HomeMy WebLinkAboutSection 5 Continuation of ProjectSection 5: CONTINUATION OF PROJECT
AFTER FEDERAL FUNDING ENDS
Retention for COPS Hiring Grants
This section is applicable to applicants applying for sworn officer positions.
❑ Check here if not applying under the Universal Hiring Program.
Hiring grantees are required to retain all additional officer positions awarded for at least one full local budget cycle
following the expiration of COPS grant funding for each COPS -funded officer position. The additional officer
positions should be added to your agency's law enforcement budget with state, local, or tribal funds for at least one
full local budget cycle, over and above all other locally -funded officer positions (including other school resource
officers) that would have existed regardless of the grant, from the time that the thirty-six (36) months of grant funding
for each COPS position expires. Absorbing COPS -funded officers through attrition (rather than adding the extra
positions to your budget with additional funding) does not meet the retention requirement. Please be aware that if
your agency has additional sworn officer hiring grants that are active when one hiring grant expires, the officer
positions that were awarded under the expired grant are added to your baseline of locally -funded officer positions
and must be maintained throughout the implementation of all additional hiring grants.
Use the space below to explain how your agency currently plans to retain any additional officer positions awarded.
Please be as specific as possible about the source(s) of retention funding (General Fund revenues, local ballot item,
etc.) your agency plans to utilize. A missing or incomplete response could affect your ability to receive funding.
Please limit your response to a maximum of 250 words.
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Section 6: NEED FOR FEDERAL ASSISTANCE
All applicants are required to provide a brief explanation of their agency's public safety needs and an
explanation of their agency's inability to implement this project and/or address these public safety needs
without federal assistance.
In the space below, please provide a brief explanation of your agency's inability to implement this project without
reaerai assistance. Lriease emit your response to a maximum or Zou woros.1