Council
Communication

Office of the City Manager
 
 

Date

June 23, 2008

 

Agenda Item No.         16

Roll Call No.                08-

Communication No.    08-387

Submitted by: Richard A. Clark, City Manager

 

 

 

AGENDA HEADING:

 

Submitting training requests for Rudolph Simms and Dana Wingert.

 

 

SYNOPSIS:

 

Recommend approval for training requests listed below.

 

 

FISCAL IMPACT:

 

Amount:

 

  • Training
    • $2,065.00 (Simms); $1,300.00 (Wingert)

 

Funding Source:

 

·        GE001 HRI010000 – Human Rights – Services (Simms)

·        SP324 POL982200 – Police – State Forfeited Funds (Wingert)

 

 

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

Rudolph Simms (R-0) Human Rights Director, to Washington, D.C., from July 20 – 26, 2008, ($2,065.00), to attend the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) National Fair Housing Training Academy. This is the second of a five week training session.

Dana Wingert (NR-0) Police Captain, to Las Vegas, NV, from July 13 – 17, 2008, ($1,300.00), to attend the National Institute of Crime Prevention’s (NICP) Racially Biased Policing program.  This program promotes the facilitation of fair and impartial policing.

The amount budgeted for travel in Fiscal Year (FY) 2008 is $502,726.  The amount expended for travel in FY 2008 as of June 17, 2008 is $347,966.

 

 

PREVIOUS COUNCIL ACTION(S):

 

Date: January 20, 1992

 

Roll Call Number:  92-214

 

Action:   The City Council approved a revision to the policy for travel authorization requests.  Such revision requires trips that exceed three days and $1,250 be approved by the Council.  The number in parentheses indicates the total number of trips previously authorized for that individual for the current budget year.

 

 

BOARD/COMMISSION ACTION(S): NONE

 

 

ANTICIPATED ACTIONS AND FUTURE COMMITMENTS: NONE

 

 

 

 

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