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
Title
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 most collisions involving a motorcycle, our Motor Officers established a free civilian motorcycle rider training class called “Ride to Live.” Since its inception in 2017, we have trained hundreds of civilian motorcycle riders without cost to the students or the city. Additionally, other law enforcement agencies have sought guidance from the Rialto Police Department when establishing their own motorcycle safety courses.
The California Office of Traffic Safety has awarded the City of Rialto Police Department $20,000 through the Motorcyclist Safety Education and Training Program Grant. There are no matching funds required for this grant. If accepted, the city will be reimbursed for all grant-related law enforcement overtime activities 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 and approved it as to form.
FINANCIAL IMPACT
Operating Budget Impact
Accepting this grant will increase revenue in the amount of $20,000 in the OTS Grant Account No. 22216996 47551 - 25RTL. Offsetting increased expenditures of the same amount will occur in the amount of $17,000 in Account No. 22216996 51020 - 25RTL, $247 in Account No. 22216996 51050 - 25RTL, $500 in Account No. 22216996 52021 - 25RTL, and $2,253 in Account No. 22216996 52022 - 25RTL, for qualified expenditures such as overtime, benefits, travel, and supplies utilized by this grant.
This grant requires no local City match.
Capital Improvement Budget Impact
This report does not impact the Capital Improvement Budget.
Licensing
This staff report is for the acceptance of a grant and does not trigger a business license.