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Sheriff’s Office recommending the Board approve and authorize the following actions:
1) Approve and authorize the Chair to sign a budget transfer increasing revenue in the amount of $50,000 from the Chief Administrative Office, Parks Division, Green Sticker funds (State Off-Highway Vehicle License Fees) account and increasing appropriations in the fixed asset expenditure class (60-character expenditure object class) by $50,000 in the Sheriff's Office FY 2022-23 budget for purchase of a four-person, side-by-side vehicle and accessories for the Homeless Outreach Team Unit; and
2) Authorize the addition of this vehicle to the approved Sheriff’s Office FY 2022-23 Fixed Asset List.
FUNDING: Off-Highway Vehicle License Fee Revenue.
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DISCUSSION / BACKGROUND
The Chief Administrative Office, Parks Division, has agreed to provide funding to the Sheriff’s Office HOT program to purchase a side-by-side vehicle to assist with its operations in the community. The funds being used for this purchase are from the Parks Department special revenue funds from vehicle license fees. A competitive solicitation will be conducted to purchase the vehicle.
Historically, the Sheriff's Office has had a need for this type of vehicle and even had access to one for a short time until it required maintenance above and beyond the vehicle's value.
HOT intends to use the vehicle to support primary functions, such as accessing homeless encampments in hard-to-reach areas, transporting support personnel in the field, transporting civilian ride-alongs, transporting arrests out of the field, towing in trailers for clean ups, and other duties from outreach, to education, to enforcement. HOT also intends to use this new vehicle to patrol the El Dorado Trail, which has been impacted by illegal homeless encampments.
ALTERNATIVES
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PRIOR BOARD ACTION
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OTHER DEPARTMENT / AGENCY INVOLVEMENT
Auditor and Procurement and Contracts.
CAO RECOMMENDATION / COMMENTS
Approve as recommend...
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