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June 25, 2013 WHEREAS, FY 2012-13 expenditures will exceed budgeted amounts for utility charges by $450,000 and for the City Manager's Office by $160,000; and WHEREAS, sufficient funds are available from appropriated but unencumbered funds in the City Manager's Contingency account and the State Aid Budget Reductions account and from savings in the General Fund to address the additional unanticipated expenditures; and WHEREAS, City Council is required to authorize the transfer of the subject funds because City Code section 12-5 only permits the City Manager to authorize such transfers in an amount not exceeding $100,000. NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the City Manager and the Chief Financial Officer be, and hereby are, authorized to transfer the total sum of $610,000 within the FY 2012-13 General Fund Operating Budget to address the additional expenditures for utility charges and the City Manager's Office." Ayes: Cherry, Edmonds, Meeks, Moody, Randall, Wright Nays: None - City Manager's Report - 13 - 267 -Adoption of an ordinance accepting a grant in the amount of $182,500 from the office of the Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court of Virginia and appropriating said amount in the FY 2013-14 Grants Fund for use by the Third Judicial Circuit Court for the Portsmouth Adult Drug Treatment Court. Vision Principle: Neighborhoods and a Sense of Community. Background: • The Portsmouth Adult Drug Treatment Court was established in 2000 and serves as an intensive treatment program for nonviolent felony offenders who are dependent upon drugs and/or alcohol. Discussion: • The Drug Treatment Court Program provides case management and clinical care services for participants. • The goals of the Program are: 1) to reduce recidivism and substance abuse; 2) decrease time between arrest and sentencing; and 3) to increase the likelihood of successful rehabilitation through early, continuous and intensive judicially supervised treatment. • The Drug Treatment Court Advisory Committee, whose leadership is made up of representatives of the courts, law enforcement, courts service agencies, behavioral healthcare, public schools, faith-based, civic, and non-profit service providers, makes policy recommendations for the operation of the program. Financial Impact: • The Department of Behavioral Healthcare Services will pay 50% ($26,091.56) of the salary and fringe benefits of the case manager for the program. Staff Recommends: • Adoption of proposed ordinance. Vision Principle: Neighborhoods and a Sense of Community. Next Steps Following Council Action: • The responsibility of overseeing the Portsmouth Adult Drug Treatment Court will rest with the Third Judicial Circuit Court of the City of Portsmouth. Motion by Mr. Edmonds, and seconded by Mr. Moody, to adopt the following ordinance, and was adopted by the following vote: