ORD-2016-032 Ordinance approving Budget Amendment #1-B related to traffic safety projects to the Sheriffs Office

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2 campaign reporting in their regions and ensure all agencies are participating in the reporting of campaign statistics. LELs are required to attend quarterly meetings held throughout the State with GHSP staff, the annual Lifesaver National Conference on Highway Safety Priorities in the spring, and assist with planning, set up, operations, and tear down of the annual North Carolina Highway Safety Symposium. To facilitate travel, training, and the other activities of the LELs, GHSP awards a grant to the employing agency of each LEL. The grant funds travel, training, and traffic safety equipment for the agency. Deputy T. Brian Whitehurst of the Orange County Sheriffs Office is the Law Enforcement Liaison for Region 5. The GHSP approved the Sheriff's Office's application for fiscal year 2017 in the amount of $40,000. The grant will allow the Sheriff's Office to purchase: 1) two radar units and have them installed in patrol vehicles; 2) two lidar units; 3) twelve (12) Pentax Pocketjet 6 mobile printers with power supply; and 4) a Seatbelt Convincer, an easy-to-use educational tool that allows riders to experience force, up to five times their body weight, similar to that of a 5-7 mph crash. It will also fund the LEL's travel to the required meetings, conference, and symposium. FINANCIAL IMPACT: The Orange County Sheriff's Office will receive $40,000 in grant funding. Full funding comes from federal sources and requires no local cash appropriation or matching funds. This Budget Amendment #1-B provides for the receipt of these grant funds. SOCIAL JUSTICE IMPACT: The following Social Justice Goal is applicable to this agenda item: • GOAL: CREATE A SAFE COMMUNITY The reduction of risks from vehicle/traffic accidents, childhood and senior injuries, gang activity, substance abuse and domestic violence. Receipt of GHSP grant funding will allow the Orange County Sheriffs Office to advance the North Carolina Governor's Highway Safety Program's purpose to promote highway safety awareness and to reduce the number of traffic crashes and fatalities in the State, objectives which overlap with this Social Justice Goal. RECOMMENDATION(S): The Manager recommends that the Board: • Adopt the North Carolina Governor's Highway Safety Program Local Governmental Resolution recognizing federal funding for traffic safety projects to the Sheriffs Office; • Authorize the Chair to sign the Resolution; and • Approve Budget Amendment #1-B accepting the $40,000 in grant funds.