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A resolution authorizing the City Manager to execute the 2019 Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant ("JAG") Program Funds Sharing and Fiscal Agency Agreement between Dallas County and the Cities of Balch Springs, Carrollton, Dallas, DeSoto, Duncanville, Garland, Grand Prairie, Irving, Lancaster, Mesquite and Richardson; authorizing an equitable re-distribution of grant funds thereby reducing Mesquite's formula allocation to the revised amount of $26,631.76; designating the City of Dallas as the applicant and fiscal agent; and designating the Police Chief of the City of Mesquite as the responsible officer for the purpose of signing all documents associated with the grant.
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The United States Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance, has announced the 2019 Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) Program. The purpose of the program is to provide funds to states and local governments to support a broad range of activities to prevent and control crime and to improve the criminal justice system. Local matching funds are not required under this program. Awards are made in the first fiscal year of the appropriation and may be expended in the following three years, for a total of four years. The total value of the grant to Dallas County and its cities is $961,753.00. The City's formula allocation under the 2019 JAG Program is $40,909.00.
Following a determination by the Texas Attorney General that a funding disparity exists in Dallas County again this year, staff and officials of Dallas County and the Cities of Balch Springs, Carrollton, Dallas, DeSoto, Duncanville, Garland, Grand Prairie, Irving, Lancaster, Mesquite and Richardson discussed an equitable distribution of funds among the respective entities. As in past years, that discussion led to a proposed reallocation of 30 percent of Mesquite's original allocation, $12,272.70 to Dallas County, thereby reducing its allocation to $28,636.30. The other affected cities are also ...
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