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TO: Mayor Richard C. Irvin
FROM: Lt. Bill Rowley, Aurora Police Department
DATE: 11/18/2024
SUBJECT:
A Resolution authorizing the City to accept a grant award of $48,766.90 from the FY25 Illinois Department of Transportation Sustained Traffic Enforcement Program (STEP).
PURPOSE:
To obtain City Council approval of a grant to be used to allow the Aurora Police Department to participate in the Illinois Department of Transportation - Sustained Traffic Enforcement Program.
The focus of this grant is to reduce motor vehicle crashes fatalities and other injuries, increase the use of occupant protection devices, and to reduce impaired driving.
BACKGROUND:
The Aurora Police Department has previously participated in this grant and has received IDOT STEP funding.
This program sharply focuses on specific times of the year and also specific times of the day when data shows that alcohol-involved and unbuckled fatalities are at their highest rates of occurrence.
This program requires participation, in the form of directed patrols and enforcement, during the Thanksgiving, Christmas / New Years, St. Patrick's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day and Labor Day campaigns. Optional campaigns include Halloween and Super Bowl weekend. Participants also have the option of requesting funding for impaired driving, occupant protection, and speeding enforcement details outside of holiday campaigns.
This highway safety program operates on a cost reimbursement basis. The Aurora Police Department is required to pay for project expenses initially, and are then reimbursed by IDOT for approved, documented expenditures.
DISCUSSION:
This grant award allows for reimbursement up to $48,766.90 and may be used to reimburse personnel and indirect costs incurred between October 1, 2024, and September 30, 2025, as allowed by the grant.
The State of Illinois assigned this grant award based upon their own formula and has informed the Aurora Police Department that there will be no penalty f...
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