(a) As used in this section, “Neighborhood Security Fellowship Program” or “program” means the pilot program established pursuant to subsection (b) of this section, and “Neighborhood Security Fellows” or “Fellows” means individuals who have been identified and recruited for participation in the Neighborhood Security Fellowship Program pursuant to said subsection.
(b) (1) The Office of Policy and Management shall establish a pilot program to foster neighborhood safety in urban environments and to serve as a blueprint to reduce neighborhood gun violence state-wide. The Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management shall select a municipality that has a population of at least one hundred twenty-four thousand and less than one hundred twenty-five thousand to participate in the Neighborhood Security Fellowship Program.
(2) The chief elected official of the municipality selected by the secretary shall select a nonprofit entity to administer the program, which shall be funded by local, state, federal and private moneys. Such moneys shall be used for the administration and costs of the program, including, but not limited to, salaries, benefits and other compensation for any individuals hired by such nonprofit entity to administer the program and stipends to be paid to Fellows.
(3) The Neighborhood Security Fellowship Program shall engage in, but not be limited to, the following activities and initiatives:
(A) The identification and recruitment into the program of individuals between eighteen and twenty-four years of age who are most likely to be perpetrators or victims of gun violence. Such identification and recruitment shall be accomplished after the execution of all appropriate or necessary waivers, authorizations and releases with the assistance of (i) the local or state police department serving the municipality selected, (ii) the local board of education serving the municipality selected, (iii) the state's attorney serving the judicial district of the municipality selected, (iv) the Court Support Services of the Judicial Branch, and (v) any other state agencies and departments and organizations capable of providing such assistance; and
(B) The coordination of programs, services and activities in which Fellows will participate, including, but not limited to, (i) anger management, (ii) life skills training, (iii) dispute and conflict resolution, (iv) remedial education, (v) leadership development, (vi) character building, (vii) mentoring programs, and (viii) preemployment skills workshops, including career counseling, work-readiness, team building, customer service and entrepreneurial training.
(4) The Neighborhood Security Fellowship Program may engage in (A) the coordination and placement of Fellows in worksite assignments, including (i) local, state and federal government agencies and departments, (ii) state-funded public construction projects within the municipality selected, (iii) private businesses, particularly those receiving assistance from the Small Business Express program established pursuant to section 32-7g or the Subsidized Training and Employment program established pursuant to section 31-3pp, and (iv) nonprofit community-based organizations receiving a grant-in-aid from the state, and (B) the coordination of training placements, including in adult education courses, vocational training programs, higher education courses and apprenticeship programs.
(c) (1) The chief elected official of the municipality selected under subdivision (1) of subsection (b) of this section, in conjunction with the Capital Region Development Authority established pursuant to section 32-601, shall select public construction projects located in the federally designated Promise Zones as Neighborhood Security projects. A state or municipal contract for a Neighborhood Security project shall be awarded only to a bidder that agrees to hire a nonprofit subcontractor that employs Fellows who will be assigned to work at such Neighborhood Security project worksite. The chief elected official of the municipality selected shall (A) determine, in conjunction with the Capital Region Development Authority, any minimum number of Fellows such nonprofit subcontractor shall be required to employ to be eligible to be hired for a Neighborhood Security project, and (B) encourage the hiring of any such nonprofit subcontractor for any other municipal or state-funded public construction project.
(2) Before awarding a contract for a Neighborhood Security project, the state or the municipality shall state in its notice of solicitation for competitive bids or request for proposals or qualifications for such contract that the bidder is required to comply with the provisions of section 4a-60g, the requirements concerning nondiscrimination and affirmative action under sections 4a-60 and 4a-60a and the provisions under subdivision (1) of this subsection regarding the hiring of a subcontractor. The state or the municipality may inquire whether a bidder is a business enterprise that participates in the Neighborhood Security Fellowship Program and may award preference points to such bidder.
