File #: 15-0964    Version: 1 Name: National Center for Civic Innovation/Newark Community Solutions
Type: Resolution Status: Filed
File created: 5/7/2015 In control: Mayor's Office
On agenda: 9/16/2015 Final action: 9/16/2015
Title: Dept/ Agency: Office of the Mayor Action: ( X ) Ratifying (X) Authorizing ( ) Amending Type of Service: Contract Purpose: Operation of Newark Community Solutions and the Newark Youth Court within the Newark Municipal Court Entity Name: National Center for Civic Innovation, Inc. /Center for Court Innovation Entity Address: 31 Green Street, Room 310, Newark, New Jersey 07102 Contract Amount: Not to exceed $932,600.00 Funding Source: Youth Community Solutions Contract Period: January 1, 2015 through December 31, 2015 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: Approval in collaboration with the Administrative Office of the Courts
Sponsors: Mildred C. Crump, Carlos M. Gonzalez
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Dept/ Agency: Office of the Mayor
Action: ( X ) Ratifying (X) Authorizing ( ) Amending
Type of Service: Contract
Purpose: Operation of Newark Community Solutions and the Newark Youth Court within the Newark Municipal Court
Entity Name: National Center for Civic Innovation, Inc. /Center for Court Innovation
Entity Address: 31 Green Street, Room 310, Newark, New Jersey 07102
Contract Amount: Not to exceed $932,600.00
Funding Source: Youth Community Solutions
Contract Period: January 1, 2015 through December 31, 2015
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:
Approval in collaboration with the Administrative Office of the Courts
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WHEREAS, the National Center for Civic Innovation is a New Jersey based non-profit (the "National Center") and affiliate of the Center for Court Innovation, which is dedicated to the reform and improvement of criminal justice system throughout the United States (the "Center for Court Innovation"); and

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; 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 Center for Collaborative Change undertook a thorough needs assessment that included more than twenty (20) community meet...

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