SUBJECT
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An Ordinance of the City of Laredo, Texas authorizing the City Manager to amend the City of Laredo FY24 Auto Theft Task Force Fund Budget by increasing revenues and expenditures in the amount of $116,628.00 to fund the Laredo Auto Theft Task Force, as awarded by the Texas Motor Vehicle Crime Prevention Authority. This adjustment will fund the local match requirement of $116,628.00 from General Fund. The grant award is in the amount of $$1,401,606.00 with a cash match of $599,328.00 for a total grant amount of $2,000,934.00. The performance period is September 1, 2024 through August 31, 2025.
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PREVIOUS COUNCIL ACTION
City Council accepted the grant award with Resolution #2024-R-273 on September 3, 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 Authority (ABTPA), is in charge with assessing automobile burglary, theft, and economic theft (burglary or 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...
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