To: Dale K. Weighill, Governmental Operations Committee Chairperson
From: Prosecutor David Leyton
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RE: 2025 Crime Victims Services Grant
recommendation
BOARD ACTION REQUESTED:
Authorization to apply for annual grant in the amount of $408,595.00 from MDHHS for Crime Victims Services for FY2025.
BACKGROUND:
The Prosecutor’s Office is mandated under the Crime Victim Rights Act, P.A. 87 of 1985 and Article 1, Section 24 of the Michigan Constitution to provide victims of crimes with certain services and advocacy in the criminal justice system. To help meet our responsibilities in this area, the Prosecutor’s Office receives a Crime Victim Rights grant award allocation from the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) to help pay for salaries and fringe benefits for two victim advocates and a secretary.
DISCUSSION:
This grant is an annual award from the State that is a significant source of monies for our budget.
IMPACT ON HUMAN RESOURCES:
No change in the current staffing structure.
IMPACT ON BUDGET:
The award allocation for FY2024 is $408,595.00 which includes $389,893.00 for salaries and fringes and $18,702.00 in ancillary funds for direct victim services (e.g. bus fare to court, lunch money during long court sessions, parking, childcare and pet care as needed, etc.). There are no matching funds required for this grant. However, the County’s general fund covers the cost gap between the grant award and the actual costs for the three employees assigned to this grant which is expected to be around 8-10% of the total costs in FY2025.
IMPACT ON FACILITIES:
None
IMPACT ON TECHNOLOGY:
None
CONFORMITY TO COUNTY PRIORITIES:
This grant advances the priority of safe communities by adding resources to assist victims of crime. These grant funds also tie into the County’s value of service by giving us more resources to provide prompt, efficient and competent service to victims of crime while at the same time helping secure the County’s financial stability by providing funds that otherwise would have had to come from the County’s general fund.
TO THE HONORABLE CHAIRPERSON AND MEMBERS OF THE GENESEE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS, GENESEE COUNTY, MICHIGAN
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN:
BE IT RESOLVED, by this Board of County Commissioners of Genesee County, Michigan, that the request by the Office of the Prosecuting Attorney to authorize applying for a grant award from the Michigan Department of Health & Human Services - Division of Victim Service, in the amount of $408,595.00 for the period October 1, 2024, through September 30, 2025, is approved (a copy of the memorandum request being on file with the official records of the July 17, 2024 meeting of the Governmental Operations Committee of this Board), and the Chairperson of this Board is authorized, as necessary, to execute any grant application documents.