DATE: February 25, 2025
TO: Board of Supervisors
SUBMITTED BY: John Zanoni, Sheriff-Coroner-Public Administrator
SUBJECT: 2024 Coverdell Forensic Grant Application and Award
RECOMMENDED ACTION(S):
TITLE
1. Approve and adopt Resolution authorizing the Sheriff-Coroner-Public Administrator, or his designee, as the official designated to execute a Grant Application/Agreement including, Certificate of Assurance and Subrecipient Grants Management Assessment forms for the 2024 Paul Coverdell grant from the California Governor's Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES) Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Program, including any Amendments and extensions, which assists forensic laboratories to improve their efficiency and effectiveness to provide forensic science services through improvement of the quality and timeliness of forensic science and medical examiner/coroner services, effective April 1, 2025 through March 31, 2026 ($51,136);
2. Approve and authorize the Sheriff-Coroner-Public Administrator, or his designee, to execute the required Authorization for the Grant Subaward Certificate of Assurance of Compliance;
3. Adopt a Budget Resolution increasing the FY 2024-25 appropriations and estimated revenues for the Sheriff-Coroner-Public Administrator Org 3111 in the amount of $161,252 (4/5 vote); and
4. Adopt a Budget Resolution increasing the FY 2024-25 appropriations in the Sheriff's Criminalistic Laboratory Fund, Org 1451 in the amount of $44,889 (4/5 vote).
REPORT
There is no increase in Net County Cost associated with these actions. The non-competitive grant application ("2024 Coverdell Forensic Grant") was exclusively issued to thirty crime laboratories in California, which includes the Fresno County Sheriff's Office, contingent on your Board's approval. Divisions of the Department of Justice (DOJ), such as the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) working through Cal OES, have awarded this grant to assist local forensic laboratories in improving the qu...
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