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CITY OF COLTON AGENDA REPORT For City Council Meeting of JANUARY 19,1999 TO: HONORABLE MAYOR & CITY coUNCIL APPROVAL: Henry T. Garcia, City Manag#/ FROM: Patrick G. Crowe, Chief of Police SUBJECT: Office of Traffic Safety Grant I DATE: January 11, 1999 BACKGROUND: The State of California Business Transportation Housing Agency, Office of Traffic Safety (OTS), provides periodic grants to enhance traffic safety within political subdivisions in the State of California. The City of Colton Police Department has produced the attached grant proposal requesting $214,123.20. This Office of Traffic Safety grant is a 27 -month grant, which begins on October 1, 1999. The initial three-month start-up period allows for planning, and selection of personnel, no grant funds are expended. Effective January 1, 2000, the Office of Traffic Safety would pay the cost of one traffic officer and one community service officer, as well as purchase one police motorcycle, equipment and supplies necessary to begin the program. Beginning January 1, 2001, the City of Colton would be obligated to pay 50 percent of the personnel costs. Beginning January 1, 2002, 100 percent of the costs for continuing the program would be through the city; and the City of Colton would be required to retain the level of redeployment after the state funding has ended. The grant, however, provides a mechanism for cost recovery through tow impound administration fees to recapture the costs. The City of Colton will be required to enact a City Council Resolution dedicating administrative tow fees of approximately ($110) per vehicle, depending on a cost basis analysis, into a Traffic Offender Fund by December 31, 1999. This fund will ensure that the vehicle impound program will be partially self-sustaining upon termination of grant funding. A separate account will be established to track funds generated from the administrative tow fees. These funds can only be used to further the program's goals and objectives and are subject to an OTS financial audit. DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS: Through the OTS Grant the police department will establish a third traffic officer position, as well as one community service officer position, to target negligent drivers through three separate programs. The first program is the vehicle impound program which would involve the 30 day impoundment of vehicles driven by drivers who have never been issued a license or by drivers who are driving on a suspended/revoked drivers license. This program strives for self- sufficiency by establishing a special cost recovery fund to collect the administrative vehicle release fees. Item # 18