HomeMy WebLinkAboutMINUTES - 12142010 - D.4RECOMMENDATION(S):
HEARING to consider approving the Sheriff's proposed use of $176,276 in restricted
Supplemental Law Enforcement Services Fund (SLESF) for front line law enforcement, to
continue funding the Air Support unit for fiscal year 2010/11 pursuant to Government Code
section 30061(b)(3).
FISCAL IMPACT:
$176,276; Budgeted. 100% State restricted front line law enforcement funding.
BACKGROUND:
The State's fiscal year 2010/11 budget continues the program authorized by the Local Law
Enforcement Supplemental Funding Act (AB 3229) by appropriating restricted Vehicle
License Fee (VLF) funds to three separate programs, for which the County has made
preliminary funding projections of the following: 1) $251,868 to the Sheriff for jail
operations and/or maintenance; 2) $251,868 to the District Attorney for criminal
prosecution; and 3) $2,217,907 allocated to County Unincorporated law enforcement and
city police departments (of this amount, $176,276 is projected
APPROVE OTHER
RECOMMENDATION OF CNTY
ADMINISTRATOR
RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD
COMMITTEE
Action of Board On: 12/14/2010 APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED OTHER
Clerks Notes:
VOTE OF SUPERVISORS
AYE:John Gioia, District I Supervisor
Mary N. Piepho, District III
Supervisor
Federal D. Glover, District V
Supervisor
ABSENT:Gayle B. Uilkema, District II
Supervisor
Contact: Eileen Devlin, (925)
335-1557
I hereby certify that this is a true and correct copy of an action taken and entered on the minutes of the
Board of Supervisors on the date shown.
ATTESTED: December 14, 2010
David J. Twa, County Administrator and Clerk of the Board of Supervisors
By: June McHuen, Deputy
cc:
D. 4
To:Board of Supervisors
From:Warren Rupf, Sheriff-Coroner
Date:December 14, 2010
Contra
Costa
County
Subject:OFFICE OF THE SHERIFF PROPOSED USE OF AB3229 FRONT LINE LAW ENFORCEMENT
FUNDS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2010/11
BACKGROUND: (CONT'D)
to be available for front line law enforcement services in the County Unincorporated
areas).
Government Code section 30061(c)(1) requires that the Board of Supervisors hold a
public hearing to consider the Sheriff's proposed use the estimated $176,276 County
Unincorporated share of front line law enforcement funds. Recall that fiscal year 1996/97
was the first year of AB 3229 front line law enforcement funding, and the Board
approved the Sheriff's proposal to establish the law enforcement Air Support unit. As
indicated in the attached memorandum, the Sheriff requests that funds available for the
current fiscal year continue to be used to the support the Air Support Unit.
CONSEQUENCE OF NEGATIVE ACTION:
CHILDREN'S IMPACT STATEMENT:
CLERK'S ADDENDUM
CLOSED the hearing; and APPROVED the Sheriff's proposed use of $176,276 in
restricted Supplemental Law Enforcement Services Fund (SLESF) for front line law
enforcement, to continue funding the Air Support unit for fiscal year 2010/11 pursuant
to Government Code section 30061(b)(3).
ATTACHMENTS
2010/11 SLESF Funding Letter from Sheriff-Coroner
Executive Office
651 Pine Street, 7th Floor
Martinez, California 94553
(925) 335-1500
DATE: September 8, 2010
TO: Board of Supervisors
Via: David J. Twa, County Administrator
FROM: Sheriff Warren E. Rupf
By: Undersheriff Scott P. Daly
SUBJECT: Report on the Use of Front Line Law Enforcement Funding
Funding provided by the State of California as authorized by Government Code §30061,
commonly referred to as Supplemental Law Enforcement Services Funds (SLESF)
requires that the Sheriff report annually to the Board of Supervisors how these funds
were used. SLESF funds are provided to the Sheriff in two different categories; to support
County Patrol services ($176,276) and to supplement detention facilities ($251,868). In
the current atmosphere of ever shrinking budgets, this resource provides desperately
needed funding assistance.
Since the inception of SLESF funding, the Sheriff has used these funds to augment the Air
Support Unit budget, which includes contract funding from the City of Richmond and
Solano County and Military Ocean Terminal, Concord (MOTCO) and grant funds from
the California Department of Boating and Waterways. The Office of the Sheriff utilizes
air assets as an integral tool for providing support to a wide variety of law enforcement
services and missions in Contra Costa County. During fiscal year 2009/2010, the Air
Support Unit documented the following activity:
¾ Patrol and incident response hours on Delta waterways, 176
¾ Calls for Service, 338
¾ Assistance to other agencies, 76
¾ Arrests resulting from Air Support Unit services, 35
¾ Vehicle pursuit assists, 6
¾ Missing persons located, 1
¾ Captures resulting from the use of forward-looking infrared equipment, 6
¾ Rescues 0
Significant budget reductions continued to reduce the number of patrol hours flown
during the fiscal year, however, each of these statistics involved situations where the Air
Support Unit provided public safety services to law enforcement officers and the
communities we serve. These situations involved every aspect of our business, including;
search and rescue, assisting vessels in distress, locating missing persons and assisting
ground units in the detection and arrest of felony suspects. Our Air Support Unit
continues to prove its worth on a daily basis.
Monies expended by the Office of the Sheriff from the Supplemental Law Enforcement
Services Fund, have been used to provide front-line law enforcement support and to
ensure that a vital “force multiplying” asset remains available to assist the citizens of
Contra Costa County. The Office of the Sheriff thanks the Board of Supervisors for its
continued support of this program.
cc: Commander Dave Pascoe, Field Operations Bureau
Eileen Devlin, Chief of Management Services
Frank Scudero, Sheriff’s Fiscal Officer
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