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Oriented Policing Services
U.S. Department of Justice
Getting Started
Q: How much time do I have before the application times out?
A: The applications will time out after 20 minutes of non-activity. If your application times out, you will only lose the current page of data. It is advisable to click the save button once you complete each page of the application. This will prevent you from losing data in the event your application is timed out. You will only be able to save pages that are completely filled out.
Q: I do not know my agency's ORI number, how can I obtain my agency's number?
A: Please contact the COPS Office Response Center at 800.421.6770 and a representative will be able to look up your ORI number.
Q: What is my username?
A: Your user name is your law enforcement agency's Originating Agency Identifier, assigned by the FBI and commonly referred to as the ORI number. The ORI number is the first two letters of your state abbreviation, the next three numbers are your county's code, and the final two numbers identify your jurisdiction within your county. When you contact the COPS Office with a question, you can use the ORI number, and we will be able to assist you. If you are a previous COPS grant recipient, you may have been assigned an ORI number through the COPS Office if the FBI had not previously assigned your agency this identifier number.
Q: What is a "start-up" agency?
A: A start-up agency is an applicant that does not currently have its own established police department with sworn career law enforcement officers and intends to use grant funds to begin forming a law enforcement agency. Start-up agencies are not eligible for CHRP funding.
Q: How established does a "start up agency" need to be to apply for CHRP grant funds?
A: The law enforcement agency must be established with locally-funded sworn career law enforcement officers at the time of grant application. CHRP does not fund start-up agencies.
Q: I answered YES to Question #3 "Is your agency a tribal law enforcement agency" but when I answered NO to Question #3a "Is your agency a Federally Recognized Tribe" it determined I was ineligible and would not let me continue filling out the application, what do I need to do to continue filling out the application? (Question 3, 3a)
A: The only tribal police departments that are eligible to apply under CHRP are those that are federally recognized. Therefore, a "no" response to Question #3a would deem the applicant ineligible to apply. If a NON-TRIBAL law enforcement agency erroneously answers "yes" to question #3, they should contact the COPS Response Center at 1-800-421-6770 immediately to have their eligibility reset.
Q: Is your agency applying for funds under this grant to contract for law enforcement services? How do I know if my agency is eligible? (Question 4)
A. Some juridictions do not have their own law enforcement force and, by contract, use another law enforcement agency to provide services. Agencies that provide contract law enforcement services are eligible to apply, but jurisdictions agencies that want to use grant funds to pay on contract law enforcement services are not eligible to apply.
Q: How do I know if my agency has primary law enforcement authority? (Question 5)
A. Applicants should consult state or local statutes governing law enforcement if there is doubt about whether they have primary law enforcement authority over a jurisdiction. As a general guideline, an agency with primary law enforcement authority is defined as the first responder to calls for service, having full police powers, and has ultimate and final responsibility for the prevention, detection, and/or investigation of crime within its jurisdiction.
Filling out the 424 Form
Once an applicant logs in to fill out the application, there are instructions for the 424 in the left Column. It is recommended that they view the instructions before filling out the SF424. Some answers are pre-filled on the online version that can not be seen on the PDF printed version
Q: Why am I not able to answer certain questions on the 424?
A: Some questions on the 424 form are pre-filled for the applicant, and some are not required. For example:
Q: What is the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number? (Question 11)
A: The Number is 16.710. CFDA Title is Public Safety Partnership and Community Policing Grants.
Q: What is the Funding Opportunity Number? (Question 12)
A: There is no Funding Opportunity Number for this program. You can leave this blank.
Q: What is the Competition Identification Number? (Question 13)
A: There is no Competition Identification Number. You can leave this blank.
Q: What are the proposed project start and end dates? (Question 17)
A: The applicant can select estimated start and end dates based on when they anticipate they would begin and finish the project.
Q: What is the official start date of the COPS CHRP grant? Would it be the award date or when we hire the officers? Scenario: if the grant award date is for 10/1/2009 through September 31, 2012; but due to our hiring practices we do not fill the positions until January 1, 2010 will that be our start date and end 12/31/2013?
A: The official start and end dates of your 36-month grant award period will appear on your CHRP Award Document. We realize that agencies may not be able to fill all awarded officer positions on the official grant award start date. Therefore, grantees may request a no-cost time extension of the grant award period to complete the full 36 months of federal funding. Such extensions do not provide additional funding, just additional time to implement the grant. Only grantees that can provide reasonable justifications for delays will be granted no-cost time extensions. Reasonable justifications may include delays due to the agency's recruitment and hiring process, officer turnover, availability of police academy classes, etc. Extension requests must be received prior to the award end date.
Q: Is the Application Subject to Review by State under Executive Order 12372 process? (Question 19)
A: Some states require you to submit your application to a State "Single Point of Contact" (SPOC) to coordinate applications for Federal funds. If your State requires a copy of your application, indicate the date submitted. If a copy is not required, indicate the reason. The SPOC is not responsible for forwarding your application.
COPS Application Attachment to SF-424
Q. How do I find my GNIS feature ID number?
A. To determine your jurisdiction's Feature ID number, go to http://geonames.usgs.gov/ and click on "Search Domestic Names." From this screen, you can enter the name of your jurisdiction (for example, "Cleveland"), and select your state ("Ohio") before clicking on "Send Query." The results will show that Cleveland, Ohio is a populated place with a Feature ID of 1066654. Enter this 7-digit number into your application form. Directions to assist COPS CHRP applicants are also available on the search screen.
Q. More than one GNIS number appears when I search on my jurisdiction name and state. How do I know which one to enter?
A. Schools, parks, rivers, and even some buildings may also have unique feature IDs. Use the one that best represents your jurisdiction - for municipal, county, tribal, and state agencies this will be the one with the description "populated place".
Q. The application requires 7 digits, but my GNIS number is only 6 digits long. What do I do?
A. Some jurisdictions may have Feature IDs less than 7 digits; however given that the CHRP application will accept GNIS numbers less than 7 digits, you should not have a problem proceeding to the next section of the application.
Q: What is a SPOC?
A: The word SPOC is an acronym for Single Point Of Contact. There is usually a designated point of contact if a state has established such a process. To find your SPOC, click on the following link of the designated State Single Points of Contact (SPOCs).
Q: Can I print out a blank form so I can see it on paper first?
A: Yes. The COPS Website has provided a link to a PDF version of the application for agencies to use for reference only. To access the PDF version of the application, please go to the COPS website at www.cops.usdoj.gov and click the funding tab. Once you access the funding page, a link titled "CHRP Application PDF" will be located on the left side of the web page. As a reminder applications are accepted online via the COPS website. The PDF version of the application serves as a reference document only and should not be used to submit your application. Note that not all fields in the printed version of the application are required, the required fields will be specified in the online application.
Q: My agency does not currently report to the UCR. How do I convert my NIBRS incident data to UCR format?
