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File ID: 2025-01605 10/7/2025
Fiscal Year 2025/26 Office of Traffic Safety Selective Traffic Enforcement Program (STEP) File ID: 2025-01605
Location: Citywide
Recommendation: Adopt a Resolution authorizing the Interim City Manager, or designee to: 1) accept the grant award of $350,000 from the California Office of Traffic Safety; 2) execute the FY2025/26 STEP grant agreement; 3) establish the FY2025/26 STEP operating grant (G11016226); and 4) adjust the operating grant (Fund 2702) expenditure and revenue budgets by $350,000.
Contact: Brent Kaneyuki, Police Captain, Metro Operations, (916) 808-4504, [email protected]
Presenter: None
Attachments:
1-Description/Analysis
2-Grant Agreement
3-Resolution
Description/Analysis
Issue Detail: The California Office of Traffic Safety (OTS) has awarded $350,000 to the Sacramento Police Department in federal grant funding to participate in STEP. 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.
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 2025-0162, which requires Council authorization to establish an operating grant of $250,000 or more.
Economic Impacts: None.
File ID: 2025-01605 10/7/2025
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 available California OTS Crash Rankings reveal that in both 2021 and 2022, Sacramento’s overall ranking remained the same when compared to the 14 other California cities with populations of 250,000 or more, with the lowest numbers ranking “highest” or “worst.” 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.
File ID: 2025-01605 10/7/2025
According to OTS data, there was an overall 7% decrease in crash fatalities and injuries from 2021 to 2022. However, during the same period, fatal and injury crashes involving pedestrians and bicyclists increased. Impairment due to drugs and/or alcohol was frequently associated with these incidents.
Additionally, there was a notable rise in hit-and-run crashes, nearly 8%, while nighttime crashes declined by approximately 8% during that time period. According to City of Sacramento data from 2024, with the use of OTS STEP grant funding during that period, the overall collision rate in the City dropped 6.7% from 2023 and the fatal crash rate dropped over 30%.
Financial Considerations: No General Fund resources are required to support the grant activities and objectives.
Local Business Enterprise (LBE): Not applicable.
Resolution No.
[DATE]
Adopted by the Sacramento City Council
Grant: Fiscal Year 2025/26 Office of Traffic Safety Selective Traffic Enforcement Program (STEP)
BACKGROUND
A. The California Office of Traffic Safety (OTS) has awarded $350,000 to the Sacramento Police Department in federal grant funding to participate in the FY2025/26 Selective Traffic Enforcement Program (STEP). The term of this grant is for one federal fiscal year, beginning October 1, 2025, and ending September 30, 2026. 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 $350,000 from the California Office of Traffic Safety.
Section 2. The City Manager or the City Manager’s designee is authorized to execute the FY2025/26 STEP grant agreement.
Section 3. The City Manager or the City Manager’s designee is authorized to establish the FY2025/26 STEP operating grant (G11016226).
Section 4. The City Manager or the City Manager’s designee is authorized to increase the operating grant revenue and expenditure budgets by $350,000.