SUBJECT/RECOMMENDATION:
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Approve a contract in the amount of $406,175.40 with the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office, Largo, Florida for latent fingerprint, crime scene processing, evidence and property storage and Pinellas Juvenile Assessment Center services, during the one-year contract period commencing October 1, 2014 through September 30, 2015 and authorize the appropriate officials to execute same. (consent)
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SUMMARY:
The Pinellas County Sheriff's Office (PCSO) and the Clearwater Police Department (CPD) began annual contractual agreement for services in January 1994. The agreements covered latent fingerprint examination, property/evidence storage, and crime scene processing services and a share of security costs at the Pinellas Juvenile Assessment Center (PJAC).
The total cost of the proposed Fiscal Year 2014/2015 agreement is $406,175.40 reflecting a 5.28% decrease in cost from the 2013/2014 contract for services primarily due to a contractual reduction in the calls for service requiring crime scene processing.
The proposed contractual agreement reflects the following breakout of costs:
Fingerprint Services - $80,265.60; Forensic Science Services (Crime Scene Processing) - $190,039.80 (940 calls @ $202.17 per call); Evidence and Property Service and Storage - $93,870.00 (9,000 submissions @ $10.43 per submission); Pinellas Juvenile Assessment Center (PJAC) - $42,000 (500 bookings @ $84 per booking).
Requests for services in excess of the number of contractual calls will be invoiced separately. Additionally, at the end of the contract, any funds remaining from unused calls for service will be refunded to the city.
Funding for this contractual agreement is available in the Police Department's Fiscal Year 2014/2015 operating budget.
APPROPRIATION CODE AND AMOUNT:
Funding for this contractual agreement is available in the Police Department's Fiscal Year 2014/2015 operating budget, 010-01155-530300-521-000.
USE OF RESERVE FUNDS: N/A