Sheriff asks committee to pursue traffic‑safety grants and upgrade in‑vehicle ticketing

Sheriff Scott Cicarello told the Allegany County Public Safety Committee his staff assisted with an overnight response to flash flooding and that the department is seeking outside funding to bolster traffic‑safety enforcement and update in‑vehicle ticketing systems. "This will assist us in updating our current hardware and infrastructure in our vehicles," Cicarello said when describing the traffic safety enforcement technology grant application.

The committee authorized the sheriff to reappropriate unspent grant funds from last year so purchases can be completed this year; the transcript records the motion and the chair
s announcement that the motion carried. Cicarello said the treasurer helped prepare the reappropriation request.

The committee also authorized applications for multiple New York State grants: a general highway safety grant to fund additional traffic‑safety shifts, a child passenger safety grant to train personnel and provide car seats to families in need, a police traffic services grant (described as up to $46,000) for enforcement details at problem locations, and a traffic safety enforcement technology grant to modernize ticketing in patrol cars.

A committee member asked whether maintenance costs for equipment fall to the county after a grant expires; Cicarello replied, "Typically, it's replaced with another grant down the road... If you needed printer cartridges, then it would be on us to do that." The sheriff said routine maintenance or small replacements are typically managed within the agency but added that larger recurring costs (for example, calibration of radar guns) could be the agency
s responsibility.

All grant‑application authorizations and the reappropriation were approved by the committee during the meeting (motions carried; the transcript records approvals but not a detailed roll‑call for each item).