CITY OF CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA
                 CITY COUNCIL AGENDA




 Agenda Date:            June 7, 2021

 Action Required:        Appropriation of Funding

 Presenter:              Holly Bittle, Budget Analyst, Charlottesville Police Department

 Staff Contacts:         RaShall Brackney, Chief, Charlottesville Police Department
                         Holly Bittle, Budget Analyst, Charlottesville Police Department

 Title:                  Virginia Department Motor Vehicles (DMV) Highway Safety Grant-
                         Alcohol and Impaired Driving - $9,453


Background:

The Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) has awarded the City of
Charlottesville, through the Police Department, a Virginia Highway Safety Grant to reduce the
number of fatalities, injuries and related economic losses resulting from traffic crashes on
Virginia roadways.

Discussion:

This Virginia Highway Safety Grant award supports the statewide goal of decreasing alcohol
impaired driving fatalities. The City of Charlottesville Police Department will utilize the
awarded grant funds to provide the following:

   •      Additional patrols during the national Click It or Ticket Mobilization periods
   •      Additional patrols during the Checkpoint Strikeforce Mobilization periods
   •      Provide DMV approved traffic safety-related training for one police officer

Alignment with City Council’s Vision and Strategic Plan:

The Virginia Highway Safety Grant award supports Goal 2 of the Strategic Plan, a healthy and safe
city. With this funding, the Police Department will be able to increase the number of patrol hours it
can devote preventing vehicle crashes.

Community Engagement:

N/A
Budgetary Impact:

No additional City funding is required. These funds will be appropriated into and expended in a
grants fund. The required local match will be satisfied through funding previously appropriated
as part of the highway safety related expenditures in the Police Department’s General Fund
budget.

Recommendation:

Staff recommends approval and appropriation of these grant funds.

Alternatives:

Should the City decline to approve the appropriation request, the department would be ineligible
to participate in the grant program.

Attachments:

Appropriation Resolution
                 RESOLUTION APPROPRIATING FUNDING FOR
Virginia Department Motor Vehicles (DMV) Highway Safety Grant- Alcohol and Impaired
                                   Driving - $9,453
        WHEREAS, the Police Department, through the City of Charlottesville, has received a
Virginia Highway Safety Grant from the Commonwealth of Virginia Department Motor
Vehicles in the amount of $6,302 to be used for overtime and officer training, related to highway
safety; and

       WHEREAS, the Police Department will contribute vehicle maintenance and fuel, related
to highway safety as an in-kind match in the amount of $3,151.

       NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED by the Council of the City of
Charlottesville, Virginia, that the sum of $6,302, received from the Commonwealth of Virginia
Department of Motor Vehicles (2021 Virginia Safety Grant) and the local match of $3,151 is
hereby appropriated in the following manner:

Revenues – $9,453

$6,302         Fund: 209             IO: 190414             G/L Account: 430120
$3,151         Fund: 209             IO: 190414             G/L Account: 498010

Expenditures – $9,453

$4,804         Fund: 209             IO: 190414             G/L Account: 510060
$ 398          Fund: 209             IO: 190414             G/L Account: 511010
$1,100         Fund: 209             IO: 190414             G/L Account: 530140
$3,151         Fund: 209             IO: 190414             G/L Account: 530271


Transfer – $3,151

$3,151         Fund: 105      Cost Center: 3101004000       G/L Account: 530271


BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that this appropriation is conditioned upon the reimbursement
of $6,302 from the Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles (2021 Virginia
Safety Grant).