A: In addition to the UCR guidelines document referenced in the CHRP Application Guide, the FBI also offers a guide to converting NIBRS incident data to UCR Summary data. Generally, when converting NIBRS data to Summary data, only one offense is taken from each NIBRS incident. The offense to be reported is selected based on the Hierarchy Rule, which ranks Index offenses from high to low as follows:
(NIBRS offense code) 09A - Murder and Nonnegligent Manslaughter
11A - Forcible Rape
120 - Robbery
13A - Aggravated Assault
220 - Burglary/Breaking and Entering
23A-23H - Larceny-theft
240 - Motor Vehicle Theft
Q: Can a sheriff's department include budget and UCR data in their application of smaller local townships with whom they are contracted with to provide police services, but has since gone under due to financial crisis?
A: Agencies should include UCR data regarding the total number of offenses that were reported to them during calendar year 2008, regardless of the status of the cities/townships to which they provide services. If the township no longer exists and the land and services have been wholly taken over by the county, then the county should include this township in their jurisdictional budget and other (i.e. layoffs, furloughs, hiring freeze) data, but only for the period(s) in which the township ceased existing as a separate entity. If the townships are still in existence as a separate entity from the county, the agency should not include the township's information in its calculations.
Q: What if my jurisdiction does not maintain data regarding an estimated foreclosure rate?
A: If your jurisdiction does not maintain data regarding an estimated foreclosure rate, then you may provide the next best level of reportable data, for example from the surrounding city or county, or check the box indicating that the information is unavailable.
Q: Should an agency include federal and state reimbursable grants (grant and county's match) to their budgetary and jurisdictional operating budget?
A: The operating budget includes all of the budget for the agency and jurisdiction and should include the entire budget, which should include Federal and state grants.
Q: When answering the "jurisdictional budget questions", should an agency include the budgets that are administered by a board OR should the agency only include budgets administered by county commissioners or county elected officials?
A: Ultimately, the applicant should provide budget figures for the entire jurisdiction for which they provide law enforcement services. In the case of a county, we would need to know about the county's budget.
Q: Section 4, Question 1 of the COPS Application Attachment requests the law enforcement agency's total operating budget for the current AND Previous two fiscal years. Should I just list my agency's operational budget, or should I include the entire budget in which law enforcement is included?
A: This question applies only to the law enforcement agency's budget. The answer should not include funding for any other departments.
Q: Section 4, Question 1 of the COPS Application Attachment requests the law enforcement agency's total operating budget for the current AND Previous two fiscal years. How should I enter my agency's total operational budget if my agency is under a larger public safety agency (including fire, ems, etc.)?
A: You should enter the part of the budget that directly impacts and accounts for your entire law enforcement agency.
Q: Section 4, Question 2 of the COPS Application Attachment requests the total jurisdictional operating budget for the current AND Previous two fiscal years. Does this include the entire budget (all general funds, special revenue, debt service, and enterprise fund) or just the general fund in which the law enforcement is included in?
A: This includes the entire operating budget for the jurisdiction, not just the law enforcement budget. The total jurisdictional operating budget should indeed encompass your entire budget such as debt service, enterprise fund, etc.
Q: Section 4, Question 3 of the COPS Application Attachment requests the total jurisdictional (city, county, state, tribal) locally generated revenues for the current AND previous two fiscal years. What are considered "locally generated" revenues?
A: Applicants should consult with their jurisdiction's budget office for advice in completing this answer. Generally speaking, "locally generated" revenues are those revenues that are generated locally (taxes, for example) as opposed to revenue coming from outside sources such as state or federal grants.
Q: Section 4, Question 4 of the COPS Application Attachment requests the total jurisdictional (city, county, state, tribal) general fund balance for the current AND previous two fiscal years. What is meant by a "general fund balance"?
A: Applicants should consult with their jurisdiction's budget office for advice in completing this answer. Generally speaking, the "general fund balance" is your jurisdiction's "savings account" of funds that have not been committed to specific line items in your jurisdiction's operating budget.
Q: Section 4, Question 4 of the COPS Application Attachment requests the total jurisdictional (city, county, state, tribal) general fund balance for the current AND previous two fiscal years. If my agency has a negative general fund balance, what is the appropriate answer to this question?
A: Please do not report a negative balance. The answer in your case would be "0."
Q: Does the CHRP grant have a time limit on the amount of time a police dept can spend recruiting and hiring police officers?
A: No. CHRP grantees should follow their standard recruiting and hiring procedures to fill any grant positions. Grantees will be able to request a no-cost extension of time at the end of their original award period to provide any additional time necessary to implement the grant based on initial delays in filling the positions during the recruiting and hiring process.
Q: What is the formula for disbursing these CHRP grant funds?
A: CHRP is not a "formula" grant program. All applications will be reviewed based on their answers to the fiscal health questions, crime statistics, community policing plan, and other relevant factors determined by the COPS Office. Awards will be made on a competitive basis.
Q: When should I expect notification if awarded CHRP grant funds?
A: The COPS Office will make CHRP grant award announcements no later than September 30.
Q: CHRP states it will provide "100 percent of funding for approved entry level salaries and fringe benefits of full time officers. How does this apply in cases were law enforcement agencies have various base pay rates dependant on the prior education level of the officer?
A: In the limited cases of agencies who offer more than one entry-level salary and benefit package based on prior education for new officers with no prior law enforcement experience, you may average those salaries and benefits to report your entry-level salary and benefits. Please note, however, that any higher salaries and benefits that are paid to compensate for prior law enforcement experience are not considered entry-level and should not be included in this average or otherwise reported as entry-level.
Q: What is my Congressional District?
A: To find your Congressional District, please visit: www.house.gov and enter your zip code (on the top left hand side) and click "go". You will receive the name of your local Representative followed by your state and a number. This number represents your Congressional District. The Congressional District number is the same for the applicant and for the program/project.
Q: Is there any way to print the finished application prior to submission for review by the Chief and City Manager?
A: No, the completed application can not be printed. It must be reviewed online.
Q: The COPS statute defines a career law enforcement officer as an officer hired on a permanent basis who is authorized by law or by a state/local public agency to engage in or supervise the prevention, detection or investigation of criminal law violations.
A: Sworn jail/correctional officers are not funded through this program. Sworn deputies/officers who are first responders to calls for service are positions funded through this grant program.
Q: Are there any restrictions on using CHRP grant funds to hire School Resource Officers?
A: No. Deploying officers in a School Resource Officer capacity is acceptable under CHRP.
Q: If awarded funding from the CHRP grant program, will our agency be obligated to keep the total number of officers on staff at the time the grant was awarded, or are we only required to keep the grant position at the end of the three year program?
A: To comply with the non-supplanting of the CHRP grant, the grantee must maintain its locally-funded sworn force baseline of officer positions during the grant award period through the retention period. To comply with the retention requirement of the CHRP grant, the grantee must add all awarded officer positions to its law enforcement budget with state and/or local funds for at least 12 months at the conclusion of 36 months of federal funding for each position, over and above the locally-funded sworn force baseline. The purpose of CHRP is to increase the total number of sworn officer positions that would have otherwise existed in the absence of the grant.
Budget-Related Questions
Q. What are allowable fringe benefits?
A. The following are allowable fringe benefits
Q: How do I determine the healthcare and fringe benefits costs for my agency?
A: An agency should contact its Human Resources/Benefits Office to help determine their costs for healthcare and fringe benefits.
