Safe neighborhoods program funding and eligibility (Repealed)

(a) The secretary of the office of policy and management shall allocate a portion of the funds appropriated to the office of policy and management for the drug enforcement program to the safe neighborhoods program. (b) The following municipalities are eligible to apply for funding under the safe neighborhoods program: Bridgeport, Danbury, Hartford, Meriden, Middletown, New Britain, New Haven, New London, Norwalk, Norwich, Stamford, Waterbury and Windham. Each applicant municipality shall select a safe neighborhoods project area. The office of policy and management may not consider more than one application for new safe neighborhoods projects per eligible municipality, nor applications for more than one neighborhood, other than applications for the continuation of pre-existing projects. This program is competitive, and not all applicants are assured of funding. The following maximum program component funding limits apply: (1) police officers . . . maximum of $40,000 per full-time officer per full year (A) Bridgeport, Hartford and New Haven . . . . . . . . . . . up to 20 officers (B) Stamford and Waterbury . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .up to 15 officers (C) All other eligible cities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . up to 10 officers (2) basic recruit training provided at no cost for all program officers through the municipal police training council (3) police sub-stations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . up to $500,000 per municipality (4) crime prevention . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .up to $50,000 per municipality (5) security enhancement programs . . .up to $200,000 per municipality (6) Police overtime (varies by population) Population A. Over 120,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . up to $270,000 per municipality B. 100,000 to 119,999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . up to $170,000 per municipality C. 55,000 to 99,999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . up to $100,000 per municipality D. 40,000 to 54,999. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .up to $60,000 per municipality E. Under 40,000. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .up to $40,000 per municipality (c) The office of policy and management may transfer funds within the police overtime component's population categories in the event that not all funds within any population category are awarded. (d) Applications for amounts in excess of these limits shall be considered to be requests for the maximum amounts permitted. Applications need not request funding in each component area, and the office of policy and management may award funding in some component areas requested, but elect not to fund other components of the application, or may reduce funding below the amount requested in the application. (e) Funding for police officer positions under safe neighborhoods program grants initially awarded during fiscal year 1993-1994 shall be at the rate of 100% during fiscal years 1993-1994 and 1994-1995. Funding for police officer positions under these grants for subsequent fiscal years, if an appropriation for that purpose is enacted, shall be at the rate of 75% for fiscal year 1995- 1996, and 50% for fiscal year 1996-1997. If appropriations are available to permit new projects to be funded after fiscal year 1993-1994, police officer positions under those grants shall be funded at the rates of 100% during the projects' first two fiscal years (including partial years), 75% during their third fiscal year, 50% during their fourth fiscal year, 40% during their fifth fiscal year, 30% during their sixth fiscal year, and 20% during their seventh fiscal year, which shall be the final year of funding for these projects. For municipalities initially awarded Safe Neighborhoods Program grants in fiscal year 1993-1994, the office of policy and management, in lieu of applications for new project funding, may continue funding for police officer positions at 100% for fiscal years 1995-1996 and 1996-1997. These municipalities would then receive funding at 75%, 50%, 40%, 30%, and 20%, respectively, for fiscal years 1997-1998, 1998-1999, 1999-2000, 2000-2001, and 2001-2002, which shall be the final year of funding for these projects. All rates are based on the maximum allowance of $40,000 per full-time officer per year, in accordance with subsection (a) of section 21a-274a-7. All projects, regardless of their initial year of award, shall terminate upon expenditure of their fiscal year 2001-2002 funds. (f) The municipal police training council is eligible to receive funds to pay for basic recruit training for police officers hired under this program. (g) Notwithstanding subsection (a) of this section, for fy 2003—2004 and following fiscal years thereafter, grant awards under the safe neighborhoods program as determined by this section shall not be funded.