Fiscal Note
The City's Administrative Procedure Memorandum 1-1 requires all City agencies to receive Council approval to accept grants and enter into grant contracts. The proposed resolution authorizes the Madison Police Department (MPD) to accept training grants on an ongoing basis without requiring separate resolutions to accept individual grants. The authority to accept grants without a resolution would extend to the dollar amount approved in the annual budget. Awards in excess of the budget would require a resolution to amend the budget and accept the grants. The 2026 budget includes $50,000 in assumed grants revenues. No additional appropriation is required.
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Authorizing the Madison Police Department to accept grants for training on an ongoing basis.
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WHEREAS the mission of the Madison Police Department states that “We…are committed to providing high quality police services that are accessible to all members of the community. We believe in the dignity of all people and respect individual and constitutional rights in fulfilling this mission;” and,
WHEREAS the Department’s vision is “a safe Madison, built on collaboration and shared responsibility, achieved through compassion and professional policing, that honors the dignity and diversity of every individual; and
WHEREAS the Department strives to provide the training and resources necessary for its sworn and professional staff to be the compassionate professionals that our vision aspires to; and
WHEREAS the Department annually establishes a budget line and maintains accounts for training grants; and
WHEREAS federal and state governments, as well as foundations and private donors, on occasion will make funding to support training available to MPD on short notice, without time to seek Common Council approval for each individual support amount and authorization to sign an agreement before the training is scheduled to take place, and the Department has had to decline such funding when this occur...
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