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If your agency requests officers to be deployed as School Resource Officers(SRO),ALL OF THE OFFICER POSITIONS REQUESTED BELOW MUST BE USED TO DEPLOY FULL-TIME SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICERS.Applicants in this focus area are encouraged to refer to Recommendation 4.6 in the Interim Report of the President's Task Force on 21st Century Policing for suggested actions to incorporate into your proposed community policing strategy. [http://cops.usdoj.gov/pdf/taskforce/Interim_TF_Report.pdf)Do not request more officer positions than your agency can expect to deploy in this capacity.A"school resource officer"is a career law enforcement officer,with sworn authority,who is engaged in community policing activities and is assigned by the employing agency to work in collaboration with schools. If awarded a grant for SRO position(s), please note that the COPS Office requires that the officer(s)deployed into the SRO position(s)spend a minimum of 75 percent of their time in and around primary and secondary schools working on school and youth-related activities.The placement of law enforcement officers in school carries a risk of contributing to a"school-to-prison pipeline"process where students are arrested or cited for minor, non-violent behavioral violations and then diverted to the juvenile court system. This pipeline wastes community resources and can lead to academic failure and greater recidivism rates for these students. If awarded,the grantee will agree that any officers deployed while implementing School-based Policing under the COPS Hiring grant cannot be involved in the administrative discipline of the students. There must be an increase in the level of community policing activities performed in and around primary or secondary schools in the agency's jurisdiction as a result of the grant.The time commitment of the funded officers must be above and beyond the amount of time that the agency devoted to the schools before receiving the grant.Grantees using CHP funding to hire and/or deploy School Resource Officers into schools agree that a signed Memorandum of Understanding(MOU) between the law enforcement agency and the school partner(s)must be submitted to the COPS Office before obligating or drawing down funds under this award.An MOU is not required at time of application;however, if the law enforcement agency already has an MOU in place that is applicable to the partnership,the MOU can be submitted as an attachment in Section 13 of the grant application.The MOU must contain the following;the purpose of the MOU, clearly defined roles and responsibilities of the school district and the law enforcement agency;focusing officers'roles on safety, information sharing,supervision responsibility and chain of command for the SRO and signatures. If awarded,grantee will agree that the MOU must be submitted and accepted by the COPS Office 90 days from the award start date which is located on the Award Document.The implementation of the COPS Hiring Grant without submission and acceptance of the required MOU within the 90 day timeframe may result in expenditures not being reimbursed by the COPS Office and/or award de-obligation. In addition,in Section 6B,you must select"School Based Policing through School Resource Officers"under"Child and Youth Safety Focus"as your focus area. Is your agency requesting that all of these officer positions be deployed as School Resource Officers(SROs)? No V) Based on the information provided in this application: Your agency is eligible to apply for up to the number of officer position(s)shown below. 15 How many entry-level,full-time officer positions is your agency requesting in this application? 5 IMPORTANT: If you later return to this section of the application and change the above number of officers you are requesting,you must then go to Section 14A, Part 1 to allow the application to recalculate your budget figures.You will also need to adjust your projection of your Federal/Local share costs in the chart located in Section 14A, Part 3. Failure to do this will cause a conflict in your budget submission. Next,your agency must allocate the number of positions requested under each of the three hiring categories described below based on your agency's current needs at the time of this application. Please be mindful of the initial three-year grant period,and your agency's ability to fill and retain the officer positions awarded,while following your agency's established hiring policies and procedures.CHP grant awards will be made for officer positions requested in each of the three hiring categories,and grantees are required to use awarded funds for the specific categories awarded. It is imperative that your agency understand that the COPS statutory nonsupplanting requirement mandates that grant funds may only be used to supplement(increase)a grantee's law enforcement budget for sworn officer positions and may not supplant (replace)state,local,or tribal funds that a grantee otherwise would have spent on officer positions if it had not received a grant award.This means that if your agency plans to: (a)Hire new officer positions(including filling existing vacancies that are no longer funded in your agency's budget): It must hire these new additional positions on or after the official grant award start date, above its current budgeted(funded)level of sworn officer positions,and otherwise comply with the nonsupplanting requirement as described in detail in the Grant Owner's Manual. (b) Rehire officers who have been laid off by any jurisdiction as a result of state,local,or tribal budget cuts: It must rehire the officers on or after the official grant award start date,maintain documentation showing the date(s)that the positions were laid off and rehired,and otherwise comply with the nonsupplanting requirement as described in detail in the Grant Owner's Manual. (c) Rehire officers who are(at the time of application)currently scheduled to be laid off(by your jurisdiction)on a specific future date as a result of state,local,or tribal budget cuts: It must continue to fund the officers with its own funds from the grant award start date until the date of the scheduled lay-off(for example, if the CHP award start date is September 1 and the lay-offs are scheduled for November 1,then the CHP funds may not be used to fund the officers until November 1,the date of the scheduled lay-off);identify the number and date(s)of the scheduled lay-off(s)in this application(see below);maintain documentation showing the date(s)and reason(s)for the lay-off; and otherwise comply with the nonsupplanting requirement as described in detail in the Grant Owner's Manual.[Please note that as long as your agency can document the date that the lay-off(s)would 79 occur if CHP funds were not available,it may transfer the officers to the CHP funding on or immediately after the date of the lay-