To: Dale K. Weighill, Governmental Operations Committee Chairperson
From: Sheriff Christopher R. Swanson
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RE: Approval to extend the contract approved in RES#2024-629 with the Mott Foundation and Genesee County to provide police services to a 10-square-mile area with the City of Flint
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BOARD ACTION REQUESTED:
The Sheriff's Office if requesting approval to extend the contract (approved in RES# 2025-629) between the Mott Foundation and Genesee County. The original grant period of June 1, 2024 through May 31, 2025, has been approved by the Mott Foundation to be extended to July 31, 2025.
BACKGROUND:
There continues to be need for increased public safety resources within the City of Flint. Flint, our county seat, consistently ranks among the most violent cities in America. Due to dwindling resources, the Flint Police Department has been forced to take a mostly reactive posture related to crime. There are limited resources to target crime hot spots in a proactive manner. In June of 2022, the Genesee County Sheriff, in collaboration with the Mott Foundation, began a targeted crime enforcement initiative in the central business district and surrounding college campuses. This pilot grant program targeted an area defined as Robert T. Longway on the north, Dort Hwy. on the east, Dupont St. on the west and I-69 on the south. Since then, this targeted area has increased to cover the GM plants on VanSlyke and McLaren Hospital. This area is now approximately 10 sq. miles. This enforcement initiative allowed the Flint Police Department to redeploy to areas outside of the central business district and college campus areas and focus on crimes that are negatively impacting neighborhoods. This program has been ultra successful, and C.S. Mott Foundation has requested this partnership continue
DISCUSSION:
The original contract request was approved by the Genesee County Board of Commissioners with RES# 2024-629. The Mott Foundation has approved the exten...
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