PREPARED BY: BRIAN BUBAR DATE OF MEETING: 09/08/20
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RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAN PABLO AUTHORIZING THE SAN PABLO POLICE DEPARTMENT TO ACCEPT AND APPROPRIATE $28,398 IN GRANT FUNDING FROM THE OFFICE OF TRAFFIC SAFETY TO PARTICIPATE IN THE TRAFFIC RECORDS IMPROVEMENT PROJECT GRANT PROGRAM TO UPGRADE EXISTING ELECTRONIC CRASH REPORTING AND IMPLEMENT A COMPLETE ELECTRONIC CITATION SOLUTION
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CITY MANAGER RECOMMENDATION
Recommendation
Adopt Resolution
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COMPLIANCE STATEMENTS
Traffic Safety Program and Strengthen Technological Infrastructure are adopted policy items under the FY 2019-21 Council Priority Work Plan, effective March 1, 2019 and as most recently amended on May 18, 2020.
CEQA Compliance Statement
This is not a project as defined by CEQA. Pursuant to Section 15001 of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines.
BACKGROUND
State and local agencies need timely, accurate, complete, accessible, and uniform traffic records to identify and prioritize traffic safety issues, to choose appropriate safety countermeasures and evaluate their effectiveness. The Office of Traffic Safety's (OTS) traffic records improvement grant provides traffic safety stakeholders with the ability to plan and initiate traffic records improvement projects such as the purchase and implementation of traffic crash reporting systems as well as electronic citation equipment and software.
From 2017-2019, the Police Department investigated 330 injury collisions and six fatal collisions. These investigations and reporting requirements are complex and involve multiple resources from Investigations and the Traffic Unit. This reporting is subsequently manually entered into a records management system with hard copy reports mailed for inclusion into the California Highway Patrol's Statewide Integrated Traffic Records System. The Statewide Integrated Traffic Records System (SWITRS) is a database that collects and processes data ga...
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