Board authorizes grant actions and public-safety contracts, including violence-intervention funding and a ShotSpotter subscription

The New Haven Board of Alders on July 7 authorized several public-safety funding and contract items, including a resolution to submit an application for a FEMA Emergency Management Performance Grant, approvals to extend federally funded violence-intervention contracts, and the authorization of a five-year ShotSpotter gunfire-detection subscription and a five-year lease for a District 10 police substation.

A clerk read a resolution authorizing the mayor to submit and accept a FEMA Emergency Management Performance Grant and to execute related documents; the dollar figure as read in the record is not clearly rendered in the transcript. The record shows the board moved and approved the authorization under unanimous consent.

Under the public-safety docket the board approved continuation and extension of grant-funded programming administered under a U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs award. The clerk read amounts and named organizations that will receive support for the period of performance through Sept. 30, 2027, including references to the University of New Haven and regional nonprofits. Several dollar figures were audible in the record but portions of the transcript contain unclear numerals.

The board also considered item 47, a public-safety order authorizing a five-year agreement with SoundThinking Incorporated for a ShotSpotter subscription and a separate five-year lease with FMK LLC for a police substation at 332 Wy Avenue (District 10). Committee chairs reported favorable recommendations; the items were moved and seconded. The transcript records amounts for the ShotSpotter subscription and the lease but those amounts are not clearly intelligible in the provided transcript text and should be confirmed in official minutes for precise figures.

All of these items were presented as motions with committee recommendations and were advanced without extended debate in the provided record. Where the transcript is unclear on numbers, officials cited funding sources including a federal DOJ grant and other city authorization for contracts and lease execution.