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TO: Mayor Richard C. Irvin
FROM: Lt. Bill Rowley, Aurora Police Department
DATE: 06/07/23
SUBJECT:
A Resolution authorizing the City to accept a grant award of $294,657.51 from the US Department of Justice COPS Office to enhance the Aurora Police Department Crisis Intervention Unit.
PURPOSE:
To obtain City Council approval of a grant to be used to enhance the Aurora Police Department Crisis Intervention Unit.
BACKGROUND:
The Aurora Police Department is committed to a social worker co-response model which allows mental health professionals and police officers to work together to service members of the community and their families who are suffering a mental health crisis.
The Aurora Police Department was awarded a grant offered through the US Department of Justice Community Oriented Policing Services Office, which would aid in the expansion of our co-response model, the Crisis Intervention Unit.
DISCUSSION:
This grant will provide $294,657.51 over a 24-month period from 9/2022 through 10/2024 and is intended to pay for social workers located at the Aurora Police Department, employed through the Family Services Agency of Greater Elgin, and provide the necessary training to APD police officers assigned to the Crisis Intervention Unit.
Payments made in relation to this funding award will be paid from account number 101-3536-421.50-50.
The City has authorized $140,000.00 to enhance the Crisis Intervention Unit in a Decision Package for the 2023 budget. Those funds will be used to aid in costs that are ineligible under the DOJ grant, such as infrastructure improvements and miscellaneous operational costs, and can be found in account number 101-3536-421.32-99.
There will be no supplantation or comingling of operational and grant award funds in support of the Crisis Intervention Unit enhancement project.
IMPACT STATEMENT:
This resolution must be approved and signed to properly execute the agreement and to begin implementing the project.
RECOMMENDATIONS:
Request approval of a Resolution authorizing the City to accept a grant award of $294,657.51 from the US Department of Justice COPS Office to enhance the Aurora Police Department Crisis Intervention Unit.
cc: Finance Committee
CITY OF AURORA, ILLINOIS
RESOLUTION NO. _________
DATE OF PASSAGE ________________
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A Resolution authorizing the City to accept a grant award of $294,657.51 from the US Department of Justice COPS Office to enhance the Aurora Police Department Crisis Intervention Unit.
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WHEREAS, the City of Aurora has a population of more than 25,000 persons and is, therefore, a home rule unit under subsection (a) of Section 6 of Article VII of the Illinois Constitution of 1970; and
WHEREAS, subject to said Section, a home rule unit may exercise any power and perform any function pertaining to its government and affairs for the protection of the public health, safety, morals, and welfare; and
WHEREAS, the Aurora Police Department is committed to a social worker co-response model which allows mental health professionals and police officers to work together to service members of the community and their families who are suffering a mental health crisis; and
WHEREAS, the Aurora Police Department was awarded a grant offered through the US Department of Justice Community Oriented Policing Services Office, which would aid in the expansion of our co-response model, the Crisis Intervention Unit; and
WHEREAS, this grant will provide $294,657.51 over a 24-month period from 9/2022 through 10/2024 and is intended to pay for social workers located at the Aurora Police Department, employed through the Family Services Agency of Greater Elgin, and provide the necessary training to APD police officers assigned to the Crisis Intervention Unit; and
WHEREAS, payments made in relation to this funding award will be paid from account number 101-3536-421.50-50; and
WHEREAS, the City has authorized $140,000.00 to enhance the Crisis Intervention Unit in a Decision Package for the 2023 budget. Those funds will be used to aid in costs that are ineligible under the DOJ grant, such as infrastructure improvements and miscellaneous operational costs, and can be found in account number 101-3536-421.32-99; and
WHEREAS, there will be no supplantation or comingling of operational and grant award funds in support of the Crisis Intervention Unit enhancement project)
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Aurora, Illinois, as follows: the City is authorized to accept a grant award of $294,657.51 from the US Department of Justice COPS Office to enhance the Aurora Police Department Crisis Intervention Unit.