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City of Tukwila
INFORMATIONAL MEMORANDUM
Mayor Haggerton
Finance and Safety Committee
FROM: Don Lincoln, Assistant Chief of Police
DATE: August 11, 2010
SUBJECT: Police Department Incident Command Vehicle
ISSUE
The Tukwila Police Department is in need of acquiring an Incident Command Vehicle.
BACKGROUND
Jim Haggerton, Mayor
For several years the Tukwila Police Department has been searching for ways to fund the build
out of a Police Incident Command Vehicle. in 2009 the Police Dept. was awarded Justice
Assistance Grant under the Federal Stimulus Program in the amount of $104,000.00.
$4,000.00 of that funding can be used for travel to inspect and background contractors to
ensure that the vehicle meets our specifications and that the business is in compliance with
federal regulations defined in the grant. Based on the grant requirements, this money must be
spent on the purchase of a Police Incident Command Vehicle. Additionally, during the recent
bond measure, the Police Department was awarded $150,000 00 to be used toward the
purchase of an Incident Command vehicle. The approximate cost of this vehicle is $500,000 00
plus tax. This leaves a shortfall of approximately 275,000.00. Based on the first two funding
mechanisms we have an opportunity to acquire this incident command platform. We are
requesting authorization to spend up to $275,000.00 from the drug seizure account to make up
for the shortfall.
The aforementioned Police Incident Command Vehicle is a mobile platform specifically
designed for the needs of the Tukwila Police Department and the activities of the Valley Special
Response Team Leadership. Although its routine deployment will be to support the SRT
Leadership during full team call -outs, it is designed to allow for continuity of operations for the
police department during the times of natural or man made disasters, such as earthquakes,
floods, etc. During such times it is critical for decision makers and their support personnel to
have a central, mobile platform so they can come together to handle the crisis over a prolonged
period of time. The equipment contained in this platform will allow for alternative forms of
communication both regionally and super- regionally should there be a massive communication
breakdown. Additionally, the communications equipment will allow for inner operability between
multiple jurisdictions with different radios. It will also allow for the platform to receive the signal
transmitted from State Patrol's fixed wing surveillance platform to give the leadership look -down
capabilities over the crisis.
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Seizure Account Expenditure Justification
During a 3 year review of Valley SRT full team call outs we find that for 2007, 70% were drug
enforcement related; in 2008 also 70% were drug enforcement related and in 2009, 87% were
drug enforcement related. I note here that these percentages represent the number of "full
team callouts" as opposed to partial team deployments. This is important to understand
because the Operations Command Vehicle will not likely be deployed on partial team call outs.
RECOMMENDATION
The Council is being asked to consider the purchase of an Incident Command Vehicle for the
Police Department in the amount of $500,000 plus tax, with the use of funding in the amount of
$100,000 from the Federal Stimulus Program Justice Assistance Grant; the use of funding from
Tukwila Bond Ordinance #2296 in the amount of $150,000; and funding from drug seizure funds
in the amount of $275,000.
The Council is being asked to consider this issue at the August 23, 2010 Committee of the
Whole and subsequent September 7, 2010 Regular meeting.
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