RECOMMENDATION TO COUNCIL
Recommend City Council adopt an ordinance approving a budget adjustment. The police department has $31,813.18 in unearned revenue from the AB109 grant received in FY2017-18, as well as pre-paid funds from the Galleria, for supplemental overtime services provided by police officers. The included budget adjustment will add $31,813.18 to the police department's budget; the funds will be spent in Social Services and Patrol. This budget adjustment will increase both revenues and expenditures in the General Fund by $31,813.18.
| BACKGROUND
In FY2017-18 the police department was a recipient of AB109 funding from the Governor's Budget, as part of the Governor's Outreach Project, in the amount of $39,930. The funding was allocated to city police departments to assist with positive outcomes between municipal law enforcement, and high-risk populations. The funding can be used on homeless outreach teams, crisis intervention training for officers and outreach to high-risk youth. This grant has no end date, and all funding was provided in FY2017-18. The Social Services Unit was able to meet grant expectations through outreach, training and intervention, but was only able to spend $20,573.45 before the end of FY2017-18. The police department requested that the balance of the grant, $19,356.55, be accounted for as unearned revenue in order to access the funds in FY2018-19.
The remaining $12,456.63 is from pre-payment for supplemental law enforcement services to be provided as overtime to the Galleria. In November and December 2017, the Galleria requested supplemental police overtime for officers to be stationed at the Mall; in doing so they pre-paid $18,960.00 for services based on hours they thought would be covered. Minimum staffing at the Police department took overtime priority, and the police department was unable to work all the requested hours. At the end of FY2017-18, the police department asked to have the remainder of the funding, $12,456.63, accounted for as unearned revenue in order to access the funds in FY2018-19 for additional supplemental overtime for the Galleria.
| FISCAL IMPACT
The budget adjustment will add $19,356.55 to the police department social services budget for continued community outreach, and $12,456.63 to patrol's overtime budget for hours worked on supplemental OT at the Galleria, for a total budget increase of $31,813.18
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ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT / JOBS CREATED
Not applicable.
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ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW
The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) does not apply to activities that will not result in a direct or reasonably foreseeable indirect physical change in the environment (CEQA Guidelines §15061(b)(3)). A budget adjustment does not include the potential for a significant environmental effect, and therefore is not subject to CEQA.
| Respectfully Submitted,
Shelly Bracco, Administrative Analyst
James Maccoun, Police Chief | | | 
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Dominick Casey, City Manager
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