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Sparks City Council Meeting 8/11/2014 2:00:00 PM
Monday, August 11, 2014 2:00 PMCouncil Chambers, Legislative Bldg, 745 4th St., Sparks
General Business: 9.1
Title: Consideration and possible acceptance of a traffic safety grant in the amount $36,595 to purchase electronic citation and crash collection equipment.
Petitioner/Presenter: Police Department/Chief Brian Allen
Recommendation: Approve and accept the traffic safety grant in the amount $36,595 for the purchase of electronic citation and crash collection equipment
Financial Impact: N/A
Business Impact (Per NRS 237):
A Business Impact Statement is not required because this is not a rule.
A Business Impact Statement is not required because this is not a rule.
Agenda Item Brief: The State of Nevada Department of Public Safety, Office of Traffic Safety has offered the Sparks Police Department a grant in the amount $36,595 to purchase additional equipment for officers to use the field to issue traffic citations and create crash (traffic accident) reports.
Background: For the past ten years the State of Nevada has been moving towards an electronic database of traffic citations and crash records. This database is called the Nevada Citation and Accident Tracking System or NCATS. The data contained in NCATS is critical to traffic safety here in Nevada. The data is utilized by traffic engineers and others to help identify hazardous locations and make engineering changes to mitigate those identified hazards. The existence of such a database is a requirement of the Federal Government in order for the State of Nevada to receive certain types of traffic safety funding. This grant will purchase 25 handheld computers and mobile printers for police officers to use when issuing traffic citations and creating crash records. They will add to the current 15 units that SPD already has.
Analysis: The new units will help the Police Department move towards a completely paperless traffic citation and crash record system. They will reduce redundant data entry operations and decrease the number of errors created by human handling of data.
Alternatives: The City could seed funding elsewhere.
Recommended Motion: Approve and accept the traffic safety grant in the amount $36,595 for the purchase of electronic citation and crash collection equipment.
Attached Files:
Agreement.pdf Handhelds ATP.pdf
