CC MEETING: May 26, 2026
DATE: May 7, 2026
TO: Erin Rinehart, City Manager
FROM: Roberto Arrendondo, Chief of Police
Rex Redden, Executive Director of Public Safety
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Consider A Resolution Authorizing The City Manager To Execute An Agreement Between The City Of Carrollton, Texas, And The City Of Dallas, Texas, As Fiscal Agent, And Various Other Dallas County Cities Providing For The 2025 Byrne Justice Assistance Grant Program Award Agreement.
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BACKGROUND:
The Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program (JAG) allows states and local governments to support a broad range of activities to prevent and control crime and to improve the criminal justice system.
The procedure for allocating JAG funds is a formula based on population and crime statistics in combination with a minimum allocation to ensure that each state and territory receives an appropriate share. The City of Carrollton is considered a Dallas County city for the purposes of administrative governance. With regard to Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) fund distributions, Dallas County is designated to receive 30 percent of the funding allocated to cities certified as falling into a "disparate funding allocation" category.
The City of Dallas will again be acting as the fiscal agent and will charge a seven percent (7%) administration fee. The allocation process will require two separate agreements with accompanying resolutions for fund sharing, one with Dallas County, and the second with the City of Dallas.
Each year the Police Department has decided to use the JAG allocated funding on equipment, software, or supplies that further the criminal justice programs in the City of Carrollton. Under the 2024 program, CPD intends to use this allocation to purchase components for SWAT ballistic helmets and SWAT uniforms
Staff has prepared a resolution to authorize the City Manager to enter into an agreement between the City of Carrollton, the City of Dallas, as fiscal agent, an...
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