Title
Governor’s Highway Safety Program Grant for Driving While Impaired Task Force
Action
Action:
Adopt a resolution to apply and accept a grant award in the amount of $197,598 from the Governor’s Highway Safety Program for a Driving While Impaired Task Force.
Body
Staff Resource(s):
Kerr Putney, Police
Gavin Jackson, Police
Explanation
§ The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department (CMPD) has been awarded a Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 Governor’s Highway Safety Program (GHSP) grant for Driving While Impaired (DWI) Task Force. This grant has been awarded annually for the previous six years.
§ The grant will fund 25 percent of the Task Force’s personnel costs for six officers and one sergeant assigned to the DWI Task Force in FY 2020 ($197,598) which offsets the Task Force costs by $2,636,472 over the seven-year grant award period.
§ On October 28, 2013, City Council authorized a grant acceptance from the GHSP to offset costs of a DWI Task Force to focus on mitigating DWI and informing the dangers associated with DWI for four years. GHSP modified the grant application and offered a fifth, sixth, and now seventh year of funding for a FY 2020 grant for $197,598.
§ In 2018, the DWI Task Force conducted over 50 educational awareness sessions with area high school students and instructed over 300 officers in standardized field sobriety testing.
§ GHSP requires that City Council adopt a resolution to authorize CMPD to apply for and accept the grant funding.
§ The grant is for a one-year term from October 1, 2019 through September 30, 2020.
§ In FY 2021, the City will assume the total annual cost of the DWI Task Force.
§ The grant totals $197,598, and requires the City to provide matching funds in the amount of $592,793 which is included in CMPD’s normal operating budget.
Fiscal Note
Funding:
§ Grant Project Funding: General Grants Fund
§ Local Match Funding: Police Operating Budget
Attachments
Attachment(s)
Resolution