ORD-2021-022 Orange County Sheriff's Office Traffic Safety Project and Budget Amendment 1-A

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"Click It or Ticket" are well known GHSP campaigns. Additionally, LELs monitor 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. Lt. T. Brian Whitehurst of the Orange County Sheriff's Office is the Law Enforcement Liaison for Region 5. The GHSP approved an application from the Sheriff's Office's for Fiscal Year 2022 in the amount of $25,000. This funding will allow the Sheriff's Office to purchase 1) Two (2) In-car Video Systems (including shipping and installation); 2) a golf cart; 3) a trailer for golf cart; 4) remote data collection for speed display signs; and 5) fund the LEL's travel to the required meetings, conference, and symposium. The Sheriff's Office also has the following additional budget amendment: • Governor's Crime Commission Grant — After the County's FY 2021-22 Budget was approved, the Sheriff's Office received official notification that the Governor's Crime Commission awarded a one-year grant for an additional deputy in the Crisis Unit in the amount of$46,863.61. The new position will establish and oversee a safe, supervised child custody exchange space, increase capacity to enforce and pursue violations of Domestic Violence Protective Orders and Release Conditions, and provide additional support to follow-up with victims and provide periodic check-ins with defendants. The Sheriff's Office match share of $15,621 .23 will come from the Sheriff's Office detention certification/licenses budget (10715020/530200). These funds will be used to create a new time-limited (1.0 FTE) Deputy I for the duration of the grant through September 30, 2022. This budget amendment provides for the budgetary changes listed above, and approves the creation of a new 1.0 FTE time-limited Deputy I position through September 30, 2022. FINANCIAL IMPACT: The Orange County Sheriff's Office will receive $71,836.61 in grant funding. Funding comes from federal sources and requires a $15,621.23 match, which will come from existing appropriations. This Budget Amendment#1-A provides for the receipt of these grant funds. SOCIAL JUSTICE IMPACT: The following Orange County Social Justice Goal is applicable to this 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 Sheriff's 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.