Application Period: 9/1/2022-11/18/22

Please note that the grant application closes at 11:59pm on November 18, 2022. OPB Staff are available to assistance with inquiries until 5pm on November 18, 2022. Applicants are strongly encouraged to submit in advance of the deadline.

Performance Period: The performance period for this program begins when grant award is approved by OPB and ends October 31, 2026. 

Program Total: $100,000,000

Award Amount: Up to $1,500,000 per entity

Overview

The purpose of this funding is to address violent gun crime and community violence that have increased as a result of COVID-19, or to address a decrease in public sector law enforcement staffing as a result of COVID-19, using either of the following program areas:

1. Law Enforcement Staffing: 
2. Violent Crime Reduction Programs
3. Equipment and Technology
4. Community Violence Intervention Programs

Eligibility

All ARPA applicants must have an organization, or subrecipient, that will serve as the fiduciary agent and assume overall responsibility for the grant. As this is a law enforcement grant, the implementing agency must be a law enforcement agency and the affiliated unit of government will be either the municipal or county governance of the law enforcement agency. [WJ1]Eligible ARPA applicants include:

• Law enforcement agencies
• A unit of local government
• State agencies 
• Applicants must be registered in the federal System for Award Management (SAM.gov) and maintain active registration during the performance period.

Program Category

Note: State agencies are not eligible to apply for program category 1 below. 

1. Law Enforcement Staffing (Hiring law enforcement officials):

• Hire Public Safety employees for the same positions that existed on January 27, 2020 but that were unfilled or eliminated as of March 3, 2021. 
• Hiring above pre-pandemic baseline, by adjusting the pre-pandemic baseline for historical growth in the public sector employment over time.  If choosing this option, the formula prescribed in Treasury’s final rule that must be completed to determine eligibility. This form can be found under the application tasks. 

2. Violent Crime Reduction Programs: Evidence-based practices like focused deterrence, street outreach, violence interrupters, and hospital-based violence intervention models, complete with wraparound services such as behavioral therapy, trauma recovery, job training, education, housing and relocation services, and financial assistance

3. Equipment and Technology: Investments in technology and equipment to allow law enforcement to more efficiently and effectively respond to the rise in gun violence resulting from the pandemic

4. Community Violence Intervention Programs: Funding more intervention workers, increasing their pay, providing training and professional development for intervention workers, and hiring and training workers to administer the programs.

Policy Requirements: All applicants are subject to reporting and auditing requirements per federal guidelines and OPB terms and conditions.

Recipients of SFRF must alight to policy requirements under 2 CFR 200.

The following 2CFR policy requirements apply to 21.027 assistance listing for Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds (CSLFRF), Coronavirus State Fiscal Recovery Fund (CSFRF) and Coronavirus Local Fiscal Recovery Fund (CLFRF):

• Subpart B, General provisions
• Subpart C, Pre-Federal Award Requirements and Contents of Federal Awards
• Subpart D, Post Federal; Award Requirements
• Subpart E, Cost Principles
• Subpart F, Audit Requirements

*Additional requirements may be placed on awards are outlined in an executed terms and conditions agreement to accept the award.

Payment Method: Reimbursement Method

Updates: The Georgia Grants team and State Accounting Office are moving the SAO vendor process to Adobe Sign. Starting Monday, October 17, 2022, upon award of a grant awardees will receive an email from Adobe Sign with the subject “SAO Approval Agreement”. The agreement is required to create a vendor id number and/or connect to the specified bank account in the State’s financial system. You will complete and sign the form online and it will be sent automatically to OPB for review, then SAO for approval and setup.

You will no longer be required to complete the vendor management form or W-9 as part of the application. Awarded applicants will be able to complete this electronically in the Georgia Grants portal post award.