CC MEETING: April 16, 2024
DATE: April 9, 2024
TO: Erin Rinehart, City Manager
FROM: Roberto Arredondo, Chief of Police
Marc Guy, Assistant City Manager
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Consider A Resolution Authorizing The City Manager To Execute An Agreement Between The City Of Carrollton And The City Of Dallas, As Fiscal Agent, And Various Other Texas Cities Providing For The FY 2023-24 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. As of 2005, JAG combines two granting resources, the Byrne Formula and Local Law Enforcement Block Grant (LLEBG) programs, with a single funding mechanism that simplifies the administration process for grantees.
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. Traditionally, under the Byrne Formula and LLEBG Programs, funds were distributed 60/40 between state and local recipients. This distribution will continue under JAG.
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. Carrollton has again been certified as falling into this category, and as such must share allocated funding with Dallas County. Certification by the Attorney General's Office, using the "disparate funding allocation" model, is based upon the fact that a city receives a higher funding allocation than the county, while the county incurs more than 50% of the costs for prosecution and incarceration of UCR Part I crimes aga...
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