Title
Dept/ Agency: Administration/Office of the Business Administrator
Action: (X) Ratifying (X) Authorizing ( ) Amending
Type of Service: Application/Acceptance of the 2025 Police and Fire Capital Improvements Grant
Purpose: To submit an application and enter into agreements with the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs, Division of Housing and Community Resources for the 2025 Police and Fire Capital Improvements Grant
Entity Name: New Jersey Department of Community Affairs, Division of Housing and Community Resources
Entity Address: 101 South Broad Street, 5th Floor, Trenton, New Jersey 08625-0811
Total Grant Amount: $750,000.00
Funding Source: New Jersey Department of Community Affairs, Division of Housing and Community Resources
Grant Period: July 1, 2024 through December 31, 2025, until funds are fully 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:
The grant funds will be utilized for structural repairs to correct PEOSH violations at three (3) Newark Firehouses located at 395 Avon Avenue, 65 Congress Street, and 469 Ferry Street.
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WHEREAS, the City of Newark desires to apply for and obtain a New Jersey legislative “line item” grant from the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs (“Department”) for approximately $750,000.00, to carry out the “2025 Police and Fire Capital Improvements Grant” project for the structural repairs needed to correct PEOSH violations at three (3) Newark Firehouses, located at 395 Avon Avenue, 65 Congress Street, and 469 Ferry Street; and
WHEREAS, on or about January 30, 2024, the City’s Business Administrator did cause an application for such grant funds to be submitted to the Department (a copy of which is attached hereto and made a part hereof); and
WHEREAS, the Department has informed the City that the City’s application has been approved; and
WHEREAS, the Department requires that the City pass a Resolution authorizing the grant application before a grant agreement can be entered into, which would then authorize the release of the grant funds to the City; and
WHEREAS, no municipal funds are required for the receipt or acceptance of the grant award.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE MUNICIPAL COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, THAT:
1. The Mayor and/or his designee, the Business Administrator, are hereby authorized to submit an application to the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs requesting Seven Hundred Fifty Thousand Dollars and Zero Cents ($750,000.00), from the 2025 Police and Fire Capital Improvements Grant program, for the structural repairs needed to correct PEOSH violations at three (3) Newark Firehouses located at 395 Avon Avenue, 65 Congress Street, and 469 Ferry Street, with no City funds required (a copy of the application is attached hereto and made a part hereof).
2. The actions taken by the City to apply for the grant are hereby ratified from the date the application was submitted until the date of this authorizing resolution.
3. The Municipal Council of the City of Newark recognizes and accepts that the Department may offer a lesser or greater amount and therefore, upon receipt of the grant agreement from the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs, does further authorize the execution of any such grant agreement upon review, approval and signature by the City’s Mayor and Corporation Counsel; and also, upon receipt of the fully executed agreement from the Department, does further authorize the acceptance of the grant funds and the expenditure of the funds pursuant to the terms of the agreement between the City of Newark and the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs.
4. Be it further resolved that the Mayor and/or his designee, the Business Administrator and/or his designee, are authorized to sign the application, and any other documents necessary in connection therewith.
5. The Mayor shall file fully executed copies of the grant application and grant agreement in the Office of the City Clerk.
STATEMENT
This Resolution ratifies and authorizes the application for, and acceptance of $750,000.00 in New Jersey legislative “line item” grant funds from the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs, to carry out the 2025 Police and Fire Capital Improvements Grant project for approximately $750,000.00 for the structural repairs needed to correct PEOSH violations at three (3) Newark Firehouses, located at 395 Avon Avenue, 65 Congress Street, and 469 Ferry Street. No municipal funds are required for the acceptance or receipt of the grant funds.