Q: How should an agency calculate the first year salary and benefit package of officers who will be recruits promoted to sworn officer positions, given that a recruit and sworn officer fall under different pay and benefit levels?
A: The first-year salary & benefits package should cover the "blend" of both the recruit school and the post-graduation amounts, and the sworn officer amount would be used for the remainder of that year.
Q: My agency has officers that are exempt from Social Security benefit deductions. How should I address this in the CHRP application?
A: Agencies who have officers that are exempt from Social Security benefit deductions should check the exempt option on the application. By checking exempt, the agency is not required to submit additional information.
Q: Are Indirect Costs allowable under the CHRP grant?
A: No, CHRP does not pay for any indirect costs. CHRP only pays for approved salaries and fringe benefits of entry-level full-time sworn officers over three years.
Q: May CHRP grant funds be used to pay the salary and benefits of officer recruits while they are in the academy, prior to being sworn in?
A: Yes if it is the standard practice of the agency for locally-funded officer recruits. This assumes, of course, that the agency hires the recruits post-award (i.e., non-supplanting). If the recruits are in the academy pre-award, they would not qualify as CHRP officers unless specifically as rehires (scheduled to be laid off on a future known date). And then we'd only pay as of the lay-off date.
Q: As a law enforcement agency, what purposes can I use the CHRP funding?
A: You may use CHRP funding to hire new officers, rehire officers that have been laid off due to state and local funding cuts and to etain officers that are scheduled to be laid off at a future date.
Q: How do I know whether I should apply for funds to hire new officers or rehire officers?
A: If your agency has recently laid off officers and wishes to rehire those individuals, you should apply for funds to rehire the officers who were laid off before you submitted the application - that is one funding option. If you haven't laid off officers yet, but you have a lay-off scheduled for a specific future date (for example, the officers have already been notified that they will be laid off on October 1), you should apply for funds to rehire officers who are scheduled for a future lay-off - that is another funding option.
If you do receive funding in the latter category, you'll be able to use the COPS Hiring Recovery Program funds to "rehire" the officers on October 1, after using the full amount of local funding that is already budgeted for them until the date of the lay-off. You also will not be required to formally lay the officers off through your administrative lay-off procedures, but may transfer them to the COPS Hiring Recovery Program funding as of the lay-off date - in this example, October 1.
Finally, if your agency has not or does not plan to lay-off officers, but wishes to increase its current locally-funded sworn officer trength, it should apply for funds to hire new officers. That category of funding - new hires - includes hiring new officers to fill existing vacancies that are no longer funded in your budget due to local budget cuts.
Q: My agency hasn't laid off officers, but we have reduced our force through attrition. Can we apply to COPS Hiring Recovery Program to fill those vacancies?
A: Yes, COPS Hiring Recovery Program funds may be used to hire new officers to fill vacancies that are no longer funded in your agency's budget with local funds. As long as your budget no longer contains funding for those positions, you may apply to COPS Hiring Recovery Program to fill them.
Q: What do you mean by an "unfunded vacancy"?
A: A sworn position that has been frozen or unfilled because of budget cuts. For example if you have an authorized strength of 10 officers, but only have funding for 8, you can apply for two officers under CHRP to fill those unfunded vacancies.
Q: My city hasn't reduced the police force yet, but we are currently going through our budget process and may be cutting officer positions before the COPS Hiring Recovery Program grants are awarded. Can we apply for COPS Hiring Recovery Program funding to restore those positions?
A: Your agency cannot cut its sworn officer budget just because COPS Hiring Recovery Program (CHRP) funds are now available for officer hiring. First, that would be risky to your agency, because the COPS Hiring Recovery Program is going to be very competitive and there is just no guarantee that your agency will receive CHRPfunding. Second, that would create a potential supplanting violation that could be identified through an audit or monitoring, if it appears that the only reason your jurisdiction cut its police officer budget is because it anticipated receiving COPS Hiring Recovery Program funding (your agency would be using CHRP funds to replace local funds that it otherwise would have spent on those officer positions).
Your agency must make its local budget decisions about sworn officers as if it had never heard of the CHRP grant program, and then if your agency is still planning to cut officer positions, it may apply for CHRP funds to rehire any officers who have been laid off, or to prevent lay-offs that are scheduled to occur in the future, or to hire new officers to fill vacancies that are no longer funded in your agency's budget.
In this case, where the timing of the budget decisions is happening all around the same time that your agency applies for CHRP funds, it is especially critical to document the reason for any budget cuts that eliminate sworn officer positions to show that the cuts are not being made because of the CHRP. It is particularly helpful if your agency can document that other city departments are facing similar personnel cuts (through lay-offs or attrition) in the same time frame and same amounts - if it is audited in the future and can show that the school system laid off 20 teachers at the same time the police department laid off 10 officers, that goes a long way to proving that the police department cuts were not related to the anticipated receipt of CHRP grant funds.
Q: We understand that we must commit to retain any COPS Hiring Recovery Program funded positions after the grant ends, but what will happen if our city's financial situation has not improved by then - or is even worse - and we can't retain?
A: As with past COPS programs that required retention, the COPS Office will work with grantees facing severe fiscal distress at the time that the grant period is ending to evaluate whether they might qualify for a retention exemption. If a grantee does prove that its financial situation is so distressed that it cannot afford to retain the positions, the COPS Office has the authority to exempt the grantee from the retention requirement and the grantee is then ineligible for new COPS grants that have retention requirements for one year. If the grantee's fiscal distress is not so severe that it qualifies for a retention exemption, and the grantee still does not retain, then the COPS Office may bar that agency from receiving any new COPS grants (even those that don't have a retention requirement) for three years.
Q: What kind of documentation can prove that the lay-off(s) are not related to the receipt of CHRP funds?
A: Any records showing that the lay-off(s) occurred as a result of state, local or tribal budget cuts. To show that the lay-offs did not occur as a direct result of the availability of CHRP funds, it is especially helpful to demonstrate that budget cuts occurred in the entire (or at least additional) municipal or tribal governmental departments, not just the law enforcement department. Or if budget cuts just occurred in the law enforcement agency's budget that they were across all categories not just for sworn officer positions. Documents might include:
Q: If my agency received CHRP funding to rehire officers who were already laid off at the time of application do we need to maintain documentation in the CHRP grant file regarding the lay-offs?
A: Yes. Your agency should keep a record of the date(s) of their lay-off(s) and the
date(s) the positions were rehired in your grant file for future monitoring or audit
Q: How does the CHRP program create and save jobs?
A: The CHRP program creates jobs by offering funding for newly hired officers, including providing funding for new officers to fill existing officer vacancies that are no longer funded as a result of state, local or tribal budget cuts. The CHRP program saves sworn officer jobs by allowing the rehiring of laid off officers or those who would be laid off without the grant.
Q: Does the non-supplanting requirement apply to the CHRP grant program?
A: Yes. The non-supplanting requirement is a legal requirement in the Public Safety and Community Policing Act, which is the COPS Office's authorizing statute.
