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REQUEST FOR <br />COUNCIL ACTION <br />CITY COUNCIL MEETING DATE: <br />MARCH 19, 2019 <br />TITLE: <br />APPROVE APPROPRIATION ADJUSTMENT <br />IN THE AMOUNT OF $1,224,850 <br />RECOGNIZING EQUITABLE SHARING <br />FUNDS FROM THE FEDERAL DEPARTMENT <br />OF JUSTICE <br />(STRATEGIC PLAN NO.1.3) <br />CITY MANAGER <br />RECOMMENDED ACTION <br />CLERK OF COUNCIL USE ONLY: <br />APPROVED <br />❑ As Recommended <br />❑ As Amended <br />❑ Ordinance on 15' Reading <br />❑ Ordinance on 2ntl Reading <br />❑ Implementing Resolution <br />❑ Set Public Hearing For <br />CONTINUED TO <br />FILE NUMBER <br />Approve an appropriation adjustment recognizing $1,224,850 in Equitable Sharing revenue <br />accounts (nos. 16614002 57410 and 16714002 57410) and appropriate same to Equitable Sharing <br />expenditure accounts (nos. 16614450 — various and 16714455 - various). <br />DISCUSSION <br />The Department of Justice Asset Forfeiture Program encompasses the seizure and forfeiture of <br />assets that represent the proceeds of, orwere used to facilitate federal crimes. The primary mission <br />of the Program is to employ asset forfeiture capabilities in a manner that enhances public safety <br />and security. This is accomplished by removing the proceeds of crime and other assets relied upon <br />by criminals and their associates to perpetuate their criminal activity against our society. Asset <br />forfeiture has the ability to disrupt or dismantle criminal organizations that would continue to <br />function if we only convicted and incarcerated specific individuals. <br />The Santa Ana Police Department participates in the Orange County Regional Narcotics <br />Suppression Program (RNSP). It is the primary mission of RNSP to target, investigate, and <br />prosecute individuals who organize, direct, finance, or otherwise engage in high-level (major) illicit <br />drug trafficking enterprises or money laundering operations. A high priority is placed on those <br />subjects who are engaged in the importation of illegal drugs into or through Orange County and <br />the interdiction of such illicit trafficking pipelines. An adoption occurs when a local agency or task <br />force seizes property and requests one of the federal seizing agencies to adopt the seizure and <br />proceed with federal forfeiture. Once the cases are adjudicated, participating agencies receive a <br />percentage of the forfeited funds. <br />This appropriation adjustment will recognize $1,224,850 in the Police Department's Equitable <br />Sharing Fund to be used to enhance law enforcement operations. The Santa Ana Police <br />20B-1 <br />