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Salinas police outline use of OTS grants to expand enforcement and school bicycle/pedestrian education
Summary
At the Jan. 8 Salinas Traffic & Transportation Commission meeting, police detailed two Office of Traffic Safety grants — STEP (enforcement) and PBSP (pedestrian/bicycle education) — and described outreach to schools, helmet distributions, and staffing limits that make most grant activity overtime-funded or subcontracted.
At the Jan. 8 meeting of the Salinas Traffic & Transportation Commission, the Salinas Police Department described how two Office of Traffic Safety (OTS) grants fund enforcement and education aimed at reducing pedestrian and bicycle injuries.
The city runs the Selective Traffic Enforcement Program (STEP) and the Pedestrian Bicycle Safety Program (PBSP), staff said. "The STEP grant runs on a federal fiscal grant year cycle," management analyst Vicky Bridal told commissioners, and the STEP award is limited to OTS-specified activities such as DUI checkpoints, saturation patrols, distracted-driving patrols and targeted traffic enforcement. Bridal said the city has applied for STEP for roughly 25 years.
Bridal described the PBSP as a school-focused education program the city has received for six years and which the police department contracts "100% of the programming through activities provided…
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