The non-supplanting requirement means COPS grant funds must be used to supplement (not replace) state, local or Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) funds that would have been dedicated toward law enforcement if federal funding had not been awarded. As it applies to your agency's CHRP grant, grantees must not reduce the level of state, local or BIA funding that would have been dedicated toward sworn officer positions as a result of receiving federal funding.
Q: The officers we plan to rehire are experienced officers who are paid a higher than entry-level salary and benefit package. May we use the CHRP funds to pay their salaries?
A: Yes, but only for the entry-level portion of their salary and benefits package. CHRP funds are awarded based on your agency's current entry-level sworn officer salary and benefits package over a three-year period. You can rehire experienced officers and use CHRP funding, but any additional costs higher than entry-level that your agency pays the rehired officers must be paid with local agency funds, not CHRP funds.
Q: Can CHRP grant funding be used to pay for officer overtime and/or eliminate officer furloughs?
A: No. CHRP funding may only be used to hire and rehire full-time law enforcement officers in order to create and preserve jobs and to increase law enforcement agencies' community policing capacity and crime prevention efforts.
Q: Can CHRP funding be used to fill sworn officer positions that are vacant at the time we apply for CHRP funding?
A: Yes, if the vacancies are no longer funded in your agency's budget. CHRP funding may be used to fill vacant sworn officer positions if the positions are included in your agency's law enforcement budget but are unfunded (state, local or tribal funding has not been budgeted to pay for the salary and benefits costs of the positions) because of a hiring freeze or budget cuts due to local fiscal distress.
Q: If my agency is awarded CHRP funding to rehire officers laid-off before we receive the grant, when can we rehire those officers?
A: Your agency may rehire the officers on or after the official grant award start date. In addition, your agency should maintain documentation showing the date(s) that the positions were laid off and rehired. [ Please keep in mind that CHRP grant funds will cover only an entry-level sworn officer salary and benefits package over a three-year period. Any additional funding higher than entry-level that your agency pays the rehired officers must be paid with local funds.]
Q: Our agency received CHRP funding to rehire officers who are scheduled to be laid-off in the future. Do we need to actually lay off officers before using COPS funds and then rehire them?
A: No, the rehired officers do not need to have a break in service. As long as your agency can document the date the lay-off(s) would occur if the CHRP funds were not available, it may transfer the officers to the CHRP funding on or after the date of the lay-off without formally completing the administrative steps associated with a lay-off for each individual officer. However, 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 COPS award start date is September 1 and the lay-off is scheduled for November 1, then the COPS funds may not be used to fund the officers until November 1, the date of the scheduled lay-off).
Q: If our agency's economic conditions change after receiving a CHRP grant and we want to change the hiring categories from what we identified in our CHRP application, what should our agency do?
A: If your agency receives a CHRP grant and after receiving the grant, your agency needs to change the hiring category(s) it received funding under, your agency must request a post-award grant modification and must receive prior approval before spending CHRP funding. To obtain information on modifying a CHRP grant award please contact the COPS Response Center at 1-800-421-6770.
Q: May our agency apply for a CHRP grant if we have an active COPS Universal Hiring Program (UHP) grant for sworn officer positions?
A: Yes. Agencies with expired or active COPS hiring grants are not disqualified from applying for a CHRP grant, but the CHRP-funded position must be over and above the number of officer positions the agency is required to retain under other COPS hiring grants.
Q: Can CHRP funding be used to retain a UHP-funded position?
A: No. CHRP grant funding may not be used to comply with the retention requirement of your UHP grant. Instead, your agency must use state, local or tribal funding to retain the UHP-funded positions for one full local budget cycle following the conclusion of the grant period. In addition, the retained officer position(s) must be over and above your agency's locally-funded sworn force and any full-time sworn positions awarded under the CHRP grant.
Q: Is our agency required to retain the CHRP-funded positions following the conclusion of the 36 months of grant funding?
A: Yes. At the conclusion of federal funding, CHRP grantees are required to retain all officer positions awarded - including positions awarded to rehire laid off officers or to prevent lay-offs - for a period of 12 months. The additional officer positions should be added to the grantee's law enforcement budget with state and/or local funds, over and above the number of locally-funded officer positions that would have existed in the absence of the grant. Absorbing CHRP-funded officers through attrition, rather than by adding the extra positions to your budget with additional funding, does not meet the retention requirement.
Q: How will the COPS Office monitor my agency's use of CHRP funds for rehiring laid off officers?
A: The COPS Office monitors grantee compliance with all grant requirements in a variety of ways. For example, your agency may receive an on-site monitoring visit from the COPS Office during the grant period, an on-site financial monitoring visit from the Office of Justice Programs, Office of the Comptroller, or it may be audited by the Office of the Inspector General Audit Division. Your agency also may be asked to submit written documentation demonstrating its compliance with the grant conditions or in response to evaluations by outside organizations.
Q: How long must we keep copies of all of these records to demonstrate when and why we rehired laid off officers?A: Your agency is required by law to maintain grant records to demonstrate your proper use of grant funds throughout the active grant period and then for at least an additional three years after the grant is officially closed out by the COPS Office.


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Activity 1: Success - Enhancing Distance Support
The Sitka Campus continues to struggle with course completion rates in high-risk courses. Distance students struggle with confusing advising services, and a lack of support resources to complete their academic goals. Alaska Native and rural students in particular need to feel closer connections to the University, their instructors and fellow students.
Activity 1 has three major components:
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- Extend student support services by developing an integrated array of online student services including academic advising student success resources and tutoring services.
- Developing interactive "Learning Objects" that address specific college-level concepts or skills. These will be available region-wide in the online Student Success Center. Faculty will also be able to embed these in their courses, helping students to make the connection between their assignments and the available online resources. (Also part of Activity 2)
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Activity 2 is designed to promote continuing professional development for online faculty, to create learning objects to provide students with college level success strategies, to increase revenue to the Sitka Campus through increased enrollment of under-served student groups, particularly Alaska Natives, to build bridges from short-term training programs to more advanced academic programs, and develop a process for faculty to evaluate online courses and teaching.
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In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the Spirit of God was moving over the face of the waters.
And God said, "Let there be light"; and there was light. And God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day.
And God said, "Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters." And God made the firmament and separated the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament. And it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, a second day.
And God said, "Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear." And it was so. God called the dry land Earth, and the waters that were gathered together he called Seas. And God saw that it was good. And God said, "Let the earth put forth vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind, upon the earth." And it was so. The earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed according to their own kinds, and trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening and there was morning, a third day.
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The company plans to fund startups in eight regions, including Africa, Latin America and Russia.
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Berlin-based startup incubator Rocket Internet, which has helped fund more than a dozen e-commerce businesses among the 100 companies it's invested in, has raised $500 million in funding since May 2012, it announced today. Of that, $400 million was raised in the last several weeks, a spokesman says.
The funds will go towards expanding Rocket Internet's businesses globally, with a focus on Europe, Russia, Latin America, Russia, the Middle East, Southeast Asia and Australia, it says.
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Located in Kampsville, the Center for American Archeology Museum is housed in the historic Kamp Store, offering a variety of exhibits focusing on the 10,000 year pre-history of the lower Illinois River Valley, the archeological history of Illinois and the history of the Kamp Store. Guided tours of the facility and excavation sites are available for groups of ten or more.
