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HomeMy WebLinkAbout07 COPS - SLESF Expenditure Plan FY 2021/2022STAFF REPORT CITY OF PALM DESERT ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES DEPARTMENT MEETING DATE: October 28, 2021 PREPARED BY: Stephen Y. Aryan, Risk Manager REQUEST: Request for acceptance of the City’s Citizens Option for Public Safety/Supplemental Law Enforcement Services Fund (COPS/SLESF) expenditure plan and funding for Fiscal Year 2021- 2022 Recommendation By Minute Motion, 1. Approve the Citizens Option for Public Safety/Supplemental Law Enforcement Services Fund (COPS/SLESF) program expenditure plan, as provided by the Chief of Police. 2. Accept the FY 2021-22 COPS/SLESF funding, with a current unencumbered award balance of approximately $240,000 (as of 10/14/2021). 3. Expend funds in accordance with Government Code Section 30061 mandating these funds be used for frontline municipal police services, in accordance with written requests submitted by the Chief of Police. Commission Action The Palm Desert Public Safety Commission was provided an informational report on this matter at their October 13, 2021 meeting. Strategic Plan This item is related to the Public Safety and Emergency Services section of the Palm Desert Strategic Plan, specifically under Priority 1: Enhance the delivery of public safety services. The priority’s strategy is to expand the existing superlative services provided by the Fire and Police Departments to address future growth and safety concerns. Palm Desert’s participation in the Holiday Theft Suppression Program and the availability of SLESF revenues will assist in meeting this priority, by (1) having an increased law enforcement presence in mitigating any potential criminal activity during the busy holiday shopping season and (2) providing funding for front line law enforcement activities throughout the fiscal year. Executive Summary Legislation adopted in 1996 (AB 3229) created the Citizens Option for Public Safety (COPS) program allocating $100,000,000 to local governments annually for front line law enforcement activities. These funds are deposited into a Supplemental Law Enforcement Staff Report: FY 2021-2022 COPS/SLESF Expenditure Plan and Award October 21, 2021 Page 2 of 4 Services Fund (SLESF). Approval of Staff’s recommendation aids in identifying how to expend the City of Palm Desert FY 2021/22 current SLESF balance, which is approximately $240,000 (as of 10/14/2021). This award supplements funding currently available for public safety including personnel, equipment, and programs. It cannot supplant any other existing funding. The majority of the SLESF allocation for the City is dedicated to various equipment purchases. The remaining amount is for the City’s annual Holiday Theft Suppression Program and the purchase of miscellaneous services and supplies. All expenditures must exclusively support front line law enforcement activity. Background The Supplemental Law Enforcement Services Fund (SLESF) is grant funding and California Government Code mandates anticipated moneys will exclusively be used to fund frontline municipal police services. The funds cannot be used to supplant resources, but instead, must be used to supplement existing resources or funding. SLESF funds can be used for salaries, services, supplies, equipment, and administrative overhead. SLESF funds cannot be diverted into an entity’s general fund. The size of the total award to each recipient entity is proportionate to population, with the minimum award for all entities set at $100,000 yearly. The award for Palm Desert for FY 2021-22 is anticipated to be $100,000. Fund distributions occur on a regular basis throughout the year. The City of Palm Desert has a current SLESF balance of approximately $240,000 (as of 10/14/2021). The processing requirements for this grant changed significantly in 2012 (under SB 1023) with the removal of reporting requirements to the State Controller. In the case of a city, its city council shall appropriate existing and anticipated award amounts exclusively to fund frontline municipal police services, in accordance with written requests submitted by the Chief of Police. As the City contracts with the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department for law enforcement services, the City’s Chief of Police is the Palm Desert Station Captain. The Palm Desert Chief of Police recommends utilizing the FY 2021/22 COPS/SLESF funds as indicated below and estimated based on historic expenditures (these amounts may change). ITEM ESTIMATED AMOUNT 2021 Holiday Theft Suppression Program* 15% Services and Supplies 10% Equipment 75% Administrative Overhead 0% *Total anticipated expenditure is contingent upon any State Department of Public Health guidance concerning the COVID-19 pandemic. Staff Report: FY 2021-2022 COPS/SLESF Expenditure Plan and Award October 21, 2021 Page 3 of 4 The restrictions for the funds are as follows: • Funds are to exclusively provide front line law enforcement services. These monies shall supplement existing services, and shall not be used to supplant any existing funding for law enforcement services provided by that entity. • Administrative overhead costs in excess of 0.5 percent of a recipient entity’s Supplemental Law Enforcement Services Account (SLESA) allocation for that year are not allowed (we have $0.00 historically). • The cost of any capital project or construction project that does not directly support front line law enforcement services is prohibited. 