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ORD -2024 - 027 <br /> ORANGE COUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date : September 5 , 2024 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item No . 8 - 1 <br /> SUBJECT : North Carolina Governor' s Highway Safety Program : Orange County Sheriff' s <br /> Office Police Traffic Services and Approval of Budget Amendment # 1 - B <br /> DEPARTMENT : Sheriff' s Office <br /> ATTACHMENT ( S ) : INFORMATION CONTACT : <br /> Attachment 1 . Traffic Safety Project Sheriff Charles S . Blackwood , <br /> Grant Application 919 . 245 . 2900 <br /> Attachment 2 . Agreement of Conditions Jennifer Galassi , Legal Advisor to the <br /> Attachment 3 . Local Government Sheriff, 919 . 245 . 2952 <br /> Resolution Ret . Capt . T . Brian Whitehurst , Sheriff' s <br /> Attachment 4 . Year-to- Date Budget Deputy and North Carolina <br /> Summary Governor' s Highway Safety Program <br /> Triangle Region LEL , 919 . 245 . 2900 <br /> PURPOSE : To : <br /> 1 ) Adopt a Resolution recognizing federal funding for police traffic services to the Sheriff' s <br /> Office ; <br /> 2 ) Authorize the Chair to sign the Resolution ; and <br /> 3 ) Approve Budget Amendment # 1 - B . <br /> BACKGROUND : The North Carolina Governor' s Highway Safety Program (the " GHSP " ) partners <br /> with Law Enforcement Liaisons to promote highway safety awareness and to reduce the number <br /> of traffic crashes and fatalities in the State . Law Enforcement Liaisons (" LEL " ) , located in the <br /> eleven ( 11 ) regions in which the GHSP divides the State , serve as coordinators and organizers <br /> for highway safety activities in their respective regions and as liaisons to the GHSP Office in <br /> 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 them <br /> with the efforts to promote activities and campaigns on the county level . " Booze It & Lose It" and <br /> " Click It or Ticket" are well known GHSP campaigns . Additionally , LELs monitor campaign <br />