City of Sacramento
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File ID: 2024-02080 2/18/2025 Consent Item 6.
Grant: Fiscal Year 2024/25 Office of Traffic Safety Selective Traffic Enforcement Program (STEP)
File ID: 2024-02080
Location: Citywide
Recommendation: Adopt a Resolution authorizing the City Manager, or the City Manager’s designee to: 1) accept the grant award of $400,000 from the California Office of Traffic Safety; 2) execute the FY2024/25 STEP grant agreement; 3) establish the FY2024/25 STEP operating grant (G11016225); and 4) adjust the operating grant (Fund 2702) expenditure and revenue budgets by $400,000.
Contact: Brent Kaneyuki, Police Captain, Metro Operations, (916) 808-4504, [email protected], Police Department]
Presenter: None
Attachments:
1-Description/Analysis
2-Grant Agreement
3-Resolution
Description/Analysis
Issue Detail: Adopt a Resolution authorizing the City Manager, or the City Manager’s designee to: 1) accept the grant award of $400,000 from the California Office of Traffic Safety; 2) execute the FY2024/25 STEP grant agreement; 3) establish the FY2024/25 STEP operating grant (G11016225); and 4) adjust the operating grant (Fund 2702) expenditure and revenue budgets by $400,000.
Policy Considerations: These recommendations are consistent with Sacramento City Code Section
3.04.020, which requires Council authorization to enter into an agreement greater than or equal to $250,000; and City Council Resolution 2024-0193, which requires Council authorization to establish an operating grant of $250,000 or more.
Economic Impacts: None.
File ID: 2024-02080 2/18/2025 Consent Item 6.
Environmental Considerations: As defined in Section 21065 of the California Public Resources Code, this action is not considered a “project” and is therefore exempt from California Environmental Quality Act requirements.
Sustainability: Not applicable.
Commission/Committee Action: Not applicable.
Rationale for Recommendation: The primary purpose of the grant is to “reduce the number of persons killed and injured in crashes involving alcohol and other primary collision factors” by implementing “best practice strategies” including, but not limited to, enforcement and education efforts about general traffic safety, DUI, distracted driving, sideshow/street racing, and motorcyclist, pedestrian, and bicyclist safety issues.
The most recent California OTS Crash Rankings reveal that in both 2020 and 2021, Sacramento’s was the first-worst of the top 15 California cities with populations of 250,000 or more. The below tables demonstrate the year-to-year change in the number of victims killed or injured in traffic crashes and the number of crashes, as reported by OTS.
Table 1: Victims Killed &
Injured
2020 2021 %
Change
Victims Ranking Victims Ranking
Type of Crash
Total Fatal & Injury 3,205 1 4,296 1 34.04%
Alcohol Involved 318 3 508 1 59.75%
Underage Drivers 11 8 23 7 109.09%
Drivers aged 21-34 95 3 285 1 200.00%
Motorcycles 154 3 213 2 38.31%
Pedestrians 206 5 238 4 15.53%
Under the age of 15 14 4 13 7 -7.14%
Aged 65+ 27 5 13 10 -51.85%
Bicyclists 162 4 182 3 12.35%
Under the age of 15 10 5 6 8 -40.00%
2020 2021 %
Change
Crashes Ranking Crashes Ranking
Type of Crash
Speed Related 528 2 700 1 32.58%
Nighttime (9:00 pm - 2:59
am)
329 3 508 2 54.41%
Hit & Run 355 4 433 4 21.97%
File ID: 2024-02080 2/18/2025 Consent Item 6.
Table 2: Crashes
2020 2021 %
Change
Crashes Ranking Crashes Ranking
Type of Crash
Speed Related 528 2 700 1 32.58%
Nighttime (9:00 pm - 2:59
am)
329 3 508 2 54.41%
Hit & Run 355 4 433 4 21.97%
SPD data for 2020 and 2021, the City experienced decreases in fatal crashes (5%), alcohol-involved fatal crashes (10%) and pedestrian-involved crashes (75); overall, injury crashes decreased by 9%.
However, there was a 5% increase in total hit and run crashes.
Financial Considerations: No general fund resources are required to support the grant activities and objectives.
Local Business Enterprise (LBE): Not applicable
Table 2: Crashes
Resolution No.
[DATE]
Adopted by the Sacramento City Council
Grant: Fiscal Year 2024/25 Office of Traffic Safety Selective Traffic Enforcement Program (STEP)
BACKGROUND
A. The California Office of Traffic Safety (OTS) has awarded $400,000 to the Sacramento Police Department in federal grant funding to participate in the FY2024/25 Selective Traffic Enforcement Program (STEP). The term of this grant is for one federal fiscal year, beginning October 1, 2024 and ending September 30, 2025. The grant will support services/supplies, travel/training, and overtime activities related to general traffic safety, illegal street racing/sideshows, and driving-under-the-influence (DUI) enforcement and education.
B. The primary purpose of this grant is to “reduce the number of persons killed and injured in crashes involving alcohol and other primary collision factors” by implementing “best practice strategies” including, but not limited to enforcement and education efforts focused on general traffic safety, DUI, distracted driving, sideshow/street racing, and motorcyclist, pedestrian, and bicyclist safety issues.
BASED ON THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE BACKGROUND, THE CITY COUNCIL RESOLVES AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. The City Manager or the City Manager’s designee is authorized to accept the grant award of $400,000 from the California Office of Traffic Safety.
Section 2. The City Manager or the City Manager’s designee is authorized to execute the FY2024/25 STEP grant agreement.
Section 3. The City Manager or the City Manager’s designee is authorized to establish the FY2024/25 STEP operating grant (G11016225).
Section 4. The City Manager or the City Manager’s designee is authorized to increase the operating grant revenue and expenditure budgets by $400,000.