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Commissioner Brown - To Appropriate Funds From The State’s Controlled Substance Tax Remittance Program To Be Used for Funding A Drug Diversion and Treatment Program and Scholarship/Fellowship Partnership with Belmont Abbey (No County Funds - $165,000)
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STAFF CONTACT
Joseph D. Ramey - Chief of Police - Gaston County Police Department - 704-866-3321
BUDGET IMPACT
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No County funds.
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BUDGET ORDINANCE IMPACT
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BACKGROUND
The Comprehensive Control Act of 1984 and the Anti-Drug Act of 1986 provide for distribution among participating law enforcement agencies of assets forfeited in connection with drug related arrests and the above laws prohibit the use of such funds to reduce local funds budgeted for law enforcement programs. During fiscal years 2012 through 2015, Gaston County Police received funds from the state’s Controlled Substance Tax Remittance Program. These monies will be used to fund two projects.
The first project is the Drug Diversion and Treatment Program which is a partnership between Gaston County Police, Gastonia Police, Gaston County District Attorney’s Office, Gaston Health and Human Services, Partners Behavioral Health, Phoenix Counseling, and several other partners to provide holistic residential treatment to repeat opioid abusers. The funds will be used to pay for an engineering/architect report on a juvenile detention facility. The second project is a scholarship/fellowship partnership with Belmont Abbey College to recruit minority residents of Gaston County into law enforcement. Candidates would have a contract requiring them to commit to working with the Gaston County Police Department for a minimum of five years before scholarship is forgiven.
The Gaston County Police Department requests the following amounts be allocated from each fiscal year received for the funding of these projects:
FY 2012 - $36,759
FY 2013 - $63,288
FY 2014 - $40,186
FY 2015 - $24,767
POLICY IMPACT
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ATTACHMENTS
Budget Change Request