Sec. 118.101. - Purpose.

This Chapter is enacted to regulate the manner and method by which City grants made by the City Council are obtained and used by the recipients, as defined in Section 118.104 . The Recipient provides services and activities determined by the City Council to be beneficial to the general welfare of the people of the City and to their economic, social, medical, cultural and educational improvement and advancement. In aid of these objectives, the City Council appropriates City funds to the Recipient either in the annual budget ordinance or in other appropriation ordinances. The City has a duty to see that the City funds are spent for public purposes as determined by the City Council in the most efficient, economic manner possible, giving due regard to the purposes for which the City funds are appropriated and the particular method or program by which the City funds are to be spent. Notwithstanding any exemptions listed in Section 118.106 , no portion of any grant monies appropriated by the City shall be used by any Recipient for any program or expense which provides assistance to or supports any person who has been determined to be a sexual predator or sexual offender, as those terms are defined in the Florida Statutes, unless the Recipient has entered into an agreement with the Sheriff, whereby the Sheriff will perform such supervision of all sexual predator and sexual offender clients as may be required pursuant to Florida law. This requirement shall not affect or apply to any grant monies, or portions thereof, awarded for purposes not associated with sexual predators or sexual offenders. General review of these requesting agencies and of their operating or program budgets shall be undertaken by an independent Public Service Grant Council, Cultural Council, the Mayor, and the City Council, as applicable, to ensure that the City funds which support or form a part of their budgets are needed and will be properly applied. (Ord. 2009-868-E, § 2; Ord. 2020-522-E , § 1)