TO:
Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
THROUGH:
Bruce Moe, Acting City Manager
FROM:
Eve R. Irvine, Police Chief
Gwen Eng, Purchasing Manager
Julie Dahlgren, Senior Management Analyst
SUBJECT:Title
Appropriate Supplemental Law Enforcement Services (SLES) Grant Funds for the Purchase of 89 Handguns from All State Police Equipment in the Amount of $31,701.05, and Law Enforcement Software and Equipment with Remaining Grants Funds and Accrued Interest ($70,298.95) (Acting City Manager Moe).
APPROVE, APPROPRIATE
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Recommended Action
RECOMMENDATION:
Staff recommends that the City Council:
a) Award Bid #984-14 to All State Police Equipment for 89 Police Department handguns in the amount of $31,701.05;
b) Authorize the City Manager to purchase law enforcement equipment and technology in an amount not-to-exceed $70,298.95; and
b) Appropriate $102,000 in Citizen's Option for Public Safety (COPS) Supplemental Law Enforcement Services (SLES) Grant Funds and accrued interest for proposed expenditures.
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FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
Each fiscal year, the City receives an allocation of $100,000 from the Supplemental Law Enforcement Services Fund; the funds are placed in an interest bearing account. The requested items will be purchased with the aforementioned Supplemental Law Enforcement Services fund allocation; therefore, there is no impact on the General Fund. The total cost of the proposed expenditures is approximately $102,000, and will complete the expenditure of the Fiscal Year 2012-2013 grant allocation and accrued interest.
BACKGROUND:
During the 1996-1997 legislative sessions, the State adopted legislation to provide block grants to individual cities to support front-line law enforcement needs. The program is called the Supplemental Law Enforcement Services fund, created through Assembly Bill 3229, the Citizen's Option for Public Safety Program. S...
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