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Financial Report
The Fiscal Year 2021 budget for the Williamsburg Police Department included $5,390,342 for operating costs and $199,000 Capital Improvement Projects. The department’s operating budget consists of three divisions – Police, E911, and Parking Garages.
In total, the FY 2021 Police Department operating budget increased 5.7% over the FY 2020 budget. Allocated by division, the Police division budget increased $207,000 or 4.7%. This increase is attributable to the addition of two patrol officers and increases to service contracts. E-911 had a slight increase of less than 1%, or $3,731, in FY 2021. For the Parking Garage division, salary expenses increased the FY 2021 budget by $41.478.
The Police Department comprises 14% of the City’s general fund budget. Seventy-eight percent of the department’s operating budget is personnel costs.
There are numerous police projects in the five-year capital improvement program (CIP). The FY 2021 CIP budget includes additional funding of $65,000 for body-worn and in-car cameras as well as Tasers, an increase of $89,000 to the Portable Radio Upgrade project, and a $45,000 contribution to the E-911 Regional Center Expansion. The renovation of the police station is planned as a future project in the five-year CIP plan.
FY 2021 GENERAL FUND BUDGET POLICE VS NON POLICE BUDGET
POLICE BUDGET
GENERAL FUND LESS POLICE
$5,380,342
$33,221,780
GRANTS
Grants are an integral part of modern policing, as both federal and state grant programs help law enforcement agencies to train for a wide variety of situations and more efficiently investigate crimes. Williamsburg Police Department received six grants in 2020.
Department of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS) Training Grant: $60,000
Funded training sessions on: • Peer support • Officer wellness • “Winning Back the Community – Improving Public
Perception” • Officer-involved shootings / critical incidents • Rape Aggression Defense (RAD), including equipment
Coronavirus Emergency Supplement Funding (CESF) Grant: $25,995
Funding to assist in preventing, preparing for, and responding to the coronavirus pandemic. • Personal protective equipment (PPE) for personnel • Smart messaging board to direct residents and visitors at large events • Smart touchboards for training DMV Highway Safety Grant (Alcohol Selective enforcement): $12,000
Funding for the effort to get impaired drivers off the road and increase the safety of the motoring public. • Selective enforcement of alcohol-related traffic violations • Traffic safety checkpoints
DMV Highway Safety Grant (Speeding): $8,000
Funding for the effort to reduce speed-related violations and speed injury crashes. • Selective enforcement of speeding violations
Funding to reduce crashes involving pedestrians and bicycles. • Selective enforcement of violations that endanger pedestrians and bicyclists • Safety information materials and equipment for pedestrians and bicyclists
2020 Patrick Leahy Bulletproof Vest Partnership: $2,727.21
Funds the purchase of bulletproof vests • Half the price of bulletproof, armored vests that are
National Institute of Justice-compliant.
