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RESOLUTION Authorizing the City Manager to Accept Grant Funds in the Amount of $74,795.21 from the Department of Justice’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services for Community Policing Development (DOJ-COPS)
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WHEREAS the Department of Justice’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services for Community Policing Development (DOJ-COPS) offers a mini-grant to assist with funding programs designed to engage communities on social media, especially from under-represented communities; and
WHEREAS, the San Leandro Police Department (SLPD) currently hosts a social media page for Chinese speaking members of the community called Weibo, where it has 218,090 subscribers with 647 posts to date; and
WHEREAS, on June 19, 2015, the SLPD submitted an application for a CPD micro-grant for $74,795.21 to hire two part-time program managers for SLPD’s Chinese social media program, including an outreach video, and on October 1, 2015, the COPS Office notified the City of San Leandro that it was one of 37 agencies to receive a grant award.
NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council of the City of San Leandro does RESOLVE as follows:
1. That the City Manager is authorized to accept the Department of Justice’s Community Oriented Policing grant award for social media engagement totaling $74,795.21; and
2. That an appropriation of the COPS CPD Micro-grant Initiative funding to account #150-21-050 is approved.