(d) Not later than January 1, 2018, and annually thereafter, if the municipality selected under subdivision (1) of subsection (b) of this section received state funding for the Neighborhood Security Fellowship Program during the previous calendar year, such municipality and the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management shall jointly submit a report, in accordance with the provisions of section 11-4a, to the joint standing committees of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to the judiciary and appropriations and the budgets of state agencies. Such report shall detail (1) the number of individuals participating in the program during the previous calendar year, (2) any changes in the level of gun-related incidents of violence in the municipality, (3) an evaluation of the programs, services and activities undertaken under subdivision (3) of subsection (b) of this section, (4) the costs of the program during the previous calendar year in both state and private dollars, and (5) any recommendations to expand the program to other municipalities.
(May Sp. Sess. P.A. 16-4, S. 260.)
History: May Sp. Sess. P.A. 16-4 effective July 1, 2016.
Structure Connecticut General Statutes
Title 4 - Management of State Agencies
Section 4-65a. - Office of Policy and Management.
Section 4-66. - Powers and duties of Secretary of Office of Policy and Management.
Section 4-66aa. - Community investment account. Distribution of funds.
Section 4-66b. - Capital development impact statements.
Section 4-66c. - Urban action bonds.
Section 4-66cc. - Agricultural sustainability account.
Section 4-66d. - Standardized form for notification of possible reimbursement liability.
Section 4-66e. - Development of interagency self-sufficiency measurement standards.
Section 4-66f. - Maintenance of funds received from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Section 4-66h. - Main Street Investment Fund account. Distribution of funds.
Section 4-66k. - Regional planning incentive account.
Section 4-66l. - Municipal revenue sharing account. Grants.
Section 4-66m. - Intertown capital equipment purchase incentive program. Bond authorization.
Section 4-66n. - Municipal reimbursement and revenue account. Distribution of funds.
Section 4-66o. - Receivables for anticipated revenue.
Section 4-66p. - Municipal Revenue Sharing Fund.
Section 4-66q. - Regional councils of governments. Establishment of revenue sharing agreements.
Section 4-67a. - Medical Affairs Reference Committee.
Section 4-67b. - Appraisal fee schedule established.
Section 4-67c. - Fee schedule for health services established by Commissioner of Social Services.
Section 4-67d. - Professional Advisory Committee.
Section 4-67i. - Agency procurement plan.
Section 4-67m. - Development of goals, objectives and measures; implementation and revision; report.
Section 4-67s. - Child Poverty and Prevention Council: Definitions.
Section 4-67v. - Governor's budget document re prevention goals.
Section 4-67z. - Review of legal obstacles to sharing of high value data. Report.
Section 4-68aa. - Social innovation investment enterprise. Social innovation account.
Section 4-68bb. - Project Longevity Initiative. Definitions. Implementation.
Section 4-68cc. - Neighborhood Security Fellowship Program.
Section 4-68d. - Collection of sums due state for public assistance.
Section 4-68dd. - Municipal Grant Portal.
Section 4-68ff. - Collection, presentation and reporting of prosecutorial data.
Section 4-68g. (Formerly Sec. 17-21). - Conservators for mentally ill or mentally retarded persons.
Section 4-68gg. - Annual report re community engagement training.
Section 4-68j. - Disapproval of requests by any state agency or official may be in writing.
Section 4-68l. - Grants to towns to supplement reimbursement under the general assistance program.
Section 4-68n. - Correctional system population projections.
Section 4-68o. - Reporting system to track criminal justice system trends and outcomes.
Section 4-68p. - Report of data analysis of state criminal justice system trends.
Section 4-68t. - Tracking, analysis and reporting of recidivism rates for children.
Section 4-68x. - Urban violence reduction grant program.
Section 4-68y. - Disproportionate minority contact: Definitions, reports.
Section 4-70e. - Office of Finance. Executive financial officer.
Section 4-71a. - Estimates of recommended state grants-in-aid to towns under the budget document.
Section 4-71b. - Estimates of state grants-in-aid under state budget act.
