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REQUEST FOR <br />COUNCIL ACTION <br />CITY COUNCIL MEETING DATE: <br />NOVEMBER 20, 2006 <br />TITLE: <br />APPROPRIATION ADJUSTMENT <br />ACCEPTING COPS 2006 TECHNOLOGY <br />PROGRAM GRANT AWARD FUNDS <br />C MANAGE <br />RECOMMENDED ACTION <br />CLERK OF COUNCIL USE ONLY: <br />APPROVED <br />^ As Recommended <br />^ As Amended <br />^ Ordinance on 15t Reading <br />^ Ordinance on 2"d Reading <br />^ Implementing Resolution <br />^ Set Public Hearing For <br />CONTINUED TO <br />FILE NUMBER <br />1. Adopt a resolution authorizing the City Manager and the Chief of <br />Police to execute a grant award agreement with the United States <br />Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services <br />(COPS) for $98,723. <br />2. Approve an Appropriation Adjustment accepting and appropriating the <br />COPS 2006 Technology program grant funds in the amount of $98,723. <br />DISCUSSION <br />The United States Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented <br />Policing Services has awarded the Police Department the 2006 Technology <br />Program Grant. The grant will assist the Police Department Forensic <br />Firearms Unit, which is rated one of the best in the nation with its IBIS <br />hit rating. The grant funds will be used to upgrade to the current <br />comparison microscope, as well as purchase a secondary comparison <br />microscope, desks for firearms evidence analysis, a remote firing device, <br />and ballistic rifle and pistol transport cases. The funding will also <br />provide a live-feed connection with a second examiner to assist with the <br />comparison verification process, without having to physically drive the <br />evidence to the assisting agency and back. These technological upgrades and <br />purchases will increase the productivity of the Unit, thus providing <br />investigators, district attorney's, assistant U.S. attorneys and the courts <br />with crucial forensic facts much more rapidly. This has positive <br />ramifications on the community and will directly aid in the expedited <br />prosecution of violent firearms related crimes. <br />20C-1 <br />