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Alfalfa County officials told sheriff’s office can seek SAFE and sheriff assistance grants; no formal approval recorded
Summary
A representative for the sheriff’s office told Alfalfa County commissioners the office intends to apply again for a sheriff’s assistance funding grant and a SAFE grant; staff said there was no motion to approve and item 13 received no action.
A representative for the Alfalfa County sheriff’s office said the office intends to apply for two grants — the SAFE grant and the Sheriff’s Assistance Funding Grant the office received last year — and asked county commissioners for permission to file. The representative said there is no upfront cost to apply.
The request was framed as an application matter rather than a contract or immediate expenditure. “So we wanna file for it, and we wanna file for the safe grant as well. Any grant that comes available that we actually can get or pertains to us, we're — we're — we're pushing to try to get the grants as much as we can,” the Sheriff’s Office representative said.
The representative said equipment purchased with last year’s grant included three used units, two of which are complete and one expected to be completed Friday. “With that grant last year, you know, we bought 3 used units, 2 of which one's done. The next 1 will be done this Friday,” the Sheriff’s Office representative said.
County staff later noted there was no motion to approve the grant application during the meeting and recorded “take no action on '13.” The meeting record does not show a vote authorizing expenditure or a formal approval to accept grant funds; the exchange in the transcript is limited to a request to apply and the staff note that no approving motion was made.
Why it matters: grant-funded equipment and programs typically require post-award acceptance and, in some cases, matching funds or reporting; the transcript contains no formal decision on accepting or authorizing the grants, only a request to apply and staff confirmation that no action was taken during this meeting.
Next steps reported in the meeting: the sheriff’s representative indicated the office plans to submit applications when the opportunities open; the transcript does not record any committee referral, grant-acceptance motion, or required local match discussion.
