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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1997-01-13 97-80 RESOLVECOUNCIL ACTION Date: banuary.13;1997 Item NO. 97-80 Item/Subject: RESOLVE, Making an Appropriation from the Drug Forfeiture Account to the Capital Fund for the Purpose of Replacing Police Firestone Responsible Department Police Department The Police Department has established a working group to identify priority departmental needs which needs which might be met through the use of drug forfeiture funds. To date, this group has identified a number of potential expenditures ranging from the purchase of computers for our patrol vehicles to uniform replacement. one identified immediate priority is firearm replacement our current firearms were purchased approximately seven years ago and are aching the end of their service e life where replacement i required. Approximately $6,200ewas budgeted in the Current year capital budget to begin the replacement process. Under this plan, complete replacement would require 4 to 5 years. Drug forfeiture funds can be used for this purpose. The attached solve will appropriate $9,600 of these funds to allow for full replacement. Full replacement at this time will eliminate the need for annual appropriations over the next several years, will avoid future price increases, and may result in lower volume purchase pricing. I would recommend your approval of this appropriation and expenditure DEPARTMENT HEAD Manager's Comments: Recommend approval CITY MANAGER Associated Information: Resolve, memo from Police Chief Budget Approval: FINANCE DIRECTOR Legal Approval: CITY SOLICIT I troduced For —y Passage First Reading Page_o£_ Referral Assigned to Councilor Leen January 13, 1997 97-80 0 CITY OF BANGOR (TITLE.)�RMOI3Q Making an Appropriation from the Drug Forfeiture ............... _.......... .......... ... _........ _... ............... 4.. ............... ............4 ...... 44 ... 6.. Account to the Capital Fund for the purpose of Replacing Police Firearms By Me C11y Cassel MYu Gory of Beeper. RHWLFBD, THAT, the amount of $9,800 is hereby appropriated from the Drug Forfeiture Account to the Capital Fund, account number 7714-91001100, for the purpose of purchasing replacement firearms. Any unused portion of this appropriation shall be returned to the Drug Forfeiture Account to be available for future eligible expenditures. - IN CITY COUNCIL January 13, 1997 First Reading CITY CLERK CITY COUNCIL January 27, 1997 Passed �J _ v - 9J -80 9E50LYE Makin an Aoomoriation from the Drug Forfeiture Account to the Capital Fund for the Purpose of Replacing Police 9"40, • 6.Itaj BangorPoliceDepartirwat Memorandum TD: Ed Ranet4CityMarwger FR: Randy Harriman, CAiefoflaolice DT: Dacese er20,1996 M. Expenditure offorfitunefureda 97-8o l";- 35 i s5 cwn 5WH Bmgoq twit, Me01 947 i3&t1 m.19:1 F= Fu2o] 9A%924 Currently the police department has approximately $0,000 in funds that have been forfeited by drug dealers at the direction of the federal courts. We are anticipating mother W," in the next six months. Over the last year we have used these funds for a variety of relatively small items which enhance our daily drug investigations . These have included six compucem, a variety of tactics, and a printer and scanner for a poveade computer which is used to develop composite drawings of suspects. I recently assembled a team of six people from all areas of the department to make recommendations on what items could be purchased with these funds and asked the team to priontiae the list of items. Their work is not finished yet but I do want to bring you up to date on some of their recommendations that would result in the expenditure of a significant portion of the funds. The team recommended three items be purchased immediately. 1. The team agreed to set aside whatever funds would be necessary ($30,000 -$60,000 depending of federal grants) to put computers in the ren. 2. The team recommended the replacement of the existing sidearms. Our currem sidearms are between six and ten years old. Many of them are reaching the age where they need to be replaced. Beginning this year we had budgeted $4,500 per year to replace ten sidearms per year. It will take seven years to replace all weapons and will result in an overall expenditure of at least 1131,5(s). Due to the market demand for our existing sidearms (we have been offered $2155290 in bade and we paid $35) fin them) we could replace all our sidearms with new nes for between $12,000 and $16,000. With the 54,500 currently in the budget this would only require 58,000 to $12,000 from forfeiture to complete the purchase. A investors selecuon temp has just completed a search for a new weapon and has recommended that we go out to bid on four different weapons. They ate the Smith and Wesson in .10 S&W, the Beretta in.4D S&W, the Sig- Sammy in AS ACP, and the Glock in .40 S&W. These weapons were selected based on the actual firing of nineteen different weapons by ova fatty members of the department. Due to the current marconditions ndm,itions 1 would recommend that we proceed with bid frooon these weapons. Not only will it save the city at least $15,000 over the next seven years, it would make a significant impact o improving the morale of the police officers. 3. The team also recommended the expenditure of up to $10000 for purchase of gym equipment. The police department gymnasium camonly is equipped with items that are owned by department member. Much efthis equipment is old and is constantly breaking down. Many of the department members use this gymnmsium and other would also use it IFthe equipment were in better shape.I would recommend that a team be formed to determine how this money would be spent. The purchase of this equipment would meet federal guidelines on the use of forfeiture funds (physical training) and would greatly improve employee morale. One other large item being discussed by the forfeiture team is the replacement of the current uniforms with uniforms which are easierto clean, more suited to the type of work they do, and durable. We are currently looking at what the overall cost would he and may soon put together a team to determine what the new uniforms might look like. I would like to have a member of the public and maybe a councilor participate on that team, if possible. III keep you informed as this moves along.