Metropolitan Nashville and Davidson County, TN - File #: RS2023-2295

• File #: RS2023-2295
• Type: Resolution
• Status: Withdrawn
• File created: 6/22/2023
• In control: Budget and Finance Committee
• On agenda: 8/15/2023
• Final action: 8/15/2023
• Title: A resolution approving a grant contract between the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, acting by and through the Metropolitan Board of Health, and Why We Can't Wait, Inc., for the provision of violence interruption services.
• Sponsors: Kevin Rhoten, Jeff Syracuse, Sharon Hurt, Jennifer Gamble

Date	Action By	Action
8/15/2023	Metropolitan Council	withdrawn
8/1/2023	Metropolitan Council	deferred indefinitely
7/18/2023	Metropolitan Council	deferred
7/6/2023	Metropolitan Council	deferred
6/27/2023	Metropolitan Council	referred
6/27/2023	Metropolitan Council	referred
6/27/2023	Metropolitan Council	filed

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A resolution approving a grant contract between the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, acting by and through the Metropolitan Board of Health, and Why We Can't Wait, Inc., for the provision of violence interruption services.
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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 Community Safety Partnership Fund Advisory Board has recommended that $750,000 be distributed to Why We Can't Wait, Inc., to be used to deliver a public health approach to reducing violent crime in the area of the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County; and,
WHEREAS, the grant to Why We Can't Wait, Inc., will be utilized to provide best practices based violence interruption services, in collaboration with the Metropolitan Public Health Department, under the training and methodology of a nationally recognized violence interruption organization; and,
WHEREAS, it is to the benefit of the citizens of The Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County that the grant contract between the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, acting by and through the Metropolitan Board of Health, and Why We Can't Wait, Inc., be approved.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE METROPOLITAN GOVERNMENT OF NASHVILLE AND DAVIDSON COUNTY:
Section 1. That there is hereby appropriated $750,000 from Fund No. 30216 to fund a grant to Why We Can't Wait, Inc., to be used to provide violence interruption services.
Section 2. That the grant contract between the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, acting by and through the Metropolitan Board of Health, and Why We Can't Wait, Inc., for the provision of violence...