Fiscal Note
The City's match requirement of $6,250 (25 percent) will be met using funds included in the Police Department's operating budget to pay the fringe benefit costs associated with the overtime funded by the grant.
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Authorizing the Mayor, City Clerk and Chief of Police to accept a public safety grant from the Wisconsin Department of Transportation for Pedestrian Safety Enforcement ($25,000)
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WHEREAS, each year the Wisconsin Department of Transportation-Bureau of Transportation Safety (WI DOT-BOTS) provides funds to local police agencies for overtime for enforcement of traffic violations; and
WHEREAS, this year WI DOT-BOTS has offered the Madison Police Department a total of $25,000 for pedestrian safety on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus; and
WHEREAS, this initiative will enable safer conditions for pedestrians by deploying officers for enhanced enforcement of pedestrian and bicycle laws; and,
WHEREAS, the grant funds enable the Police Department’s Traffic and Specialized Services Section to coordinate additional traffic enforcement activities that would otherwise not be provided; and
WHEREAS, the Department has an opportunity to partner with the University of Wisconsin Police Department (UWPD) in these initiatives in an effort to decrease the number of pedestrian crashes, deaths, and injury by enhanced enforcement to locations with a history of pedestrian related violations and/or crashes; and
WHEREAS, required matching funds of 25% are met through City and University fringe benefits paid for grant-funded overtime and associated in-kind administrative expenses.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Mayor and Chief of Police are authorized to accept this public safety grants totaling $25,000 from the Wisconsin Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Safety.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that $24,255 will be used for additional overtime patrols.
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