For City Council Meeting [October 26, 2021]
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. 7784 Amending the 2021-2022 Fiscal Year Budget; (2) Accept the California Office of Traffic Safety "Ride to Live" Motorcycle Education Grant in the Amount of $29,000; and (3) Authorize the City Manager or Designee to Execute All Documents.
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BACKGROUND
Funds provided by the California Office of Traffic Safety "Ride to Live" Motorcycle Education Grant will be utilized to conduct a variety of law enforcement operations and traffic safety programs. The activities will be on an overtime basis for first line officers, supervisors and administrative personnel needed to meet the grant reporting requirements.
There are no matching funds required for this grant. If this grant is accepted, the City will be reimbursed for all grant related law enforcement overtime activities during the grant operational period of October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2022.
ANALYSIS/DISCUSSION
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. Because of the prolonged nationwide economic decline, more and more agencies are now applying for grant funding making the grant process even more competitive.
OTS has identified unsafe motorcycle practices as a rapidly increasing cause or contributing factor in motorcycle related traffic collisions. With grant assistance from OTS, the City will continue to make great strides in making the streets of Rialto safer.
In the past few years, the Rialto Police Department's Traffic Bureau also recognized the increase in injury and fatal motorcycle collisions on our roadways and took aggressive steps to reduce the number of these types of collisions. Through the renowned "Hunt Study" it was found that untrain...
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