Abe Lincoln's Talking House Driving Tour
Tune your vehicle's radio to 1650 AM or 1620 AM and listen to the history behind 14 homes in Pittsfield that have a connection to Abe Lincoln. Front yard signs also explain each home's historical significance.
The now renovated Old School Museum offers visitors a view of the history of Scott County and Winchester. This museum preserves and displays artifacts related to local history, agriculture, transportation, communication and public education. Also included is a collection of interesting/unique artifacts from the businesses and society of early Scott County. The Romanesque style building was Winchester's public elementary school from 1901 through 1958.
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GlassFish REST Interface for Management and Monitoring
By rajeshwar on Dec 10, 2009
GlassFish REST Interface is available in full and web distributions.
To use this interface -
1. Install GlassFish using any of the following distributions
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2. Start GlassFish
<GlassFish Intall Root>/bin/asadmin start-dmain
3. Access the following URL(s) using any http client
GlassFish REST Interface is exposed on GlassFish administration port (default value: 4848). Root URLs of GlassFish REST Interface are -
Where {host} identifies the server host and {port} is the server administration port.
Using management root URL1 you can traverse and discover the entire GlassFish configuration model whereas using monitoring root URL2 you can traverse and discover the entire GlassFish runtime model.
GlassFish REST Interface supports JSON, XML and HTML formats. Based of the client/client request, appropriate format representation is sent to the client. Metadata for given URL(resource), such as methods supported, input parameters for supported methods and their type, can be obtained through GET request on that URL. You can also use OPTIONS method to get the metadata. For more on formats, metadata and other details please refer to REST Interface section of GlassFish Administration guide.
GlassFish REST Interface supports basic authentication over secure channel. For detail on how to secure GlassFish REST Interface please refer to my earlier blog entry or REST Interface documentation.
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PhilCast - Museums
Visitors to Philmont are encouraged to visit our museums, which tell the area's story through artifacts and art.
The Philmont Museum and Seton Memorial Library may be visited any day during the summer, and weekdays the rest of the year. Tours of the Villa Philmonte must be arranged at the Philmont Museum. No fee is charged at any of these museums. During the summer, daily bus service for participants is available to visit the Kit Carson Museum at Rayado. There is no fee for bus service, and it can be scheduled in Logistics soon after your group arrives at Philmont. The Kit Carson Museum is open every day during the summer.
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Waite Phillips built the Villa Philmonte as the summer home for his family on the Philmont Ranch. It was completed in 1927 and was designed in Spanish Mediterranean style. Restored to the period when Phillips owned the ranch, it now serves as a memorial to him and his generosity to the Boy Scouts of America. Guided tours are offered during the spring, summer, and fall.
The Villa Philmonte is open for guided tours spring, summer and fall. Please call the Philmont Museum (575) 376-1136 for available dates and times, reservations are required.
Located at headquarters, the Philmont Museum houses exhibits related to the history, art, and natural history of the Philmont area.
The museum shop carries Southwestern Indian jewelry, Pendleton blankets, kachina dolls, pottery, and regional books.
The Seton Memorial Library is home to the personal art, library, and natural history collections of the founder and first Chief Scout of the Boy Scouts of America, Ernest Thompson Seton.
Inquiries about tours, donations, archives and collections may be addressed to:
Philmont Museum 17 Deer Run Road Cimarron, NM 87714 575-376-1136 E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Philmont lies on part of a land grant given to Carlos Beaubien and Guadalupe Miranda by the Mexican government in 1841. Mountain man Lucien Maxwell founded a colony on the grant on the Rayado River in 1848. A year later, he was joined at the settlement by frontiersman Kit Carson. Their ranch on the Rayado was visited by many traders traveling on the Santa Fe Trail.
In 1950 the Boy Scouts of America built an adobe museum at Rayado to serve as an interpretive area to portray its history and recount the exploits of Maxwell and Carson. It was named in honor of Kit Carson.
Staff at the Kit Carson Museum dress in period clothing and demonstrate frontier skills and crafts like blacksmithing, cooking, shooting, and farming. Each room in the museum is outfitted with reproduction furniture and objects typical of New Mexico in the 1850s. The Rayado Trading Company, located at the museum, sells books, maps, reproduction tools and equipment, moccasins, and blankets.
The Kit Carson Museum is seven miles south of Philmont's headquarters on New Mexico Highway 21. Summer hours are 8 AM to 5 PM daily. Admission is free. The museum is open only for special events during the rest of the year.
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Land Tenure | Land Markets | Land Reform | Policy Research Report | DocumentsLand TenureFor most of the rural poor in developing countries, land is a main asset, the primary means for generating a livelihood and a main vehicle for investing, reducing vulnerability to shocks. and transferring wealth between generations. Public provision of well-defined and enforceable property rights to land will not only reduce the amount of resources individuals have to spend to secure land ownership but also increase their incentive to undertake investments and, if associated with improved transferability of land, the ability to obtain credit for such investment. Moreover, it can have impacts far beyond on governance. As a public service, tenure security needs to be provided at low cost and in an effective and sustainable manner. This implies that, in some cases, full formal title will not be the most desirable solution. The research on land tenure uses data generated in the context of efforts to strengthen tenure security to evaluate, to the extent possible, the outreach, cost, and effectiveness of different mechanisms for improving tenure security as well as the economic and non-economic impact of such measures. Particular emphasis is on the impact on women.


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Archaeologists and historians working with the Smithsonian Institution have completed 3 ½ months of excavating Indian villages just below thh Oahe Dam site. Initial reports indicate that these sites were used from 1300 A.D. to the middle and late 19th centuries.
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Brewers playing for a 5 month season?
by Tim Allen
posted Jan 26 2013 12:24PM
Get ready Brewers fans! The season is FAST approaching, and the biggest story, for the most part, is a YOUNG ROTATION. You'll read about it, you'll hear about it on the radio, and you will see the coverage on TV. With Brewers GM Doug Melvin focused this off season on improving a struggling bullpen, it is pretty clear to this point, that the organization is content to run 4 young starters out in 2013. It's somewhat risky, as the Brewers have one of the best offenses in all of baseball. You have to ask yourself, is this the right year to go with the youth movement on the mound? Could the organization wait just one more year to do that? Corey Hart is on the last year of his contract. Aramis Ramirez will have only one year left on his contract following the 2013 campaign, thus making him prime trade bait. Nori Aoki will be nearing the end of his deal as well. Point being...maybe wait one year, make one more 'go for it' attempt, and then re-tool.
As spring training approaches, it is becoming clear that the young pitchers are going to be given the ball every 5 days. That being said, Brewers GM Melvin and the organization have somewhat of a rule that they try to follow. When 'grooming' a young pitcher, the Brewers do not like a pitcher to increase his 'innings pitched' from one season to the next, by more than 20%-25%. I thought I would take a look at when some of the Crews' younger pitchers would reach that point. I base these numbers on an average of 6 innings per outing. But, is it that simple? You have to look at experience, and innings to find out. It's not just about 5 starters, as most MLB teams will use 6, 7, 8, or more starters each season. Let's focus on the principle pitchers for the sake of this blog.
