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Sheriff’s office wins committee sign-off to apply for multiple public-safety grants including SRO and victim-services funding
Summary
The justice committee approved sheriff’s office applications for a package of grants — school resource officer grants for multiple schools, training and equipment grants, Victims of Crime Act funds, Violence Against Women Act funding, and DUI enforcement reimbursements — with several requiring operating transfers or in‑kind matches.
Lexington County’s justice committee approved motions to allow the sheriff’s office to apply for a series of state and federal grants to fund school resource officers, training, victim services and impaired-driving enforcement.
Captain Lee Marshall outlined multiple applications and their funding implications. For Lexington School District 1 the sheriff’s office sought $314,171 in state SRO grant funding; the committee was told the county would make an operational transfer of $15,280 to cover costs the grant does not cover and that the school district would assume roughly 75% of remaining operating costs.
The committee also approved applications tied to specific sites: funding to cover an SRO at the new Southlake Elementary (first-year operating transfer $4,710, county share 25%), and for District 4’s early childhood center (operating transfer roughly $4,700; county 25% share). Members were told the state has encouraged applications even for schools that were not funded in prior rounds.
Other approved applications included a multi-jurisdictional law-enforcement training grant ($172,116) with a 10% cash match ($19,001.24) for classroom and security equipment; a reapplication for Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) funds ($176,356) with an operating transfer of $171,544 to cover program balances and in-kind salary match documented by the sheriff’s office; a nineteenth-year Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) application for $133,000.63 (requiring an operating transfer of $95,942); and a fifth-year impaired-driving countermeasures reimbursement application for $108,484 to support personnel and operating costs for DUI enforcement.
Committee members moved and seconded the individual applications in sequence; each motion carried by voice vote. Several members asked whether matching funds were budgeted; staff said necessary matches and operating transfers were anticipated in budget planning and would be covered by subsequent budget amendment resolutions if awards are made.
No permanent new positions were proposed in the applications; presenters said most grants pay for portions of existing employees’ hours or provide reimbursements for overtime and operating costs.
