Title
Resolution to Amend the Fiscal Year 2025 Council Approved Budget to Accept and Appropriate the Office of the Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court of Virginia Specialty Dockets Grant, Hampton General District Behavioral Health Docket.
Purpose
PURPOSE/BACKGROUND:
The Office of the Executive Secretary (OES) of the Supreme Court of Virginia assists local General District Courts’ Behavioral Health Dockets through Specialty Docket Grants. With an ever-increasing population of individuals with behavioral health issues becoming justice-involved, it is Hampton’s Behavioral Health Docket goal to provide better oversight, community supervision, and data collection.
The City of Hampton (the “City”) has been awarded, as fiduciary, a 2025 Office of the Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court of Virginia Specialty Dockets Grant to support Hampton’s Behavioral Health Docket.
Discussion:
This grant is awarded to the City of Hampton as the fiduciary agent Funding will go towards staffing a Pretrial Officer to support Hampton’s General District Court Behavioral Health Docket. Currently there are no other funding sources for this needed support.
Impact:
The City has been awarded $63,725.81 in funding from the 2025 Office of the Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court of Virginia Specialty Dockets Grant with a 25% local cash match of $15,931.45 required. This grant allows the Hampton’s General District Court Behavioral Health Docket to provide better oversight, community supervision, and data collection.
Recommendation:
Rec
Approve.
Body
WHEREAS, the Office of the Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court has awarded the City of Hampton, Virginia (the “City”), as the fiduciary agent for a Pretrial Officer to support the Behavioral Health Docket, a 2025 Supreme Court Specialty Docket Grant in the amount of $63,725.81;
WHEREAS, the 2025 Supreme Court Specialty Docket Grant award requires a local cash match of $15,931.45;
WHEREAS, the combined funds of the 2025 Supreme Court Specialty Docket Grant award and the required local cash match totals $79,657.26 and will be used by the Hampton-Newport News Criminal Justice Agency to support the General District Courts’ Behavioral Health Dockets; and
WHEREAS, the grant award covers the period July 1, 2024 through June 30, 2025.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City Council of the City of Hampton, Virginia hereby amends the Fiscal Year 2025 Council Approved Budget to (1) accept and appropriate the 2025 Supreme Court Specialty Docket Grant award in the amount of $63,725.81, and any supplemental funding, awarded by the Office of the Executive Secretary (OES) of the Supreme Court of Virginia to the Grant Fund; and, (2) appropriate the required local match of $15,931.45 from funds held in the General Fund for grant support to the Grants Fund, for the purpose of supporting the Hampton General District Behavioral Health Docket in accordance with the grant agreement.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City Council authorizes the City Manager, or her designee, to take any and all actions necessary to implement this grant award.