Consent 7.
Regular Board of Supervisors Meeting
County Attorney
- Meeting Date:
- 07/09/2013
- Title:
- Approve the City of Tucson High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) Grant Agreement (Cycle 23)
- Submitted By:
- Sue Blanchard, County Attorney
- Department:
- County Attorney
Presentation:
No A/V Presentation
Recommendation:
Approve
Document Signatures:
BOS Signature Required
# of ORIGINALS
Submitted for Signature:
Submitted for Signature:
3
NAME
of PRESENTER:
of PRESENTER:
N/A
TITLE
of PRESENTER:
of PRESENTER:
N/A
Mandated Function?:
Federal or State Mandate
Source of Mandate
or Basis for Support?:
or Basis for Support?:
11-251, -532
Docket Number (If applicable):
Information
Agenda Item Text:
Approve the City of Tucson High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) Grant Agreement HT-13-2329 (Cycle 23) in the amount of $141,845 between the City of Tucson and Cochise County for the period January 1, 2013 through December 31, 2014.
Background:
The HIDTA Grant will fund one drug crime attorneys III and one legal secretary III in the Cochise County Attorney’s Office. The HIDTA Grant will allow the HIDTA prosecutor to prosecute drug crimes. By not renewing the grant the County will lose one experienced senior prosecutor and one legal secretary. The County Attorney’s Office will have to reduce the number of drug crime prosecutions and asset forfeiture seizures due to a lack of manpower. If the County were to pay for these personnel out of the general fund, tax payers will assume the added expense. The county attorney’s office is mandated to prosecute crimes.
The question is whether the Board wishes to decline HIDTA Grant funding and eliminate the two positions currently funded by the HIDTA Grant; or decline the grant and pay the two positions out of the general fund; or accept the grant and absorb the overhead costs associated with the grant.
This grant works in conjunction with Southeastern Arizona Major Investigative Team (SAMIT) headed by the DEA; the Cochise County Sheriff’s HIDTA. Not renewing this grant it would jeopardize law enforcement drug grants and the Byrne grant.
Fiscal Impact & Funding Sources: Funding of 1 prosecutor and 1 support staff with no impact to the general fund and continue with drug prosecutions in Cochise County.
The question is whether the Board wishes to decline HIDTA Grant funding and eliminate the two positions currently funded by the HIDTA Grant; or decline the grant and pay the two positions out of the general fund; or accept the grant and absorb the overhead costs associated with the grant.
This grant works in conjunction with Southeastern Arizona Major Investigative Team (SAMIT) headed by the DEA; the Cochise County Sheriff’s HIDTA. Not renewing this grant it would jeopardize law enforcement drug grants and the Byrne grant.
Fiscal Impact & Funding Sources: Funding of 1 prosecutor and 1 support staff with no impact to the general fund and continue with drug prosecutions in Cochise County.
Department's Next Steps (if approved):
Once approved by the Board, the Department will forward the paperwork to the City of Tucson for their final approval, signature and funding.
Impact of NOT Approving/Alternatives:
Reduce drug crime prosecutors and support staff and jeopardize law enforcement drug grants.
To BOS Staff: Document Disposition/Follow-Up:
Three (3) originals provided. Advise CAO upon Board approval. Return two (2) signed Agreements to CAO. Send a certified copy of the Board Minutes approving the agreement, as soons as it is available, to CAO.
Fiscal Impact
- Fiscal Year:
- 2013-2014
- One-time Fixed Costs? ($$$):
- -0-
- Ongoing Costs? ($$$):
- -0-
- County Match Required? ($$$):
- No
- A-87 Overhead Amt? (Co. Cost Allocation $$$):
- 31,106.61
- Source of Funding?:
- Grant
Fiscal Impact & Funding Sources (if known):
Fund 134