Number:
011603
Version:
SUBSTITUTE 1
Reference:
Sponsor:
The Chair
Title:
Substitute resolution relative to application, acceptance and funding of a grant from Safe & Sound, Inc. to provide data analysis and evaluation services (Dept of Administration).
Analysis:
This file would authorize the Department of Administration's Information Technology Management Division (ITMD) to accept funding to perform evaluation services for Safe & Sound, Inc. ITMD would utilize staff and information resources from the COMPASS project to perform the evaluation services required by Safe & Sound.
Body:
Whereas, Safe & Sound is a community based anti-crime initiative whose main goal is to reduce crime via a 3-prong approach which includes Youth Development, Neighborhood Organizing, and Tough Law Enforcement; and
Whereas, Safe & Sound intends to contract for evaluation of the effectiveness of its programs, including an assessment of crime trends in areas served by Safe & Sound Safe Places; and
Whereas, The Milwaukee COMPASS Initiative, staffed by geographic information systems (GIS) personnel in the City of Milwaukee's Department of Administration - Information Technology Management Division (ITMD), seeks to support non-profit as well as government agencies in their empirical analysis of crime and other data regarding Milwaukee's neighborhoods; and
Whereas, Additional grant funding will sustain the COMPASS initiative beyond the federal grant period (12/31/2002); and
Whereas, The provision of ITMD/COMPASS staff providing spatial analysis services to Safe & Sound for 2002 would cost $33,090, with a grantor share of $24,500 and a city (in-kind) share of $8,590; now, therefore, be it
Resolved, By the Common Council of the City of Milwaukee, that application to Safe & Sound, Inc. is authorized and the Department of Administration shall accept this grant without further approval unless the terms of the grant change as indicated in Common Coun...
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