File #: O-135-24    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Ordinance Status: Approved
File created: 2/27/2024 In control: Police Operations Department
On agenda: 3/27/2024 Final action: 3/27/2024
Title: Authorizing the Mayor to enter into an agreement with the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) through the Office of Criminal Justice Services (OCJS) and to accept and deposit a 2022-PS-PSN-439 grant in the amount of $20,000 for the Toledo Police Department; authorizing the appropriation and expenditure of funds from the Operation Grants Fund; authorizing the Mayor to accept bids and award contracts; and declaring an emergency.

 

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PSN 2022-PS-PSN-439 $20,000

Toledo Police Department

Lt. Brianne Holmes (x3203)

Revised

 

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Authorizing the Mayor to enter into an agreement with the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) through the Office of Criminal Justice Services (OCJS) and to accept and deposit a 2022-PS-PSN-439 grant in the amount of $20,000 for the Toledo Police Department; authorizing the appropriation and expenditure of funds from the Operation Grants Fund; authorizing the Mayor to accept bids and award contracts; and declaring an emergency.

 

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SUMMARY & BACKGROUND:

 

The Bureau of Justice Assistance has recommended to the Office of Criminal Justice Services an award to the City of Toledo of $20,000 from grant funds under the 2022-PS-PSN-439 Project Safe Neighborhood (PSN) program to support funding of the Toledo Police Department. The funds will be used for software and software as a service.  There is no matching requirement.

 

Summary

NOW THEREFORE Be it ordained by the Council of the City of Toledo:

 

SECTION 1.  That the Mayor is authorized to enter into a grant agreement with the Bureau of Justice Assistance through OCJS and to accept and deposit 2022 Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) grant proceeds in the amount of $20,000 into the Operation Grants Fund Account Code 2016-52000-3G20194STDSTD.

 

SECTION 2.  That the appropriation of $20,000 is authorized from the unappropriated grant proceeds of the Operation Grants Fund to various accounts within Account Code 2016-52000-3G20194STDSTD; and the expenditure of same is authorized for the purchase of software and software as a service for the Toledo Police Department.

 

SECTION 3. That the Mayor is authorized to accept bids and award contracts for the purposes authorized in Section 2, upon terms and conditions acceptable to the Director of Police and the Director of Law.

 

SECTION 4.  That the Finance Director is authorized to draw a warrant or warrants against the above mentioned Account Code in an amount not to exceed $20,000 in payment of the obligations authorized above by the terms of the grant upon presentation of the proper voucher or vouchers.

 

SECTION 5.  That this Ordinance is declared to be an emergency measure and shall be in force and effect from and after its passage. The reason for the emergency lies in the fact that it is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, safety, and to satisfy the requirements of the grant.

 

Vote on emergency clause:  yeas 11, nays 0.

 

Passed:  March 27, 2024, as an emergency measure:  yeas 11, nays 0.

 

Attest:                                          Julie Gibbons                                                               Carrie Hartman

Clerk of Council                                          President of Council

 

Approved:                                                               March 27, 2024

Wade Kapszukiewicz

Mayor