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4P LIJ 7 ID CONDITIONS OF GRANT AWARD 1. The funding under this project is for the payment of SALARIES AND APPROVED FRINGE BENEFITS for three years for sworn entry level career law enforcement officers, lateral transfers, or rehired officers. Any portion of salaries above entry level must be provided for by the grant recipient. Overtime, training, weapons, communication equipment and vehicles cannot be paid for with COPS funding. 2. Prior to withdrawing funds under this award, the recipient must provide the Control Desk, Office of the Comptroller, with the recipient organization's fiscal year and the name of the recipient organization's cognizant Federal agency. 3. COPS In School grant funds must be used to hire one or more new, additional career law enforcement officers, beyond the number of officers that would be hired or employed by the grantee in the absence of the grant. Unless authorized in writing by the COPS Office, grant funds may not be applied to the salary or benefits of an officer hired by a grantee prior to the Award Start Date listed on the front of this document. 4. Your agency is expected to retain the positions funded by COPS In School grant funds at the conclusion of the federal grant funding for at least one local set budget cycle, in accordance with the retention plan contained in your grant application. 5. For grants of $500,000 or more, the grantee acknowledges that failure to submit an acceptable Equal Employment Opportunity Plan (if grantee is required to submit one under 28 CFR 42.302) that is approved by the Officer of Justice Programs, Office of Civil Rights, is a violation of its Assurances and may result in the suspension of the drawdown of funds. For grants under $500,000, the grantee must submit a completed EEOP Certification form and return it to the Office of Justice Programs, Office of Civil Rights within 120 days of the grant award. 6. In order to assist the COPS Office in the monitoring of the award, your agency will be responsible for submitting semi-annual progress reports and quarterly financial reports. As those reports become due, your Grant Advisor will provide you with the forms and information necessary for compliance. 7. Requests for extensions, without additional funding, of the grant award period should tfg submitted ip writing no sooner than two years after the official start date of the award to your Grant Advisor. 11 8. Officers funded under this grant may only be involved in activities or perform services that exclusively benefits your agency and the population that it serves. If your agency provides these officers to another agency through a contractual arrangement, your agency is responsible for ensuring that this arrangement is in compliance with the conditions of your grant. 9. The COPS Office may conduct a national evaluation of the Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) program. The grantee agrees to cooperate with the evaluators. 10. The grantee agrees to abide by the terms, conditions and regulations as found in the COPS Universal Hiring Grant Manual. 11. The recipient agrees to complete and keep on file, as appropriate, as immigration and Naturalization Service Employment Eligibility Verification Form (1-9). This form is to be used by recipients of federal funds to verify that persons are eligible to work in the United States.