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Dept/ Agency: Administration/Office of Management and Budget
Action: ( ) Ratifying (X) Authorizing ( ) Amending
Type of Service: Emergency Appropriation
Purpose: Emergency Appropriation for the Department of Public Safety due to unanticipated Overtime, New Class of 145 Police Recruits and expiration of the SAFER grant
Funding Source: City of Newark
Appropriation Amount: $15,000,000.00
Budget Year: 2018
Additional Information:
Operating Agency: Department of Public Safety
Two-Thirds vote of full membership required.
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WHEREAS, an emergency has arisen with respect to insufficient appropriations in Department of Public Safety Police and Fire Salaries and Wages and, no adequate provision was made in the 2018 budget for the aforesaid purpose, and N.J.S.A. 40A:4-46 provides for the creation of an emergency appropriation for the purpose mentioned above, and
WHEREAS, the total amount of the emergency appropriations created, including the appropriation to be created by this resolution is $15,000,000 and three (3) percent of the total operating appropriations in the budget for 2018 is $17,621,584, and
WHEREAS, the foregoing appropriation together with prior appropriations does not exceed three (3%) percent of the total operating appropriations (including utility operation appropriations) in the budget for 2018, and
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE MUNICIPAL COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, THAT:
By not less than 2/3 of all Governing Body members affirmatively concurring that in accordance with N.J.S.A. 40A:4-48:
1. An emergency appropriation is hereby made for the Department of Public Safety:
A. Police Division - Salaries and Wages $ 9,500,000
B. Fire Division - Salaries and Wages 5,500,000
in the amount of $15,000,000.
2. That said emergency appropriation shall be provided for in full in the 2018 budget, and is requested to be excluded from CAPS, pursuant to N.J.S.A. 40A:4-53.3c(1).
3. That an Emergency Note...
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