Fiscal Note
The proposed resolution amends the 2022 Public Health Operating Budget to accept $300,000 from Dane County American Rescue Plan Act state and local recovery funds to support violence prevention unit. The funds will be used to create a limited-term Violence Prevention Grant Program Specialist-Project position (1.0 FTE) through December 31, 2024. No City appropriation is required.
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A resolution amending the 2022 Public Health Operating Budget to accept $300,000 from Dane County American Rescue Plan Act state and local recovery funds to support violence prevention unit and authorizing the Director of Public Health Madison and Dane County to sign a sub-recipient agreement with Dane County for these funds, and to create a 1.0 Public Health Madison and Dane County Violence Prevention Grant Program Specialist-Project position
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WHEREAS, Public Health-Madison and Dane County (PHMDC) Violence Prevention Unit implements strategies and initiatives to prevent, reduce, and end violence in Madison and Dane County through both individual-level interventions as well as population-level interventions to support a safer community; and
WHEREAS, Dane County allocated $300,000 of their American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds to PHMDC to support violence prevention efforts throughout Dane County; and
WHEREAS, PHMDC is a joint City-County agency that is a separate legal entity from Dane County, a sub-recipient agreement is required to transfer funds from the County’s ARPA allocation to PHMDC; and
WHEREAS, the City of Madison and the Common Council approved PHMDC as a sub-recipient of $1,200,000 of the City’s allocation ARPA State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds for violence prevention initiatives that support the Madison and Dane County Violence Prevention Roadmap. This funding will support investment in elements identified in the Madison and Dane County Violence Prevention Roadmap and prioritized by the Madison and Dane County ...
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