Title
Request Ordinance Amendment for Neighborhood Block Watch Oversight Committee's Recommendations for 2021 Grant Program Awards (Ordinance S-47766)
Description
Request authorization for the City Manager, or his designee, to amend ordinance (S-47531) for the Neighborhood Block Watch (NBW) Oversight Committee's recommendations for the 2021 grant program awards. Authorization of the amendment will increase the number of agreements from 131 to 133 between the City of Phoenix and the Neighborhood Block Watch Grant Program applicants for the 2021 grant cycle. Further request authorization for the City Controller to disburse funds related to this item in the amount of $1,322,905.
Report
Summary
Ordinance S-47531 was approved by City Council on May 5, 2021 to fund 131 grant applications. At that meeting, City Council members requested that the 29 applications not recommended for funding be re-evaluated by the NBW Oversight Committee. The NBW Oversight Committee was advised to re-evaluate the applications at its May 6, 2021 meeting.
At the June 3, 2021 meeting, the NBW Oversight Committee members presented the findings of the re-evaluation of the 29 grant applications. The NBW Oversight Committee recommended funding two additional grant applications. The remaining 27 applications were not recommended to be funded. Of those 27 applications, 24 still scored below the minimum requirement of 5.25 or higher possible points and three grants were disqualified for not following the grant application guidelines. The NBW Oversight Committee vote was 8-0, 1 conflict and 0 abstained. See Attachment A and Revised Attachment A for a list of all 160 grant applications.
Contract Term
The funding period is July 1, 2021 through June 30, 2022.
Financial Impact
No matching funds are required.
Department
Responsible Department
This item is submitted by Assistant City Manager Jeff Barton and the Police Department on behalf of the Neighborhood Block Watch Oversight Committee.