Title
Dept/ Agency: Administration/Office of Management and Budget
Action: (X) Ratifying (X) Authorizing ( ) Amending
Type of Service: Temporary Emergency Appropriation
Purpose: To reimburse the City of Newark for COVID-19 Local Health Department (LHD) related expenses.
Funding Source: New Jersey Association of County and City Health Officials (NJACCHO)
Appropriation Amount: $3,863,002.00
Budget Year: 2023
Contract Period: October 1, 2022 through June 30, 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:
Funds accepted by Apply and Accept Resolution submitted under separate cover as Legistar ID #23-0391.
Operating Agency: Department of Health and Community Wellness
Two-Thirds vote of full membership required.
body
TE # 18
WHEREAS, an emergency has arisen in the Special Item of Appropriation in the amount of Three Million Eight Hundred Sixty-Three Thousand Two Dollars and Zero Cents ($3,863,002.00) for the Enhancing Local Public Health Infrastructure Program 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 February 17, 2023, the New Jersey Association of County and City Health Officials (NJACCHO) awarded the City of Newark funds for $ 3,863,002.00. The aforementioned program will provide funds for the provision of health care and supportive services to the residents of the City of Newark; 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………………$166,587,132.93.
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
Enhancing Local Public Health Infrastructure $ 3,863,002.00
Grant
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 Enhancing Local Public Health Infrastructure Program FY 2023, in the amount of Three Million Eight Hundred Sixty-Three Thousand Two Dollars and Zero Cents ($3,863,002.00), from The New Jersey Association of County and City Health Officials (NJACCHO). The project period is October 1, 2022 through June 30, 2023.