Yovani Gallardo
: No problems in terms of 'innings pitched' as he has seasoned his arm to carry the workload of a top of the rotation starter.
Marco Estrada
: In 2012 Marco pitched 138 1/3 in the majors and 8 at triple A for a total of 146 1/3. An increase of 20% is roughly 175 innings. Averaging 6 innings per start he would hit his 'increase mark' around mid September.
Mike Fiers
: In 2012 he had 127 2/3 in the majors and 55 at triple A for a total of 182. With the 20% increase, there is no concern about workload.
Wily Peralta
: 29 innings pitched for the Brewers big league club and 146 2/3 in the minors for a total of 175 2/3. Workload should not be a concern in 2013.
Chris Narveson
: Chris is coming off an injury, however, the 20% rule shows no concern, as he has pitched over 160 innings in both 2010 and 2011.
Mark Rogers
: Rogers pitched 39 at the big league level last season and 95 at triple A for a total of 134. Again, basing this on an average of 6 innings per outing, he would reach his 'increase point' in late August.
Tyler Thornburg
: In 2012 Thornburg pitched 22 for the Brewers, and 112 2/3 in the minors for a total of 134 2/3. He would reach his increase point in early September.
The 2013 Brewers will need more than 5 starters in 2013. There is no doubt about that, based on the numbers above. A young rotation can win, as the 2012 Oakland A's proved, but with the Brewers offense as good as they are, a re-tooled bullpen, is 2013 the year to go with the young rotation? It's going to be a TON of fun finding out. I can't wait for the season and the Rupena's Baseball Post Game Show to get underway. I'm not calling myself old, but the years are flying by. It's my 8th season of Post Game Show coverage, and I have loved EVERY minute of them. 'Smile Milwaukee, the World WILL Smile Back'!
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United States of America 1931
not signed, not dated
284.0 (h) x 363.2 (w) x 111.8 (d) cm
Purchased 1975
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
© Robert Morris. Licensed by ARS & VISCOPY, Australia
Robert Morris, one of the foremost American Minimalist artists, is best known for his geometric plywood sculptures. From 1967 he also worked in felt. Initially the artist's use of this pliant highly absorbent material was opportunistic (he was attracted by its cheapness or availability), but it became his preferred medium for almost a decade. In the earlier plywood works of the early to mid-1960s, Morris drew attention to the complex nature of the viewer's experience of the object.[1] By emphasising the relationship between the work, the environment and the viewer interacting with his sculpture, Morris made the movement of the viewer and the changing conditions of the gallery into principal features of the work. In this sense, although his sculptures in wood look emphatically hard and immobile, they were intended to highlight the contingent nature of aesthetic experience.
In the later 1960s, in a series of texts including 'Anti-form' and 'Some notes on the phenomenology of making', Morris argued that to achieve this contingent aesthetic it was necessary to move beyond Minimalism.[2] He criticised his earlier, geometric sculptures for their over-emphasis on a pre-conceived approach to making―what he called the rational ideal of the 'well built.' This approach―now described by him as an arbitrary, imposed ordering system―did not sufficiently account for the processes of making accorded by the chosen material. He praised Jackson Pollock's use of gravity and chance as examples of how one might allow the material itself to determine form. In opposition to building, Morris suggested dropping, hanging and leaning as suitable principles of making. These are the principles behind the production of this work, Untitled 1969.
Another way to read this work is to see the soft and pliable properties of the felt material as a way of obliquely referring to the human body. As the artist commented in a 1983 interview, 'felt has anatomical associations; it relates to the body―it's skinlike.'[3] In this sense, these works are not only about the idea of artistic contingency but also openly evoke the nature and experience of the body. In this way Morris moved beyond Minimalism's subtle incorporation of the viewer's movement into the experience of the work, to make open references to the material quality of the viewer's body itself. Due to its variable nature, Untitled appears different at every installation. Depending on the profile of the felt, the work can suggest the look and feel of clothing worn close to the body; it can also carry a pathos, associated with the sagging, gravity-bound destination of all flesh.
Dr Anthony White
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The University of Melbourne
[1] See, for example, Slab (platform) and Slab (cloud)—first constructed in plywood in 1962, and remade in painted aluminium in 1973; collection of the National Gallery of Australia
[2] The two texts were first published in Artforum; in 1968 (vi/8 1968, pp 33–5) and 1970 (viii/8, pp 62–6) respectively; both texts have been subsequently republished and are often quoted
[3] Robert Morris: the mind/body problem, Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1994, p 213


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XXXBoys :: Kory Mitchell's Positive Attitude
Okay, so there is nothing new about coming across a new name, face, ass (or whatever) in the porn industry. Being from San Francisco, as the saying goes, you trip over a porn star every block. But now and again, there is a particular name, face, story and yes, whatever, that gets our attention and deserves a little bit of perusal, if you will, into the person.
Kory Mitchell, formerly Kory Kong, is one such porn model that happened to catch my eye (and boy what a sight I saw).
And as I was hoping that I would find an interesting story, a significant diversion from the norm in porn, in fact I found just that.
You see, Kory Mitchell just happens to be an open, HIV positive gay man who is a porn star. There is, of course, much more that defines this German-born hunk of a black man with a hunk of a cock to go along with it all, and I was able to discuss with Kory how porn all began with him, the models he would like to work with, how being HIV positive has affected his porn career, and where his passion is outside of the adult film industry.
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BeBe: Are you a native of Seattle where you are currently based?
Kory Mitchell: No. I'm originally from Germany. I'm a military kid.
BeBe: Kory, it was interesting when I came across a pic of you that, as much as I find myself involved in the adult film industry, I realized I didn't know who you were. Do you consider yourself somewhat new to porn?
Kory Mitchell: Yeah, I started filming back in August of 2009.
BeBe: And in that short span you've already gone under a bit of an image revamp, I mean, you have changed your name. You originally went by the name of Kory Kong, and after seeing pictures of you naked, it was a befitting name. But, in July of this year, you changed your surname to Mitchell.
Kory Mitchell: I honestly hated the name Kong. It was a name I went with because the very first company I made a film with came up with the name. So, I went along with it. I was never happy with that name, however. I'm not sure why it didn't sit right with me.
No problems with nudity
BeBe: How did you wind up in the adult film industry?
Kory Mitchell: A friend of mine in Seattle, and he asked me if I was interested in doing porn. And, I was and had been for some time. I've always said I would love to do porn, because growing up watching it, it seemed like it would be something really fun.
Being from German, I have no problem being naked in front of people. My Seattle friend had a friend in Canada named Patrick Cole who was looking for models at the time. Patrick gave me a call, and he invited to come to Las Vegas for a film shoot. So, I went out there and shot for about a week, and the rest is history. It (porn) was something that just sort of came to me. It wasn't something I sought out, per se. It just fell in my lap (and what a lap it is).
