ADOPTED - JUNE 8, 2010

                                                                                                                                                   Agenda Item No. 18

Introduced by the Law Enforcement Committee of the:

INGHAM COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT OF THE INGHAM COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE APPLICATION TO THE 2010 COMMUNITY ORIENTED POLICING SERVICES (COPS) HIRING PROGRAM

RESOLUTION #10-195

WHEREAS, the Ingham County Sheriff’s Office submitted a grant application to the 2009 Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) Hiring Recovery Program requesting funds for 46 deputy positions; and

WHEREAS, the application was not funded in 2009, but placed in a pending status and carried forward into FY 2010 in anticipation of additional hiring funds being made available; and

WHEREAS, the COPS Office will now consider Ingham County’s existing application for funding under the 2010 COPS Hiring Program; and

WHEREAS, the Ingham County Sheriff’s Office plans to request funding for 10 deputy positions through the 2010 Program.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Ingham County Board of Commissioners hereby supports the Ingham County Sheriff’s Office application to the 2010 COPS Hiring Program for funding to support 10 deputy positions.

LAW ENFORCEMENT: Yeas: Holman, Copedge, Celentino, Tsernoglou, Schafer

Nays:  None           Absent:  Koenig      Approved  5/27/10