Public Safety Committee
Council Chambers
Agenda — 14 items
- 1 Roll Call: Chair Zucal, Hendricks, Mota
- 2 Bill 10 Amending the 2024 Fire Department budget to provide for a supplemental appropriation of Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00) from The Hartford grant for the purchase of a fire extinguisher simulator.
- 3 Bill 11 Amending the 2024 Fire Department budget to provide for a supplemental appropriation of Sixteen Thousand Dollars ($16,000.00) from Norfolk Southern Rail, Safety-First grant. This grant is to purchase hazardous materials related equipment for incidents that may occur as a result of a railway incident along the Norfolk Southern railway that runs through the City of Allentown.
- 3 Bill 10 Amending the 2024 Fire Department budget to provide for a supplemental appropriation of Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00) from The Hartford grant for the purchase of a fire extinguisher simulator.
- 4 Bill 16 Amending the 2024 General Fund Budget to provide for a supplemental appropriation of Twenty-Three Thousand Nine Hundred and Fifteen Dollars ($23,915.00) from the 2023 United States Department of Justice Edward Byrne Memorial JAG Grant that will be passed through from the Lehigh County to the City of Allentown Police Department. These funds will be used to purchase traffic equipment.
- 5 Bill 17 Amending the 2024 General Fund Budget to provide for a supplemental appropriation of Three Hundred Eighty-Five Thousand Dollars ($385,000.00) from the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency (PCCD) Grant to the City of Allentown Police Department. These funds will be utilized for reimbursement of expenses for the purchase of integrated fingerprint technology, license plate readers and integrated gunshot technology.
- 5 Bill 11 Amending the 2024 Fire Department budget to provide for a supplemental appropriation of Sixteen Thousand Dollars ($16,000.00) from Norfolk Southern Rail, Safety-First grant. This grant is to purchase hazardous materials related equipment for incidents that may occur as a result of a railway incident along the Norfolk Southern railway that runs through the City of Allentown.
- 6 Bill 18 Amending the 2024 General Fund Budget to provide for a supplemental appropriation of One Million One Hundred Eighty-Three Thousand Fifty-Four Dollars ($1,183,054.00) from the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency (PCCD) Grant to the City of Allentown Police Department. These funds will be utilized for reimbursement of expenses for the purchase of new city cameras, new in-car cameras for the entire police fleet and new body-worn cameras.
- 7 Bill 19 Amending the 2024 General Fund Budget to provide for a supplemental appropriation of Twenty-Five Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($25,500.00) from the United States Department of Justice Edward Byrne Memorial JAG Grant to the City of Allentown Police Department for the purpose of funding overtime pay of patrol presence in an effort to suppress violent crimes and drug investigations in the Keystone Opportunity Zone in Allentown.
- 8 R37 Establishes a Special Committee to provide a framework for Understanding, Implementing and Evaluating Co-responder Public Safety Models
- 8 Bill 17 Amending the 2024 General Fund Budget to provide for a supplemental appropriation of Three Hundred Eighty-Five Thousand Dollars ($385,000.00) from the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency (PCCD) Grant to the City of Allentown Police Department. These funds will be utilized for reimbursement of expenses for the purchase of integrated fingerprint technology, license plate readers and integrated gunshot technology.
- 9 Bill 7 Amending Article III, Retail Pet Shops, by prohibiting the sale of guinea pigs by pet shops.
- 10 Adjournment
- 12 R37 Establishes a Special Committee to provide a framework for Understanding, Implementing and Evaluating Co-responder Public Safety Models