BeBe: That's not an unfamiliar story. Many porn stars have told me that had always been interested in porn, or the thought of doing porn. It may even be more so that there is an interest in knowing whether the making of porn is really as fun as it seems to be while watching it. So, I'll ask, is making porn as fun and enjoyable to do as it is to watch?
Kory Mitchell: Well, for me it is fun to do which is why I still do it, but it also depends on the film company your working with and the people (models) your shooting with. Working for a company where the production staff and directors are laid back and easy to talk to, it helps you forget about the cameras, the lights, and the people around you. You really just think about having sex and doing what comes naturally. It, honestly, has its ups and downs.
Favorite scenes?
BeBe: Speaking of the people you shoot with, is there a particular company, director, and porn model you would like to work with?
Kory Mitchell: As for companies, I can't really say I have one in particular I'd like to work with, but as for models, wow, that's a long list (with a chuckle). I'd really like to shoot with Samuel Colt, and so many others. My list is so big!
BeBe: What about directors, those really producing the porn product?
Kory Mitchell: I don't know much about those involved with production enough to say. I know more about the porn stars.
BeBe: Out of all scenes that you have shot thus far, is there one that you walked away thinking how awesome the scene was, and conversely, is there a scene thought you were out of your fucking mind to even do it?
Kory Mitchell: I actually have two scenes I thought were just awesome. The first scene would be with Jake Wetmore and Chuck Rockwood. It was a three-way shot in a bathhouse. The sexual chemistry between all of us very strong. I had a blast doing that scene.
The other scene was with Jake Mitchell when we shot for Treasure Island. Jake and I already have a history of messing around anyway so we were doing what we do normally, but just on film. And, I really don't think I have any scenes that I really didn't feel good about because every scene I've done have played out (on film) the way it was supposed to play out. There isn't any scenes I would change even if I could. I have no regrets of any kind when it comes to film making.
BeBe: Now you are pretty well tattooed. You have some nice ink on your body. Knowing that most tattoos symbolize something, or have a special meaning to the bearer, is there one on your body that has some significant meaning to you?
Kory Mitchell: The tattoo on my neck that spells "Hope" with a red ribbon taking the place of the letter "o" is very meaningful to me. I got that tattoo 1.5 years after I found out I was HIV positive. I have no problem having any of my other tattoos covered or digitally removed, but I tell people that my Hope tat I will never cover up. Period.
BeBe: That is a strong statement. That tattoo, I am sure, provides awareness to HIV, as well as, creates a lot of conversation, especially with you being a model in the porn industry.
Kory Mitchell: In fact, in does. I've in clubs and bars all over and have had people come up to me and touch the tattoo on my neck and say 'I really appreciate that' and then walk away. It has been amazing the reactions I get from this tattoo. I have had people come up to me and tell me I am considered a positive role model in the gay black community.
BeBe: But, being HIV positive and working in porn, there has to be some questions you must get about that.
Kory Mitchell: I actually don't get many questions about that, or have in problems surrounding that. I tell companies before I begin filming with them, and that's the end of that. I really haven't had any problems working in the industry being positive so far to this point. I am very open about it (my status).
Doing what comes naturally
BeBe: I have previously interviewed black males from the porn industry, and I have at times received not so positive responses when they are asked about the type of roles they are offered or the images presented of black males in the porn industry. Has there been any time that you have refused to do a scene shoot because the scene was not a good representation for you as a black man?
Kory Mitchell: No, not at all.
BeBe: That's good to hear, and I hope you will be able to keep that response as your continue with your porn career.
Kory Mitchell: The companies I've worked with thus far have been fairly laid back, and I haven't been asked to do anything extreme. They just direct me to do what comes naturally.
BeBe: Well, Kory, tell me if you hadn't gotten into the porn industry 3 years ago, what would you be doing?
Kory Mitchell: I'd probably be doing something that I still do now and that is HIV education and counseling which I began after I discovered I was positive. I been doing that for 6 years now. I counsel newly HIV positive gay and bi-sexual men. It is something I really enjoy and have a passion for doing.
BeBe: Well, when one looks at your physique and that very well endowed appendage of yours that is 12 inches, one would think that you were born or destined to do porn. For me, it conjured up the old cliché about whether size matters. That phrase 'size matters' refers to both being too small and too big. I must admit that I'm not sure I would know what to do with a dick as large as yours. Outside of the porn industry, has the size of your penis been an issue for any of the relationships you've been in?
Kory Mitchell: In relationships, no, but, with say a fuck-buddy there have been times when I've been told, 'oh no, that's too much!' (both laugh), or 'I can't take that'. But for the most part, I don't really have much of a problem when it comes to getting laid.
Kory Mitchell headlines with his solo show on August 24th and 25th at the legendary Nob Hill Theatre in San Francisco. www.thenobhilltheatre.com.
Follow Kory Mitchell in his blog at www.korymitchellxxx.tumblr.com.
As an actress, BeBe was introduced to film with a lead role in the independent film "Under One Sun" with her character dealing with religious, racial and gender issues. Additionally, she appeared in the campy musical "Devious, Inc" (Australian Film Festival, San Francisco Short Film Fest) also adding additional vocals to the musical soundtrack. Both of these performances led to her selection for a lead role in Aisha Media's next short film series, "Con-tin.u.um" to be released in 2012.


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Proposed high rise condos next to the Cedar Creek Marina brought out neighbors in opposition Monday at the Board of Commissioners meeting.
"I don't think this development fits the area," said resident Mike Foust. "It's a very quiet neighborhood, we'd like to keep it that way."
The Condominiums at Cedar Creek Point would be located at 9000 Saundersville Road next to Cedar Creek Marina. They will be four floors with units ranging from 821 square feet to 2,260 square feet. There will also be a pool and a boat dock. The Mt. Juliet Planning Commission approved an annexation into the city, a land use plan amendment and preliminary master development plan Aug. 15. The Board of Commissioners were voting on that annexation and a re-zoning Monday.
"This is going to be one of the tallest buildings in Mt. Juliet," said resident Kevin Brown. Brown owns the property right next to the parcel. He said when he bought the land recently, he had no idea that this was a possibility, and even though there will be a buffer, there is no way to buffer the height of the building.
"Would you want this right next to your home," Brown asked of the commissioners.
Several other residents spoke against the project. They had concerns about the road, the effect on the sewer system, the water runoff, and the loss of trees and wildlife in the area. Also, there were concerns about whether the condos would sell.
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Blues to Cease Operation of AHL Affiliate, First Step Along the Path to a Canucks Owned AHL Team in Abbotsford?
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March 29 2013 04:02PM
BREAKING: The St. Louis Blues will cease the Rivermen operation in Peoria.— Andrew Barra (@AndrewBarraWMBD) March 29, 2013
Some interesting news today that may (or may not) be related to the whole "Canucks might purchase an AHL affiliate and move it to the Fraser Valley" story that we've watched closely over the past seven months. According to WMBD (an Illinois based CBS affiliate) the St. Louis Blues have reportedly informed the Peoria Civic Center in writing that "the Blues will cease to operate professional hockey after this season." Tom Eminian of the Peoria Junior Star has since corroborated that report.
