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CITY OF KENAI
ORDINANCE NO. 3120-2020
AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF KENAI , ALASKA, ACCEPTING
$26,545.90 IN ASSET FORFEITURE SHARING FUNDS AND APPROPRIATING THOSE
FUNDS INTO THE POLICE MACHINERY & EQUIPMENT AND SMALL TOOLS ACCOUNTS
FOR THE PURPOSE OF PURCHASING LAW ENFORCEMENT EQUIPMENT.
WHEREAS, In March of 2020 the Kenai Police Department received asset forfeiture sharing funds
in the amount of $26,545.90 from the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA); and,
WHEREAS, the Police Department, pursuant to conditions of acceptance, will utilize the forfeiture
funds to purchase law enforcement equipment for use by the Police Department.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF KENAI, ALASKA,
as follows :
Section 1. That the City Manager is authorized to accept these Equitable Sharing Funds in
the amount of $26,545.90 and to expend the funds to fulfill the purpose and intent of this
ordinance.
Section 2. That the estimated revenues and appropriations be increased as follows :
General Fund:
Increase Estimated Revenues -
Forfeitures
Increase Appropriations -
Police -Small Tools
Police -Machinery & Equipment
$26.545.90
$ 376.35
26,169.55
$26.545.90
Section 3 . Severability: That if any part or provision of this ordinance or application thereof to
any person or circumstances is adjudged invalid by any court of competent jurisdiction, such
judgment shall be confined in its operation to the part, provision, or application directly involved
in all controversy in which this judgment shall have been rendered, and shall not affect or impair
the validity of the remainder of th is title or application thereof to other persons or circumstances.
The City Council hereby declares that it would have enacted the remainder of this ordinance even
without such part, provision, or application .
Section 4. Effective Date: That pursuant to KMC 1.15.0?0(f), this ordinance shall take effect
immediately upon enactment.
Ord inance No . 3120-2020
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ENACTED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF KENAI , ALASKA , this 20 th day of May, 2020.
ATTEST:
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Introduced : May 6, 2020
Enacted: May 20 , 2020
Effective: May 20 , 2020
City of Kenai I 210 f=idalgo Ave, Kenai, AK 99611 -77941907.283.7535 I www.kenai.cily
MEMORANDUM
TO:
THROUGH:
FROM:
DATE:
SUBJECT:
Mayor Brian Gabriel and Kenai City Council
Paul Ostrander, City Manager
David Ross, Police Chief
April 20, 2020
Ordinance No. 3120-2020, Accepting Drug Forfeiture Funds
The Kenai Police Department received $26,545 .90 in asset forfeiture sharing funds from the
United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). Those funds were shared with the Kenai
Police Department after being forfeited to the DEA and are subject to federal "Equitable Sharing"
requirements to be used for Law Enforcement. The funds were forfeited in connection with drug
investigation cases , for which the regional drug task force (including the Kenai Police Department)
was involved .
I am respectfully requesting consideration of the ordinance appropriating $26,545.90 into the
General Fund Accounts: Police-Small Tools -$376.35 and Police -Machinery & Equipment -
$25,545.90 accounts to pay for law enforcement equipment. The primary purchases made with
these funds are anticipated to be a new recording system for the dispatch center that will record
911 calls and radio traffic, and two new mobile radios to go in anticipated FY21 purchased police
vehicles.