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Date: April 8, 2024 Item: 4 Presenter: Correy Farniok, Police Chief Section: Consent Agenda Title: Grant for Traffic Safety Vehicle - Resolution 7461 1.Background: The Minnesota Department of Public Safety(DPS), Office of Traffic Safety (OTS) has a mandate to promote the safety of those who use public roadways. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) provides federal funding to the DPS-OTS to design and implement Minnesota’s highway safety program to reduce traffic crashes and the deaths, injuries, and property damage resulting from those crashes to fulfill this mandate. The DPS-OTS and NHTSA seek to support a traffic safety program • to prevent injuries and deaths resulting from motor vehicles being driven in excess of posted speed limits, • to encourage the proper use of occupant protection devices (including the use of safety belts and child restraint systems) by occupants of motor vehicles, • to prevent injuries and deaths resulting from persons driving motor vehicles while impaired by alcohol or a controlled substance, • to prevent crashes and reduce injuries and deaths resulting from crashes involving motor vehicles and motorcycles, • to prevent injuries and deaths resulting from crashes involving school buses, • to prevent crashes resulting from unsafe driving behavior (including aggressive or fatigued driving and distracted driving arising from the use of electronic devices in vehicles), • to improve law enforcement services in motor vehicle crash prevention, traffic supervision, and postcrash procedures, • to increase driver awareness of commercial motor vehicles to prevent crashes and reduce injuries and fatalities , • to improve driver performance through • driver education, • driver testing to determine proficiency to operate motor vehicles, and • driver examinations (physical, mental, and driver licensing), • to improve pedestrian performance and bicycle safety, and • to provide for • an effective record system of crashes (including resulting injuries and deaths), • crash investigations to determine the probable causes of crashes, injuries, and deaths, • vehicle registration, operation, and inspection, and • emergency services. The DPS-OTS awarded a grant to the Orono Police Department to purchase a vehicle to be used to conduct enhanced enforcement. Requirements of the grand includes the purchase of a vehicle with a higher vantage point and must be used to support traffic safety enforcement program. The vehicle can be used any time during the year, but should be used during high visibility events that we participate in as a partner in the Toward Zero Death (TZD) enhanced enforcement events. AGENDA ITEM 40