Title
Governor’s Highway Safety Program Grant for Traffic Safety
Action
Action:
Adopt a resolution authorizing the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department to accept the grant award of $43,000 from the Governor’s Highway Safety Program.
Body
Staff Resource(s):
Kerr Putney, Police
David Sloan, Police
Explanation
§ The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department (CMPD) has an opportunity to accept the grant award of $43,000 from the Governor’s Highway Safety Program (GHSP), which will provide the following:
- $14,000 to purchase four additional dual antenna radar units used in police vehicles to help enforce speed limit laws;
- $23,000 to purchase a Driving While Impaired (DWI) prevention simulator, which is used to demonstrate the effect of alcohol and other drugs on driving skills;
- $5,000 for the Regional Law Enforcement Liaison travel, training, and meetings expenses:
§ Local traffic safety meetings coordinated by CMPD;
§ Meetings throughout North Carolina and out-of-state; and
§ Training for other departments in the region, and annual, national traffic safety enforcement conference.
- $600 to cover the data plan expenses for the GHSP issued technology equipment; and
- $400 to support law enforcement county coordinators’ public relations efforts.
§ The grant is for a period of one year. No matching funds are required from the City.
§ GHSP requires that the City Council pass a resolution authorizing the acceptance of grant funding.
Fiscal Note
Funding: Governor’s Highway Safety Program
Attachments
Attachment(s)
Resolution