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Item No:8C <br />Meeting Date: April 12, 2004 <br />Type of Business:CA <br />WK: Work Session; PH: Public Hearing; <br />CA: Consent Agenda; CB: Council Business <br />City of Mounds View Staff Report <br />To: Honorable Mayor and City Council <br />From: Chief of Police, Mike Sommer <br />Item Title/Subject: Authorization to purchase a Stalker <br />Radar Unit using Safe and Sober grant <br />funds and forfeiture funds. <br />Date of Report: 4-6-04 <br /> <br />Background: <br />The Police Department is updating its older squad radar units with Stalker DSR radars. <br />The Police Department would like to purchase an additional Stalker DSR squad radar. <br />The Minnesota Department of Public Safety Safe and Sober Grant awarded to the City Of <br />Mounds View allows $1250.00 of the grant funding to be used (with matching city funding) <br />towards the purchase of traffic enforcement equipment. The cost of a new Stalker DSR <br />radar unit is $2640.00. <br /> <br />Discussion: <br />Funding of the new radar unit can be accomplished by using $1400.00 of forfeiture funds <br />and $1,250.00 of Safe and Sober Grant funding designated for equipment purchase with <br />matching city funding. <br /> <br />Recommendation: <br />Staff recommends Council approve the purchase of the Stalker DSR Radar Unit utilizing <br />funding formula indicated above. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Mike Sommer <br />Chief of Police <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />