For City Council Meeting [November 15, 2022]
TO: Honorable Mayor and City Council
APPROVAL: Marcus Fuller, City Manager
FROM: Mark P. Kling, Chief of Police
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Request City Council to: (1) Adopt Resolution No. 7987 Amending the 2022-2023 Fiscal Year Budget; (2) Approve the California Office of Traffic Safety “Ride to Live” Motorcycle Education Grant Agreement in the Amount of $31,000; and (3) Authorize the City Manager or Designee to Execute All Documents.
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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 “Ride to Live” Motorcycle Education 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 $31,000 through the “Ride to Live” Motorcycle Education Grant Program. 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, 2022, through September 30, 2023. 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 has reviewed and supports this staff report.
FINANCIAL IMPACT
Operating Budget Impact
Accepting this grant will increase revenue in the amount of $31,000 in the OTS Grant Account No. 221-400-6996-7551. Offsetting increased expenditures of the same amount will occur in the amount of $28,840 in Account No. 221-500-6996-1020, $418 in Account No. 221-500-6996-1050, $750 in Account No. 221-500-6996-2021, and $992 in Account No. 221-500-6996-2022, 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.
RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends that the City Council:
(1) Adopt a Resolution amending the 2022-2023 fiscal year budget,
(2) Approve the California Office of Traffic Safety “Ride to Live” Motorcycle Education Grant Agreement in the amount of $31,000, and
(3) Authorize the City Manager or Designee to execute all documents.