Title
Joint resolution authorizing, acceptance of an award with the Illinois Department of Transportation for a Sustained Traffic Enforcement Program (STEP) grant in the estimated amount of $299,342.40 for Fiscal Year (FY) 2025.
Staff Summary
• The Lake County Sheriff’s Office (LCSO) has applied for and been awarded STEP grants since 2013.
• LCSO has applied and received verbal acceptance for a FY 2025 Illinois Department of Transportation STEP grant in the approximated amount of $299,342.40. The grant period is from October 1, 2024, through September 30, 2025.
• The grant reimburses the deputies’ overtime wage costs and indirect costs on direct salary and wage excluding fringe.
• The main objective of the grant is to conduct specific traffic enforcement details that focus on speeding enforcement, distracted driving enforcement, impaired driving enforcement, and child passenger safety campaigns that will make the roadways safer.
• LCSO will conduct six mandatory enforcement campaigns and all optional enforcement campaigns.
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RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, said traffic enforcement campaigns held in Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 led to a total of 1,671 citations being issued; 80 of those citations were seat belt violations, 888 were speeding violations, 66 were distracted driving violations, and 22 arrests were made for Driving Under the Influence (DUI) of alcohol and/or drugs; and
WHEREAS, the Lake County Sheriff’s Office believes that continuing to conduct these traffic and distracted driving enforcement campaigns in FY 2025 will continue to keep the roadways safer; and
WHEREAS, said grants will fund the overtime and indirect costs on direct salary and wage excluding fringe associated with conducting these traffic enforcement campaigns.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by this County Board of Lake County, Illinois, that the Lake County Sheriff’s Office is authorized to accept the FY 2025 Illinois Department of Transportation STEP Grant in the estimated amount of $299,342.40.
DATED at Waukegan, Illinois, on November 12, 2024.