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2015 COPS Hiring Grant December 15, 2015 Page 2 The Police Department plans on using these additional officers to enhance Community Policing initiatives by increasing frontline law enforcement staffing, which will allow officers much needed time to more positively engage with the community. The ten new officers will help further advance the Police Department's beat policing program, and provide some of the line -level staff needed to establish the Department's Community Relations Division. The grant allows for a cost sharing partnership with the federal government where the grant funds approximately 30 percent of the associated costs and the City General Fund covers the remaining 70 percent. The grant requires that at the end of the three -year performance period, the City must retain these 10 additional police officer positions for a minimum of 12 months, over and above locally- funded positions that would have existed in the absence of the grant. STRATEGIC PLAN ALIGNMENT Approval of these items assists the City in meeting Goal #1 - Community Safety, Objective #3 (promote fiscal accountability to ensure financial responsibility at all levels of the organization), Strategy B (promote ongoing efforts to obtain grant funding for activities that will assist in preventing, enforcing and reducing criminal activity and traffic collisions); and Goal #1 - Community Safety, Objective #1 (Modernize the Community Policing philosophy to improve customer service, crime prevention and traffic / pedestrian / bicycle safety), Strategy F (enhance the Police Department's community policing philosophy to balance both traditional policing and problem solving strategies to address and reduce violent, property and gang related crimes). FISCAL IMPACT The appropriation adjustment will recognize $1,250,000 in COPS Hiring Grant funds in revenue account (no. 12714002 52001), and appropriate same to expenditure account (no. 12714409 — various). Matching funds will be identified in the Police Department Field Operations account (no. 01114420 - various) at year -end for FY 2015 -16, and appropriated as part of the FY 2016- 17, FY 2017 -18, and FY 2018 -19 budget processes. Grant and general fund match amounts are projected for the following fiscal years as follows: 1,250,000.00 3,014,054.62 55B -2 COPS Grant City Match FY 2015 -16 332,546.67 801,851.05 FY 2016 -17 413,531.86 997,126.09 FY 2017 -18 431,379.62 1,040,161.40 FY 2018 -19 72,541.85 174,916.08 1,250,000.00 3,014,054.62 55B -2