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CONSENT AGENDA REQUEST
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Sponsor:
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Board of Supervisors Meeting Date:
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Joe
Winkelmann
, Vice-Chairman, Center District Supervisor
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August
18, 2003
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Staff
Lead:
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Department:
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Catheirne
M. Heritage
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Public Safety Committee
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Topic:
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Resolution
to Share the Costs of Two School Resource Officer Positions with
the School Division at the Expiration of the Three-Year Federal
Grant Period
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Topic Description:
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Presently,
there are four School Resource Officers serving six schools;
however, with a new school opening in 2004 and Southeastern School
also in need of the SRO program, the resources to meet the needs
of our children are becoming limited. The SRO Program in Fauquier
County Schools is a well-established and successful program that
needs to be augmented. The
Sheriff's Office has recently applied for a federal grant for two
additional school resource officers for a three year period.
At the end of the three years, grant funding will expire.
The
Sheriff's Office, the School Division and the County Administrator
have recently executed a Letter of Assurance to evenly share the
costs of continuing the two new positions at the end of the grant
period. This Letter of
Assurance was approved by the Public Safety Committee on July 16,
2003, and is subject to ratification by the Board of Supervisors.
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Requested
Action of the Board of Supervisors:
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Consider
adopting the attached Resolution.
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Financial
Impacts Analysis:
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For
the three years of the federal grant period, there will be no
additional General Fund costs for these two positions.
Relevant merit increases will be covered by the Sheriff's
Office Budget. At the
expiration of the third year of the grant (FY 2007), annual costs
will be as follows:
$46,049
Salary and Benefits x Two Deputies = $92,098, one to be funded by
the School Division ($46,049) and one to be funded by the County
($46,049). These will
be continuing annual costs.
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Identify
any other Departments, Organizations or Individuals that would be
affected by this request:
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School
Division
Sheriff's Office
Budget Office
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