Title
Dept/ Agency: Administration/Office of Management and Budget
Action: ( ) Ratifying (X) Authorizing ( ) Amending
Type of Service: Temporary Emergency Appropriation
Purpose: To provide funding for hiring 15 Police Officers to address violent crime (Citywide).
Funding Source: United States Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing Service (COPS Office)
Appropriation Amount: $1,875,000.00
Budget Year: 2025
Contract Period: October 1, 2024 through September 30, 2029
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: $1,875,000.00; Cash-Match: $3,192,735; Total Project Cost: $5,067,735.00
Funds accepted by Resolution Legistar Number: 25-0666 separately
Operating Agency: Department of Public Safety, Division of Police
Two-Thirds vote of full membership required.
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TE # 47
WHEREAS, an emergency has arisen in the Special Item of Appropriation in the amount of One Million Eight Hundred Seventy-Five Thousand Dollars and no Cents ($1,875,000.00) for the FY 2024 COPS Hiring Program 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, by the Notice of Award dated September 30, 2024, the United States Department of Justice, COPS Office awarded the City of Newark funds for $1,875,000.00. The aforementioned program will provide funds for the hiring of 15 Police Officers; 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…………………$490,375,810.28.
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 appropriations:
2. A temporary emergency appropriation be and the same is hereby made for the following classification.
Program Amount
FY 2024 COPS Hiring Program $1,875,000.00
3. The temporary emergency appropriation shall be provided for in the 2025 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 2024 Fiscal Year COPS Hiring Program, in the amount of One Million Eight Hundred Seventy-Five Thousand Dollars and Zero Cents ($1,875,000.00) for Grant Funds awarded by . The United States Department of Justice, COPS Office. for the project period of October 1, 2024 through September 30, 2029.