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Dear Chief Averiett, The Sheriff’s Office intends to apply for the FY2024 Byrne Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) Local program on behalf of the eligible Alameda County cities and the county in order to recover this revenue for our respective agencies for the twentieth (20th) consecutive year. The United States Department of Justice (USDOJ) consolidated the Byrne Memorial Grants and Local Law Enforcement Block Grants (LLEBG) in 2004 to create the Edward J. Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) Program. The federal JAG program is divided into two allocations, a state allocation and a local allocation. The state may distribute its allocation as they see fit, but the local allocation is distributed to eligible units of local government in predetermined, suggested amounts. Our county qualifies for a total allocation of $622,193.00 in FY2024 Byrne JAG Local funds, which may only be used by agencies to fund any one or more of the following areas: local initiatives, technical assistance, training, personnel, eq uipment, supplies, contractual support, and information systems for criminal justice, as well as research and evaluation activities that will improve or enhance law enforcement programs related to criminal justice. Favorable features of our JAG Local awards include: a four-year funding span for awards over $25,000; no agency matching funds required; and a maximum 10% administrative fee using the reimbursement fiscal accounting method. However, the USDOJ timeline to apply for our FY2024 JAG Local grant is extremely tight and the fact that our grants unit is operating at a 50% capacity due to retirements and attrition makes this more stressful. Our application must be submitted to the USDOJ’s Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) by October 22, so I will need your information and signed documents by Friday October 18th, if we fail to submit a completed application by the deadline, funding will not be awarded. BJA has developed joint application groups with regard to their application process that consolidate certain cities and counties. Alameda County’s geographical boundary is the criteria for our particular Byrne JAG Local joint application group, pairing the eligible cities of Alameda, Berkeley, Fremont, Hayward, Livermore, Oakland, San Leandro, and Union City with the County of Alameda. BJA has determined the other six cities in our county (Albany, Dublin, Emeryville, Newark, Piedmont, and Pleasanton) are ineligible for the FY2025 JAG Local Grant because they did not fall within the federal government’s predetermined population and crime rate criteria. BJA has mandated only one application can be submitted from our group and the application must represent all eligible members. Fo r this reason, we must once again apply for this year’s JAG Local Grant as a consortium