There is a Confiscated Assets for Neighborhoods Grant Program in the Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice. The purpose of the Grant Program is to fund community-based safety initiatives. Ord. 09-101

Funding for the Grants Program shall derive from a portion of all money confiscated by the Police Department and forfeited to the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, as appropriated in the Ordinance of Estimates. Each year, this funding shall be allocated among the various police districts, prorated generally according to the percentage that money confiscated from a district in the preceding year bears to all money confiscated Citywide in that year. Ord. 09-101

Any established neighborhood association or other community-based organization active within a police district may apply for a grant from the funds allocated to that district. The application shall contain the information and be in the form that the Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice requires. Ord. 09-101

Each application for available grant money in a police district shall be referred for review and recommendation to that district’s community relations council. The community relations council shall submit its recommendations to the Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice. Ord. 09-101

The Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice shall make all decisions approving or disapproving an application and, making a grant, may impose any limitations or conditions that it considers necessary or appropriate. All decisions of the Office under this subtitle are final and non-appealable. Ord. 09-101

Subject to Title 4 {“Administrative Procedure Act – Regulations”} of the <cite data-path="|general">City General Provisions Article</cite>, the Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice shall adopt rules and regulations to carry out this subtitle and the grant program established under it. Among other things, these rules and regulations may further define:words or phrases used in this subtitle; qualifications for grant applicants; procedures for awarding grants; and procedures for monitoring the use of grant funds. Ord. 09-101 Text Conformed 02/09/21 By authority of Ordinance 20-431, Section 5, the Director of Legislative Reference, in consultation with the Law Department, has conformed the text of this section to refer expressly to the requirements of the recently-enacted Administrative Procedure Act that, effective January 15, 2021, governs the proposal, adoption, and publication of administrative rules and regulations.