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TO: BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS DATE: August 28, 1990
FROM: Perfecto Villarreal , Executive Director cc:
SUBJECT: SPECIAL ENFORCEMENT PROGRAM BY CONTRA COSTA SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT
I. RECOMMENDED ACTION:
AUTHORIZE provision for carry-over of $14,842 in Housing Authority funds to the
Contra Costa County Sheriff's Department for continuation of the special drug
enforcement program, as recommended by.the Advisory Housing Commission.
II. FINANCIAL IMPACT:
In the preparation of the 1990-91 Housing Authority operating budget, funds
were budgeted and approved for the continuation of the Contra Costa County. Sheriff's
Department special drug enforcement program.
III. REASONS FOR RECOMMENDATION/BACKGROUND:
On August 24, 1989 the Housing Authority provided the Contra Costa County
Sheriff's Department with $15,000 to continue a special drug enforcement program for
the 1987-88 county fiscal year. On July 25, 1990 the Housing Authority received a
report from the Sheriff's Department on the results of the special drug enforcement
program.
A total of 92 narcotics cases were generated during fiscal 1989-90.
Forty-seven of the cases were initiated by the Sheriff's Narcotics Bureau, including
the service of 5 search warrants and 3 purchases of drugs using informants. The
majority of the arrests were generated by uniformed patrol officers with 86 arrests
occurring in North Richmond.
In the past six years, this special drug enforcement program has been very
successful as it has reduced the amount of drug-related criminal activity in housing
developments located in the unincorporated areas of the county serviced by the
Sheriff's Department.
For the 1990-91 county fiscal year, the Sheriff's Department is requesting
that $14,842.00 of Housing Authority funds be carried over to continue this special
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Housing Authority AUG 2 8 1990 County Administrator ATTESTED Clerk of the
County Counsel Phil Batchelor,
Sheriff' s Department Board of Commissioners
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Board of Commissioners
August 28, 1990
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drug enforcement program. As Sheriff's Department utilized only $158 of the $15,000
supplied by the Housing Authority in 1989, they have requested that the Sheriff's
Department be allowed to simply carry over the $14,842 in unexpended Housing
Authority funds into the 1990-91 county fiscal year.
In the preparation of the Housing Authority's 1990-91 operating budget, funds
in the amount of $15,000 were budgeted and approved for the continuation of the
Sheriff's Department special enfocement program. However, as only $158 of the
$15,000 supplied by the Housing Authority for the county's 1989-90 fiscal year was
utilized, at its Regular Meeting on Monday, August 20, 1990, the Advisory Housing
Commission voted to recommend that the Sheriff's Department be allowed to carry over
$14,842 in unexpended Housing Authority funds into the 1990-91 county fiscal year.
IV. CONSEQUENCES OF NEGATIVE ACTION:
Should the Board of Commissioners fail to respond positively to this request,
the amount of drug-related criminal activity in housing developments located in the
unincorporated areas of the county serviced by the Sheriff's Department would
increase sharply. Additionally, the Board of Commissioners would be acting in a
manner contrary to its position to provide safe housing for low-income families in
Contra Costa County.