Section 4-71c. - Computation of the cost of an indexed increase in assistance payments.
Section 4-72. - Governor's budget message.
Section 4-73. - Recommended appropriations.
Section 4-74. - Appropriation and revenue bills.
Section 4-75. - Publication of the budget document.
Section 4-76. - Governor to explain budget document and reports to legislative committees.
Section 4-78. - Information contained in budget recommendations.
Section 4-79. - Tentative budget.
Section 4-80. - Hearings on tentative budget.
Section 4-81. - Formulation of the budget.
Section 4-82. - Supplemental estimates.
Section 4-82a. - Governor to report to General Assembly re projected deficit.
Section 4-83. - Prohibited estimates or requests.
Section 4-84. - Contingency appropriation.
Section 4-85a. - Reductions of appropriations for the fiscal year 1971–1972.
Section 4-85d. - Submission of accounting of federal energy funds.
Section 4-87. - Transfer and revision of appropriations. Relocation expenses.
Section 4-88. - Reversion of unencumbered balances.
Section 4-89. - Appropriations; treatment of unexpended balances at close of fiscal year.
Section 4-93. - Finance Advisory Committee; appointment and term. Meeting agenda.
Section 4-94. - Finance Advisory Committee to approve transfers of funds.
Section 4-95. - Appropriation for social services assistance and care.
Section 4-96. - Additions to specific appropriations.
Section 4-97. - Use of appropriations.
Section 4-97a. - Moneys received for specific statutory purpose.
Section 4-99. - Commitment of appropriations prior to beginning of fiscal period.
Section 4-100. - Penalty for exceeding appropriations; exceptions.
Section 4-101. - Appropriations to hospitals.
Section 4-101b. - Certification of reasonable efforts of hospitals to provide uncompensated care.
Section 4-102. - Hospital societies' reports.
Section 4-103. - Uniform system of accounting for hospitals receiving state aid.
Section 4-104. - Inspection and subpoena of hospital records.
Section 4-105. - Procedure where right to inspect records is denied.
Section 4-106. - Treatment of sexually transmitted diseases in hospitals receiving state aid.
Section 4-107. - Institutions receiving state aid; visitation.
Section 4-108. - Director of purchases; appointment.
Section 4-112a. - Sale of state highway equipment.
Section 4-121. - Supervisor of State Publications.
Section 4-124aa. - Information technology internship and work-study program. Guidelines. Report.
Section 4-124bb. - Connecticut Career Ladder Advisory Committee. Establishment. Membership.
Section 4-124cc. - Career ladder programs. Development of three-year plan.
Section 4-124ee. - Connecticut nursing faculty incentive program. Guidelines. Report.
Section 4-124ii. - Awarding of grants to generate talent in institutions of higher education.
Section 4-124jj. - Office of Workforce Strategy account. Report
Section 4-124kk. - American Rescue Plan Act funds; use by Office of Workforce Strategy.
Section 4-124nn. - Connecticut Career Accelerator Program Advisory Committee.
Section 4-124uu. - Program re trained workforce for the film industry.
Section 4-124vv. - Labor Department to fund Connecticut Career Choices.
Section 4-124w. - Office of Workforce Strategy. Responsibilities.
Section 4-124ww. - Report identifying workforce shortage sectors and subsectors.
Section 4-124g. - Transitional provisions.
Section 4-124i. - Regional councils of governments. Definitions.
Section 4-124j. - Creation. Membership. Withdrawal.
Section 4-124k. - Representatives of members.
Section 4-124l. - Certification of establishment of council. Transitional period.
Section 4-124m. - Rights and duties of councils.
Section 4-124n. - Bylaws. Officers. Committees. Meetings.
Section 4-124o. - Regional planning commissions.
Section 4-124p. - Receipt of funds. Dues. Contracts. Audits. Annual report.
Section 4-124r. - Purchase of real property; borrowing for such purchase.
Section 4-124s. - Regional performance incentive program.
Section 4-124u. - Process for voluntary review of projects of regional significance.