Title
Dept/ Agency: Administration/Office of Management and Budget
Action: ( ) Ratifying (X) Authorizing ( ) Amending
Type of Service: Temporary Emergency Appropriation
Purpose: FY 2024 Drunk Driving Enforcement Fund
Funding Source: State of New Jersey, Division of Highway Traffic Safety
Appropriation Amount: $40,997.45
Budget Year: 2025
Contract Period: July 1, 2023 through expenditure of funds
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-c adopted on July 2, 2025
Operating Agency: Department of Public Safety
Two-Thirds vote of full membership required.
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TE #53
WHEREAS, an emergency has arisen in Special Item of Appropriation in the amount of Forty Thousand Nine Hundred Ninety-Seven Dollars and Forty-Five Cents ($40,997.45), for the FY 2024 Drunk Driving Enforcement Fund Grant (DDEF) 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, pursuant to Resolution 7R9-c adopted on July 2, 2025, the City of Newark accepted FY 2024 Drunk Driving Enforcement Fund (DDEF) Grant Funds in the amount of Forty Thousand Nine Hundred Ninety-Seven Dollars and Forty-Five Cents ($40,997.45) to fund police overtime initiatives to address drunk driving violations and to purchase drunk driving enforcement related equipment; 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…………………$499,561,829.73.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE MUNICIPAL COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, THAT:
1. The Governing Body by two-thirds vote of its full membership hereby amends its temporary budget by making the following temporary emergency appropriation:
Program Amount
FY 2024 Drunk Driving Enforcement
Fund Grant (DDEF) $40,997.45
2. Said emergency appropriation shall be provided for in the 2025 budget.
3. A copy of this Resolution shall be filed with the Director of Local Government Services by the City Clerk of the City of Newark.
STATEMENT
This Resolution establishes the temporary emergency appropriation for the FY 2024 Drunk Driving Enforcement Fund Grant (DDEF) in the amount of Forty Thousand Nine Hundred Ninety-Seven Dollars and Forty-Five Cents ($40,997.45). The State of New Jersey, Division of Highway Traffic Safety awarded the funds. The project period begins July 1, 2023 and terminates at expenditure of funds.