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Police and Modesto-contracted fire chief outline Measure H spending; police items include Cellebrite and LPR outlays
Summary
Chiefs reported Measure H–funded expenditures: police cited purchases and service costs including a $20,000 Cellebrite allocation and $9,000 in LPR services; Modesto fire contract operations were reported at about $1.9 million. Committee members asked for clarifications on reserve lines and CPR devices.
The Measure H Citizens Oversight Committee received departmental reports Wednesday from the Ceres Police Department and the Modesto Fire Department outlining how Measure H funds were spent.
Chief of Police Trenton Johnson summarized the police expenditures for the fiscal year. "We had $20,000 for the Cellebrite program, which we use for unlocking and downloading cell phone data," Johnson said. He reported spending $9,000 on license-plate-reader (LPR) services (not equipment), $4,100 on battery chargers for radio batteries, and noted $10,000 had been earmarked for replacement rifles that were not purchased and $2,000 earmarked for crime scene barriers that also were not purchased. He said about $1,500 of a $5,000 armory upgrade line was used.
Committee members asked Johnson to repeat the LPR amount and questioned a line on the year-to-date budget labeled with a reserve amount; Johnson characterized that reserve as likely for reserve officers and clarified typical armory and equipment uses.
Andrew Hunter, assistant chief with the Modesto Fire Department, gave the fire services report under the city’s contract with Modesto. Hunter said Measure H–related operations spending was "about $1.9 million" and described the services Ceres receives through the contract: three staffed stations serving the city, two fire engines, a ladder truck and a battalion chief. Hunter placed those Ceres resources in the context of Modesto’s larger system, describing roughly 26 staffed stations countywide and about 95 personnel on duty each day.
During follow-up, a committee member asked whether the city had only one Lucas automated CPR device. Hunter said Lucas devices are carried on all apparatus.
No departmental requests for additional Measure H allocations or policy changes were made during the reports.
The committee then moved on to adjournment procedures.
