File #: RS2025-1148   
Type: Resolution Status: Passed
File created: 4/3/2025 In control: Metropolitan Council
On agenda: 4/15/2025 Final action: 4/15/2025
Title: A resolution appropriating a total of $110,000 from a certain account of the Community Safety Fund for a grant to Nashville Anti-Human Trafficking Coalition to provide services that support victims of sex trafficking through rescues, assessments, intervention, addiction, and trauma recovery.
Sponsors: Delishia Porterfield, Erin Evans, Ginny Welsch, Burkley Allen, Tasha Ellis, Brenda Gadd, Zulfat Suara, Quin Evans-Segall, Kyonzte Toombs, Terry Vo, Jacob Kupin
Attachments: 1. Grant Contract Exhibit
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A resolution appropriating a total of $110,000 from a certain account of the Community Safety Fund for a grant to Nashville Anti-Human Trafficking Coalition to provide services that support victims of sex trafficking through rescues, assessments, intervention, addiction, and trauma recovery.
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WHEREAS, Section 7-3-314 of the Tennessee Code Annotated states that metropolitan forms of government may provide financial assistance to nonprofit organizations; and,
WHEREAS, Section 5.04.070 of the Metropolitan Code of Laws provides that the Council may, by Resolution, appropriate funds for the financial aid of nonprofit organizations; and,
WHEREAS, the Metropolitan Public Health Department has recommended that $110,000 of the funds appropriated for community safety grants in the Budget Ordinance (Substitute BL2024-373), be distributed to Nashville Anti-Human Trafficking Coalition; and,
WHEREAS, the grant will be utilized for services pertaining to South Nashville Community Safety programs; and,
WHEREAS, it is to the benefit of the citizens of The Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County that these funds be appropriated to Nashville Anti-Human Trafficking Coalition.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE METROPOLITAN GOVERNMENT OF NASHVILLE AND DAVIDSON COUNTY:
Section 1. There is hereby appropriated $110,000.00 from Fund No. 30164 to Nashville Anti-Human Trafficking Coalition to provide services that support victims of sex trafficking through rescues, assessments, intervention, addiction, and trauma recovery.
Section 2. The grant contract between the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County and Nashville Anti-Human Trafficking Coalition for the amount provided herein and the purposes stated, a copy of which is attached hereto and incorporated herein, is hereby approved.
Section 3. That this Resolution shall take effect from and after its adoption, the welfare of The Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davi...

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