2009-2010 "Next Generation Click It or Ticket"
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Grant Information for 2009-2010

Key SafeTREC* Contact Info: Irene Kan Phone: (510) 643-5766 Fax: (510) 643-9922 Email: Nextgenciot@berkeley.edu Mailing address for signed applications: Click It or Ticket Program Safe Transportation Research and Education Center (SafeTREC) 2614 Dwight Way, MC #7374 Berkeley, CA 94720-7374 GO HERE for forms and info for the 2008-2009 CIOT Program.

ABOUT THE MINI-GRANTS
The California Office of Traffic Safety is launching the “Next Generation Click It or Ticket” program for 2009–2010 by announcing the availability of grant funds. The goal is to increase seat belt use statewide to 96 percent in 2010 through the combined efforts of the California Highway Patrol (CHP), OTS, and local law enforcement agencies. The Click It or Ticket strategy is to maintain a sustained enforcement presence statewide, promote nighttime enforcements, and direct public information and enforcement towards persons who fail to use seat belts during the state and national mobilization periods. 

Click It or Ticket will start with a highly publicized seat belt enforcement mobilization on November 17-30, 2009 and a second mobilization on May 24–June 6, 2010. To promote nighttime seatbelt use, mini-grantees will conduct at least one nighttime enforcement operation in each mobilization period.  In addition, agencies will conduct intensified monthly enforcement efforts during daytime or nighttime hours.

The Office of Traffic Safety (OTS), through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), is funding the “Next Generation Click It or Ticket” campaign through mini-grants. The University of California Berkeley Traffic Safety Center (TSC) will administer and coordinate the mini-grants for OTS. 

OTS will make the awards on a competitive basis. OTS evaluates proposals using several criteria, including performance on previous grants and the value of the funding requested. OTS will award funding to local law enforcement agencies which collectively represent at least 50 percent of a state’s population or serve geographic subdivisions that account for at least 50 percent of the state’s unbelted fatal vehicle occupants.

MINI-GRANT PERIOD
The mini-grant period is October 1, 2009 to September 8, 2010. It cannot be extended.

ELIGIBILITY
Contract cities, sheriff’s departments, police departments, and University of California/California State University/junior college law enforcement agencies are eligible for funding.

COSTS THE MINI-GRANT COVERS
A mini-grant covers actual overtime costs for supervisors (e.g. sergeants, corporals) officers/deputies, dispatchers, and administrative personnel (e.g. community services officers and clerical personnel). Supervisors and officers/deputies must be assigned solely to seat belt enforcement duties. Dispatchers must be assigned solely to the enforcement overtime shifts. Clerical personnel (including CSOs) must be assigned solely to seat belt enforcement administrative duties (i.e., clerical hours for entering payroll data would not be covered).  

Only benefits accrued to overtime hours would be covered (i.e., retirement, medical/dental/vision insurance, uniform allowances would not be covered). Only state-run disability and unemployment insurance charges would be covered. Indirect costs would not be covered.

OPERATIONAL REQUIREMENTS
Grantees are required to:

1. Conduct a seat belt enforcement campaign during the state mobilization period, November 17-30, 2009. 
2. Conduct a seat belt enforcement campaign during the national mobilization period, May 24-June 6, 2010.
3. Conduct at least one nighttime enforcement operation in each of the two mobilization periods.
4. Conduct intensified daytime or nighttime seat belt enforcements IN EACH OF THE REMAINING MONTHS OF THE GRANT PERIOD (“outside mobilization months”), starting December 2009.
5. Conduct pre- and post-operational seat belt compliance surveys for each of the two mobilization periods.  Personnel time and any costs incurred to conduct the surveys will be considered as the agency’s contribution to the mini-grant and will not be reimbursed.
6. Report statistics for all enforcements.
7. Ensure that officers and administrative personnel who participate in the enforcement activities receive occupant protection roll call training (to ensure familiarity with the California Vehicle Code provisions).
8. Prepare claims in accordance with grant requirements, e.g., provide the required supporting documentation. 
9. Submit a complete (with required supporting documentation) final claim by October 15, 2010.

