Title
Dept/ Agency: Administration/Office of Management and Budget
Action: (X) Ratifying (X) Authorizing ( ) Amending
Type of Service: Temporary Emergency Appropriation
Purpose: Cash Match for the 2017 Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response Grant (SAFER)
Funding Source: 2019 Budget
Appropriation Amount: $555,933.00
Budget Year: 2019
Contract Period: February 18, 2019 through February 17, 2022
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 7R9-a adopted on February 6, 2019.
Operating Agency: Operating Agency: Department of Public Safety - Division of Fire
Two-Thirds vote of full membership required.
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WHEREAS, an emergency has arisen in Special Item of Appropriation, in the amount of $555,933.00 which is the City’s contribution for the 2017 Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response (SAFER) Grant and no adequate provision has been made in the 2019 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 above-mentioned; and
WHEREAS, by Resolution 7R9-a, adopted on February 6, 2019, (a copy which is attached hereto and made a part hereof), the City of Newark accepted the 2017 Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response (SAFER) Grant from the United States Department of Homeland Security/Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) which required a $1,667,799.00 cumulative non-federal commitment by the City of Newark for the period commencing February 18, 2018 through February 17, 2022; 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, emergency appropriation adopted in 2019, pursuant to N.J.S.A. 40A:4-20 including this resolution total... $126,249,861.61.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE MUNICIPAL COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, THAT:
1. A temporary emergency appropriation be and the same is hereby made for the following classification:
Program Amount
2017 SAFER GRANT-Cash Match $555,933.00
2. Said emergency appropriation shall be provided for in the 2019 budget.
3. A copy of this resolution shall be immediately filed with the Director of Local Government Services by the City Clerk of the City of Newark.
STATEMENT
This Resolution establishes the appropriation for a cash match for the 2017 Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response (SAFER) Grant in the amount of $555,933.00 for year one of this three-year grant.