2021 HOLIDAY THEFT SUPPRESSION PROGRAM The Palm Desert Police Department recommends continuing the Holiday Theft Suppression Program during the 2021 holiday season. The program is staffed with overtime officers during peak periods in the retail shopping areas between Thanksgiving weekend and Christmas Day. The purpose is to conduct high visibility patrols in those locations and in surrounding residential areas in an effort to deter crime during the Holiday Season. During the overtime shifts, officers patrol on foot, bicycles, horses (Mounted Posse at Westfield Palm Desert Mall), motors, and patrol cars. The program’s focus areas include the El Paseo Business district, the Highway 111 corridor, the Westfield Palm Desert Mall, and the Wal-Mart/Costco centers. Given the unpredictability of the current COVID-19 pandemic, Staff may modify this year’s program as a result. Staff anticipates the program will utilize approximately 15% of the total COPS/SLESF unencumbered balance and anticipated award. Equipment, Services, and Supplies These funds are used for multiple items, including but not limited to, purchase of new motor units (one will be replaced this fiscal year), monthly vehicle rentals for undercover officers assigned to the Burglary Suppression Unit, the purchase of additional mobile camera systems, raid vests for new special team members, Police Department golf cart maintenance, shoulder patches, police vehicle decals, radar gun purchase and/or maintenance, safety supplies, training, cellular telephone and services for special teams. Additionally, funds can purchase computers, technology and other support apparatus. Staff anticipates the program will utilize approximately 85% of the total COPS/SLESF unencumbered balance and anticipated award. Fiscal Analysis There is no impact to the General Fund with this request. The allocation of COPS/SLESF monies will fund the aforementioned program and items. The County Auditor allocates the annual grant award in the County’s Supplemental Law Enforcement Services Account (SLESA). The funds are then deposited in a SLESA established by the City (Account No. 2294210-4391400). Staff Report : FY 2021-2022 COPS/SLESF Expenditure Plan and Award October 21 , 2021 Page 4 of 4 Cities are provided a minimum frontline law enforcement allocation of $100 ,000 to under the program and funds can carry over at the end of the fisca l year. The City of Palm Desert has an unencumbered ba lance of approximately $240,000 (as of 10/14/2021) to use on frontline municipal police services in FY 2021/22 . Please note that this balance does not include the anticipated FY 2021/22 award amount. LEGAL REVIEW DEPT. REVIEW FINANCIAL REVIEW ASSISTANT CITY MANAGER N/A J,~ '111. '111aa -u-9.,..,._,e::r-m . '111a a -u-.'A.nay J'ires t ine Robert W. Hargreaves Janet M. Moore Janet M. Moore Andy Firestine City Attorney Director of Finance Director of Finance Assistant City Manager City Manager , L. Todd Hileman : L. To~~ HLLel-¾~ V\, Attachments : 1. Palm Desert Police Department SLESF Expenditure Plan (10/03/2021) 2 . Ci t izen Option for Public Safety (COPS) Funds Reconciliation (10/14/2021) 3 . California Go vernment Code Section 30061 CITY COUNCILA(Z TION APPROVED __ ✓ ____ DENmn _____ _ RECEIVED ______ OTHER _____ _ ::::.w~~t~&SntrJ :Ji;a e .®in±ahl llw I +t4;IIL{ NOES: N'O h't° V ' ABSENT: None ABSTAIN: NDne. VERIFIED BY: Nil:) / $ rs Original on File with City Clerk's Office Riverside County Sheriff's Department Chad Bianco,Sheriff-Coroner October 3,2021 Todd Hileman,City Manager City of Palm Desert 73510 Fred Waring Dr. Palm Desert,CA 92260 Palm Desert Station 73705 Gerald Ford Drive •Palm Desert •California •922 www.riversidesheriff.org Dear Mr.Hileman This letter serves to meet the statuary requirements of California Assembly Bill 2885, which requires that the Chief of Police,of a California Municipality,receiving Supplemental Law Enforcement Services Funding (SLESF) draft a written request outlining a spending plan for approval by the City Council. In accordance with the requirements of SLESF all the following proposed expenditures are for "front line law enforcement"and will not be used to '"supplant"any existing funding for this agency. The following is a general list of proposed expenditures for the encumbrance and allocation to the City of Palm Desert's Police Department: • 2021 Holiday Theft