For City Council Meeting [October 08, 2019]
TO: Honorable Mayor and City Council
APPROVAL: Rod Foster, City Administrator
FROM: Mark P. Kling, Chief of Police
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Request City Council to Approve an Increase of $15,000 to the Annual Purchase Order with Code 4 Investigations Services (Thomas E. Gibby) for police employee background services through June 2020.
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BACKGROUND
The Police Department currently uses Code 4 Investigation Services as one of its investigative firms who conducts background investigations on newly hired police department personnel. Due to an increase in hiring of vacant positions department investigators have worked an increased amount of background investigations.
ANALYSIS/DISCUSSION
For fiscal year 2019-2020, the Rialto Police Department issued Purchase Order No. 2020-0133 in the amount of $15,000 to Code 4 Investigations (Thomas E. Gibby). Due to an increase in hiring to fill vacant department positions, Code 4 Investigations has exceeded the purchase order amount; thus, an increase to the purchase order in the amount of $15,000 is required for services through the remainder of fiscal year 2019-2020. The department may seek additional vendors for background investigation services for the near future, but that decision is dependent on employee recruitment.
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 environme...
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