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8A Page 1 REPORT To the Honorable Mayor and City Council From the Cit Mana er April 12, 2010 SUBJECT Proposed use of fiscal year 2009 - 2010 Citizens Option for Public Safety/Supplemental Law Enforcement Services Funds (COPS/SLESF) grant by the Redwood City Police Department and budget appropriation to the general fund budget. RECOMMENDATION Conduct a Public Hearing and by resolution, approve the recommendation of the Chief of Police to expend $105,848 in grant funding and interest towards police training and equipment and approve by resolution a budget adjustment to appropriate an increase of $5,848 in COPS/SLESF grant funding. BACKGROUND In 1996, the State of California established the Citizen's Option for Public Safety (COPS) Grant Program. The level of this grant funding has decreased over the years and continued funding at any level by the State is uncertain. The 2009 grant award and interest to the Redwood City Police Department is $105,848. These funds may only be used to support "front line" municipal police services, by providing funding towards personnel, equipment or programs. This funding must be used to supplement existing services and may not be used to supplant any existing funding for law enforcement services. Additionally, the requests from the Chief of Police for expenditure of these grant funds must be considered separate and apart from the process applicable to proposed allocations of the City's general fund, Le., separately from the general budgetary process. State law requires that the City Council hold a public hearing to consider written requests by the Police Chief for the expenditure of this funding. It is the Police Chiefs recommendation that one-half of this year's award, up to $52,924, be allocated to police training and that the remaining funds, up to $52,924, be dedicated to funding police boat operations, the purchase of electronic surveillance & tracking equipment and the purchase of police tactical equipment. ALTERNATIVES City Council may choose not to accept this grant funding. FISCAL IMPACT Approval of this resolution will have no fiscal impact. City staff anticipated receipt of this grant award and the City Council appropriated $100,000 in the FY2009-2010 amended budget to expend this grant. The budget appropriation will provide for the additional $5,848 of grant funding and interest received. The COPS grant has no requirement that the recipient agency provide matching funds. Disapproval of the resolution would result in a net loss to the General Fund of $105, 848.