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TO: Mayor Richard C. Irvin and City Council
FROM: William Hull, Lieutenant at the Aurora Police Department
DATE: September 2, 2019
SUBJECT:
Resolution authorizing the execution of a memorandum of understanding between the City of Aurora, Kane County and the City of Elgin; the participation in the 2019 Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) program; and the use of the City of Aurora's portion toward the Aurora Police Department equipment purchases and policy maintenance.
PURPOSE:
To obtain the City Council's approval of a proposed resolution that would authorize the following:
- The execution of a memorandum of understanding between the City of Aurora, Kane County and the City of Elgin
- The participation in the 2019 Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) program; and
- The use of the City of Aurora's portion toward the Aurora Police Department equipment purchases.
BACKGROUND:
The FY 2019 Edward Byrne Memorial Local JAG Program application has a due date of August 23, 2019. It is similar to the prior years' Edward Byrne Local JAG Programs. This year an award of 62,388.00, as determined by the JAG formula, was allotted for the City of Aurora, the City of Elgin and the County of Kane to share. More specifically, $44,844.00 was allocated to Aurora and the remaining $17,544.00 allocated to the City of Elgin. Kane County was categorized as an agency that did not submit the level of violent crime data to qualify for a direct award and as a result was listed as a disparate agency. As such, it was expected that Aurora and Elgin would share their portions of the award with Kane County. In fact, before the award could be given to Aurora and Elgin, a Memorandum of Understanding needed to be signed by a Kane County official, and an Elgin official and an Aurora Official.
Historically, the City of Aurora and the City of Elgin have each shared 30% of their award with Kane County. Using this percentage, the amount of the award to be used b...
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