For City Council Meeting April 8, 2025
TO: Honorable Mayor and City Council
FROM: Tanya Williams, City Manager
AUTHOR: Mark P. Kling, Chief of Police
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Request City Council to: (1) Adopt Resolution No. 8337 Amending the 2024-2025 Fiscal Year Budget; (2) Approve the California Highway Patrol “Every 15 Minutes” Education Grant Agreement in the Amount of $9,999.99 for an Event at Carter High School; 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 2024-2025 fiscal year budget,
(2) Approve the California Highway Patrol “Every 15 Minutes” Education Grant Agreement in the amount of $9,999.99 for an event at Carter High School; and
(3) Authorize the 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 citizens. The OTS “Every 15 Minutes” Education Grant focuses on high school juniors and seniors. This program challenges these high school juniors and seniors to think about drinking, driving, personal safety, the responsibility of making mature decisions and the impact their decisions have on family, friends and their community. The activities will be on a regular and 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 alcohol and drug impairment among teenagers as an increasing cause or contributing factor of fatal traffic collisions. To combat this increase among teenagers, OTS created the “Every 15 Minutes” educational program. The “Every 15 Minutes” program offers real-life experience without the real-life risks. This emotionally charged program is an event designed to educate teenagers on the potentially dangerous consequences of drinking alcohol, drug use and texting while driving. This powerful program challenges high school students to think about drinking, texting while driving, personal safety, and the responsibility of making mature decisions when lives are involved.
The goal of the “Every 15 Minutes” program is to reduce alcohol and drug-related incidents among youth. The program partners with local law enforcement, local hospitals, emergency medical responders, schools, and businesses, showcasing the importance of working together to ensure a healthy community.
The California Office of Traffic Safety awarded California Highway Patrol funding for the “Every 15 Minutes” program. After applying for program funds from the California Highway Patrol, the City of Rialto Police Department was awarded a $9,999.99 agreement for the “Every 15 Minutes” Education Grant Program to be held at Carter High School. There are no matching funds required for this grant. If accepted, the city will be reimbursed for materials, supplies, and services necessary to implement the “Every 15 Minutes” program presentations at Carter High School. The California Highway Patrol 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 agreement 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
California Highway Patrol has awarded the City of Rialto Police Department $9,999.99 for the materials, supplies, and services for “Every 15 Minutes” program to be held at Carter High School. Accepting the award will increase revenues in the amount of $9,999.99 in the Highway Patrol Grant Revenue Account No. 22476997 47560 08. The additional revenue will offset increased expenditures of the same amount appropriated in Account No. 22476997 52021 42 for award expenditures associated with the presentations at the high school.
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.