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Resolution authorizing acceptance of an award with the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) for a Sustained Traffic Enforcement Program (STEP) grant in the amount of $236,807.93 for Federal Fiscal Year (FFY) 2024.
Staff Summary
* The Lake County Sheriff's Office (LCSO) has applied for and been awarded STEP grants since 2013.
* LCSO has applied and was accepted for a Fiscal Year 2024 IDOT STEP grant in the amount of $236,807.93. The grant period is from October 1, 2023, through September 30, 2024.
* 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.
Body
RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, said traffic enforcement campaigns held in Fiscal Year 2023 led to a total of 1,130 citations being issued; 82 of those citations were seat belt violations, 484 were speeding violations, 75 were distracted driving violations, and 12 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 Federal Fiscal Year (FFY) 2024 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 FFY 2024 Illinois Department of Transportation STEP Grant in the amount of $236,807.93.
DATED at Waukegan, Illinois, on Octob...
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