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REQUEST FOR <br />COUNCIL ACTION <br />CITY COUNCIL MEETING DATE: <br />SEPTEMBER 8, 2009 <br />TITLE: <br />APPROPRIATION ADJUSTMENT <br />ACCEPTING FY 2009 COPS HIRING <br />RECOVERY PROGRAM GRANT <br />CITY MANAGER <br />RECOMMENDED ACTION <br />CLERK OF COUNCIL USE ONLY: <br />APPROVED <br />❑ As Recommended <br />❑ As Amended <br />❑ Ordinance on 1s` Reading <br />❑ Ordinance on 2" `i Reading <br />❑ Implementing Resolution <br />❑ Set Public Hearing For! <br />CONTINUED TO <br />FILE NUMBER <br />Approve an Appropriation Adjustment recognizing the FY 2009 COPS Hiring <br />Recovery Program Grant in the amount of $6,739,542 in revenue account <br />(account no. 12714002- 52000) and appropriate same in the FY 2009 COPS <br />Hiring Recovery Program Grant expenditure accounts (account nos. 12714407 - <br />various). <br />DISCUSSION <br />In March of this year the Police Department applied for a competitive grant <br />made possible by the President's American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. <br />This grant was designed to assist state and local law enforcement hire and <br />retain police officers. The federal government was to award approximately <br />$1 billion nationwide in Recovery Act grants through the Community Oriented <br />Policing Services - or COPS - Hiring Recovery Program. <br />The Police Department has received a grant award from the COPS Hiring <br />Recovery Program for 18 officers' positions, 11 new hire and 7 unfunded <br />officer positions in the amount of $6,739,542 in federal funds over a <br />three -year grant period. This grant funding requires that at the end of <br />the three -year grant period the City must retain these 18 positions for a <br />minimum of 12 months, over and above the number of locally- funded positions <br />that would have existed in the absence of the grant. The City cannot <br />satisfy the retention requirement by using these grant funded positions to <br />fill any vacancies from attrition. <br />20D -1 <br />