Suppression Program 15% •Services and Supplies 10% •Equipment 75% •Administrative Overhead 0% Holiday Theft Suppression (15%) The Palm Desert Police Department first implemented the Holiday Theft Suppression Program duringthe 2010 holidayseason. Theprogramisstaffedwithovertimeofficers during peakperiods in the retail shopping areas between the Thanksgiving weekend and Christmas Day. During the overtime shifts, officers patrol on foot, bicycles,Motors,horses, and patrol cars. The program's purpose is to conduct high visibility patrols in those locations, and in surrounding residential areas,to deter criminal activity during the Holiday Season. In addition,those assigned officers handle radio calls and other business-related crimes in their assigned areas.These focus areas include the El Paseo Business District, the Highway 111 corridor,the Westfield Shopping Center and the Walmart and Costco complexes.Staff anticipates that the program cost will be approximately $40,000 to $45,000 but may be less this year dependent on the current pandeinic situation. Equipment, Services and Supplies (85%) These funds are used for a plethara of items, including, but not limited to monthly rental vehicles for undercover officers assigned to the Burglaiy Suppression Unit, load bearing vests, for new special team members, Police Department golf cart maintenance, special team supplies, and electronic ticket writes for tlie traffic team. Additionally, computers, techuology and other support apparatus will be purchased using these funds. Any eligible frontline law enforcement expenditure that can be approved will utilize these fimds to minimize impacY to the operational budget. The SLESF expenditures will continue to be reflected in The City of Palm Desert Fiscal AccoLmt #2294210-4391400. Sincerely, Chad Bianco, Riverside County Sheriff-Coroner � Dean Agnoletto, Captain Palm Desert Station City of Palm Desert Cal COPS Grants 2294210-4391400 DATE VENDOR DESCRIPTION AMOUNT GRANT YEAR TYPE 8/20/2021 V0012707-ENTERPRISE HOLDINGS INC Police Rentals 1,239.99 21/22 Srvc/Spply 8/20/2021 V0012707-ENTERPRISE HOLDINGS INC Police Rentals 1,347.36 21/22 Srvc/Spply 8/20/2021 V0011989-VERIZON WIRELESS VERIZON WIRELES PD Sheriff Cel 325.15 21/22 Srvc/Spply 9/3/2021 V0012707-ENTERPRISE HOLDINGS INC Police Rentals 1,347.36 21/22 Srvc/Spply 9/3/2021 V0013988-FRONTIER COMMUNICATIONS INC FRONTIER COMMUN Valley Crimest 149.18 21/22 Srvc/Spply 9/3/2021 V0013988-FRONTIER COMMUNICATIONS INC FRONTIER COMMUN Valley Crimest 149.18 21/22 Srvc/Spply 9/17/2021 V0011989-VERIZON WIRELESS VERIZON WIRELES PD Sheriff Cel 168.68 21/22 Srvc/Spply 10/1/2021 V0012707-ENTERPRISE HOLDINGS INC Police Rentals 1,516.93 21/22 Srvc/Spply 2294210 4391400 balance 6,243.83 Total Expenditure Current Year Expenditure by Grant Award Year Amount 20/21 - - - 2294210 4391400 balance - Total FY 21/22 SLESF Summary Report (Current) Fiscal Year Beginning Balance 184,958.92 Rcpt # Date 21/22 FY21 COPS Growth 61,284.85 10/12/2021 - 2290000 3423001 balance 61,284.85 Revenue Combined Beginning Balance and Current Year 246,243.77 Total Grant Revenue Salaries - Srvc/Spply 6,243.83 Equip - Admin Overhead - Encumbrances - 6,243.83 Expenditure Excess (deficiency) CY Revenue Over (under) CY Expenditures 55,041.02 Grant Balance 239,999.94 jbounds COPS FUNDS 2021-2022 - 39-14 10/14/2021 State of California GOVERNMENT CODE Section 30061 30061. (a) There shall be established in each county treasury a Supplemental Law Enforcement Services Account (SLESA), to receive all amounts allocated to a county for purposes of implementing this chapter. (b) In any fiscal year for which a county receives moneys to be expended for the implementation of this chapter, the county auditor shall allocate the moneys in the county’s SLESA within 30 days of the deposit of those moneys into the fund. The moneys shall be allocated as follows: (1) Five and fifteen-hundredths percent to the county sheriff for county jail construction and operation. In the case of Madera, Napa, and Santa Clara Counties, this allocation shall be made to the county director or chief of corrections. (2) Five and fifteen-hundredths percent to the district attorney for criminal prosecution. (3) Thirty-nine and seven-tenths percent to the county and the cities within the county, and, in the case of San Mateo, Kern, Siskiyou, and Contra Costa Counties, also to the Broadmoor Police Protection District, the Bear Valley Community Services District, the Stallion Springs Community Services District, the Lake Shastina Community Services District, and the Kensington Police Protection and Community Services District, in accordance with the relative population of the cities within the county and the unincorporated area of the county, and the Broadmoor Police Protection District in the County of San Mateo, the Bear Valley Community Services District and the Stallion Springs Community Services District in Kern County, the Lake Shastina