File #: 20-0764    Version: 1 Name: Resolution: Apply & Accept Grant Funds - Truancy Alternative Program (TAP) - Essex County Youth Services Commission (2020)
Type: Resolution Status: Adopted
File created: 6/29/2020 In control: Mayor's Office
On agenda: 9/16/2020 Final action: 9/16/2020
Title: Dept/ Agency: Office of the Mayor/Municipal Court Action: (X ) Ratifying (X) Authorizing ( ) Amending Type of Service: Acceptance of Grant Funds Purpose: Truancy Alternative Program (TAP) Entity Name: Essex County Youth Services Commission Entity Address: 50 South Clinton Street - 3rd Floor, East Orange, New Jersey 07017 Grant Amount: $72,868.00 Total Project Cost: $0.00 City Contribution: No Municipal Funds Required Other Funding Source/Amount: State/Community Partnership Program Grant Period: January 1, 2020 through December 31, 2020 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:
Sponsors: Council of the Whole
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Dept/ Agency: Office of the Mayor/Municipal Court
Action: (X ) Ratifying (X) Authorizing ( ) Amending
Type of Service: Acceptance of Grant Funds
Purpose: Truancy Alternative Program (TAP)
Entity Name: Essex County Youth Services Commission
Entity Address: 50 South Clinton Street - 3rd Floor, East Orange, New Jersey 07017
Grant Amount: $72,868.00
Total Project Cost: $0.00
City Contribution: No Municipal Funds Required
Other Funding Source/Amount: State/Community Partnership Program
Grant Period: January 1, 2020 through December 31, 2020
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:

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WHEREAS, the Essex County Youth Services Commission receives funds through the State/Community Partnership Program to provide an array of services to assist the needs and rehabilitate detained youths from their involvement in criminal activities and from a life of crime; and

WHEREAS, the City of Newark (the "City"), is in need of funding for its Truancy Alternative Program (TAP), which is an ongoing collaborative project administered by the Newark Municipal Court, subject to N.J.S.A. 18A:38-25 and N.J.S.A. 18A:38-31, that provides family strengthening social services that empowers the parent/guardian's parenting skills and motivates at-risk youth to curb truant behavior; and

WHEREAS, the Essex County Youth Services Commission, submitted an application on its own behalf and in part on behalf of the City of Newark, requesting grant funding from the State/Community Partnership Program in the amount of Seventy-Two Thousand Eight Hundred Sixty-Eight Dollars and Zero Cents ($72,868.00) for TAP; and

WHEREAS, the City, has been awarded a grant in the amount of Seventy-Two Thousand Eight Hundred Sixty-E...

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