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Item No: 7H <br />Meeting Date: December 12, 2005 <br />Type of Business: Consent Agenda <br />Administrator Review: _____ City of Mounds View Staff Report <br />To: Honorable Mayor and City Council <br />From: Mike Sommer, Police Chief <br />Item Title/Subject: Resolution 6690 Authorizing the Acceptance of a Traffic <br />Safety Award From the MN Department of Public Safety <br />Date of Report: December 12, 2005 <br /> <br />Background: <br /> <br />The Mounds View Police Department submitted an application for this years Safe &Sober <br />challenge award for our traffic enforcement program. The application detailed the Police <br />Departments program of participation in traffic safety enforcement and education, which <br />included our participation in the statewide enforcement waves throughout the year, our <br />directed traffic enforcement in problem areas, and our response to complaints of traffic <br />violators. Each year, through this program, the Minnesota Department of Public Safety Office <br />of Traffic Safety awards those police and sheriff departments from throughout the state <br />whose efforts were deemed exceptional in improving traffic safety. The competition for <br />Challenge Awards is high. <br /> <br />The Minnesota Department of Public Safety judged the Mounds View Police Department's <br />efforts to decrease impaired driving and increase seatbelt use to be exceptional. The <br />Mounds View Police Department received second-place in the 2005 Minnesota Safe &Sober <br />challenge. In recognition of the Mounds View Police Department's exceptional traffic safety <br />efforts we have been awarded a mini-grant in the amount of $2000.00. This grant must be <br />used for traffic safety purposes as additional funding to benefit the Mounds View Police <br />Department. <br /> <br />The attached resolution from the City Council is required to authorize the acceptance of the <br />mini -grant. The grant funding will be utilized to purchase digital video recording equipment <br />for the Intoxilyzer alcohol testing area and interview room for the processing of driving while <br />intoxicated offenders. <br /> <br />Recommendation <br /> <br />Staff recommends council approve the resolution authorizing our entering into this grant <br />agreement with the Minnesota Department of Public Safety, Office of Traffic Safety <br /> <br /> ___________________________ <br />Mike Sommer <br />Police Chief