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Police seek renewal of Operation Stone Garden grant — Chief Heiser cites seizures and traffic enforcement results
Summary
Police asked the council to approve the next Operation Stone Garden grant cycle, reporting $113,580 in overtime reimbursement, $61,163 in employee-related expenses and $18,760 in mileage (total $193,503) and summarizing deployment statistics from the prior year.
Police Chief Heiser told the council he is requesting approval to accept the next iteration of the Operation Stone Garden grant, which he said will reimburse overtime, employee-related costs and mileage tied to pre-planned interdiction deployments along regional corridors.
Chief Heiser gave line-item numbers for the grant request: $113,580 for overtime reimbursement, $61,163 for employee-related expenses (such as pension liability) and up to $18,760 for mileage. The sum of those line items is $193,503; the chief’s oral total in the meeting transcript was truncated but the line-item figures add to that amount.
Heiser summarized enforcement results from Stone Garden deployments last year: 272 deployments, 732 traffic stops, 301 citations, 99 criminal prosecutions, and 30 vehicles seized. He said officers seized two firearms, recovered $340 in currency, and seized 9.8 grams of fentanyl and 91.14 grams of methamphetamine during those operations.
Council members asked whether unpaid reserve officers could be paid from the grant (Heiser said reserves are volunteers and do not receive pay), whether the grant spans fiscal years (staff said grant budgeting and carryover accommodate multi-year spans) and whether spontaneous enforcement actions such as unplanned pursuits would be reimbursable (Heiser said eligible deployments must be pre-planned and reported to the grantor).
What happens next: the council was asked to approve accepting and administering the grant; no formal vote was recorded at the working session and staff said grant amounts can vary year to year and require annual renewal.
