TO: Mayor and Members of City Council
THRU: Douglas J. Hewett, ICMA-CM, City Manager
Jeffrey Yates, ICMA-CM, Assistant City Manager
FROM: Roberto E. Bryan Jr., Chief of Police
Taylor Floyd, Budget & Evaluation Director
DATE: September 28, 2026
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Adopt the Special Revenue Fund Project Ordinance to Appropriate the Governor’s Highway Safety Program Grant AwardTitle
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Relationship To Strategic Plan:
Goal 1: Safe and Secure Community
Executive Summary:
The City has been awarded grant funding for fiscal year 2026-27 for the Fayetteville Police Department through the North Carolina Governor’s Highway Safety Program in the amount of $25,000. Council reviewed and approved the Agreement of Conditions and Resolution for this grant award during the City Council meeting on June 22, 2026.
Council is asked to adopt Special Revenue Fund Project Ordinance 2027-3 to appropriate the $25,000 in grant funding for enhanced traffic safety enforcement.
Background:
The Fayetteville Police Department will utilize this grant funding to conduct high visibility enforcement on main highways and thoroughfares throughout the City of Fayetteville. Additionally, we will saturate patrols in neighborhoods and school zones to reduce speeding in the City. The Fayetteville Police Department will schedule a minimum of forty (40) hours of overtime throughout the month. Officers will work 4–6-hour shifts of directed traffic patrol conducting focused enforcement.
Our overall goal for Cumberland County is to lower the number of fatalities that we have each year. FPD wants to provide a means to reduce and mitigate these fatalities. With this funding, we will have dedicated officers placed on identified thoroughfares that have been known to have excessive speeding and impaired drivers. We will increase our speed enforcement and impaired driver enforcement.
Issues/Analysis:
The grant performance period expir...
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