For City Council Meeting September 10, 2024
TO: Honorable Mayor and City Council
FROM: G. Michael Milhiser, Interim City Manager
AUTHOR: Mark P. Kling, Chief of Police
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Request City Council to: 1) Adopt Resolution No. 8286 Amending the 2024-2025 Fiscal Year Budget; 2) Approve the California Office of Traffic Safety Motorcyclist Safety Education and Training Program Grant Agreement in the Amount of $20,000; and 3) Authorize the Interim City Manager or Designee to Execute All Documents.
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RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends that the City Council:
1) Adopt a Resolution No. 8286 amending the 2024-2025 fiscal year budget,
2) Approve the California Office of Traffic Safety Motorcyclist Safety Education and Training Program Grant in the amount of $20,000, and
3) Authorize the Interim City Manager or designee to execute all documents.
BACKGROUND
For the past several years, the City has pursued and been awarded various grants from the California Office of Traffic Safety (OTS) to help augment its traffic safety efforts. In recent years, the City Council has dedicated increased funding for staffing to support the Department's efforts in improving the safety of the motoring public. The OTS Motorcyclist Safety Education and Training Program Grant furthers the traffic safety effort by funding motorcycle safety courses free to the public. The activities will be on an overtime basis for officers, supervisors and administrative personnel needed to meet the grant reporting requirements.
ANALYSIS/DISCUSSION
The California Office of Traffic Safety has identified unsafe motorcycle practices as a rapidly increasing cause or contributing factor of motorcycle-related traffic collisions. Similarly, the Rialto Police Department's Traffic Bureau also recognized an increase in injury and fatal motorcycle collisions on our roadways and took aggressive steps to reduce the number of these types of collisions. Recognizing that untrained motorcyclists were a factor in mos...
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