HomeMy WebLinkAbout033560 ORD - 01/28/2025Ordinance authorizing acceptance of grant funds from the State
of Texas, Criminal Justice Division, under the FY 2025 Body -
Worn Camera Grant Program in the amount of $106,017.00 for
the purchase of 70 body -worn cameras and related equipment
for the Corpus Christi Police Department; and appropriating
$106,017.00 in the Police Grants Fund with a cash match of
$35,339.00 from the Law Enforcement Trust Fund.
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI,
TEXAS THAT:
SECTION 1. Funding in the amount of $106,017.00 is accepted by the City of Corpus
Christi ("City") from the State of Texas, Criminal Justice Division, under the FY 2025 Body -
Worn Camera Grant Program. Funding in the amount of $106,017.00 is appropriated into
the FY 2025 Police Grants Fund with a cash match of $35,339.00 from the Law
Enforcement Trust Fund.
SECTION 2. The City Manager, or his designee ("City Manager"), is authorized to
execute all documents necessary to accept the funding indicated in Section 1 of this
ordinance.
SECTION 3. The City Council commits to provide for the applicable cash match
contribution of $35,339.00 from the Law Enforcement Trust Fund.
SECTION 4. The City Manager, or designee, may reject or terminate this grant.
Furthermore, the City Manager, or designee, is authorized to execute contract
amendments pertaining to these grant funds in the following instances: a) for the carry-
over of funds, when ascertained and approved by the funding agency through a revised
notice of award; b) a no -cost extension; c) when an amendment will provide supplemental
grant funds in an amount not to exceed 20% of the original grant amount; d) for
reimbursement increases of administration funds for each participant served; e) to comply
with applicable State or federal laws and regulations; and f) for matters which do not
change the essential purpose of the grant.
SECTION 5. The Chief of Police is designated as the City's authorized official to
administer this grant. The authorized official is empowered to apply for, accept, reject or
terminate the grant and its funding, execute all necessary documents, and administer the
grant on behalf of the City as the applicant agency.
SECTION 6. In the event of the loss or misuse of these Body -Worn Camera Grant funds,
the City assures that the funds will be returned to the State of Texas, Criminal Justice
Division, in full.
Introduced and voted on the day of January, 2025.
PASSED and APPROVED on the Ov\'day of JCK110‘.
, 2025.
033560
SCANNED
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Paulette Guajardo, ayo
ATTEST:
Rebecca Huerta, City Secretary
033560
CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI
CERTIFICATION OF FUNDS
(City Charter Article IV, Sections 7 & 8)
I, the Director of the Finance & Procurement Department of the City of Corpus Christi, Texas (or his/her
duly authorized representative), hereby certify to the City Council and other appropriate officers that the
money required for the current fiscal year's portion of the contract, agreement, obligation or
expenditure described below is in the Treasury to the credit of the Fund specified below, from which it is
to be drawn, and has not been appropriated for any other purpose. Future payments are subject to
annual appropriation by the City Council.
City Council Action Date: 1/14/2025
Legistar Number: 24-2075
Agenda Item: Ordinance authorizing acceptance of grant funds from the State of Texas, Criminal
Justice Division, under the FY 2025 Body -Worn Camera Grant Program in the amount of $106,017.00
for the purchase of 70 additional body -worn cameras and related equipment for the Corpus Christi
Police Department, with a City cash match of $35,339.00 from the Law Enforcement Trust Fund.
Amount Required: (Amount to be Certified) $ 141,356.00
Fund Name
Accounting
Unit
Account No.
Activity No.
Amount
Law Enforcement Trust Fund
1074-29-89
520090
826000S
$35,339.00
Police Grant Fund
1061-29-89
520090
822914S
$106,017.00
Total
❑ Certification Not Required
Director of Finance & Procurement Department
Date: I 3 D 0013