City of Milwaukee - File #: 080375

• File #: 080375
• Version: 0
• Type: Resolution
• Status: Passed
• File created: 7/1/2008
• In control: PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE
• Final action: 7/30/2008
• Title: : Resolution relative to application, acceptance and funding of a Project Safe Neighborhoods Gun Violence Grant for the Milwaukee Homicide Review Commission.
• Sponsors: THE CHAIR
• Indexes: AGREEMENTS, CONSULTANTS, POLICE DEPARTMENT, STATE GRANTS

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result	Tally
8/6/2008	0	MAYOR	SIGNED
7/30/2008	0	COMMON COUNCIL	ADOPTED	Pass	14:0
7/17/2008	0	PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE	RECOMMENDED FOR ADOPTION; Minutes note: Individuals present: Barb Butler and Mary Hoerig - Milwaukee Police Dept. Dr. Mary O'Brien - Homicide Review Commission Ald. Davis would like to have a copy of Dr. O'Brien's contract added to this file.	Pass	5:0
7/3/2008	0	PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE	HEARING NOTICES SENT
7/1/2008	0	COMMON COUNCIL	ASSIGNED TO

Number:
080375
Version:

Sponsor
THE CHAIR

Title:
Resolution relative to application, acceptance and funding of a Project Safe Neighborhoods Gun Violence Grant for the Milwaukee Homicide Review Commission.

Analysis:
This resolution authorizes the Milwaukee Police Department to apply for, accept and fund a Project Safe Neighborhoods Gun Violence Grant from the US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, through the State of Wisconsin, Office of Justice Assistance to fund the Milwaukee Homicide Review Commission in the amount of $100,000, with a city share of $0 and a grantor share of $100,000. The purpose of this project is to draw on both criminal justice and public health models of homicide review to better understand the nature of homicide and other gun violence through strategic problem analysis, and to develop innovative responses and strategically focus limited enforcement and intervention activities on those identifiable risks.

Body:
Whereas, Under the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) 16.609, the City of Milwaukee appears to be eligible for grant funds from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, through the State of Wisconsin, Office of Justice Assistance for a Project Safe Neighborhoods Gun Violence grant; and

Whereas, The Milwaukee Police Department may enter into agreements with Dr. Mallory O’Brien and Research Assistant Laurie Woods as consultants to coordinate the commission’s activities and to collect, analyze and report data; and

Whereas, The operation of this grant from 01/01/08 to 12/31/09 would cost $100,000 of which $0 (0%) would be provided by the city, and $100,000 (100%) would be provided by the grantor; now, therefore, be it

Resolved, By the Common Council of the City of Milwaukee, the Police Department is authorized to accept this grant without further approval unless the terms of the grant change as indicated in Section 304-81, Milwaukee Co...