Community Services District in Siskiyou County, and the Kensington Police Protection and Community Services District in Contra Costa County, as specified in the most recent January estimate by the Demographic Research Unit of the Department of Finance, and as adjusted to provide, except as provided in subdivision (i), a grant of at least one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) to each law enforcement jurisdiction. For a newly incorporated city whose population estimate is not published by the Department of Finance, but that was incorporated prior to July 1 of the fiscal year in which an allocation from the SLESA is to be made, the city manager, or an appointee of the legislative body, if a city manager is not available, and the county administrative or executive officer shall prepare a joint notification to the Department of Finance and the county auditor with a population estimate reduction of the unincorporated area of the county equal to the population of the newly incorporated city by July 15, or within 15 days after the Budget Act is enacted, of the fiscal year in which an allocation from the SLESA is to be made. No person residing within the Broadmoor Police Protection District, the Bear Valley Community Services District, STATE OF CALIFORNIA AUTHENTICATED ELECTRONIC LEGAL MATERIAL the Stallion Springs Community Services District, the Lake Shastina Community Services District, or the Kensington Police Protection and Community Services District shall also be counted as residing within the unincorporated area of the County of San Mateo, Kern, Siskiyou, or Contra Costa, or within any city located within those counties. Except as provided in subdivision (i), the county auditor shall allocate a grant of at least one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) to each law enforcement jurisdiction. Moneys allocated to the county pursuant to this subdivision shall be retained in the county SLESA, and moneys allocated to a city pursuant to this subdivision shall be deposited in a SLESA established in the city treasury. (4) Fifty percent to the county or city and county to implement a comprehensive multiagency juvenile justice plan as provided in this paragraph. The juvenile justice plan shall be developed by the local juvenile justice coordinating council in each county and city and county with the membership described in Section 749.22 of the Welfare and Institutions Code. The plan shall be reviewed and updated annually by the council. The plan or updated plan may, at the discretion of the county or city and county, be approved by the county board of supervisors. The plan or updated plan shall be submitted to the Board of State and Community Corrections by May 1 of each year in a format specified by the board that consolidates the form of submission of the annual comprehensive juvenile justice multiagency plan to be developed under this chapter with the form for submission of the annual Youthful Offender Block Grant plan that is required to be developed and submitted pursuant to Section 1961 of the Welfare and Institutions Code. (A) The multiagency juvenile justice plan shall include, but not be limited to, all of the following components: (i) An assessment of existing law enforcement, probation, education, mental health, health, social services, drug and alcohol, and youth services resources that specifically target at-risk juveniles, juvenile offenders, and their families. (ii) An identification and prioritization of the neighborhoods, schools, and other areas in the community that face a significant public safety risk from juvenile crime, such as gang activity, daylight burglary, late-night robbery, vandalism, truancy, controlled substances sales, firearm-related violence, and juvenile substance abuse and alcohol use. (iii) A local juvenile justice action strategy that provides for a continuum of responses to juvenile crime and delinquency and demonstrates a collaborative and integrated approach for implementing a system of swift, certain, and graduated responses for at-risk youth and juvenile offenders. (iv) A description of the programs, strategies, or system enhancements that are proposed to be funded pursuant to this subparagraph. (B) Programs, strategies, and system enhancements proposed to be funded under this chapter shall satisfy all of the following requirements: (i) Be based on programs and approaches that have been demonstrated to be effective in reducing delinquency and addressing juvenile crime for any elements of response to juvenile crime and delinquency, including prevention, intervention, suppression, and incapacitation. (ii) Collaborate and integrate services of all the resources set forth in clause (i) of subparagraph (A), to the extent appropriate. (iii) Employ information sharing systems to ensure that county actions are fully coordinated, and designed to provide data for measuring the success of juvenile justice programs and strategies. (C) To