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Final Project: Legislative Review Document

Dylan Moore

University of San Diego

LEPSL 590 Budget and Finance for Law Enforcement

Dr. Ygnacio Flores

August 16, 2020

Table of Contents

Executive Summary …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..3

Eastvale Community Priorities …………………………………………………………………………………………………..4

Line Item Budet for the Eastvale Police Department …………………………………………………………………4

Budget……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….5

Personnel Budget ………………………………………………………………………………………………………….5

Capital Budget ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….6

Operational Budget ……………………………………………………………………………………………………….7

Grant Opportunity …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….9

Conclusion ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………10
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THE CITY OF EASTVALE

REPORT TO CITY COUNCIL

DATE ISSUED: August 16, 2020

ATTENTION: Eastvale Budget and Audit Committee

SUBJECT: Eastvale Police Department (EPD) One-Year Plan

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

The City of Eastvale has a vibrant community full of tax paying citizens who entrust my

department with their safety. The Eastvale Police Department is sworn to protect the over

60,000 residents. The previous Chief failed to address issues the community cares about and

failed to set this department up for success financially. Within this legislative review will be a

detailed analysis of community priorities, the department’s personnel structure, capital costs,

and operational costs. Eastvale Police Department’s mission statement is to provide exceptional

law enforcement services free from prejudice or favor, with leadership, integrity, and respect.1

While I am the Police Chief of Eastvale, the Department will always have a good

understanding of the budget and our priorities. “A solid understanding of the budget will

translate into having a comprehensive grasp of what is going on in the present day and

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beyond.”2 It is my responsibility as the Police Chief to not only understand the budget, but have

a comprehensive grasp of where every single taxpayer dollar is going.

Eastvale Community Priorities

1. Reduce violent crime across the city by 5% and the overall crime rate by 10%.

2. Acquire less lethal force options for our police officers

3. School resources to include educating youth on gang prevention and recruitment

4. Improved response times in priority one, two, and three calls

5. Engaging more of the community through community policing

6. Recruitment of 20 police officers to fill vacancies and increase staffing

Line Item Budget for the Eastvale Police Department

The Eastvale Police Department will implement the line item style of budgeting. Line

item budgets identify a particular program and the budget expenditure needed while itemizing

the program and attaching a budget.3 The three areas of the line item budget are personnel

costs, capital costs, and operational costs. The line item budget style best tracks each dollar

spent in the department and ensures accuracy to not go over budget. This budget integrity is

vital for the long term trust of the community in this department. The Eastvale Police

Department’s proposed budget for the fiscal year of 2020-2021 is $10,500,000. In addition, a

$100,000 grant was applied for through the state of California for gang prevention in our local

school system.

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Budget

Personnel Budget

Eastvale Police Department’s personnel budget is $7,510,000. Chart 1.1 is a breakdown

of the 76 sworn positions and the 19 civilian staff. With 10 police officers retiring from the

department this year, 20 will be recruited in order to meet goal #6. This brings the personnel

budget up to 8,260,000. The Chart below shows the breakdown of 1 Chief, 1 Captain, 2

Lieutenants, 14 Sergeants, 10 Detectives, and 58 Police Officers. The second chart shows the

civilian staffing levels of 10 Dispatchers, 1 Crime Analyst, 4 Admin Clerks, 3 Auto Mechanics and

1 Property Room Clerk. The breakdown and structuring of both the sworn and civilian

personnel are what best suits this department and the community we serve.

Sworn Personnel 150000

1400000

4350000
800000

1 Chief 1 Captain 2 Lieutenants 14 Sergeants 10 Detectives 58 Police Officers

Civilian Staff
200000

50000

75000 600000

210000

10 Dispatchers 3 Auto Mechanics 1 Crime Analyst 1 Property Room Clerk 4 Admin Clerks
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Capital Budget

Capital budgets are long term plans for the purchase of expensive items the department

needs. The department is able in the 2020-2021 fiscal year to spend $331,000 on long term

capital investments. Capital investments are prioritized based on budget amounts in balance

with the opportunity it brings to the members of this department and the community. The

Eastvale Police Department has chosen to spend the $331,000 in the following manner in

accordance to the community priorities:

Capital Costs

76,000

114,000

38,000

32,000 22,800
3,040 30,400

Body Worn Cameras Tasers Bean Bag Rounds 40MM

Body Worn Cameras will be purchased for the department in order to increase

community transparency. This carries a total cost of $76,000.

Tasers will be purchased for all officers as a less then lethal force option. This carries a

total cost of $38,000 and fulfills community priority number two. Police Officers carrying Tasers
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will have the opportunity to subdue suspects faster with less harm to both our officers and the

suspects.

