For City Council Meeting July 22, 2025
TO: Honorable Mayor and City Council
FROM: Tanya Williams, City Manager
AUTHOR: Mark P. Kling, Chief of Police
Title
Request City Council to: (1) Adopt Resolution No. 8376 Amending the 2025-2026 Fiscal Year Budget; (2) Approve the California Cannabis Tax Fund Grant (CTFGP) Agreement in the Amount of $495,000; and (3) Authorize the City Manager or Designee to Execute All Documents.
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RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends that the City Council:
1) Adopt a Resolution amending the 2025-2026 fiscal year budget,
2) Approve the California Cannabis Tax Fund Grant Agreement in the amount of $495,000, and
3) Authorize the City Manager or designee to execute all documents.
BACKGROUND
The California Cannabis Tax Fund Grant (CTFGP) has awarded the City of Rialto Police Department $495,000 through a no-matching funds Grant.
For the past several years, the City has pursued and been awarded various grants from the California Office of Traffic Safety 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. This year, the California Highway Patrol Cannabis Tax Fund Grant awarded our agency $495,000. The new grant funding will further the Department’s ability toward reducing impaired driving crashes, increasing public awareness surrounding the dangers of impaired driving, and making Rialto’s roadways a safer place to travel.
ANALYSIS/DISCUSSION
The CTFGP grant allocates funding to address traffic-related concerns through the following enforcement and educational programs. Along with the enforcement and educational programs, the grant allocated funding for the purchase of additional equipment to ensure operational efficiency:
Personnel
• DUI Checkpoints
• DUI Saturation Patrols
• Advanced Roadside Impaired Driving Education (ARIDE) Training-Instruct
• Standard Field Sobriety Testing (SFST) Training-Instruct
Equipment
• 1 - DUI/DUIDrugs Vehicle-Truck
• 1 - DUI/DUIDrugs Vehicle-SUV
• 2 - DUI/DUIDrugs Vehicles-Motorcycle
There are no matching funds required for this grant. If this grant is accepted, 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 July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2026. The California Highway Patrol (Cannabis Tax Fund Grant) 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) 15378(b)(2) Continuing administrative or maintenance activities, such as purchases for supplies, personnel-related actions, general policy and procedure making.
2) 15378(b)(5) 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 has reviewed and supports this staff report.
FINANCIAL IMPACT
Operating Budget Impact
CTFGP has awarded the City of Rialto Police Department $495,000 for the 2025-2026 Cannabis Tax Fund Grant Program. Accepting the grant will increase revenues in the amount of $495,000 in the Cannabis Tax Fund Grant Revenue Account No. 22476997 47560 26CTG-07. The additional revenue will offset increased expenditures of the same amount appropriated in the amount of $252,333.20 in Account No. 22476997 51020 26CTG-10, $3,658.80 in Account No. 22476997 51050 26CTG-80, $1,978.40 in Account No. 22476997 52022 26CTG-12, and $237,029.60 in Account No. 22476997 53050 26CTG-48 for grant expenditures such as overtime, benefits, travel, and equipment utilized by this grant.
This grant requires no local City match.
Capital Improvement Budget Impact
No impact to the Capital Improvement Budget.
Licensing
This staff report is for the acceptance of a grant and does not trigger a business license.