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COUNCIL ACTION
CITY COUNCIL MEETING DATE:
SEPTEMBER 17, 2012
TITLE:
APPROPRIATION
ADJUSTMENT ACCEPTING
THE OFFICE OF TRAFFIC
SAFETY GRANT
CITY MANAGER
RECOMMENDED ACTION
CLERK OF COUNCIL USE ONLY:
APPROVED
? As Recommended
? As Amended
? Ordinance on 1st Reading
? Ordinance on 2"d Reading
? Implementing Resolution
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CONTINUED TO
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Approve an appropriation adjustment accepting the California Office of Traffic Safety (OTS) "Sobriety
Checkpoint Grant Program" administered by the University of California Berkeley Safe Transportation
Research and Education Center (SafeTREC) in the amount of $161,000.00 into the revenue account
(account no.16514002-52001) and appropriate same into the California Office of Traffic Safety (OTS)
"Sobriety Checkpoint Grant Program" expenditure accounts (account no. 16514410-VARIOUS).
DISCUSSION
The Santa Ana Police Department has been awarded a grant from the State of California, Office of Traffic
Safety (OTS) under the "Sobriety Checkpoint Grant Program". Time tested and best practice strategies will
be used on an overtime basis to conduct DUI Checkpoint Operations. Goals and objectives of DUI
checkpoints include: reduce the number of persons killed and injured in crashes involving alcohol, increase
awareness of DUI enforcement, educate the community, apprehend DUI drivers, arrest or cite for criminal
activity discovered during the contact. The grant funded checkpoints are always publicized to various media
outlets, thus enhancing the overall deterrent effect.
FISCAL IMPACT
Approval of the appropriation adjustment will enhance the OTS, "Sobriety Checkpoint Grant Program"
revenue account (account no. 16514002-52001) by $161,000.00 and increase the same into the OTS,
"Selective Traffic Enforcement Program" expenditure account (account no. 16514410-VARIOUS).
APPROVED AS TO FUNDS AND ACCOUNTS:
Car os as
Acting Chief of Police
Police Department
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Francisco Gutierrez
Executive Director
Finance & Mgmt. Services Agency
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA
OFFICE OF TRAFFIC SAFETY
2208 KAUSEN DRIVE, SUITE 300
ELK GROVE, CA 95758
www.ots.ca.gov
(916) 509-3030
(800) 735-2929 (TTITDD-Referral)
(916) 509-3055 (FAX)
August 3, 2012
Weston Hadley, Officer
Santa Ana Police Department
60 Civic Center Plaza
Santa Ana, CA 92701
Dear Officer Hadley:
Congratulations! Through a competitive process, the
approved your funding request for the proposal titled
amount of $161,000.00. The approval is for 23 checl
October 1, 2012 to September 30, 2013. The maxims
EDMUND G. BROWN JR., GOVERNOR
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Grant No. SC13385
ffice of Traffic Safety (OTS) has tentatively
obriety Checkpoint Grant Program" for the
pint operations during the period from
allowed cost per checkpoint is $7,000.00.
The University of California Berkeley Safe Transport
(SafeTREC), who is administering the grant funds for
contact listed on the application. Please have the Autl
individuals authorized to sign claims sign the contract,
than September 5, 2012. It is our goal to have all net
The SafeTREC will issue you a copy of the signed, ful
ion Research and Education Center
)TS, will e-mail a grant contract to the
prizing Official and any additional
Send the contract to SafeTREC no later
grants start no later than October 1, 2012.
y executed grant contract.
If approval from your City Council or Board of Supe isors is required, you should begin that
process now. Do not incur costs prior to the date of th signed, fully executed contract from
SafeTREC.
Again, congratulations on the success of your proposal
Shar Rauch, SafeTREC Program Coordinator at (510)
checkpoint(a,berkeley.edu.
If you have any questions, please contact
t3-1774 or by e-mail at
Sincerely,
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CHRISTOPHER J. MURPHY
Director
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cc: Shar Rauch
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