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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: Funding for overtime initiatives to address violent crime (Citywide)
Funding Source: United States Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance
Appropriation Amount: $473,374.00
Budget Year: 2016
Contract Period: October 1, 2014 through September 30, 2018 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 7R11-a 010616
Operating Agency: Newark Police Department
Two-Thirds vote of full membership required.
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TE-#16
WHEREAS, an emergency has arisen in the Special Item of Appropriation in the amount of $473,374.00 for the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program and no adequate provision has been made in the 2016 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 abovementioned; and
WHEREAS, by Resolution 7R11-a, dated January 6 2016, the City of Newark accepted the 2015 Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) Program in the amount of $473,374.00 to fund overtime initiatives for implementation of strategies to prevent and control crime; 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, the emergency appropriations adopted in 2016 p...
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