.                     The Grant agreement between the City and the County is hereby ratified from January 1, 2023 to the date of adoption of this authorizing Resolution.

 

6.                     No Municipal funds are required for receipt or acceptance of this grant award.

 

7.                     The Chief Judge of the Newark Municipal Court shall file a fully executed copy of the grant agreement in the Office of the City Clerk.

 

 

STATEMENT 

 

This Resolution ratifies and authorizes the actions taken by the Chief Judge of the Newark Municipal Court to submit program information to the Essex County of Youth Services Commission, in order for the County to request grant funding from the State/Community Partnership Program for Truancy Alternative Program (TAP).  Furthermore, this Resolution ratifies and authorizes the Mayor of the City of Newark and/or his designee, the Chief Judge of the Newark Municipal Court, to enter into and execute grant documents with the County to receive and expend grant funds in the amount of $72,868.00 from the State/Community Partnership Program for the renewal of TAP for the period commencing on January 1, 2023 and terminating on December 31, 2023.  No municipal funds are required.