Fiscal Note
The proposed resolution amends the Police Department's 2025 Adopted Operating Budget to accept a Juvenile Justice Title II grant from the State of Wisconsin Department of Justice in the amount of $60,000 for pass-through funding to The Rainbow Project and Focused Interruption with City expenses of $7,434 for police overtime and benefits. Funding for the City portion of the grants is available in the Police Department's 2025 Adopted Operating Budget. No additional appropriation is required.
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SUBSTITUTE - Amending the Police Department’s operating budget, and authorizing the Mayor and Chief of Police or designee to accept a Juvenile Justice Title II grant award from the State of Wisconsin Department of Justice in the amount of $60,000 for pass-through funding to The Rainbow Project and Focused Interruption, and $7,434 on police overtime and benefits, for the Madison Community Healing Through Support & Education initiative to provide violence prevention support to juvenile system involved and at-risk youth
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WHEREAS, the Wisconsin Department of Justice (WDOJ) is using federal Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act funds for Positive Youth Development programs that assist delinquent and at-risk youth in obtaining a sense of safety and structure, belonging and membership, self-worth and social contribution, independence and control over one’s life, and closeness in interpersonal relationships; and,
WHEREAS, the Madison Police Department has applied to this WDOJ grant program for the Madison Community Healing Through Support & Education initiative to provide violence prevention support to juvenile system involved and at-risk youth in a pass through-partnership with The Rainbow Project and Focused Interruption ($60,000), as well as overtime ($6,906) and benefits ($528) for Police officers referring youth to these service providers.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Mayor and Chief of Police or designee are authorized to accept, ...
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