For City Council Meeting [September 27, 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. 7983 Amending the 2022-2023 Fiscal Year Budget; (2) Accept the 2022 BJA-Byrne Discretionary Justice Assistance Grant Program in the Amount of $700,000; and (3) Authorize the City Manager to Execute a Funding Agreement and All Related Documents.
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BACKGROUND
Since 2005, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) has used the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) Program to fund projects for law enforcement agencies that improve the functioning in three key areas. These areas are the improvement of the criminal justice system, prevent or combat juvenile delinquency or assist victims of crime. Law enforcement agencies will use funding to create projects that better their agency's ability in one of the three areas.
On August 10, 2021, the City Council reviewed with Staff several federal funding opportunities with the City's federal legislators. The funding opportunities were initiated by US House Leadership efforts to allow for "Community Project Requests" (formerly earmarks) to fund a wide variety of types of projects, including transportation, public safety / FEMA, and others. Staff was asked to gather and identify the types of projects that might be submitted.
In February 2020 the Council received a long list of types of projects to submit for an earlier opportunity with the state budget at that time. In this case, the US House announced the federal funding request opportunity in mid-March with deadline to file requests within 2-3 weeks later. Several funding requests were submitted to the various legislators including one request for funding in the amount of $700,000 with Congressman Pete Aguilar for new body-worn cameras for the Rialto Police Department.
Through the Community Project Request process, Rep. Agu...
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