In furthering community priority number two, additional less lethal options for our

police officers will be purchased. Bean bag shotgun ammunition will be purchased for a total of

$22,800. 40MM launchers and ammunition will be purchased for a total of $30,400. OC Pepper

Spray will be purchased for a total of $3,040. These calculations are made based upon our 58

police officers on patrol for this fiscal year.

The department currently has one K-9 dog with an upkeep of $8,000. We will train three

other K-9 handers to have one per shift with a total upkeep cost of $32,000. This is in line with

community priority number one of reducing crime in our community and number five of

engaging the community through community policing. K-9 officers will assist in making arrests,

engaging in the community and more. They will be vital members to all four shifts patrolling our

community.

Lastly, our department will purchase 3 new police vehicles with a cost of $38,000 per

vehicle for a total of $114,000. The leftover budget of $14,760 will be left in the fund to replace

four more police vehicles over the next five years. The three new vehicles will help improve

police officers response times, improve the functionality and professionalism of the

department, and will allow wear and tear of vehicles to be spread out across the newer units.

Operational Budget

The last section of the budget is the operational budget which funds day to day

necessary supplies for the department. This includes bullet proof vest replacements, uniform
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allowances, training classes, recruiting, ammunition, safety equipment and office supplies. This

budget totals $1,909,000.

Operational Budget
20,000 5,000 76,000
50,000

228,000 30,000

1,500,000

Bullet Proof Vests Uniforms Training Classes Recruitment

The above chart shows operational costs of the department, with some of them being

fixed costs and some are additional working towards our community priorities. The $1,500,000

spent on recruiting 20 of the best and brightest police officers with pay out abundantly in the

goals set before the department. This will fulfill goal number six of filling the vacancies when 10

police officers retire this year, and will also recruit another ten more.

In addition, priority number four of reducing response times to all priority level calls will

be fulfilled with more police officers on patrol. With only 48 officers on patrol currently, moving

that number to 58 will dramatically affect the response times for calls in the community we

serve. Lower response times and more officers on patrol means there will be more time for

police officers to be proactive and engage the community. Currently our police officers on a
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daily basis are spending almost all of their time responding to calls for service and writing the

reports associated with those calls. With a 20.8 percent increase in staffing levels, the

department will have the opportunity to not only respond to calls quicker, but in a safer

manner for our officers.

Furthermore, community priority number five will also be addressed through the

increase in patrol staffing levels. With police officers not only spending their time responding to

calls of service, they will have the opportunity to actively engage in the community. Members

of the community will see more police units around their city. They will see officers engaging in

conversations with members of this community. They will see members of this department

conducting traffic stops and actively engaging crime. The City of Eastvale will have an improved

quality of life as criminals in areas understand the community supports our police department.

Our police department will have the opportunity to engage in this community in ways which

were not possible in prior fiscal years.

Lastly, the 30,000 dollars spent in this fiscal year will be used for training courses for our

police officers in areas such as sensitivity training, force options, leadership, intelligence-led

policing, community policing theory, investigation development and gang identification.

Grant Opportunity

The California Gang Reduction, Intervention and Prevention (CalGRIP) program provides

grant funding to cities committed to using a local collaborative approach to gang violence. Our

$100,000 grant for this fiscal year will be funding early prevention and intervention initiatives,
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education programs, job training and skills development.4 This collaboration with the state of

California will help further our community priority number three to have more school resources

to educate the youth in this community on gang prevention and recruitment. The grant

requires the local police department to set aside ten percent of the total grant award for data

collection and evaluation efforts. This will help evaluate effectiveness of the grant and will

better provide data on how to target gang recruitment in our community.

Conclusion

The Eastvale Police Department’s mission statement is to provide exceptional law

enforcement services free from prejudice or favor, with leadership, integrity, and respect.

Throughout this budget analysis money has been allocated in a line-item budget manner to

best suit the needs of this community. The budget has been allocated to decrease overall

violent crime, incorporate more less lethal force options, school resources to educate youth on

gang prevention, decrease response times to all calls for service, increase community policing

efforts, and increase the net staffing levels of our agency by 20 officers.

The overall budget was divided into three categories. First being personnel with a total

of $8,260,000. Second is capital investments with a total of $316,240 and $14,760 saved for

next fiscal year to buy another police unit. Third is operational costs with a total of $1,909,000.

This brings the 2020-2021 fiscal year budget to $10,500,000. Lastly, a $100,000 grant was

applied to through the California Gang Reduction, Intervention and Prevention program to

address gang violence, recruitment, and prevention in our local school system. Through a line

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item budget each dollar was able to be categorized, listed, graphed, and explained. Through

this process every single tax dollars is accounted for in the Eastvale Police Department.