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REQUEST FOR COUNCIL ACTION Date: March 12, 2012 Item No.: 7.f Department Approval City Manager Approval Item Description: Receive Authorization to Apply for COPS Hiring Program (CHP) Grant B ACKGROUND 1 2 The Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) has announced they will be accepting grant 3 applications for Fiscal Year (FY) 2012 COPS Hiring Program (CHP). Subject to funding availability, 4 approximately $111 million may be available under FY 2012 CHP for the hiring and rehiring of additional career 5 law enforcement officers. 6 The FY 2012 CHP solicitation opened on March 1, 2012. The application deadline will be March 22, 2012, at 7 7:59 PM, EDT. CHP is a competitive grant program that provides funding directly to law enforcement agencies 8 having primary law enforcement authority to impact community policing capacity and problem solving efforts. 9 CHP grants provide up to 75 percent funding for approved entry-level salaries and benefits for 3 years (36 10 months) for newly-hired, full-time sworn officer positions (including filling existing unfunded vacancies) or for 11 rehired officers who have been laid off, or are scheduled to be laid off on a specific future date, as a result of 12 local budget cuts. This round of CHP requires a minimum 25% salary match for local governments and a 13 maximum federal share of $125,000 per officer position over the same three-year grant term. Grant funding will 14 be based on the agency’s current entry-level salary and benefits packages. Any additional costs for higher than 15 entry-level salaries and fringe benefits will be the responsibility of the grantee agency. At the conclusion of 16 federal funding, grantees must retain all sworn officer positions awarded under the CHP grant for a minimum of 17 one year (12 months). The retained CHP-funded position(s) should be added to the grantee’s law enforcement 18 budget with state and/or local funds, over and above the number of locally-funded positions that would have 19 existed in the absence of the grant. 20 The FY 2012 CHP requires agencies hiring new offices must hire a “military veteran who served on active duty 21 for a period of at least 180 days, any part of which occurred beginning on or after September 11, 2001, to the 22 present, and who has been discharged or released from active duty in the armed forces under honorable 23 conditions.” 24 Roseville Human Resources Manager Dona Bacon has concluded that City hiring practices would support a 25 hiring process consisting of only veterans. 26 Last year the Police Department applied for funding under the FY 2011 CHP under a 100 percent funding plan 27 but did not receive funding. 28 29 Since 2002, the Roseville Police Department has requested funding to add commercial patrol officers to its 30 roster; however, due to budget and staffing constraints, the department has not been able to obtain the resources 31 to fill the positions. Through available grant funding, the department now has the opportunity to add two new 32 positions of full-time commercial patrol officer at a reduced cost to the City for the first three years of the 33 Page 1 of 2