Fiscal Note
The proposed resolution amends the Madison Police Department's (MPD) 2026 Adopted Operating Budget and accepts a Wisconsin Violence Prevention Program grant award in the amount of $59,650 for an eight month Gun Violence Reduction Initiative. The funds from the grant will be used for overtime needed to implement the grant ($59,400) and supplies ($250). There is no impact on the levy.
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Amending the 2026 Police Department operating budget; and authorizing the Mayor to accept a Wisconsin Violence Prevention Program grant award of $59,650 for an eight-month Gun Violence Reduction Initiative to support those at-risk
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WHEREAS, the Wisconsin Department of Administration Office of Violence Prevention will provide $10,000,000 in funding to support, replicate, and expand effective, evidence-based or evidence-informed violence reduction initiatives, particularly in communities disproportionately impacted by violence through its American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 federal funding; and
WHEARS, DOA has established five funding categories: suicide prevention and firearms storage, evidence-based violence intervention and outreach, criminal justice-based initiatives, domestic violence prevention and school-based initiatives that various local agencies will be applying for; and
WHEREAS, the Madison Police Department has been working with other local agencies in a Gun Violence Reduction Initiative working group and wishes to create a pilot program that will be a comprehensive policing strategy combining investigations and high-quality service provision, and is designed to reduce gun and domestic violence by identifying the tiny percentage of people most likely to shoot or harm, or be shot or harmed, referring those individuals to services, and deterring retaliatory violence; and
WHEREAS this initiative will collaborate with the Community Safety Intervention Team (CSIT), led by Public Health Madison Dane county, to provide supports services.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Mayor is authorized to accept a Wisconsin State Violence Prevention Program grant award of $59,650.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Police 2026 Operating Budget is amended to appropriate any grant funds received to be used for the purposes of the grant, including modifications upon appropriate approvals from the funder.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Finance and Police Departments are authorized to establish and/or maintain accounts as required for the administration of the grant funds.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that grant funds will be used for overtime that may be needed to implement the grant, including for our initiative partners police departments in Fitchburg, Sun Prairie, Middleton, Monona, Verona, Waunakee, Dane County Sheriff’s Office and University of Wisconsin-Madison ($59,400), as well as supplies ($250).
BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED that the Police and Finance Departments are hereby authorized to pass-through grant funds to the partner organizations above.