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Council adds DOJ COPS hiring grant to tonight’s agenda amid deadline concerns
Summary
Spokane City Council voted to suspend rules to add a Department of Justice COPS grant for hiring community-policing officers to tonight’s agenda after staff warned the DOJ deadline is Jan. 15; councilors pressed staff on legal conditions and long-term sustainability but did not take final acceptance action in this session.
Councilors voted on Jan. 12 to suspend rules and add SBO C36A25 — a Department of Justice Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) grant to hire police officers — to the evening’s final agenda after staff said a looming DOJ acceptance deadline required urgent action.
Assistant Chief Matt Coles briefed the council on the grant’s conditions, saying the department applied “knowing our community’s expectations” and Washington state law. He told council there are “39 conditions to the grant that do require reporting to the federal government,” and that most of those conditions concern “reporting to the federal government … in…
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