Title
Governor’s Highway Safety Program Grant for Traffic Safety - Driving While Impaired Task Force
Action
Action:
Adopt a resolution authorizing the city to accept a grant award in the amount of $200,701 from the Governor’s Highway Safety Program for the Driving While Impaired Task Force.
Body
Staff Resource(s):
Johnny Jennings, Police
Will Farrell, Police
John Reibold, Police
Explanation
§ The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department (CMPD) has been invited to apply for a Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 grant award of $200,701 from the Governor’s Highway Safety Program (GHSP) grant for the Driving While Impaired (DWI) Task Force. This grant has been awarded annually for the previous eight years.
§ The grant will fund 25 percent or $200,701 of the Task Force’s personnel costs for six officers and one sergeant assigned to the DWI Task Force in FY 2022.
§ GHSP requires that City Council adopt a resolution to authorize CMPD to accept the grant funding.
§ The grant is for a one-year term from October 1, 2021, through September 30, 2022.
§ The grant requires the city to provide matching funds in the amount of $602,101 which is included in CMPD’s operating budget.
Fiscal Note
Funding: General Grants Fund and Police Operating Budget
Attachments
Attachment(s)
Resolution