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 Violence Prevention Coalition via an RFP process to community agency partner organizations; and
WHEREAS, the adopted 2022 Operating Budget Amendment No. 8-SUB transferred $200,000 from the Public Health budget for its Violence Intervention Team to Purchased Services to fund a contract with the Focused Interruption Coalition (FIC) for violence prevention programming; and
WHEREAS, PHMDC does not have existing capacity to support the contract delivery and management of the violence prevention sub-awards grants and the purchase of service contract for violence prevention programming. Given this identified need, PHMDC is proposing the creation of a 1.0 FTE Violence Prevention Grant Program Specialist-Project position through December 31, 2024. The Violence Prevention Grant Program Specialist will manage the community-based contracts, deliverables, and evaluation for programs funded under the Violence Prevention RFP; and
WHEREAS, Pursuant to the Intergovernmental Agreement (IGA) between the City of Madison and Dane County creating the joint City-County Health Department, approval is required from both the Dane County Board and the City Council for the creation of any new positions.
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that PHMDC is authorized to amend the 2022 Operating Budget to receive $300,000 in American Rescue Plan Act state and local fiscal recovery funds from Dane County; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Director of Public Health-Madison and Dane County is authorized to sign a Sub-Recipient agreement between the Board of Health for Madison and Dane County, on behalf of Public Health Madison and Dane County with Dane County, for American Rescue Plan Act funding and for the purposes and at the price described above; and
BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED that upon adoption of this resolution and approval from the Common Council, a 1.0 FTE Violence Prevention Grant Program Specialist - Project (P10) will be created in the Public Health Madison and Dane County 2022 Operating Budget, effective through December 31, 2024 and that the cost of this position be funded via American Rescue Plan Act funding allocated to Public Health-Madison and Dane County to support Violence Prevention work in Madison and Dane County.