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Recommendation to authorize City Manager to execute all documents with the State of California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services, Program for Cities’ Gang Reduction, Intervention and Prevention
(Cal GRIP) grant, necessary to accept the grant award in the amount of $382,639 for a period of two years; and any documents necessary for the implementation and administration of the program, including a required in-kind match of $382,639; and to increase appropriations in the Community Development Grants Fund (SR 150) in the Department of Community Development (CD) by $382,639. (Districts 1,6,7,9)
DISCUSSION
The Department of Community Development has been awarded another round of funding from the State of California Governor's Office of Emergency Services, Program for Cities. The Gang Reduction, Intervention and Prevention (Cal GRIP) grant is a two-year grant beginning on April 1 , 2010 and ending on April 1 , 2012. The grant amount is $382,639 with a 100 percent in-kind match provided by Long Beach Workforce Investment Network, Community Developmeht - Neighborhood Services Bureau, Long Beach Police Department, Department of Health and Human Services - Weed & Seed Program, and the Boys & Girls Clubs of Long Beach.
The objectives and outcomes section of the Cal GRIP grant is attached as Exhibit A. The guidelines for the Cal GRIP grant require that police beats with crime statistics related to gang activity be the focus of the grant activities. For this Cal GRIP grant, the focus areas are police beats 404,405,407,321, and 323. (Exhibit B).
The grant will enhance the current Cal GRIP grant that was awarded in 2008, and will continue to complement the Weed and Seed Program efforts of implementing a community-based, multi-agency approach to law enforcement, crime prevention, and neighborhood restoration. The Cal GRIP grant will provide youth, who have been identified as actively involved in criminal or gang activity, with positive alternatives to gang part...
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