HomeMy WebLinkAbout1998-06-23 - AGENDA REPORTS - COPS UNIVERSAL HIRING (2)NEW BUSINESS
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AGENDA REPORT
City Manager
Item to be present,
June 23, 1998
COPS UNIVERSAL HIRING PROGRAM COMMUNITY
ORIENTED POLICING
Administrative Services
RECOMMENDED ACTION
City Council direct staff to apply for a Community Oriented Policing COPS grant for
one deputy.
The COPS Universal Hiring Program (UHP), is one of several approaches developed
by the U.S. Department of Justice under the Public Safety Partnership and
Community Policing Act of 1994 to deploy additional officers devoted to community
policing. Upon a successful application, the UHP will enable the City to supplement
the cost of a deputy. Applications are due July 10, 1998.
If the application is successful, the additional deputy may be used to help start a
new GIT (Community Intervention Team) in Canyon Country with duties much like
those of the deputy posted at the Newhall Community Center.
FISCAL IMPACT
By forecasting the need for an additional deputy in six to eight months, winning this
grant would save the City $216,981 over the next three years. This savings is
realized from two areas: 1) the COPS Grant supplement of $75,000 over a
three-year period, ($25,000 per year) and, 2) since the L.A. County Sheriffs
Department's rate for a grant deputy is lower than a regular deputy, $141,981 over
three years. (See COPS Grant Saving Chart.) Hiring under UHP must be -in
addition to, and not in lieu of, deputies that otherwise would have been hired. After
the grant terminates, the City is responsible for 100% of the deputy's cost, which is
estimated to be approximately $136,447 per year.
COPS UNIVERSAL HIRING PROGRAM
June 23, 1998 — Page 2
If the application is successful, and depending on when the deputy is hired or the
grant is awarded, staff anticipates it would come back to the City Council during the
mid -year budget adjustment or the 1999-2000 budget and request to increase the
Police Services Budget by an estimated $32,060 for the remaining six months of FY
98-99 or $64,120 for all of FY 99-00. Funding begins once the new deputy is hired or
the date of the award.
ATTACHMENT
COPS Grant Saving Chart
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COPS Grant Saving Chart
40 Hour Deputy Fully Burden Cost
Year One Year Two Year Three
Regular Rate $ 136,447 $ 272,894 $ 409,341
Grant Rate $ 89,120 $ 178,240 $ 267,360
Savings $ 47,327 $ 94,654 $ 141,981
Grant Rate $ 89,120 $ 178,240 $ 267,360
COPS Grant $ 25,000 $ 509000 $ 75,000
Cost to City $ 642120 $ 128,240 $ 192,360
Total Savings $ 722327 $ 144,654 $ 216,981
Note: rates do not include COLAs or step increases