R2000-214 AUTHORIZING SUBMISSION OF LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT BLOCK GRANT APPLICATION

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DECATUR POLICE DEPARTMENT MEMORANDUM#00-100 Date: October 10, 2000 To: Mayor Terry Howley and City Council From: Steve G ity Manager �,,�-- Michael M , Chief of Police"� ,-• Lt. David Sla e, Professional Standards and Crrants�i� Reference: 2000 Local Law Enforcement Block Grant Purpose: The purpose of this memorandum is to gain council acceptance for the 2000 Local Law Enforcement Block Grant (LLEBG) offered through the Bureau of Justice Assistance. This grant is a repeat of the block grants the police department has been utilizing for the past four years. The 1998 grant expires in September of 2000 and the 1999 grant expires in September of 2001. LLEBGs run for a period of two years. The grant we are applying for will begin in October 2000 and run until September 2002. Background: The LLEBG was established within the Bureau of Justice Assistance(BJA) under the Omnibus Fiscal Year 2000 Appropriations Act. The level of funding for this grant is $144,491.00. However, The County of Macon has applied as a Disparate Jurisdiction to the State of Illinois, Office of the Attorney General and was granted Disparate status. An agreement between Sheriff Roger Walker and Chief of Police Michael Mowen was reached and Macon County is receiving $23,119 in LLEBG funds, redirected from City of Decatur funding. Macon County must provide their own local cash match and will be required to make reports to the BJA regarding the disbursement of those funds. The remaining $121,372 for the City of Decatur would require a local cash match of $13,486, bringing the total grant amount to $134,858.00. Funding may be used for any of the seven purpose areas, which range from purchasing equipment to funding hireback patrols,which are two of the purpose areas we intend to utilize. The current grant has been used to provide hireback patrols and the purchase of a city mobile command post for critical incident management. Without this grant money to augment the current police patrols and to cover the purchase of the mobile command post, funding would not be available to provide these functions. Reference: The current offering of block grant funds through the BJA provides additional funds for continued hireback patrols to enhance the efforts of community policing and crime prevention. The department intends to use this grant to upgrade our capabilities of networking, both in-house, intranet and Internet, with new technology and equipment. The department is in need of an upgrade of our portable phone system for use in crisis negotiations. The current system is 15 years old and will not function with centrex type phone systems found in hotels, businesses, hospitals, etc. Additionally, we will use grant funding to provide overtime hireback