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City Council Meeting: October 12, 2004 Santa Monica, California
TO: Mayor and City Council
FROM: City Staff
SUBJECT: Acceptance of $350,000 Grant Award from the California Office of Traffic
Safety in Support of a Law Enforcement Against Drunk Driving Safety
Program, Approval of Related Grant Agreement, and Appropriation of Grant
Funds.
INTRODUCTION
This report recommends the City Council accept a $350,000 grant award from the
California Office of Traffic Safety (OTS), authorize the City Manager to execute the related
agreement with OTS, and appropriate the grant funds to be used to operate a three-year
traffic and pedestrian safety program.
BACKGROUND
The city has made traffic and pedestrian safety a high priority for the past five years.
Grant funds have allowed the city, and the Santa Monica Police Department in particular,
to maximize education and enforcement efforts in this area.
The department?s current emphasis is to reduce alcohol-involved fatal and injury collisions,
reduce pedestrian and bicycle involved fatal and injury collisions and to increase
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compliance with seat belt laws through a program called ?Law Enforcement Against Drunk
Driving? (LEADD).
DISCUSSION
The OTS grant will fund the comprehensive three-year traffic/pedestrian safety program,
LEADD. Acceptance of the OTS grant funding will provide additional directed enforcement
and education in the area of driving under the influence prevention, pedestrian safety,
seatbelt law compliance, and bicycle helmet usage. The funds will allow purchase of
equipment and educational materials as well as supplement personnel costs for additional
enforcement during the three-year grant period and automation of a traffic records
database. Special emphasis will be placed upon repeat driving-under-the-influence
offenders, driver license violators, and traffic safety education for students, seniors and
tourists.
OTS obtained the $350,000 of grant funding from the National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration (NHTSA) and is passing through the federal funds to the City of Santa
Monica. No City matching funds are required to obtain this funding. OTS will disburse
grant funds for eligible expenses subsequent to receipt of periodic reimbursement requests
from the City.
BUDGET/FINANCIALIMPACT
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The following FY 2004-05 budget changes will be needed to record receipt of the OTS
grant funding and to make it available for program use:
1. Establish a budget of $350,000 in revenue account number 20304.403520.
2. Appropriate grant funds to the following expenditure budget accounts:
Amount Account Title Account Number
$ 63,500.00 LEADD Safety Program 01306.555271
$ 68,190.00 LEADD Program Equipment 01306.588561
$218,310.00 LEADD Personnel Costs 01306.511490 88382 W
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$350,000 Total
The grant period will encompass three fiscal years (FY2004-05, FY2005-06, and
FY2006-07).
RECOMENDATION
It is recommended that the City Council:
Accept the California Office of Traffic Safety grant in the amount of $350,000
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and authorize the City Manager to execute a grant agreement with OTS for the
purpose of receiving grant funds and implementing the Law Enforcement Against
Drunk Driving traffic safety enforcement and education program.
2. Appropriate the grant funds by approving the budget changes described above.
Prepared and submitted by: James T. Butts, Jr., Chief of Police
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