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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: To provide funds to assist in preventing, preparing for and responding to the coronavirus in the City of Newark.
Funding Source: United States Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice Assistance
Appropriation Amount: $921,629.00
Budget Year: 2020
Contract Period: January 20, 2020 through January 31, 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:
Apply and Accept Resolution will be submitted under separate cover as Legistar File #20-0625.
Funds accepted by Resolution N/A
Operating Agency: Department of Public Safety/Division of Police
Two-Thirds vote of full membership required.
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TE- # 29
WHEREAS, an emergency has arisen in Special Item of Appropriation in the amount of $921,629.00 for the BJA FY 2020 Coronavirus Emergency Supplemental Funding Program, and no adequate provision has been made in the 2020 Temporary Budget for the aforesaid purpose, and N.J.S.A. 40A:4-20 provides for the creation of an emergency appropriation for the same; and
WHEREAS, by the award letter dated May 17, 2020, the United States Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice Assistance has awarded the City of Newark the BJA FY 2020 Coronavirus Emergency Supplemental Funding Grant in the amount of $921,629.00. The aforementioned program will assist in preventing, preparing for and responding to the Coronavirus in the City of Newark; 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...
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