Title
Arizona Coliseum and Exposition Center Request for Police Services for 2024 Arizona State Fair (Ordinance S-51230)
Description
Request to authorize the City Manager, or his designee, to enter into an agreement with the Arizona Coliseum and Exposition Center for the Phoenix Police (PPD) and the Neighborhood Services departments (NSD) to provide traffic enforcement and vending enforcement. The Arizona Coliseum and Exposition Center will pay $35,000 for these services. Further request authorization for the City Treasurer to accept, and the City Controller to disburse, all funds related to this item.
Report
Summary
Since 1987, PPD and NSD have partnered with the Arizona Coliseum and Exposition Center to provide increased traffic enforcement, perimeter security and proactive patrol in the area surrounding the fairgrounds.
Services for this year's event shall consist of one motor sergeant, six motor officers and one Mac Van driver. PPD officers shall provide proactive parking enforcement of City of Phoenix thoroughfares in the area around the fairgrounds and tow vehicles when appropriate. NSD shall provide proactive parking enforcement in the areas around the fairgrounds for residential and commercial properties and proactive vending enforcement.
The intent of this agreement is to recover costs associated with these services during the State Fair. The reimbursement amount has remained unchanged for many years, and it is now the intent of all parties to negotiate these amounts each year to account for increases in staff costs. For 2024, the staffing costs for this event are estimated to be up to $32,000 for NSD and $250,000 for PPD.
Contract Term
Services will occur from September 20, 2024 through October 27, 2024.
Financial Impact
The amount to be recovered is $21,000 by PPD and $14,000 by NSD. The remaining expenditures will be covered by the departments' budgets.
Location
The area surrounding the Arizona State Fairgrounds located at 1826 W. McDowell Road.
Council District: 4
Department
Responsible Department
This item is submitted by Assistant City Manager Lori Bays, Deputy City Manager Alan Stephenson, and the Police and Neighborhood Services departments.