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Committee approves $835,000 for automated traffic enforcement RFP; members press for privacy and sustainability details
Summary
The Santa Fe Finance Committee voted Feb. 24 to use about $835,000 in one-time, unanticipated gross receipts tax revenue to begin a request-for-proposals and pilot for automated traffic enforcement and to buy evidence equipment.
The Santa Fe Finance Committee voted Feb. 24 to approve a budget amendment of about $835,000 from unanticipated gross receipts tax revenue to purchase evidence equipment and to begin a program for automated traffic enforcement, including speed and noise enforcement and related subscriptions.
Deputy Chief of Police Ben Valdez told the committee the bulk of the appropriation would fund automated enforcement equipment and subscription services, with roughly $100,000 allocated for other evidence items such as evidence dryers, mobile fingerprint scanners and narcotics testing equipment. "It's going to be the majority of that amount," Valdez said when asked how the funds would be distributed.
City staff said the one-time money comes from gross receipts tax collections that exceeded projections during the prior fiscal year. "That unanticipated gross receipts tax revenue ... is a one-time funding source," the city…
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