Item No.
APPROVED BY
CITY MANAGER
TO:
HONORABLEF THE CITY COUNCIL
FOFFICE F THE CITY MANAGER
: LESLIE R. MURRAY, CHIEF OF POLICE
DATE: AUGUST 8, 2023
SUBJECT: EDWARD BYRNEMEMORIAL JUSTICE I T C
FY 2023 LOCAL LICIT' TC
EXECUTIVE Y
The City Council will consider authorizing the Downey Police Department to apply for the 2023 Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant. This grant is awarded on an annual basis by the Federal Government to fund programs aimed at decreasing violent crimes. Funding from the grant would be allocated for the Police Department's neighborhood preservation assignment, for community education programs, and for crime prevention/suppression details.
RECOMMENDATION
That the City Council:
Authorize the Downey Police Department to submit a grant application for the 2023 Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant
BACKGROUND
The Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) program was established as a partnership among federal, state, and local governments to create safer communities. The grant is named in honor of 22-year-old New York City Police Officer, Edward Byrne, who was ambushed and killed in 1988 during a detail protecting a witness who had agreed to testify against a local drug kingpin. The JAG was created in 2004 by the United States Congress to streamline justice related funding and administration to law enforcement agencies.
The JAG is awarded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) for use by state and kcal government entities to improve the criminal justice' system, with emphasis on addressing violent crimes and serious offenders. If awarded, the Department would use grant monies to enforce state and local statutes, similar to those in the federally passed Controlled
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Substance Act (CSA). Last year, the Department was awarded $26,072. Annual funding is based on JAG's funding award formula each year.
ANALYSIS
Historically, when the Downey Police Department has been awarded a JAG, funding has been allocated for the Neighborhood Preservation assignment, community education programs and crime prevention/suppression details If awarded, the Department intends to continue to use funding for enforcement activities that target specific crime categories (i.e., street robberies, auto theft, and burglary).
There is no matching fund requirement for any grant monies awarded.
CITY COUNCIL PRIORITIES
Fiscal Responsibility
Quality of Life, Infrastructure & Parks
Public Engagement
FISCAL I
There is no impact.
Attachment A: Certification and Assurances Agreement
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Edward me Memorial Justice -. Assistance Grant Program FY 2023 Local Solicitation Certifications and Assurances by the Chief Executive of the Applicant Government On behalf of the applicant unit of local government reamed below, in support of that locality's application for an award under the FY 2023 Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant ("JAG") Program; and further to 34 U.S.C. § 10153(a), I certify to the Office of JusticePrograms ("OJP"), U.S. Department of Justice ("USDOJ"), that all of the following are true and correct:
1. 1 am the chief executive of the applicant unit of local government named below, and I have the authority to make the following representations on my own behalf as chief executive and on behalf of the applicant unit of local government. I understand that these representations will be relied upon as material in any OJP decision to make an award, under the application described above, to the applicant unit of local government.
2. 1 certify that no federal funds made available by the award (if any) that OJP makes based on the application described above will be used to supplant local funds, but will be used to increase the amounts of such funds that would, 'in the absence of federal funds, be made available for law enforcement activities.
3. 1 assure that the application described above (and any amendment to that application) was submitted for review to the governing body of the unit of local government (e.g., city council or county commission), or to an organization designated by that governing body, not less than 30 days before the date of this certification.
4. 1 assure that, before the date of this certification- (a) the application described above (and any amendment to that application) was made public; and (b) an' opportunity to comment on that application (or amendment) was provided to citizens and to neighborhood or community -based organizations, to the extent applicable law or established procedure made such an opportunity available
5. 1 assure that, for each fiscal year of the award (if any) that OJP makes based on the application described above, the applicant unit of local government will maintain and report such data, records, and information (programmatic and financial), as OJP may reasonably require.
6. 1 have carefully reviewed 34 U.S.C. § 1015(a)(5), and, with respect to the programs to be funded by the award (if any), I hereby make the certification required by section 10153(a)(5), as to each of the items specified therein.
Signature of Chief Executive of the Applicant Unit of Date of Certification Local Government
Printed Name of Chief Executive Title of Chief Executive Name of Applicant Unit of Local Government
ATTACHMENT A
Rev. April 21, 2023