Item #06
Date: September 1, 2026
To: Mayor and City Council
From: Vance Nabeta, Police Chief
Subject: Authorize the City Manager to Submit an Application for Funding the Marysville Youth Services Unit and Marysville – Yuba Police Activities League Recommendation:
Adopt a Resolution authorizing the City Manager or his designee to submit an application to the U.S.
Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women, for funding of up to $500,000 under the FY 2026 Consolidated Grant Program to Assist Children and Youth Affected by and to Engage Men and Youth in Preventing Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking to fund the “Marysville Youth Services Unit (MYSU) and Marysville-Yuba Police Activities League (MYPAL)” project.
Rationale for Recommendation:
The proposed 36-month project would establish a dedicated youth-services function within the Police Department, anchored by a new grant-funded 0.75 FTE Youth Services Officer, and coordinate youth victim services, referral follow-up, prevention education, mentoring, and positive law-enforcement/youth engagement through a new Marysville-Yuba Police Activities League chapter. The grant would provide up to $500,000, requires no local match, and would support initial staffing, a vehicle, partner programming, training, and program costs. If awarded, staff would return to the City Council for acceptance of the award, appropriation of grant funds, and establishment of the grant-funded position.
Background:
The Marysville Police Department does not currently have a dedicated youth-services unit. School Resource Officers, patrol officers, and probation partners encounter youth victims and at-risk youth, but there is no single point of coordination for consistent screening, warm referral to victim services, and documented follow-through. The Department also has no standing system to track referral outcomes, no officers currently certified in Multi-Disciplinary Interview (MDI) techniques, and no local Police Activities League chapter. Existing recreation and youth programming is delivered by multiple agencies but is not currently coordinated through a law-enforcement-based victim-services and prevention structure.
The Office on Violence Against Women Consolidated Youth Grant Program supports community-based prevention, intervention, treatment, and response strategies for children and youth ages 0-24 affected by domestic or dating violence, sexual assault, stalking, and sex trafficking, and programs that engage men and youth in preventing those crimes. Units of local government are eligible applicants. The program is competitive, anticipates approximately 30 awards up to $500,000, provides a 36-month award period beginning October 1, 2026, and requires no local match. The proposed Marysville project addresses Item #06
statutory purposes involving youth victim services, middle- and high-school education, and engagement of men and youth in prevention, and will request priority consideration for direct victim services in a smalltown/rural community.
Discussion & Analysis:
Staff requests that the City Council formally authorize the City Manager to submit the application. The proposed project would establish the Marysville Youth Services Unit as the Department’s institutional home for youth victim services, referral coordination, and prevention work. The Youth Services Officer would coordinate MYPAL, mentorship programming, school-based prevention education, and activities with youth to provide. Key partners include Yuba Victim Services, Yuba County Probation, the Yuba County Office of Education, City of Marysville Recreation, Hope Haven/Casa de Esperanza, and additional regional nonprofit and PAL partners.
More specifically, the proposed grant funding would be used for the following:
• $250,000 for a new 0.75 FTE Youth Services Officer for 2.5 years of the 36-month project period. The officer would coordinate youth victim referrals and follow-up, supervise MYSU programming, and oversee mentor recruitment and program delivery.
• $65,000 for a vehicle assigned to the Youth Services Officer for outreach, referral follow-up, transport to program sites, and MYPAL logistics.
• $80,000 for 0.5 FTE of Yuba County Office of Education recreation-program staffing during the final two years to support after-school MYPAL programming, site access, scheduling, and enrollment. • $50,000 for program services, supporting male mentorship and programming for boys and young men ages 10-24, including justice-involved and at-risk youth. • $15,000 for mandatory OVW training and technical-assistance travel, consistent with the minimum travel set-aside required by the funding opportunity.
• $6,000 for Multi-Disciplinary Interview certification for the Youth Services Officer and School Resource Officers in coordination with Yuba Victim Services.
• $29,050 for Marysville-Yuba PAL chapter establishment and accreditation, activities, and program equipment and materials.
• $4,950 in indirect cost recovery, applied at 1% under the City’s approved indirect cost rate agreement.
The Department would establish first-quarter baseline data and use required OVW performance reporting to measure implementation and outcomes. Anticipated measures include:
• Establish the Marysville Youth Services Unit and hire the Youth Services Officer within Year 1. • Certify all MYSU officers, including School Resource Officers, in MDI techniques and track MDI-informed interviews.
• Create a consistent referral process and project database tracking youth victims served and the disposition of warm referrals to victim services, counseling, and legal-assistance partners. • Establish and accredit the Marysville-Yuba PAL chapter and track participation in MYPAL coordinated activities.
• Track juvenile-delinquency and repeat-contact indicators using Police Department records and assess changes in youth knowledge and attitudes through age-appropriate pre/post surveys.
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• Conduct a quarterly review of performance data, referral outcomes, program implementation, and budget status.
The grant funds the Youth Services Officer at 0.75 FTE for 2.5 years of the project period and provides onetime funding for the vehicle and PAL startup costs. If the City wishes to retain the position or continue grantfunded program components after the award, those costs would require successor grant funding or future City Council authorization. Vehicle fuel, insurance, maintenance, eventual replacement, and ongoing PAL affiliation obligations would also become future operational considerations. Partner staffing funded through YCOE is limited to the grant period and creates no continuing City obligation. Staff would develop and return with a sustainability plan before the end of the project period.
Environmental Review:
The action proposed in this item is administrative in nature and does not constitute a project under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA).
Alignment with City Council Goal(s):
Goal #4 – Enhance Public Safety
Goal #6 – Strengthen Organizational Capacity
Fiscal Impact:
There is no material General Fund impact associated with submitting the grant application. If awarded, the grant would provide up to $500,000 over 36 months and requires no local match. Grant funds would support the proposed Youth Services Officer, vehicle, partner programming, required travel, MDI training, PAL startup costs, and indirect cost recovery. No City funds are committed by this application, and no grant expenditure or position authority is requested at this time.
Continuation of the Youth Services Officer position or any other grant-funded component after federal funding ends would be subject to future City Council approval and could result in an ongoing General Fund impact. Before the grant period ends, staff would evaluate program performance, actual operating costs, partner capacity, and successor funding opportunities and return to the City Council with a sustainability plan and funding options.
Attachments:
1) Resolution 2026-XX (Youth Services)
2) Grant Application Proposal – MYSU/MYPAL
3) FY 2026 Consolidated Youth Grant Program NOFO