Title
Dept/ Agency: Administration/Office of Management and Budget
Action: ( ) Ratifying (X) Authorizing ( ) Amending
Type of Service: Temporary Emergency Appropriation
Purpose: FY 2024 Connect and Protect: Law Enforcement Behavioral Health Response Grant
Funding Source: United States Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice Assistance
Appropriation Amount: $549,999.00
Budget Year: 2025
Contract Period: October 1, 2024 through September 30, 2027 (or until all grant funds are expended)
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:
Grant Award: $549,999.00; Matching Funds: $213,888.04 ( in-kind); Total Cost: $763,887.04
Funds accepted by Resolution 24-1377 to be adopted under separate cover
Operating Agency: Department of Public Safety
Two-Thirds vote of full membership required.
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TE #54
WHEREAS, an emergency has arisen in Special Item of Appropriation in the amount of Five Hundred Forty-Nine Thousand Nine Hundred and Ninety-Nine Dollars and Zero Cents ($549,999.00) from the United States Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice Assistance and no provision has been made in the 2025 Temporary Budget for the aforesaid purpose; and
WHEREAS, N.J.S.A. 40A:4-20 provides for the creation of an emergency appropriation for the purpose above-mentioned; and
WHEREAS, by Legistar file 24-1377, the City of Newark accepted Fiscal Year 2024 Connect and Protect: Law Enforcement Behavioral Health Response Grant in the amount of Five Hundred Forty-Nine Thousand Nine Hundred and Ninety-Nine Dollars and Zero Cents ($549,999.00) to fund the existing co-responder model in place, which currently operates in a limited capacity; 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 2025 pursuant to N.J.S.A. 40A:4-20 including this Resolution total…………………$500,111,828.73.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE MUNICIPAL COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, THAT:
1. A temporary emergency appropriation be and the same is hereby made for the following classification.
Program Amount
FY 2024 Connect and Protect Grant $549,999.00
2. Said emergency appropriation shall be provided for in the 2025 budget.
3. A copy of this Resolution shall be filed with the Director of Local Government Services by the City Clerk of the City of Newark.
STATEMENT
This Resolution establishes the temporary emergency appropriation for the Fiscal Year 2024 Connect and Protect Grant in the amount of Five Hundred Forty-Nine Thousand Nine Hundred and Ninety-Nine Dollars and Zero Cents ($549,999.00awarded by the United States Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice Assistance for the period commencing on October 1, 2024 and terminating September 30, 2027 (or until all grant funds are expended).