For City Council Meeting September 24, 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. 8293 Amending the 2024-2025 Fiscal Year Budget; 2) Approve the California Office of Traffic Safety Selective Traffic Enforcement Program Grant Agreement in the Amount of $425,000; 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. 8293 amending the 2024-2025 fiscal year budget,
2) Approve the California Office of Traffic Safety Selective Traffic Enforcement Program Grant Agreement in the amount of $425,000, and
3) Authorize the Interim City Manager or designee to execute all documents.
BACKGROUND
The California Office of Traffic Safety (OTS) has awarded the City of Rialto Police Department $425,000 through the 2025 Selected Traffic Enforcement Program (STEP) Grant. There is no match for these grant funds.
For the past several years, the city has pursued and been awarded various grants from 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. Similarly, OTS has increased their grant funding; from $424,000 in FY2024 to $425,000 in FY2025. The increased grant funding will further the Department’s ability to achieve established traffic safety goals.
ANALYSIS/DISCUSSION
The OTS grant allocates funding to address traffic-related concerns through the following enforcement and educational programs:
• DUI/Driver License Checkpoints
• DUI Saturation Patrols
• “Know Your Limit” Education
• Warrant Service Operations
• Collaborative DUI and Traffic Enforcement
• Traffic Enforcement
• Distracted Driving Enforcement
• Motorcycle Safety
• Pedestrian and Bicycle Enforcement
• Traffic Safety Education
• Street Racing and Sideshow Enforcement Operation
• Community Collaboration Engagement
As noted, there are no matching funds required for this grant. The city will be reimbursed for all grant-related law enforcement overtime activities, training, approved project supplies and services during the grant operational period of October 1, 2024, through September 30, 2025. The California Office of Traffic Safety will administer funds for this grant.
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT
The proposed action does not meet the definition of a project as defined by Section 15378 California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). A “Project” means the whole of an action, which has a potential for resulting in either a direct physical change in the environment, or a reasonably foreseeable indirect physical change in the environment, and excludes the following:
1) Continuing administrative or maintenance activities, such as purchases for
supplies, personnel-related actions, general policy and procedure making.
2) Organizational or administrative activities of governments that will not result in
direct or indirect physical changes in the environment.
GENERAL PLAN CONSISTENCY
The City of Rialto has outlined key goals and objectives relating to public safety. The acceptance of this grant is consistent with meeting these objectives.
Goal 5-8: Provide effective and comprehensive policing services that meet the safety needs of Rialto.
LEGAL REVIEW
The City Attorney's Office has reviewed the resolution, agreement, and staff report, and approved it as to form.
FINANCIAL IMPACT
Operating Budget Impact
OTS has awarded the City of Rialto Police Department $425,000 for the 2025 Selective Traffic Enforcement Program. Accepting the grant will increase revenues in the amount of $425,000 in the Office of Traffic Safety Grant Revenue Account No. 22216995 47551 - 25STP. The additional revenue will offset increased expenditures of the same amount appropriated in the amount of $378,866 in Account No. 22216995 51020 - 25STP, $5,493 in Account No. 22216995 51050 - 25STP, $15,694 in Account No. 22216995 52021 - 25STP, $4,947 in Account No. 2221-6995 52022 - 25STP, and $20,000 in Account No. 22216995 53050 - 25STP for grant expenditures such as overtime, benefits, travel, services, supplies, and equipment utilized by this grant.
This grant requires no local City match.
Capital Improvement Budget Impact
There is no impact to the city’s Capital Improvement Budget.
Licensing
This staff report is for the acceptance of a grant and does not require a business license.