(a) General Managers, Officers and/or Directors may submit applications for competitive and/or discretionary grants to granting agencies without Mayor and City Council approval if no City General Funds, matching funds or other commitments of City resources are required, consistent with any direction from the Mayor under Charter Section 231(h). Simultaneously with the submission of a grant application to a granting agency, departments shall transmit a copy of the grant application and explanatory memorandum to the Mayor, Office of the City Administrative Officer (CAO), Office of the Chief Legislative Analyst (CLA) and to the City Clerk for committee and City Council consideration pursuant to procedures established by the City Council. Departments shall obtain Mayor and City Council approval before accepting and receiving the grant award.
(b) General Managers, Officers and/or Directors may submit applications for competitive and/or discretionary grants to granting agencies, consistent with any direction from the Mayor under Charter Section 231(h), which require the commitment of matching funds, General Funds or other city resources, without prior Mayor and City Council approval, only under circumstances where the Notice of Funding Availability was published less than 61 days in advance of the date of the application deadline established by the awarding agency.
Simultaneously with the submission of a grant application to a granting agency, departments shall transmit a copy of the grant application and explanatory memorandum to the Mayor, Office of the City Administrative Officer (CAO), Office of the Chief Legislative Analyst (CLA) and to the City Clerk for committee and City Council consideration pursuant to procedures established by the City Council. Departments shall obtain Mayor and City Council approval before accepting and receiving the grant award.
(c) The provisions of Section 14.6(a) and (b) do not apply to entitlement and/or formula grants or allocations. Whenever, and as soon as, it appears desirable to a department or office to apply for grants or allocations distributed as entitlements and/or by formula or for any other grant not meeting the provisions of 14(a) or 14(b), or to amend the terms of such a grant currently in effect, it shall notify the Mayor and the City Council thereof at the same time, in writing. The President of the Council shall thereupon refer it to the appropriate committee for its review and recommendation to the City Council. Such department or office shall proceed no further until approval is received from the City Council.
Matters initiated by the City Council regarding notices of intent, grant applications, amendments to grant contracts, suspension or termination of grants, reprogramming of existing grant funds or other grant related matters may be presented to and acted upon at said time by the City Council, or such may be referred to the appropriate committee for review and recommendation. In the event the matter is referred to a committee, a copy thereof shall be simultaneously referred by the City Clerk to the Mayor with a request that the Mayor submit any recommendations thereon which the Mayor desires to make within ten (10) days of receipt of the matter.
SECTION HISTORY
Added by Ord. No. 150,582, Eff. 3-24-78, Oper. 4-1-78.
Amended by: Third Para. added, Ord. No. 153,664, Eff. 6-1-80; In Entirety, Ord. No. 164,741, Eff. 5-27-89, Oper. 7-1-89; First Para., Ord. No. 169,108, Eff. 11-27-93; First Para., Ord. No. 170,388, Eff. 3-18-95; Last Sentence, Ord. No. 173,282, Eff. 6-26-00, Oper. 7-1-00; First and Second Paras. deleted, Subsecs. (a), (b), and (c) added (Last Unnumbered Para. unaffected), Ord. No. 174,410, Eff. 1-29-02.