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Dept/ Agency: Administration/Office of Management and Budget
Action: (X) Ratifying (X) Authorizing ( ) Amending
Type of Service: Temporary Emergency Appropriation
Purpose: To provide funding to address gun crimes.
Funding Source: United States Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice Assistance
Appropriation Amount: $700,000.00
Budget Year: 2023
Contract Period: October 1, 2022 through September 30, 2025
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 7R9-a(S) adopted on August 8, 2023.
Operating Agency: Department of Public Safety, Division of Police
Two-Thirds vote of full membership required.
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TE # 62
WHEREAS, an emergency has arisen in the Special Item of Appropriation in the amount of Seven Hundred Thousand and Zero Cents ($700,000.00) for initiatives to address gun crimes 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 September 29, 2022, the United States Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice Assistance awarded the City of Newark funds in the amount of $700,000.00. The aforementioned program will provide funds for the initiatives to address gun crimes; 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, purs...
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