A seat belt enforcement effort may be conducted during daylight hours or at night in well-lit areas where the wearing (or not wearing) of seat belts by vehicle occupants can be observed by officers.  Logistics and staffing are up to the agency (for example, an agency may elect to conduct a nighttime enforcement from 9-11 p.m. in the summer and 6-10 p.m. in the winter).

Enforcement should be conducted in an enforcement zone(s) or by saturation patrols (increased enforcement effort targeting a specific area) or a combination of both enforcement strategies. 

A training session on mini-grant reporting requirements, roll call enforcement review information and how to fill out claims will be provided at various geographical locations statewide in November 2009.  Grantees must attend this training.  Agencies will NOT be reimbursed for personnel and travel costs incurred to attend the training.

Note: The Next Generation Click It or Ticket web site, application, award letter, and any other mini-grant-related document or informational material shall not be interpreted as a requirement, formal or informal, that a particular police officer issue a specified or predetermined number of citations in pursuance of the obligation(s).

PROMOTION REQUIREMENTS
Grantees are required to issue a press release prior to each of the mobilization periods and at least once during an “outside mobilization” month.  The press releases emphasize the importance of using occupant restraint systems and announce the seat belt enforcement activities.  OTS press release templates will be provided.

2009-2010 CIOT MINI-GRANT PROGRAM TIMELINE

July 15, 2009	Applications due to the University of California Berkeley, Traffic Safety Center (TSC).  [Note: After the on-line application is completed, applicant must print, sign, and mail the hard copy to the TSC.  TSC confirms receipt of the signed application.]
July 16-August 31, 2009	TSC and OTS review the applications to make funding decisions. All funding decisions are made with OTS approval.
September 2009	Award and denial letters are mailed. Grant documents are emailed to agencies that were awarded a mini-grant (termed grantees) for their review and signature. Grantees mail signed grant documents to TSC for UC Berkeley signature.
October 2009	UC Berkeley signs grant documents. TSC emails copies of the signed grant documents to grantees. TSC emails purchase orders to grantees. Purchase orders are delayed if returned grant documents are not mailed in by the TSC-specified deadline.
November 2-12, 2009	SafeTREC* provides pre-operational training throughout California.
November 17-30, 2009	Next Generation Mobilization Period (CA only). Grantees conduct pre- and post-mobilization seat belt use surveys one week before and one week after the mobilization period. Grantees submit on-line mobilization reports by December 31, 2009.
May 24-June 6, 2010	Next Generation Mobilization Period (national). Grantees conduct pre- and post-mobilization seat belt use surveys one week before and one week after the mobilization period.  Grantees submit on-line mobilization reports by June 28, 2010.
“Outside Mobilization” Months	The “outside mobilization” months are: December, January, February, March, April, June, July, August, and September. Enforcements in September 2010 must be conducted before September 8, 2010 to ensure that the final claim is submitted to TSC in time for processing.
May 15, 2010	Deadline for submitting a claim for costs from November 17, 2009 through March 31, 2010. Deadline for submitting the signed November mobilization report, the surveys, the November press release, the December – March enforcement data, and all supporting documentation for the claim.
September 7, 2010	Last date on which a mini-grant-funded enforcement may be conducted.
October 15, 2010	Deadline for submitting a claim for costs from April 1 through September 7, 2010. Claims submitted after this date and claims where supporting documentation is not complete by this date may not be processed.

 

*(WE ARE PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE that, starting October 26, 2009, the Traffic Safety Center has a new name, SafeTREC, the Safe Transportation Research and Education Center.

Our new name more accurately reflects the manner in which our mission has grown since our founding nearly 10 years ago to encompass safety and travel risk in a multi-modal transportation system; a robust and diverse research agenda across multiple disciplines; and development and enhancement of curriculum, training, and outreach on the graduate and undergraduate levels, as well as for professionals and members of the community.)