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1 <br /> ORD-2016-032 <br /> ORANGE COUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: October 4, 2016 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item No. 6-e <br /> SUBJECT: North Carolina Governor's Highway Safety Program: Orange County Sheriffs <br /> Office Traffic Safety Project and Approval of Budget Amendment #1-B <br /> DEPARTMENT: Sheriff's Office <br /> ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br /> Traffic Safety Project Contract and Sheriff Charles S. Blackwood, <br /> Agreement of Conditions 919.245.2900 <br /> Jennifer Galassi, Legal Advisor, <br /> Local Government Resolution 919.245.2952 <br /> T. Brian Whitehurst, Deputy and North <br /> Carolina Governor's Highway Safety <br /> Program Triangle Region Law <br /> Enforcement Liaison, 919.245.2900 <br /> PURPOSE: To: <br /> • Adopt a Resolution recognizing federal funding for traffic safety projects to the Sheriffs <br /> Office; <br /> • Authorize the Chair to sign the Resolution; and <br /> • Approve Budget Amendment #1-B. <br /> BACKGROUND: The North Carolina Governor's Highway Safety Program (the "GHSP") <br /> partners with Law Enforcement Liaisons to promote highway safety awareness and to reduce <br /> the number of traffic crashes and fatalities in the State. Law Enforcement Liaisons ('LEL"), <br /> located in the eleven regions in which the GHSP divides the State, are full time law enforcement <br /> officers. An LEL serves as a coordinator and organizer for highway safety activities in his/her <br /> respective region and as liaison to the GHSP Office in Raleigh. <br /> Some of the duties of an LEL include: <br /> • promoting traffic safety measures in the region, <br /> • supporting and informing law enforcement agencies within those regions of current and <br /> upcoming campaigns, <br /> • providing information and guidance in the grant process by assisting agencies with <br /> questions, and <br /> • directing them to the appropriate grant manager for their region. <br /> LELs communicate on a regular basis with the county coordinators in their region and assist <br /> them with their efforts to promote activities and campaigns on the county level. "Booze It & <br /> Lose It" and "Click It or Ticket" are well known GHSP campaigns. Additionally, LELs monitor <br />