R2021-190 Resolution Authorizing Accepting the 2021-2022 Step Grant Awarded to the Decatur Police Department by the Illinois Department of Transportation

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Agreement No.HS-22-0071, 04-02 vehicles. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration NHT is responsible or providing leadership and guidance in support of this Presidential initiative. For information and resources on traffic safety programs and policies for employers, please contact the Network of Employers for Traffic Safety(NETS), a public- private partnership dedicated to improving the traffic safety practices of employers and employees. You can download information on seat belt programs, costs of motor vehicle crashes to employers, and other traffic safety initiatives at http://www.idot.illinois.gov/transportation-system/safety/grants/index. The NHTSA website (www.nhtsa.gov)also provides information on statistics, campaigns, and program evaluations and references. (c) Policy on Banning Text Messaging While Driving. In accordance with Executive Order 13513, Federal Leadership On Reducing Text Messaging While Driving, and DOT Order 3902.10, Text Messaging While Driving, States are encouraged to adopt and enforce workplace safety policies to decrease crashes caused by distracted driving, including policies to ban text messaging while driving company-owned or rented vehicles, Government-owned, leased or rented vehicles, or privately-owned vehicles when on official Government business or when performing any work on or behalf of the Government. States are also encouraged to conduct workplace safety initiatives in a manner commensurate with the size of the business, such as establishment of new rules and programs or re-evaluation of existing programs to prohibit text messaging while driving, and education, awareness, and other outreach to employees about the safety risks associated with texting. (d) During the performance of this contract/funding agreement, the contractor/funding recipient agrees— i. To comply with all Federal nondiscrimination laws and regulations, as may be amended from time to time; ii. Not to participate directly or indirectly in the discrimination prohibited by any Federal non-discrimination law or regulation, as set forth in appendix B of 49 CFR part 21 and herein; iii. To permit access to its books, records, accounts, other sources of information, and its facilities as required by the State highway safety office, US DOT or NHTSA; iv. That, in event a contractor/funding recipient fails to comply with any nondiscrimination provisions in this contract/funding agreement, the State highway safety agency will have the right to impose such contract/ agreement sanctions as it or NHTSA determine are appropriate, including but not limited to withholding payments to the contractor/funding recipient under the contract/agreement until the contractor/funding recipient complies; and/or canceling, terminating, or suspending a contract or funding agreement, in whole or in part; and v. To insert this clause, including paragraphs (i)through (v), in every subcontract and sub-agreement and in every solicitation for a subcontract or sub-agreement, that receives Federal funds under this program. (e) Buy America. As set forth in 49 U.S.0 53230) and 49C.F.R. Part 661, only steel, iron and manufactured products produced in the United State may be purchased with Federal funds unless the Secretary of Transportation determines that such domestic purchases would be inconsistent with the public interest; that such materials will increase the cost of the overall project contract by more than 25 percent. Clear justification for the purchase of non-domestic items must be in the form of a waiver request submitted to and approved by the Secretary of Transportation. (f) Hatch Act, 5 U.S.C. 1501-1508 and 7324-7328, which limits the political activities of employees whose principal employment activities are funded in whole or in part with federal funds; (g) The Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Policies Act of 1970, (42 U.S.C. 4601), (prohibits unfair treatment of persons displaced or whose property has been acquired because of Federal or State of Illinois INTERGOVERNMENTAL GRANT AGREEMENT(U-IGA)FISCAL YEAR 2022/3 4 21 Page 40 of 41