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2016 COPS Hiring Grant <br />November 15, 2016 <br />Page 2 <br />The Police Department plans on using these additional officers to enhance Community Policing <br />initiatives by increasing frontline law enforcement staffing, which will allow officers much needed <br />time to more positively engage with the community. The ten new officers will also help further <br />advance the Police Department's beat policing program, and build on the President's 21St <br />Century Policing Plan. The added officers will improve our effective crime reduction strategies <br />while strengthening our trust with the community through our Community Policing Plan. <br />The grant allows for a cost sharing partnership with the federal government where the grant <br />funds approximately 30 percent of the associated costs and the City General Fund covers the <br />remaining 70 percent. The grant requires that at the end of the three -year performance period, <br />the City must retain these 10 additional police officer positions for a minimum of 12 months, over <br />and above locally- funded positions that would have existed in the absence of the grant. <br />STRATEGIC PLAN ALIGNMENT <br />Approval of these items assists the City in meeting Goal #1 - Community Safety, Objective #3 <br />(promote fiscal accountability to ensure financial responsibility at all levels of the organization), <br />Strategy B (promote ongoing efforts to obtain grant funding for activities that will assist in <br />preventing, enforcing and reducing criminal activity and traffic collisions); and Goal #1 - Community <br />Safety, Objective #1 (Modernize the Community Policing philosophy to improve customer <br />service, crime prevention and traffic / pedestrian / bicycle safety), Strategy F (enhance the Police <br />Department's community policing philosophy to balance both traditional policing and problem <br />solving strategies to address and reduce violent, property and gang related crimes). <br />FISCAL IMPACT <br />The appropriation adjustment will recognize $1,250,000 in COPS Hiring Grant funds in revenue <br />account (no. 12714002 52001), and appropriate same to expenditure account (no. 12714409 — <br />various). Matching funds will be identified in the Police Department Field Operations account <br />(no. 01114420 - various) at year -end for FY 2016 -17, and appropriated as part of the FY 2017- <br />18, FY 2018 -19, and FY 2019 -20 budget processes. Grant and general fund match amounts are <br />projected for the following fiscal years as follows: <br />55B -2 <br />1,153,241.85 <br />1,441,552.31 <br />1, 513, 536.92 <br />254,271.23 <br />4,362,602.31 <br />COPS Grant <br />City Match <br />FY 2016 -17 <br />330,434.04 <br />822,807.81 <br />FY 2017 -18 <br />413,042.55 <br />1,028,509.76 <br />FY 2018 -19 <br />433,668.03 <br />1,079,868.89 <br />FY 2019 -20 <br />72,855.38 <br />181,415.85 <br />55B -2 <br />1,153,241.85 <br />1,441,552.31 <br />1, 513, 536.92 <br />254,271.23 <br />4,362,602.31 <br />