Police department seeks multi-year K-9 contract with county, grants for enforcement, and FTO software subscription

Lieutenant Brianne Holmes presented four police-related items: (1) a three-year intergovernmental agreement with the Toledo-Lucas County Board of Commissioners for K-9 care and control services, with general-fund expenditures not to exceed $120,000 annually and a request to waive competitive bidding as an intergovernmental sole-service arrangement; (2) authorization to accept a $52,376.20 grant from the Ohio Department of Public Safety for a selective traffic enforcement program focused on speeding and restraint violations (no local match); (3) authorization to accept a $49,876.20 Ohio DPS grant for an impaired-driving enforcement program (no local match); and (4) authority to enter a three-year subscription with PowerDMS for cloud-based field training officer (FTO) software, not to exceed $35,000, with a requested waiver of competitive bidding as PowerDMS is the sole-source provider for the department's subscription services.

Councilman Martinez said he was supportive but asked whether the K-9 agreement could be a one-year term so the council could revisit it after ongoing dog-ordinance work and data collection; Holmes offered to take the request by referral. Martinez asked for a first read and proposed holding the item for one agenda cycle so the council could examine changes to dog legislation and related data before committing to a three-year term. The committee agreed to hold the K-9 contract item until the next agenda review meeting. The other three items were advanced on consent without substantive questions.