City of Alexandria, Virginia
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MEMORANDUM
DATE: JANUARY 22, 2014
TO: THE HONORABLE MAYOR AND MEMBERS OF CITY COUNCIL
FROM: RASHAD M. YOUNG, CITY MANAGER /s/
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Consideration of Release of Funds from FY 2014 Contingent Reserves to Support the Sheriff's Office Child Safety Seat Installation Program.
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ISSUE: Consideration of release of funds in the amount of $10,000 from FY 2014 Contingent Reserves to support the Sheriff's Office newly implemented Child Safety Seat Installation Program.
RECOMMENDATION: That City Council approve the release of $10,000 from FY 2014 Contingent Reserves to fund operations of the Sheriff's Office Child Safety Seat Installation Program.
BACKGROUND: The Sheriff's Office established a child safety seat installation program in response to a growing need in the City to enhance the safe transportation of infants and toddlers within the City. A prior program of child safety seat installation had terminated and for several years, no regular, ongoing child safety seat installation program existed within the City of Alexandria. Sheriff Dana Lawhorne, hoping to fill this void, announced in FY2013 his plans to establish a new child safety seat installation program in FY 2014, as a service to the families living within the City of Alexandria. City Council approved the sum of $10,000 from the City's Contingent Reserves to assist in the establishment of the new program and to help fund the program's ongoing costs.
DISCUSSION: The Sheriff's Office requests that Council approve the release of $10,000 from Contingent Reserves as approved by Council for FY 2014. The program was established in August 2013. Since that time, Sheriff's Office deputies have installed more than 100 child safety seats.
FISCAL IMPACT: The fiscal impact is limited to the allocation of funds approved from the FY 2014 Contingen...
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