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51, City of San Leandro <br /> . Meeting Date: December 15, 2014 <br /> Resolution - Council <br /> File Number: 14-552 Agenda Section: CONSENT CALENDAR <br /> Agenda Number: <br /> TO: City Council <br /> FROM: Chris Zapata <br /> City Manager <br /> BY: Chris Zapata <br /> City Manager <br /> FINANCE REVIEW: David Baum <br /> Finance Director <br /> TITLE: RESOLUTION Accepting the Community Oriented Policing Services Hiring <br /> Program (COPS) Grant to Fund Two (2.0) School Resource Officers (SROs) <br /> and Authorizing the City Manager to Enter into an Agreement with the COPS <br /> Office Accepting $250,000 of the Grant Award and Agreeing to Fund the <br /> Balance of the Cost of the SROs Not Covered by the Grant <br /> WHEREAS, the Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) Hiring Program of the United <br /> States Department of Justice awards grants to local law enforcement agencies to hire and/or rehire <br /> career law enforcement officers in an effort to create and preserve jobs, and to increase their <br /> community policing capacity and crime-prevention efforts; and <br /> WHEREAS, COPS grants typically cover a maximum federal share of$125,000 per officer <br /> position during a three-year period; and <br /> WHEREAS, during discussions between the City and the San Leandro Unified School District <br /> (SLUSD), SLUSD agreed to fund the additional cost of four SRO positions not covered by a COPS <br /> grant if that grant were ultimately awarded; and <br /> WHEREAS, on June 20, 2014, the San Leandro Police Department submitted an application <br /> for a COPS grant for$500,000 to hire four SROs, and on September 24, 2014, the COPS Office <br /> notified the City of San Leandro that it was one of 28 cities in California to receive a grant award; and <br /> WHEREAS, subsequent to the grant award announcement, SLUSD notified the City of San <br /> Leandro that due to unforeseen budget constraints, it no longer would be able to provide the <br /> previously committed matching funds; and <br /> WHEREAS, in order to offset this loss of funding, the City Council is committed to hiring two <br /> (2.0 FTE) School Resource Officer positons and sufficiently funding the additional costs of these two <br /> positions that are not covered by the commensurately reduced $250,000 COPS grant award. <br /> NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council of the City of San Leandro does RESOLVE as follows: <br /> 1. That the three-year grant award totaling $250,000 from the Community Oriented Policing <br /> City of San Leandro Page 1 Printed on 12/9/2014 <br />