City Council Meeting Date: September 20, 2016
To: Mayor and City Council
City Administrator
From: Monte Nelson, Chief of Police
Title
Authorizing execution of the 2017 Rice County Toward Zero Deaths Enforcement Grant
Body
Action Requested:
The Northfield City Council is asked to approve the attached resolution - Authorizing the Northfield Police Department as fiscal agent of the 2017 Rice County Toward Zero Deaths Enforcement Grant.
Summary Report:
For many years, the Northfield Police Department (NPD) has partnered with other Rice County Law Enforcement agencies to provide increased traffic enforcement opportunities funded by Office of Traffic Safety grants. The member agencies have taken turns as the fiscal agent and administrator of the annual grant. The NPD has been the fiscal agent for the 2016 TZD Grant period, and has applied for the 2017 grant on behalf of partner agencies. The NPD seeks Council approval to be the fiscal agent and authorized agent of the 2017 grant, October 1, 2016 - September 30, 2017. After the resolution is approved and submitted to the State, they will send us the grant agreement for signatures. A copy of last years' grant agreement is attached.
The Office of Traffic Safety (OTS) provides annual grant funding to states for increased traffic enforcement and education. The Minnesota Department of Public Safety (DPS) administers these funds to local agencies for area-based traffic safety education and enforcement in the form of Toward Zero Deaths (TZD) Enforcement grants. Until 2014, Rice County had been in the top 25 Minnesota counties for alcohol related fatality and serious injury crashes. The Rice County Safe Roads Coalition along with local law enforcement agencies and other community groups has worked to decrease the number of fatalities and injuries on local roads via increased education and enforcement. The grant partners believe part of the decrease of these types of crashes in Rice County is at least pa...
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