| Item Title: | DA- Border Prosecution Unit Grant FY19 Contract Services | | Submitted By: | Jaime Esparza, District Attorney, District Attorney's Office (915) 546-2059 | | Subject: | Approve and authorize the County Judge to sign the Contract Service Agreements between the County of El Paso and the following service providers participating in the Border Prosecution Unit initiative (Grant #2283709) from September 1, 2018 through August 31, 2019: Tom Krampitz (Contract No. 2018-0719), Kathy Braddock, dba KAB Legal (Contract No. 2018-0721), TDCAA (Contract No. 2018-0724), Drew Durham (Contract No. 2018-0723), Ted Wilson (Contract No. 2018-0722), Craig Goodhart (Contract No. 2018-0720) and Melissa Hightower (Contract No. 2018-0718). | | Background: | Border Prosecution Unit - The District Attorney is Project Director of the Border Prosecution Unit, a network of 17 state prosecutors with jurisdictions along the Texas/Mexico border (encompassing 48 border counties) and prosecutors in 4 Texas Anti-Gang Centers (including El Paso, Bexar, Harris and Dallas counties) working in close partnership with DPS and local law enforcement agencies to coordinate their investigatory and prosecutorial response to criminal enterprises threatening security in the border regions of Texas. Collectively, border prosecutors concentrate on cases involving violent criminal street gangs, drug traffickers, money laundering operations, car theft rings, illegal weapons transactions, and human trafficking operations. | | Fiscal Impact: | Contract service agreements are paid for entirely by the Border Prosecution Unit grant, awarded by the Office of the Governor. No County Match required.
Accounts will be set up at the time the acceptance of the grant award is approved by the Commissioners Court. | | Recommendation: | Approve and authorize the County Judge to sign the Contract Service Agreements between the County of El Paso and the following service providers participating in the Border Prosecution Unit initiative (Grant #2283709) from September 1, 2018 through August 31, 2019: Tom Krampitz (Contract No. 2018-0719), Kathy Braddock, dba KAB Legal (Contract No. 2018-0721), TDCAA (Contract No. 2018-0724), Drew Durham (Contract No. 2018-0723), Ted Wilson (Contract No. 2018-0722), Craig Goodhart (Contract No. 2018-0720) and Melissa Hightower (Contract No. 2018-0718). | | Prior Action: | BPU Grant Application (2018-0193) was approved by Commissioners Court on 1/22/2018 item # 19; Grant award pending approval by Commissioners Court on 10/29/2018. | | Strategic Plan: | .. | | Strategic Plan Information: | |
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