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Dept/ Agency: Office of the Mayor
Action: ( X ) Ratifying (X) Authorizing ( ) Amending
Type of Service: Contract
Purpose: Consulting services for the continued implementation of the Newark Community Solutions and Newark Youth Court within the Newark Municipal Court
Entity Name: Fund for the City of New York, Inc.
Entity Address: 121 Avenue of the Americas, 6th Floor, New York, New York 10013
Contract Amount: Not to exceed $932,600.00
Funding Source: Economic Development Trust Fund for the City of Newark
Contract Period: January 1, 2014 through December 31, 2014
Contract Basis: ( ) Bid ( ) State Vendor ( ) Prof. Ser. () EUS
( ) Fair & Open ( ) No Reportable Contributions ( ) RFP ( ) RFQ
( ) Private Sale ( ) Grant ( ) Sub-recipient ( X ) n/a
Additional Information:
No Action Taken, June 18, 2014
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WHEREAS, from January 2007 through 2008, with the support of the New Jersey State Bar Foundation, the City of Newark, worked with the non-profit Fund for the City of New York, Inc.'s incubator project, the Center for Court Innovation (the "Center for Court Innovation") and the Fund for the City of New York, Inc., (the "Fund") and the New Jersey Institute for Social Justice to complete a feasibility study of adapting the community justice model to the City of Newark's Municipal Court system (Copy of Final Report is Attached); and
WHEREAS, as part of the feasibility study for the City of Newark, the Center for Court Innovation with the New Jersey Institute for Social Justice and the Newark Center for Collaborative Change undertook a thorough needs assessment that included more than twenty (20) community meetings, attended by more than four-hundred (400) community residents, focus groups of residents, community leaders and ex-offenders, as well as surveys and interviews with leading law enforcement officials; and
WHEREAS, as a result of this feasibility ...
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