Title
High-Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Grant
Action
Action:
A. Authorize the City Manager to accept a grant in the amount of $80,813 with the Office of National Drug Control Policy for a regional High-Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Piedmont Initiative for Mecklenburg County, Gaston County, and Town of Matthews,
B. Authorize the City Manager to accept three, additional annual High-Intensity Drug Trafficking Area grants for the City of Charlotte (FY 2018, FY 2019, and FY 2020) in the total estimated amount of $250,000, and
C. Adopt a budget ordinance appropriating $80,813 into the FY 2017 Public Safety Grant Fund from the Office of National Drug Control Policy.
Body
Staff Resource(s):
Kerr Putney, Police
Mike Adams, Police
Explanation
§ The High-Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) program improves the effectiveness and efficiency of drug control efforts by facilitating joint initiatives between law enforcement agencies, enabling them to share resources and information.
§ Each HIDTA is governed by its own executive board, comprised of eight federal members and eight state or local members. The executive board facilitates interagency drug control efforts.
§ The Piedmont HIDTA initiative is comprised of task force officers from the four participating agencies and will focus on black tar heroin: Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department, Gastonia Police Department, Town of Matthews Police Department, and Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) officers.
§ The DEA chooses which towns participate as HIDTA Task Force officers.
§ The HIDTA funds will cover the cost of equipment, supplies, undercover activities, and other related expenses.
§ The City of Charlotte will serve as the fiduciary for the Piedmont HIDTA initiative.
§ The City has been awarded HIDTA grants annually since FY 2010.
§ No matching City funds are required for this grant.
Fiscal Note
Funding: HIDTA Grant
Attachments
Attachment(s)
Budget Ordinance