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A Resolution Of The City Commission Of The City of Hollywood, Florida, Authorizing The Appropriate City Officials To Accept 2017 Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) Program Grant Funds Managed By The Broward County Sheriff’s Office In Order To Purchase Training Simulator Equipment/Software Upgrades, A Compact Wet/Dry Livescan Ten-Print Scanner, Thirty-Six (36) Brother Mobile Thermal Printers And Twenty (20) MagTek Swipe Magnetic Card Readers In An Amount Not To Exceed $46,484.14; Further Authorizing The Appropriate City Officials To Execute Any And All Applicable Grant Documents And Agreements, And Establish Certain Accounts To Recognize And Appropriate The Grant Funding.
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Staff Recommends: Approval of the attached Resolution.
Explanation:
The attached Resolution seeks City Commission authorization to accept 2017 Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) program grant funds from the Broward County Sheriff’s Office in order to purchase training simulator equipment/software upgrades, a compact wet/dry Livescan ten-print scanner, thirty-six (36) Brother Mobile Thermal printers and twenty (20) MagTek Swipe magnetic card readers. The Broward County Sheriff’s Office has been designated as the lead agency on behalf of every Law Enforcement Agency in Broward County for the purpose of applying for and receiving Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) Program grant funds from the Bureau of Justice Assistance. The Broward County Sheriff’s Office is required to distribute these grant funds to each local Law Enforcement Agency and each distribution amount is predicated upon the population and crime statistics for each jurisdiction. The distribution amount for the City of Hollywood is approximately $46,484.14, which must be used to purchase the aforementioned equipment and remit an administrative fee of 8.62 % to the Broward Sheriff’s Office. This funding globally enhances a number of the Department’s technology driven efforts. Certain accounts will need to be established in the appropriate fund to recognize the receipt of grant funding and appropriate identified grant funding for grant related expenditures.
The acceptance of said grant funds does not require a contribution of matching funds and will incur no cost to the taxpayers of the City of Hollywood.
Recommended for inclusion on the agenda by:
Dr. Wazir Ishmael, City Manager
Mel Standley, Assistant City Manager of Public Safety
Tomas Sanchez, Chief of Police