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Sheriff seeks mapping software and COPS funding for two officers; asks to surplus vehicles
Summary
Sheriff John Sheridan asked the commission to reclassify two staff positions, surplus vehicles and equipment on GovDeals, and accept two grants including a mapping system for crime-scene and school diagrams and a COPS grant to fund two officers on a phased basis.
Sheriff John Sheridan told the commission he will ask tomorrow for personnel reclassifications for a part-time officer and a shift supervisor, a resolution to surplus vehicles and bull bars, and acceptance of two recently awarded grants.
Sheriff Sheridan described one grant as funding a mapping system that can diagram rooms and sites to scale for homicide or active-shooter training and investigations and said the system could be integrated with an existing county platform. He described how staff could project scaled floorplans and classrooms and run active-shooter exercises from the department's training facility.
The second grant Sheridan referenced is a COPS hiring grant to fund two officer positions. He described the typical COPS funding schedule he expects: 100% of salary in the first year, then 75% in year two, 50% in year three and 25% in subsequent years (as he summarized it). Sheridan said the grant would cover positions, not equipment, and cautioned commissioners to consider long-term staffing costs and benefits when deciding whether to accept it.
Commissioners asked for more details about the mapping system and asserted that the system could aid school training and investigations. No formal acceptance vote was recorded in this session; Sheridan said he would place the grant acceptance and surplus resolutions on the agenda for the next meeting.
