SR-08-28-2012-3JID
City of City Council Report
Santa monied
City Council Meeting: August 28, 2012
Agenda Item:
To: Mayor and City Council
From: Jacqueline A. Seabrooks, Chief of Police
Subject: UC Berkeley Sobriety Checkpoint Grant
Recommended Action
Staff recommends that the City Council:
1) Authorize the City Manager to accept a-no match grant in the amount of $43,200
from the University of California Berkeley -Safe Transportation Research and
Education Center in Support of the Sobriety Checkpoint Grant Program.
2) Authorize budget changes as outlined in the Financial Impact & Budget Action
section of this report.
Executive Summary
In support of the City's efforts to further reduce occurrences of victims killed and injured
in alcohol - involved collisions, the Police Department secured a grant in the amount of
$39,200 from the University of California Berkeley -Safe Transportation and Education
Center. The funds, which are only available for overtime operations, would be used to
operate a one -year Sobriety Checkpoint Grant with best practice strategies which
include DUI checkpoints only. These strategies are designed to earn media attention,
thus enhancing the overall deterrent effect.
Discussion
One of the Police Department's priorities is to work to reduce the incidences of injury
and fatal collisions in Santa Monica.
The annual Sobriety Checkpoint grant allows for the enhancement of the Police
Department's efforts to address and further reduce occurrences of these accidents and
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to generally improve traffic safety. University of California Berkeley is the only grantee of
funding specifically directed towards law enforcement DUI Checkpoint operations. The
Police Department has received such grants for approximately the last ten years from
the California Office of Traffic Safety who has handed off the administration of this
funding to the University of California Berkeley.
The grant would fund officer overtime for four DUI Checkpoints during the grant term of
October 1, 2012 through September 30, 2013.
Financial Impacts & Budget Action
The following FY2012 -2013 budget changes will be necessary:
1. Establish a revenue budget in the amount of $43,200 at account number
20306.406853
2. Appropriate the following operating expenditures:
$4,000 expenditure costs at account number 20306.553011.
$39,200 personnel costs at account number 20306.511490 88997 W.
Prepared By: Lindsey C. Folsom, Staff Assistant III
Approved:
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Forwarded to Council:
Rod Gould
City Manager