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File #: 971250    Version:
Type: Resolution Status: Passed
File created: 11/25/1997 In control: PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE
On agenda: Final action: 12/16/1997
Effective date:    
Title: Substitute Resolution relative to application, acceptance and funding of a Coordinated Accident Reduction Effort Grant (CARE).
Sponsors: THE CHAIR
Indexes: MOTOR VEHICLES, SAFETY MEASURES, STATE GRANTS
NUMB:
971250
VERS:
Substitute 1
XXBY:
The Chair
TITL:
Substitute Resolution relative to application, acceptance and funding of a Coordinated Accident Reduction Effort Grant (CARE).
ANLS:
This substitute resolution authorizes the Police Department to apply for, accept and fund a CARE Grant from the Wisconsin Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Safety in the amount of $14,073 with a city share of $6,073 and a grantor share of $8,000. The purpose of the project is to provide overtime traffic enforcement on the state highway with the most speed and speed/alcohol related crashes in Milwaukee.
BODY:
Whereas, under the terms of CFDA #20.600, the City of Milwaukee appears to be eligible for grant funds from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration through the Wisconsin Department of Transportation for a Coordinated Accident Reduction Effort Grant ; and
 
Whereas, The operation of this grant project from May 1998 to September 1998 would cost $14,073 of which $6,073 (43%) would be provided by the city and $8,000 (57%) would be provided by the grantor; now, therefore, be it
 
Resolved, By the Common Council of the City of Milwaukee, that application to the Wisconsin Department of Transportation is authorized and the Police Department shall accept this grant without further approval unless the terms of the grant change as indicated in Common Council File 940843; and, be it
 
Further Resolved, That the City Comptroller is authorized to:
 
1. Encumber in the parent accounts of the 1998 Special Revenue Accounts-Grant and Aid Projects, the following amounts for the project titled: CARE Grant
 
Account No.             Account                             Amount
15-010-0100            Grantor Share                     $8,000
15-010-0101            In-kind City Share               $6,073
15-010-0102            Out-of-Pocket City Share    $ -0-
                                 (Current Levy)
 
2. Create a Special Revenue Fund - Grant and Aid Projects and the necessary expenditure and revenue accounts; appropriate to these accounts the amount required under the grant agreement and transfer the corresponding offsetting estimated revenue;
 
3. Establish the necessary grant performance submeasures; and, be it
 
Further Resolved, That these funds are appropriated to the Police Department which is authorized to:
 
Expend from the amount appropriated sums for specified purposes as indicated in the grant budget and incur costs consistent with the award date.
 
 
DFTR:
Police
TLW
12/1/97