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COUNCIL ACTION
CITY COUNCIL MEETING DATE:
SEPTEMBER 8, 2009
TITLE:
APPROPRIATION ADJUSTMENT
ACCEPTING FY 2009 COPS HIRING
RECOVERY PROGRAM GRANT
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CITY ANAGER
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APPROVED
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CONTINUED TO
FILE NUMBER
Approve an Appropriation Adjustment recognizing the FY 2009 COPS Hiring
Recovery Program Grant in the amount of $6,739,542 in revenue account
(account no. 12714002-52000) and appropriate same in the FY 2009 COPS
Hiring Recovery Program Grant expenditure accounts (account nos. 12714407-
various).
DISCUSSION
In March of this year the Police Department applied for a competitive grant
made possible by the President's American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
This grant was designed to assist state and local law enforcement hire and
retain police officers. The federal government was to award approximately
$1 billion nationwide in Recovery Act grants through the Community Oriented
Policing Services - or COPS - Hiring Recovery Program.
The Police Department has received a grant award from the COPS Hiring
Recovery Program for 18 officers' positions, 11 new hire and 7 unfunded
officer positions in the amount of $6,739,542 in federal funds over a
three-year grant period. This grant funding requires that at the end of
the three-year grant period the City must retain these 18 positions for a
minimum of 12 months, over and above the number of locally-funded positions
that would have existed in the absence of the grant. The City cannot
satisfy the retention requirement by using these grant funded positions to
fill any vacancies from attrition.
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FISCAL IMPACT
Approval of the Appropriation Adjustment will increase revenues in the FY
2009 COPS Hiring Recovery Program Grant account (account no. 12714002-
52000) by $6,739,542 and appropriate same in the FY 2009 COPS Hiring
Recovery Program Grant expenditure accounts (account nos. 12714407-
various).
APPROVED AS TO FUNDS AND ACCOUNTS:
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Paul M. Walters
Chief of Police
Police Department
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Francisco Gutierrez
Executive Director
Finance & Mgt. Services Agency
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