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 mo...
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