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A Resolution of the City Council of the City of Laredo, Texas, authorizing the City Manager to accept a grant award in the amount of $1,401,606.00 from the Texas Motor Vehicle Crime Prevention Authority (MVCPA) to fund the Laredo Auto Theft Task Force Fund for the period of September 1, 2024 through August 31, 2025. This grant pays for salaries, supplies, and equipment for the LPD Auto Theft Unit. The grant requires a local match in the amount of $599,328.00 for a total grant amount of $2,000,934.00. Funding will be available in the Auto Theft Task Force Fund.
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PREVIOUS COUNCIL ACTION
City Council approved the grant application submission with Resolution #2024-R-192 on June 24, 2024.
BACKGROUND
Established by the 72nd Texas Legislature in 1991, the Texas Automobile Theft Prevention Authority (ATPA) became the first statewide effort to reduce auto theft. The 80th Legislature amended the ATPA mission in House Bill 1887 to also emphasize reducing vehicle burglaries. The resulting agency, the Texas Auto Burglary and Theft Prevention (ABTPA), is in charge with assessing automobile burglary, theft, and economic theft (burglary of theft committed for financial gain) in Texas, analyzing the methods and providing financial support to combat the problems. In 2009, the ABTPA became part of a newly established Texas Department of Motor Vehicles. The name was changed to Motor Vehicle Crime Prevention Authority in 2019.
The Motor Vehicle Crime Prevention Authority (MVCPA) authorized the issuance of the Fiscal Year 2025 Request for Applications (RFA). MVCPA is authorized in statue to provide grants to local law enforcement to combat motor vehicle theft, burglary from a motor vehicle and/or fraud-related motor vehicle crime.
The Motor Vehicle Crime Prevention Authority (MVCPA) met on July 19, 2024, and issued the FY2025 Taskforce Grant Award to the City of Laredo in the amount of $1,401,606. The continued assistance and support from the Motor Vehicle Crime Prevention Authority grant make the operations that reduce motor vehicle and burglary possible.
COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATION
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STAFF RECOMMENDATION
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Recommends that approval of this Resolution.
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Fiscal Impact
Fiscal Year: 2024
Budgeted Y/N?: Y
Source of Funds: Grant
Account #: 222-2385
Change Order: Exceeds 25% Y/N: N/A
FINANCIAL IMPACT:
Funding will be available in the Auto Theft Task Force Fund, project # AUTO24.