City Manager/Police Chief
HOMER,
ORDINANCE 07-26(A)
AN
ORDINANCE OF THE
WHEREAS, The purpose and objective of this grant is to purchase a new automated fingerprint system to include installation and training to aid in crime solving, recognizing outstanding warrants, substantial criminal history, and illegal alien status; and
WHEREAS, The fingerprint system is a live scan system that instantly records fingerprints in a digital format and allows for transmit directly into the national data base for immediate suspect identification and crime lab comparisons; and
WHEREAS, The grant award is based on leftover funds from the FY 2005 Federal Grant Program that were not expended and because of the nature of the grant award it requires that funds are spent quickly to meet the FY 2005 expenditure date deadlines; and
WHEREAS, Crossmatch Technologies, Inc. has worked with the State Department of Corrections to develop a live scan system which is compatible with existing equipment and currently in use by Alaskan corrections agencies and the Alaska Public Safety Information Network; and
WHEREAS,
The live scan system LSCAN 1000P developed by Crossmatch Technologies, Inc. is the only system proven to
work well in
Section 1. That the City Council hereby accepts and appropriates a grant through the Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management for a new Automated Fingerprint System in the amount of $40,946.00 and the sole source purchase with Crossmatch Technologies, Inc. as follows and hereby authorizes the City Manager or his designee to execute the appropriate documents:
Account No. Description Amount
Funding Source. Division of Homeland Security $40,946.00
and Emergency Management Grant
Expenditure:
151-790 Automated
Fingerprint System $40,946.00
Section 2. This ordinance is
a budget amendment only, is not of a permanent nature and is a non code
ordinance.
PASSED
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JAMES C. HORNADAY, MAYOR
ATTEST:
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JO JOHNSON,
Introduction:
Public Hearing:
Second
Effective Date:
Ayes:
Noes:
Abstain:
Absent:
Reviewed and approved as to form and content:
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Date: ______________________ Date:
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Fiscal Note: Fiscal information included in body of Ordinance.