Attachment 1
1 RESOLUTION NO. ___________
A RESOLUTION OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
BURBANK AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER OR
DESIGNEE TO EXECUTE THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
BUREAU OF JUSTICE ASSISTANCE BYRNE
DISCRETIONARY COMMUNITY PROJECT GRANT
AGREEMENT AND ANY FUTURE AMENDMENTS,
ACCEPTING $200,000 IN GRANT FUNDS, AND AMENDING
THE FISCAL YEAR 2024-25 BUDGET BY APPROPRIATING
FUNDS
THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BURBANK FINDS:
A. The Community Project Funding award program allows Members of Congress to request financial assistance for projects in their communities.
B. In March 2023, the Burbank Police Department submitted an application to the Fiscal Year 2024 Community Project Funding award program to expand its Mental Health Evaluation Team program by adding a second full -time licensed clinical social worker.
C. Congressman Adam Schiff selected the application and successfully secured $200,000 in funding during the FY24 appropriations process.
D. Established in 2012, the MHET program provides a co-response model for calls for service involving individuals experiencing mental crises, providing both intervention and connection to resources.
E. Expanding the MHET program will enhance the City’s ability to address growing mental health needs, improve public safety, and ensure individuals receive appropriate care and services.
F. Funds will be allocated to adding a second full -time time licensed clinical social worker. Paired with a trained police officer, the second licensed clinical social worker will form a new MHET team, extending response capacity to more hours and days per week.
THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BURBANK RESOLVES:
1. The City accepts the Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Assistance Byrne Discretionary Community Project Grant Agreement in the amount of $225,000.
2. The City’s Fiscal Year 2024 -25 budget is amended by appropriating $200,000 from revenue account 121.PD000.48010.1037.25066 (General City Grants, Police Department General, Other Intergovernmental Revenues, DOJ Block Grant, BJA
2 2024) to expenditure accounts 121.PD91B.62135.0000.25066 (General City Grants, Police Department Grants – DOJ, Governmental Services, BJA 2024).
3. The Financial Services Director is authorized to make such other revisions, changes in summaries, fund totals, grand totals, and other portions of the budget document as necessary to reflect and implement the appropriations specified in this resolution.
4. The City Manager or his designee is authorized to take any necessary action to effectuate the receiving and appropriating of these grant funds in the event of future amendments to the grant program.
PASSED and ADOPTED this ____ day of October, 2024.
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Nick Schultz
Mayor
Approved as to Form:
Attest: Office of the City Attorney
____________________________ By: ________________________ Kimberley Clark, City Clerk Ray Johal Senior Assistant City Attorney
3 STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) ss.
CITY OF BURBANK )
I, Kimberley Clark, City Clerk of the City of Burbank, do hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution was duly and regularly passed and adopted by a vote of the Council of the City of Burbank at its regular meeting held on the ___ day of October, 2024, by the following vote:
AYES:
NOES:
ABSENT:
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Kimberley Clark, City Clerk