Title
Dept/ Agency: Administration/Office of Management and Budget
Action: (X) Ratifying (X) Authorizing ( ) Amending
Type of Service: Temporary Emergency Appropriation
Purpose: To provide a Cash Match for the 2020 COPS Hiring Grant.
Funding Source: 2022 Budget
Appropriation Amount: $1,085,729.00
Budget Year: 2022
Contract Period: July 1, 2020 through June 30, 2023 (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:
Funds accepted by Resolution 7R9-a, adopted on September 1, 2021 and 7R1-b, adopted on November 4, 2021.
Operating Agency: Department of Public Safety
Two-Thirds vote of full membership required.
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WHEREAS, an emergency has arisen in Special Item of Appropriation, in the amount of $1,085,729.00 which is the City’s contribution for the 2020 COPS Hiring Grant and no adequate provision has been made in the 2022 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 Resolution 7R9-a, adopted on September 1, 2021, (a copy attached hereto and made a part hereof), the City of Newark (the “City”) accepted the 2020 COPS Hiring Grant from the United States Department of Justice COPS Office which required a $2,971,458.00 cumulative non-federal commitment by the City of Newark for the period commencing July 1, 2021 through June 30, 2023, or until all grant funds are expended; and
WHEREAS, the City of Newark provided Eight Hundred Thousand Dollars and Zero Cents ($800,000.00) in a cash match in the 2021 adopted budget; 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 2022, pursuant to N.J.S.A. 40A:4-20 including this Resolution total... $8,218,507.20.
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
2020 COPS Hiring Grant-Cash Match $1,085,729.00
2. Said emergency appropriation shall be provided for in the 2022 budget.
3. A copy of this Resolution shall be immediately filed with the Director of Local Government Services by the City Clerk.
STATEMENT
This Resolution establishes the temporary emergency appropriation for a cash match for the 2020 COPS Hiring Grant for $1,085,729.00 for year two of this three-year grant from July 1, 2020 through June 30, 2023 or until all grant funds are expended.