Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute all necessary documents, and any amendments, to receive and expend grant funding from the Laura and John Arnold Foundation in the amount of $557,124 over a two-year period, to fund two positions to support the City’s Data-Driven Justice Initiative, beginning January 1, 2018 through December 31, 2019; and Increase appropriations in the General Grants Fund (SR 120) in the City Manager Department (CM) by $557,124, offset by grant revenue. (Citywide)
Four, five. Council. Woman Mango. Wishing. Let's have number five, please. Item five is a report from City Manager Recommendation to receive and expend grant funding from the Laura and John Arnold Foundation in the amount of 557,000 to fund two positions to support the city's data driven justice initiative citywide. Thank you, Councilwoman. Actually, we've got a staff. Thank you, Vice Mayor. This is a wonderful thing. This is some grant dollars that we've received as part of the team work dealing with high frequency offenders. And so the Arnold Foundation is going to be giving us a grant of about $500,000 to really provide the implementation. Funding for two years will be able to hire a data scientist and to implement the data market and a full time project manager to help run our wrap around case services for high frequency offenders. So this is we're very excited about this, as is our police department. Thank you, Councilman Price. Thank you. I wanted to pull this item because I have a similar grant like this in my day job. And there's a couple of things I wanted to request as a friendly on this item. The first is when these two employees get here in January of 2018, I would like the first order of business to be at some point in the early part of their start to meet with all the council officers and to get their thoughts and ideas about how we could what kind of data were would help. Based on the things we've heard in terms of resource limitations from our police department, our prosecutor's office. So I wanted to to make a motion to approve this grant. But with the requirement that council officers be looped in with these individuals, I would hate to have these folks hired here. And then we don't even get to meet them until they make a presentation at council. So is that something that's acceptable to staff? We'd actually suggest that we do it sooner, that we do it with our I-Team director and not wait for the staff. You know, these are going to be line level staff, but we would love to get the input and actually have our I-Team director do that now. So as we build the grant, that makes more sense to be talking to the team director so we can implement that as part of the grant. That would be great. I think that would do that would be really, really good. And then the other thing is, I know Orange County's considering creating an app, and I think we've talked about it here before. In fact, it was on the the homelessness item that I submitted several months ago, but an app basically requesting that police officers would have access to what available beds are available in the region for homeless individuals who are seeking either housing or rehabilitation services that they have that easy access of information. So I'm wondering if that's something it sounds from reading this and terms under the discussion items of what type of information could be available through this program . I think that's definitely something that would help both our police officers, our city prosecutor's office, our health department. It would help everyone all around. So I kind of wanted to put that in there early as we approve this grant as kind of a legislative intent of areas where we hope that this grant will be put to use . Thank you, Councilwoman Gonzalez. Just great work. And I look forward to seeing this through and to Councilmember Price's point. We'd love to meet with the staff when they come on board. Thank you. Thank you. And before we vote, I'll just add it's great to see how far we've come. So we we talked about this as one of the 21st century recommendations from the My Brother's Keeper effort. 21 sort of best practices and 21st century policing. And so to see that we're actually going after funding, receiving funding to move forward and implement some of these things is really strong, very public comment on this item. Senior members, please cast your vote. And I'm like, yes. Case. Thank you. So now we'll go to item 22.