To: James Avery, Governmental Operations Committee
From: Sheriff Christopher R. Swanson
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RE: Authorization to accept a grant award from the Michigan State Police Auto Theft Prevention Authority.
recommendation
BOARD ACTION REQUESTED:
The Automobile Theft Prevention Authority (ATPA), a division of the Michigan State Police, provides grants to sheriffs to assist with the investigation and prosecution of cases involving automobile theft and related offenses. The Genesee County Sheriff’s Office has relied on this grant for the partial funding of its Auto Theft and Fraud Prosecution Unit for the past 34 years.
BACKGROUND:
This grant provides 60% funding for the salaries and fringe benefits of those eight (8) investigators assigned to Genesee Auto Investigation Network (GAIN). GAIN investigators investigate all auto theft related crime, such as auto thefts, title fraud, and carjackings. The total grant award for FY2024 is $846,289.00. The local match is $103,764.00 and is already in our budget.
DISCUSSION:
None
IMPACT ON HUMAN RESOURCES:
None
IMPACT ON BUDGET:
This is included in the FY2024 budget.
IMPACT ON FACILITIES:
None
IMPACT ON TECHNOLOGY:
None
CONFORMITY TO COUNTY PRIORITIES:
The ATPA grant money advances the priority of safe communities by adding resources to address auto thefts, title fraud and violent crimes such as carjackings. These grant funds also tie into the County’s value of service by giving us more resources to provide prompt, efficient and competent service to victims of crime while at the same time helping secure the County’s financial stability by providing funds that otherwise would have come from the County’s general fund.
resolution
TO THE HONORABLE CHAIRPERSON AND MEMBERS OF THE GENESEE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS, GENESEE COUNTY, MICHIGAN
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN:
BE IT RESOLVED, by this Board of County Commissioners of Genesee County, Michigan, that the request by the Office of Genesee County Sheriff to authorize accepting a grant from the Auto Theft Prevention Authority, a division of the Michigan State Police, in the amount of $846,289.00 with matching funds of $103,764.00 coming from the Sheriff’s Office general fund budget, is approved, (a copy of the memorandum request and supporting documents being on file with the official records of the February 7, 2024 meeting of the Governmental Operations Committee of this Board), and the Chief Financial Officer is directed to record the attached budget amendment.