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Item No: 3 Meeting Date: 4-6-09 Type of Business: WS Administrator Review: _____ City of Mounds View Staff Report To: Honorable Mayor and City Council From: Chief of Police, Mike Sommer Item Title/Subject: Grant opportunities for the Police Department Date of Report: April 6, 2009 Background: This memo is to advise the council of some grant opportunities that are available to the police department. The first grant is The U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs' Bureau of Justice Assistance funding under the Recovery Act Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) Program. The provisions of this grant provide the City of Mounds View Police Department with $23,665.00 in funding as part of the 2009 Federal Stimulus package. This grant will be administered on a county wide basis with St. Paul Police Department assigned as the fiscal agent for the grant. The funding for this grant will be used to purchase in squad cameras and complete a third security camera for the city camera security system. We have submitted a memorandum of understanding with St. Paul Police regarding their role as the county wide fiscal agent for the grant. The second grant opportunity open at this time is The Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) Hiring Recovery Program (CHRP). The provisions of this grant are as follows: “CHRP is a competitive grant program that provides funding directly to law enforcement agencies having primary law enforcement authority to create and preserve jobs and to increase their community policing capacity and crime-prevention efforts. Up to $1 billion in grant funding is available for the hiring and rehiring of career law enforcement officers. There is no local match requirement for CHRP, but grant funding will be based on current entry-level salary and benefits packages, and therefore any additional costs for higher salaries or benefits for particular individuals hired will be the responsibility of the grantee agency. CHRP grants will provide 100 percent funding for approved entry-level salaries and benefits for three years (36 months) for newly-hired, full-time sworn officer positions (including filling existing unfunded vacancies) or for rehired officers who have been laid off, or are scheduled to be laid off on a future date, as a result of local budget cuts. Although there is no cap on the number of positions an agency may request, but awards will be limited to available funding. Grantees must retain all sworn officer positions awarded under the CHRP grant for a period of