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CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION APPROVED • • MAY 5, 2004 2 PUBLIC SAFETY UPDATE, DAVE PECCHIA 3 4 Public Safety Grants - Chief Pecchia advised the Lino Lakes Police Department 5 constantly monitors grant programs and submits applications in those cases where the 6 grant resources would benefit the Police Department operations and the City. A grant has 7 been applied for to fund three additional officers and a volunteer coordinator from two 8 grant programs. The City has recently been informed that both applications for the police 9 officers and volunteer coordinator have been approved. 10 11 Chief Pecchia stated the first grant is the COPS Universal Hiring Program Grant. The 12 U.S. Department of Justice has awarded the City an estimated $225,000 to be used within 13 a three-year period for the hiring of three full-time officers. The additional officers would 14 be used to further the department's community policing initiatives and address homeland 15 security issues within the City. The second grant is the Citizens Corps Grant. The 16 Minnesota Department of Public Safety has awarded the City $54,000 to hire a Volunteer 17 Coordinator. The primary responsibility of this position would be to assist the Police 18 Department in the coordination of Public Safety Citizen's Committee's activities. 19 20 Chief Pecchia advised the acceptance of the COPS UHP grant would provide an 21 estimated $225,000 for the period 2004-2005 for personnel -related costs for three 22 additional officers. It is estimated that the City would need to provide approximately 23 $67,721 of local funds during this period to support unfunded and ineligible expenditures. 24 The unfunded costs of $8,070 in 2004 will be accommodated within the existing budget, 25 however $59,651 will need to be budgeted in 2005. It is the expectation of the granting 26 agency that these three positions will be retained and locally funded following the grant 27 period. The estimated costs of supporting these three positions following the grant period 28 is $218,019 in 2006, increasing to approximately $300,00 by 2009. 29 30 Chief Pecchia stated the Citizen Corps Grant will provide $54,000 for coordinator 31 personnel -related costs and volunteer uniforms in 2004 and 2005. There will be no local 32 funds required in 2004 and an estimated $28,505 will be required in 2005. Beginning in 33 2006, after grant funds are expended, the annual cost of maintaining this position and 34 uniforms will be approximately $39,000, increasing to $42,000 by 2009. 35 36 As the City grows in population and amount of development and value of property to 37` serve and protect, and increases miles of streets and utilities, and acres of park to 38 maintain, there will obviously be the need to increase staff resources to maintain a level 39 of service acceptable to the public. Within the Five Year Financial Plan future staffing 40 needs were identified. Staff has since identified additional positions needed by 2009, as 41 an initial step to update the plan. It needs to be recognized that the 2003 — 2007 staffing 42 plans were reduced from the original cited needs in response to concerns related to 43 declining state aid revenues, and are therefore conservative numbers. 44 45 Chief Pecchia stated the growth of the community has and will continue to require 46 additional staff resources in order to maintain, at a minimum, the present level of 47 services. The Police Department, as well as all other departments presently have or will 48 have staffing needs in the near future, which will need to be accommodated within future