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RESOLUTION NO. 2023-155
RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
CHULA VISTA ACCEPTING GRANT FUNDS FROM THE
CALIFORNIA OFFICE OF TRAFFIC SAFETY FOR THE
SELECTIVE TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT PROGRAM AND
APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR
WHEREAS, the Police Department has been awarded $565,000 in grant funding from the
California Office of Traffic Safety for the Selective Traffic Enforcement Program; and
WHEREAS, the goal of the Selective Traffic Enforcement Program is to reduce the number
of persons killed or injured in traffic crashes involving alcohol and other primary collision factors; and
WHEREAS, throughout the one-year grant period of October 1, 2023, through September
30, 2024, DUI/driver license checkpoints, DUI saturation patrols, distracted driving operations,
motorcycle safety operations, bicycle/pedestrian operations, and other traffic enforcement
operations will be conducted on an overtime basis; and
WHEREAS, funds provided by this grant will also be utilized for training and
supplies/equipment used during the traffic operations; and
WHEREAS, the grant funds provided by the California Office of Traffic Safety will
completely offset the total costs of this program.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City Council of the City of Chula Vista
does hereby accept $565,000 from the California Office of Traffic Safety and amends the Fiscal
Year 2023/24 budget by appropriating $408,041 to the personnel category and $20,945 to the supplies
and services category of the Police Grants section of the Federal Grants Fund and directs staff to include
$136,014 in the Fiscal Year 2024/25 proposed budget for the Selective Traffic Enforcement Program.
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Resolution No. 2023-155
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Presented by Approved as to form by
Roxana Kennedy Jill D.S. Maland
Chief of Police Lounsbery Ferguson Altona & Peak
Acting City Attorney
PASSED, APPROVED, and ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of Chula Vista,
California, this 3rd day of October 2023 by the following vote:
AYES: Councilmembers: Cardenas, Chavez, Gonzalez, Preciado, and McCann
NAYS: Councilmembers: None
ABSENT: Councilmembers: None
John McCann, Mayor
ATTEST:
Kerry K. Bigelow, MMC, City Clerk
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF SAN DIEGO )
CITY OF CHULA VISTA )
I, Kerry K. Bigelow, City Clerk of Chula Vista, California, do hereby certify that the foregoing
Resolution No. 2023-155 was duly passed, approved, and adopted by the City Council at a regular
meeting of the Chula Vista City Council held on the 3rd day of October 2023.
Executed this 3rd day of October 2023.
Kerry K. Bigelow, MMC, City Clerk