Title
Dept/ Agency: Administration/Office of Management and Budget
Action: ( ) Ratifying (X) Authorizing ( ) Amending
Type of Service: Temporary Emergency Appropriation
Purpose: Cash Match for the FY 2023 Assistance to Firefighters Grant
Funding Source: 2025 City of Newark Budget
Appropriation Amount: $108,460.37
Budget Year: 2025
Contract Period: September 26, 2024 through September 25, 2026
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: $1,084,603.63; Cash-Match: $108,460.37; Total Grant: $1,193,064.00
Funds accepted by Resolution 7R9-c to be adopted on February 5, 2025.
Operating Agency: Department of Public Safety, Fire Division
Two-Thirds vote of full membership required.
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TE-#15
WHEREAS, an emergency has arisen in Special Item of Appropriation, in the amount of One Hundred-Eight Thousand Four Hundred-Sixty Dollars and Thirty-Seven Cents ($108,460.37) which is the City’s matching contribution for the FY 2023 Assistance to Firefighters Grant, and no adequate 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, the City of Newark will accept the FY 2023 Assistance to Firefighters Grant from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security FY 2023 Assistance to Firefighters Grant and wishes to establish a matching appropriation in the amount of One Hundred-Eight Thousand Four Hundred-Sixty Dollars and Thirty-Seven Cent ($108,460.37)for the period commencing September 26, 2024 through September 25, 2026; 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... $14,858,912.20.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE MUNICIPAL COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, no less than two-thirds of the members thereof concurring, THAT:
1. A temporary emergency appropriation be and the same is hereby made for the following classification:
Program Amount
FY 2023 Assistance to Firefighters Grant-Cash Match $108,460.37
2. Said emergency appropriation shall be provided for in the 2025 budget.
3. A copy of this resolution shall be immediately filed with the Director of Local Government Services by the City Clerk of the City of Newark.
STATEMENT
[This Resolution establishes the appropriation for a cash match for the FY 2023 Assistance to Firefighters Grant for $108,460.37.