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Police Commission accepts three grants, including $16.5 million COPS award for 50 officers
Summary
The San Francisco Police Commission on Sept. 16 voted to accept three external grants — $1 million for an Emergency Operations Center, a $16.5 million DOJ COPS hiring award covering 50 officer slots, and roughly $346,000 for a meth enforcement team — approving each resolution without objection.
The San Francisco Police Commission voted on Sept. 16 to accept three external grants intended to expand emergency operations capacity and support hiring and enforcement.
Ken Bukowski, the department chief financial officer, told the commission the first grant is a roughly $1,000,000 award routed through Cal EMA and FEMA to fit out an Emergency Operations Center at an existing TAC site, covering IT wiring, furniture and related infrastructure. "The center itself is gonna be going into the new site where TAC is on Deharo, and so the space is already there," Bukowski said during his presentation of the EOC proposal.
The commission also approved the Department of Justice COPS hiring recovery grant in which San Francisco secured the maximum 50 officer slots available. Bukowski said the 36‑month award totals about $16.5 million and will "pay for all of the salary and fringe costs related to those 50 positions." Police Chief George Gascon urged quick implementation, warning that competitive hiring elsewhere could draw away qualified applicants.
A third resolution authorized acceptance of a governor's office grant of about $346,000 to support a multi‑jurisdictional methamphetamine enforcement team over an 18‑month period. Bukowski said the award for that program is larger than some prior years because of its extended period.
Each of the three measures was moved and seconded on the floor and approved "without objection," according to the meeting record. Commissioners asked routine budget questions — for example, one asked whether a $50,000 line for 10 laptops came from a standard template, and Bukowski said figures were initial estimates based on other city EOCs.
The approvals require the mayor and board of supervisors to complete any further local acceptance and expenditure authorizations, and departments noted some costs — such as uniforms and academy time for new hires — are not covered by the federal COPS award and would be absorbed by the department.
Votes at a glance: EOC Cal EMA/FEMA grant (~$1,000,000) — adopted without objection; DOJ COPS hiring grant (50 slots, $16.5 million) — adopted without objection; California multi‑jurisdictional meth enforcement grant (~$346,000) — adopted without objection.
The department said it will move quickly to implement the hiring award and to coordinate remaining local steps for all grants.
