Title
Resolution - Resolution Authorizing the City Manager and the Police Department to make Application Under the Fiscal Year 2013 Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) Hiring Program (CHP) for Funding for Two (2) Full-Time Police Officer Positions for an amount not to exceed $380,000 (Cash match required over 3 year period will be approximatley $130,000)
Requested Action
Adopt the attached Resolution
Recommendation
Approval of Resolution
Application deadline for this grant is 7:59PM, EDT, on May 22, 2013.
Description/History
The CHP is a competitive grant program that provides funding directly to law enforcement agencies having primary law enforcement authority to impact their community policing capacity and problem solving efforts.
CHP grants will provide 75 percent funding for approved entry-level salaries and benefits for 3 years (36 months) for newly-hired, full-time sworn officer positions (including filling existing unfunded vacancies) or for rehired officers who have been laid off, or are scheduled to be laid off on a specific future date, as a result of local budget cuts. There is a 25% local match requirement per officer position with CHP grant funding based on your agency’s current entry-level salary and benefits packages. Any additional costs for higher than entry-level salaries and fringe benefits will be the responsibility of the grantee agency.
At the conclusion of the federal funding, grantees must retain all sworn positions awarded under the CHP grant for a minimum of one year (12 months). The retained CHP-funded position(s) should be added to the grantee’s law enforcement budget with state and/or local funds, over and above the number of locally-funded positions that would have existed in the absence of the grant.
Justification
The increase of two (2) officers under the grant, in addition to the officers already requested, will only provide an increased number of officers providing protection to the citizens of the Ci...
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