assess the effectiveness of programs, strategies, and system enhancements funded pursuant to this paragraph, each county or city and county shall submit by October 1 of each year a report to the county board of supervisors and to the Board of State and Community Corrections on the programs, strategies, and system enhancements funded pursuant to this chapter.The report shall be in a format specified by the board that consolidates the report to be submitted pursuant to this chapter with the annual report to be submitted to the board for the Youthful Offender Block Grant program, as required by subdivision (c) of Section 1961 of the Welfare and Institutions Code. The report shall include all of the following: (i) An updated description of the programs, strategies, and system enhancements that have been funded pursuant to this chapter in the immediately preceding fiscal year. (ii) An accounting of expenditures during the immediately preceding fiscal year for each program, strategy, or system enhancement funded pursuant to this chapter. (iii) A description and expenditure report for programs, strategies, or system enhancements that have been cofunded during the preceding fiscal year using funds provided under this chapter and Youthful Offender Block Grant funds provided under Chapter 1.5 (commencing with Section 1950) of Division 2.5 of the Welfare and Institutions Code. (iv) Countywide juvenile justice trend data available from existing statewide juvenile justice data systems or networks, as specified by the Board of State and Community Corrections, including, but not limited to, arrests, diversions, petitions filed, petitions sustained, placements, incarcerations, subsequent petitions, and probation violations, and including, in a format to be specified by the board, a summary description or analysis, based on available information, of how the programs, strategies, or system enhancements funded pursuant to this chapter have or may have contributed to, or influenced, the juvenile justice data trends identified in the report. (D) The board shall, within 45 days of having received the county’s report, post on its internet website a description or summary of the programs, strategies, or system enhancements that have been supported by funds made available to the county under this chapter. (E) The Board of State and Community Corrections shall compile the local reports and, by March 1 of each year following their submission, make a report to the Governor and the Legislature summarizing the programs, strategies, and system enhancements and related expenditures made by each county and city and county from the appropriation made for the purposes of this paragraph. The annual report to the Governor and the Legislature shall also summarize the countywide trend data and any other pertinent information submitted by counties indicating how the programs, strategies, or system enhancements supported by funds appropriated under this chapter have or may have contributed to, or influenced, the trends identified. The board may consolidate the annual report to the Legislature required under this paragraph with the annual report required by subdivision (d) of Section 1961 of the Welfare and Institutions Code for the Youthful Offender Block Grant program. The annual report shall be submitted pursuant to Section 9795, and shall be posted for access by the public on the internet website of the board. (c) Subject to subdivision (d), for each fiscal year in which the county, each city, the Broadmoor Police Protection District, the Bear Valley Community Services District, the Stallion Springs Community Services District, the Lake Shastina Community Services District, and the Kensington Police Protection and Community Services District receive moneys pursuant to paragraph (3) of subdivision (b), the county, each city, and each district specified in this subdivision shall appropriate those moneys in accordance with the following procedures: (1) In the case of the county, the county board of supervisors shall appropriate existing and anticipated moneys exclusively to provide frontline law enforcement services, other than those services specified in paragraphs (1) and (2) of subdivision (b), in the unincorporated areas of the county, in response to written requests submitted to the board by the county sheriff and the district attorney. Any request submitted pursuant to this paragraph shall specify the frontline law enforcement needs of the requesting entity, and those personnel, equipment, and programs that are necessary to meet those needs. (2) In the case of a city, the city council shall appropriate existing and anticipated moneys exclusively to fund frontline municipal police services, in accordance with written requests submitted by the chief of police of that city or the chief administrator of the law enforcement agency that provides police services for that city. (3) In the case of the Broadmoor Police