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City Council Meeting: November 12, 2019 Santa Monica, California
RESOLUTION NO. (CCS)
(CITY COUNCIL SERIES)
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA MONICA
SUPPORTING THE SANTA MONICA POLICE DEPARTMENT TO PROVIDE TRANSIT
SECURITY AND LAW ENFORCEMENT SERVICES TO THE BIG BLUE BUS FOR A
19-MONTH PILOT PROGRAM
WHEREAS, the City Council has identified Safety as one of the seven values
which underpin all of our efforts to achieve a Sustainable City of Wellbeing; and
WHEREAS, the Big Blue Bus (“BBB”) has examined opportunities to enhance
transit security on its fleet and at its bus stops along its routes to address concerns from
customers and motor coach operators; and
WHEREAS, BBB has expressed interest in engaging with the Santa Monica Police
Department (“SMPD”) to provide transit security and law enforcement services on its
public buses and at its bus stops along its routes for a 19-month pilot program; and
WHEREAS, governmental finance practices separate various government funds,
including enterprise funds, from the City’s General Fund; and
WHEREAS, the BBB operates using an enterprise fund that accounts for revenues
and expenses related to operation of the City’s municipal bus lines; and
WHEREAS, the SMPD operates using the City’s General Fund to pay for expenses
incurred in providing services; and
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WHEREAS, the Full Cost Allocation Plan (“CAP”) is intended to ensure that the
General Fund recovers both direct and indirect costs for services from enterprise funds,
special revenue funds and other funds; and
WHEREAS, the City of Santa Monica prepares a CAP update, in the form of a
comprehensive analysis of City costs and fees, at least every five years, and during the
years between updates, fees and hourly billing rates are increased annually by a factor
based on the annual increase in total compensation costs, unless otherwise stated for
specific fees; and
WHEREAS, the City of Santa Monica uses the direct and indirect cost information
obtained through the CAP update to establish user fees, permits and application fees,
hourly billing rates, and costs of special services; and
WHEREAS, the City’s Master Fee Schedule includes hourly billing rates by
classification for various police services; and
WHEREAS, it is the policy of the City of Santa Monica to charge for the full costs
of police services provided by City Staff when such police services benefit individual
users, including individual enterprise funds, and do not provide significant benefits to the
Santa Monica community as a whole; and
WHEREAS, it is anticipated that SMPD officers providing security on BBB buses
and at bus stops along BBB routes, which include routes running through downtown
Santa Monica and along several of Santa Monica’s main thoroughfares, will also be
responding to safety concerns outside the buses along the bus routes and therefore will
be providing law enforcement services affording significant benefits to the Santa Monica
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community as a whole.
NOW THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA MONICA
RESOLVES AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) will be executed between
BBB and SMPD to provide transit security and law enforcement services on BBB’s public
buses and at bus stops along BBB bus routes for a 19-month pilot program.
SECTION 2. The City has calculated the total annual direct and indirect costs of
SMPD providing transit security and law enforcement services on BBB’s public buses and
at bus stops along BBB bus routes.
SECTION 3. The City has determined that the amount the City’s General Fund
charges the BBB enterprise fund for the SMPD providing transit security and law
enforcement services on BBB’s public buses and at bus stops along BBB bus routes
should be discounted to 70% of the full direct and indirect costs of providing those
services because such services, in addition to benefiting BBB and its staff and riders, also
significantly benefit the Santa Monica community as a whole.
SECTION 4. Upon the conclusion of the 19-month pilot program ending
June 30, 2021, BBB and SMPD will evaluate the effectiveness of the program and the
discounting of the costs charged to BBB for the program.
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SECTION 5. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of this Resolution, and
thenceforth and thereafter the same shall be in full force and effect.
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
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LANE DILG
City Attorney
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Adopted and approved this 12th day of November 2019.
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G l e a m D a v i s , M a y o r
I, Denise Anderson-Warren, City Clerk of the City of Santa Monica, do
hereby certify that Resolution No. 11215 (CCS) was duly adopted at a meeting
of the Santa Monica City Council held on the 12th day of November 2019, by the
following vote:
AYES: Councilmembers Himmelrich, Morena, McKeown, Jara, Winterer
Mayor Davis, Mayor Pro Tem O’Day
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
A T T E S T :
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Denise Anderson-Warren, City Clerk
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