Title
Dept/ Agency: Office of the Mayor/ Municipal Court
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: Amount not to exceed $951,252.00
Funding Source: 2017 Budget/ Division of Municipal Court
Contract Period: January 1, 2017 through December 31, 2017
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 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 meeting...
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