Fiscal Note
The Resolution provides for the appropriation of $20,000 from the City's Contingent Reserve to the Metro Transit budget to fund approximately 300 hours of Madison Police Department presence at the West Transfer Point in an expansion of the Transfer Point Safety Initiative. Following adoption of this resolution and another pending Resolution appropriating $41,700 for a Traffic Engineering project, the available Contingent Reserve balance is expected to total $1,117,088. There is no net impact on the tax levy. The operating budgets of Metro Transit and MPD will be amended as follows:
ET01-56710-502000 $20,000 (Increase expense for Metro ID pmt to MPD)
GN01-59500-712000 $20,000 (Increase MPD Inter-Agency Billings to Metro Transit)
GN01-51300-712000 $15,854 (Increase MPD Overtime Expense)
GN01-52000-712000 $ 4,146 (ncrease MPD Benefit Expense)
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Amending the 2012 Operating Budgets of Metro Transit and the Madison Police Department to fund a pilot program expanding the current Transfer Point Safety Initiative to focus more Madison Police Department coverage on the West Transfer Point and appropriating $20,000 from the Contingent Reserve for this purpose.
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When the Transfer Point Safety Initiative began several years ago, a funding amount of $100,000 was looked at to improve safety and security at Metro Transit's transfer points. In the end, $50,000 was allotted and efforts were focused primarily on the South Transfer Point, which had significantly higher incidents and calls for service to the Madison Police Department compared to the other transfer points.
Since that time, the effort of having Madison Police officers present at the South Transfer Point, primarily Monday through Friday during after school hours in the warmer weather, has helped incidents drop dramatically. However, incidents at other transfer points, notably the West Transfer Point, have increased. In 2011, incident...
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