For City Council Meeting [January 12, 2021]
TO: Honorable Mayor and City Council
APPROVAL: Sean Grayson, Acting City Manager
FROM: Mark P. Kling, Chief of Police
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Request City Council to Approve the Purchase of Two (2) "Zero" Electric Motorcycles from Mountain Motorsports in the Amount of $37,728.28.
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BACKGROUND
The Rialto Police Department (RPD) received funding in the amount of $24,962.00 from the FY 2018 Homeland Security Grant Program to purchase Specialized Emergency Management Vehicles for responses in areas not conducive to standard police vehicles.
ANALYSIS/DISCUSSION
The city's topography is varying, ranging from common cityscape features to long stretches of unpaved surfaces with overgrown brush, hilly and rocky areas, and numerous wash areas. The introduction of specialized emergency management vehicles, specifically two (2) "Zero" electric motorcycles, will prove to be an excellent tool for accessing these varying areas of topography and will aid in emergency management operations or disaster response in order to transport equipment and personnel to incident sites in the City of Rialto with limited or restricted accessibility.
The non-cityscape areas in the City of Rialto have required police responses for a varying number of issues such as homeless encampments, wildfire threats, and criminal activity. Because of the topography, the customary police vehicle is limited in its accessibility capabilities and currently, the Rialto Police Department is not equipped with vehicles that will allow for access in these areas. Past responses in these areas would require police officers to exit their police vehicle and walk or run to an area that required eliminating a criminal threat or making notifications of an impending disaster, limiting their expediency.
A number of responses by police personnel would have benefited from the use of specialized emergency management vehicles. Wildfires that burned a significant portion of the north en...
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