Fiscal Note
This grant will be accounted for in a segregated fund. The City's match requirement of $5,000 (25 percent) will be met using funds included in the Police Department's operating budget for the fringe benefit costs associated with the overtime and administrative salaries and fringe benefits.
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Authorizing the Mayor, City Clerk and Chief of Police to accept up to $20,000 for overtime from a multi-jurisdiction public safety grant from the Wisconsin Department of Transportation, administered by the Village of DeForest, for traffic safety efforts related to impaired driving, for 2015-2016; and amend budgets accordingly
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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 a multi-jurisdiction task force for impaired driving enforcement; and,
WHEREAS, the Madison Police Department (MPD) has been invited to participated in this traffic safety effort the past three years; and,
WHEREAS, the Village of DeForest will administer these grant funds for the task force consisting of law enforcement officers from police departments throughout Dane County to operate as a single unit for the purpose of providing intensive and highly visible traffic enforcement efforts; and,
WHEREAS, these efforts will be conducted for a designated period of time within the jurisdiction of one or more of the parties participating in the task force; and,
WHEREAS, the initiative allows the MPD to collaborate with other Dane County participating law enforcement agencies for the purpose of impaired driving enforcement; and,
WHEREAS, the funds enable the MPD’s Traffic Unit to coordinate additional traffic enforcement activities that would otherwise not be provided; and,
WHEREAS, this Alcohol Impairment Safety grant aims to reduce the number of impaired motorists and the number of crashes throughout the city of Madison and Dane County by using a high visible multi agency task force approach; and,
WHEREAS, MPD involvement in the multi-jurisdiction task force requires an inter-governmental agreement; and,
WHEREAS, the Village of DeForest inter-governmental agreement requires the City to indemnify the Village of DeForest and other participating law enforcement agencies; and,
WHEREAS, the indemnification language was reviewed by the City Attorney's Office and the City's Risk Manager in 2014 and approved by the Common Council (RES-14-00789); and,
WHEREAS, while the City's risk exposure is increased by this clause, the exposure is covered by the City's insurance policies, subject to the policies' terms and conditions; and
WHEREAS, the Common Council in 2014 approved an ongoing inter-governmental agreement with the Village of DeForest, and with other participating Dane County law enforcement agencies, to participate in the multi-jurisdiction task force for the impaired driving initiative (RES-14-00789).
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Chief of Police is authorized to accept up to $20,000 for reimbursement of overtime costs related to this traffic safety effort.
BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED, that the Finance Director and the Police Department are authorized to establish and/or maintain accounts as required for the administration of the grant funds; and to amend budgets accordingly
31155-51320-00000 $20,000
31155-49123-00000 ($20,000)