Protection District within the County of San Mateo, the Bear Valley Community Services District or the Stallion Springs Community Services District within Kern County, the Lake Shastina Community Services District within Siskiyou County, or the Kensington Police Protection and Community Services District within Contra Costa County, the legislative body of that special district shall appropriate existing and anticipated moneys exclusively to fund frontline municipal police services, in accordance with written requests submitted by the chief administrator of the law enforcement agency that provides police services for that special district. (d) For each fiscal year in which the county, a city, or the Broadmoor Police Protection District within the County of San Mateo, the Bear Valley Community Services District or the Stallion Springs Community Services District within Kern County, the Lake Shastina Community Services District within Siskiyou County, or the Kensington Police Protection and Community Services District within Contra Costa County receives any moneys pursuant to this chapter, in no event shall the governing body of any of those recipient agencies subsequently alter any previous, valid appropriation by that body, for that same fiscal year, of moneys allocated to the county or city pursuant to paragraph (3) of subdivision (b). (e) For the 2011–12 fiscal year, the Controller shall allocate 23.54 percent of the amount deposited in the Local Law Enforcement Services Account in the Local Revenue Fund 2011 for the purposes of paragraphs (1), (2), and (3) of subdivision (b), and shall allocate 23.54 percent for purposes of paragraph (4) of subdivision (b). (f) Commencing with the 2012–13 fiscal year, subsequent to the allocation described in subdivision (c) of Section 29552, the Controller shall allocate 23.54363596 percent of the remaining amount deposited in the Enhancing Law Enforcement Activities Subaccount in the Local Revenue Fund 2011 for the purposes of paragraphs (1) to (3), inclusive, of subdivision (b), and, subsequent to the allocation described in subdivision (c) of Section 29552, shall allocate 23.54363596 percent of the remaining amount for purposes of paragraph (4) of subdivision (b). (g) Commencing with the 2013–14 fiscal year, subsequent to the allocation described in subdivision (d) of Section 29552, the Controller shall allocate 23.54363596 percent of the remaining amount deposited in the Enhancing Law EnforcementActivities Subaccount in the Local Revenue Fund 2011 for the purposes of paragraphs (1) to (3), inclusive, of subdivision (b), and, subsequent to the allocation described in subdivision (d) of Section 29552, shall allocate 23.54363596 percent of the remaining amount for purposes of paragraph (4) of subdivision (b). The Controller shall allocate funds in monthly installments to local jurisdictions for public safety in accordance with this section as annually calculated by the Director of Finance. (h) Funds received pursuant to subdivision (b) shall be expended or encumbered in accordance with this chapter no later than June 30 of the following fiscal year. A local agency that has not met the requirement of this subdivision shall remit unspent SLESA moneys received after April 1, 2009, to the Controller for deposit in the Local Safety and Protection Account, after April 1, 2012, to the Local Law Enforcement ServicesAccount, and after July 1, 2012, to the County Enhancing Law Enforcement Activities Subaccount. This subdivision shall become inoperative on July 1, 2015. (i) In the 2010–11 fiscal year, if the fourth quarter revenue derived from fees imposed by subdivision (a) of Section 10752.2 of the Revenue and Taxation Code that are deposited in the General Fund and transferred to the Local Safety and Protection Account, and continuously appropriated to the Controller for allocation pursuant to this section, are insufficient to provide a minimum grant of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) to each law enforcement jurisdiction, the county auditor shall allocate the revenue proportionately, based on the allocation schedule in paragraph (3) of subdivision (b). The county auditor shall proportionately allocate, based on the allocation schedule in paragraph (3) of subdivision (b), all revenues received after the distribution of the fourth quarter allocation attributable to these fees for which payment was due prior to July 1, 2011, until all minimum allocations are fulfilled, at which point all remaining revenue shall be distributed proportionately among the other jurisdictions. (j) The county auditor shall redirect unspent funds that were remitted after July 1, 2012, by a local agency to the County Enhancing Law Enforcement Activities Subaccount pursuant to subdivision (h), to the local agency that remitted the unspent funds in an amount equal to the amount remitted. (Amended by Stats. 2019, Ch. 29, Sec. 112. (SB 82) Effective June 27, 2019.)