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Ordinance Amending State, Federal, and Other Grants Fund Budget in the Amount of $100,000 Police Federal Forfeiture for Renovation of 2305 Soabar Street
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Department: Police
Council District: All
Public Hearing: No
Advertising Date/By: NA
Contact 1 and Phone: Chief Wayne Scott, 373-2085
Contact 2 and Phone: Stephanie Moore, 373-2352
PURPOSE:
The Greensboro Police Department and the Water Resources Department are partnering to move police personnel from the J. Edward Kitchen Operations Center to the Water Resources property at 2305 Soabar Street. This appropriation is necessary to up fit the police portion of the Soabar Street property. A budget ordinance needs to be approved by City Council to permit the expenditure of funds.
BACKGROUND:
The Police Department created a grant to support the costs of the Soabar Street renovation (Res #18-15). The City has been soliciting construction bids to renovate the location; however, the bids have come back appreciably higher than the Police Department's original estimate. Therefore, the Chief of Police wishes to increase their construction account by $100,000.The increase will not affect the department's general fund budget as the funds will be taken from their US Department of Treasury Equitable Sharing proceeds.
The authority of the Secretary of the Treasury to share federally forfeited property with participating federal, state and local law enforcement agencies is established by federal law at 18 U.S.C. ? 981(e), 19 U.S.C. ?1616a(c) and 31 U.S.C. ?? 9703 (a)(1)(G) and 9703(h). The Department of the Treasury Guide to Equitable Sharing for Foreign Countries and Federal, State, and Local Law Enforcement Agencies April 2004 states the costs associated with basic and necessary facilities, their construction, updating, remodeling, furniture, safes, file cabinets, telecommunications equipment, etc., that are necessary to perform official law enforcement duties are permissible uses of the funds.
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