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A resolution appropriating a total of $385,000 from Fund No. 30096 to the Center for Nonprofit Management, which has been selected to receive Public Safety Violence Reduction Pilot Grant Funds.
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WHEREAS, as a part of the plan for expenditure of a direct appropriation grant from the State of Tennessee in the amount of $10,000,000 adopted by Resolution No. RS2021-842, the Metropolitan Council appropriated $2,000,000 to Public Safety Violence Reduction Pilot Grant Fund to be administered by the Mayor’s Office; and,
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 $385,000 of the appropriated funds be distributed to the Center for Nonprofit Management to be used to provide organizational capacity building to nonprofit organizations that have been awarded grants from the Public Safety Violence Reduction Pilot Grant Fund; and,
WHEREAS, the grant to the Center for Nonprofit Management will be utilized for training, development, and audit preparation assistance to nonprofit organizations that have been awarded grants from the Public Safety Violence Reduction Pilot Grant Fund; 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 the Center for Nonprofit Management.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE METROPOLITAN GOVERNMENT OF NASHVILLE AND DAVIDSON COUNTY:
Section 1. There is hereby appropriated $385,000 from Fund No. 30096 to fund a grant to the Center for Nonprofit Management to be used to provide organizational capacity building to nonprofit organizations that have been awarded grants by the Community Safety Partnership Fund.
Section 2. The grant contract between the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County and the Center for Nonprofit Management, 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 Davidson County requiring it.
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Analysis
This resolution appropriates a total of $385,000 from the Public Safety Violence Reduction Pilot Grant Funds to the Center for Nonprofit Management. As a part of the plan for expenditure of a direct appropriation grant from the State of Tennessee in the amount of $10,000,000 adopted by Resolution No. RS2021-842, the Metropolitan Council appropriated $2,000,000 to Public Safety Violence Reduction Pilot Grant Fund to be administered by the Mayor’s Office.
Section 7-3-314 of the Tennessee Code Annotated states that metropolitan forms of government may provide financial assistance to nonprofit organizations. 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.
The Community Safety Partnership Fund Advisory Board has recommended that $385,000 be distributed to the Center for Nonprofit Management to be used to provide organizational capacity building to nonprofit organizations that have been awarded grants from the Public Safety Violence Reduction Pilot Grant Fund. The resolution also approves a grant contract between the Metropolitan Government and the Center for Nonprofit Management. The term of the grant will be twelve months, beginning July 1, 2022 and ending June 30, 2023.