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So what does this have to do with the Canucks? Well you might remember that Tom Mayenknecht reported a couple of weeks back that the Canucks might purchase the Peoria Rivermen from the Blues and move them to the Fraser Valley. Mayenknecht's report suggested that the Blues would then take on Vancouver's current AHL affiliate - the Chicago Wolves - with Calgary moving their current AHL affiliate (the money losing Abbotsford Heat) elsewhere, possibly Utica.
Blues owner Tom Stillman acquired the Peoria Rivermen a year ago as part of his purchase of the St. Louis Blues. The recent chatter and speculation contended that he wasn't too eager to continue footing the bill for his club's AHL affilliate, and today's developments would suggest that chatter was accurate. If Stillman is primarily interested in minimizing the cost of running a Blues farm team, that would make him an ideal fit for a partnership with the Chicago Wolves. The Wolves are owned by Don Levin, a businessman who takes his ownership of the Wolves very seriously indeed and rather obviously hopes to one day own an NHL club.
Now whether or not the Canucks do indeed step into the breach and buy the Peoria Rivermen from Tom Stillman remains an open question. Today's developments probably don't happen without Stillman having a plan in place for the eventual sale of the Rivermen, but that doesn't shed any light on Vancouver's plans.
Harrison Mooney theorized a couple of weeks ago that it would make more sense for the Canucks to buy the Heat from the Flames directly. That strikes me as compelling, especially since the Aquilini group would likely have to induce the Flames to leave their sweetheart lease deal with Abbotsford and locate their AHL affiliate further away from Calgary geographically. In that scenario the Flames would then turn around and purchase the Rivermen from Stillman. That theory makes more sense to me than the mechanics Mayenknecht laid out in his Twitter report, but who really knows?
The Canucks continue to play this one close to the vest, and there are still more dominos left to fall before a Canucks affiliated AHL club in the Fraser Valley becomes a reality. This could be a pretty major step along that path, certainly there's a lot of smoke even if no one is yelling "fire" just yet, or it also could have nothing to do with the Canucks at all. Time will tell.
I like the idea of the Canucks having more control over the development of their AHL players. From a player development perspective owning an AHL team would have to be considered a win. If they can get it in the lower mainland, it's probably a marketing win also.


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Sitting at my desk wondering how to start my Mother's Day-themed blog post (due yesterday), I erase and re-type a few things that come to mind. "This Mother's Day, give the leading lady in your life…" "As Mother's Day fast approaches…" "Not sure what to do for your mom this Mother's Day? Give a gift that keeps on giving…"
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I moved into an 1950's cottage style house that had been added on to at one end. I chose to move the bathroom into what (before the addition) was an ouside access storage room. Moving the plumbing, tub, toilet and sink had it's challenges but that part is done. Now I have to do the part I've been putting off!! lol The ceiling of this room is rough boards. An attempt to put up ceiling tile by the previous owners left globs of dark brown rock hard like stuff all over the ceiling which I can't even chisel off. I bought some thin firring strips thinking I could maybe run the strips with the joists and give me something to attach the greenboard to but I'm worried about moisture getting trapped between the greenboad and the original ceiling. I have plastic sheeting but thought before I do this treatment to this ceiling, I'd ask if you have a better idea? or maybe some advise?
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Moyes: Saints players will carry on
Everton boss David Moyes does not expect Southampton's players to be unduly affected by the shock managerial change at St Mary's.
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The Toffees will provide the first opponents for new boss Mauricio Pochettino when they travel to the south coast for Monday's Barclays Premier League clash.
Pochettino, formerly in charge of Spanish side Espanyol, took over the Saints hotseat on Friday following the sudden sacking of Nigel Adkins.
The former Scunthorpe boss had achieved back-to-back promotions and appeared to have turned things around after a shaky start to life in the Premier League but that was not enough for ambitious chairman Nicola Cortese.
Adkins was hugely popular and the decision will have shocked fans and players alike, but Moyes does not think it will make his side's task easier on Monday.
The Scot said: "It's a really difficult one to judge because I actually think Southampton have been playing quite well. I'm not quite sure what effect it will have on the players but when you get a new manager you get on with it.
"I don't think players mope around too long about the manager, and I mean that with real respect for Nigel, but I think players just get on with their job. I would expect them to do that and it will be difficult.
"I don't know what the atmosphere will be like, I would have expected the supporters to have probably been in Nigel's camp because of the work he'd done there."
Pochettino, 40, kept Espanyol in the Primera Division for four seasons but was sacked after a poor start to this campaign.
Moyes thinks the former Argentina international's knowledge of Spain may have been a factor in his appointment, citing Swansea's recruitment of Michael Laudrup, who pulled off one of the signings of the season in bringing Michu to the Premier League.
Moyes said: "I've seen his teams play. I think Espanyol had periods where they did very well considering what was available to them.
"I don't know him personally but he looks as if he's a modern, young coach who will have a lot of knowledge of Spanish football, which will help him.
"You can see it's helped Swansea with Michael Laudrup coming in, it's given them an opportunity to have a little bit of a headstart on players at the lower level who could possibly step up and I would expect him to be very much the same."
Everton will be looking for three points to keep them hot on the heels of the top four.
The Toffees were frustrated last weekend when they were held to a goalless draw with Swansea, and Moyes wants his side to be more creative when the onus is on them.
"That's something we need to be a little bit better at," he said. "Over the years we've had to do that (sit back) against the better sides and we've had some great results, and teams are now doing that to us.
"We've found it a little bit difficult when it's happened if we've not got the goal. We kept plugging away (against Swansea) but on the day we just didn't have that bit of something that made the difference.
"We've tried to work on creating more chances, making better runs and passes for people to get in, better crosses, so we're continually trying, but there'll be days when it doesn't happen.
"I hope we won't have too many of those like last week because we can't afford to be picking up single points, we've got to try to be winning games."
Another area where Moyes would like to see improvement is at the back. Everton's tally of 26 goals conceded in 22 games is not bad but last weekend was their first clean sheet since September.
Moyes said: "We'd like to keep clean sheets because we need to try to start nicking a few games 1-0 if we have to. Who knows, it might be the second half of the season.
"We've tended to be a bit slow starters, we've actually started quite quickly this season but if we're looking to see what we could do better it would probably be have a few more clean sheets and hopefully that might come."
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By PATSY R. BRUMFIELD/Daily Journal
TUPELO – A new civil lawsuit accuses a federally indicted former state trooper of violence toward the public and his supervisors of looking the other way.
Saltillo carpenter John A. Hawn claims Christopher Gary Hughes of Tupelo severely beat him after a July 2012 traffic stop, directed another trooper to destroy the video and then filed charges against Hawn to hold over him to avert legal repercussions.
Hughes could not be reached for comment late Friday, and neither could a spokesman in Jackson for the Mississippi Highway Patrol.
The MHP supervisors' names are not listed because they will not be known until further investigation, the lawsuit states.
Coincidentally, 40-year-old Hughes is scheduled to plead guilty to a federal charge during a hearing Monday. The specifics are not available, but the plea comes after his indictment on charges he deprived a woman of her civil rights in 2007 when he allegedly stomped her while in his custody in the Lee County Jail.
In Hawn's lawsuit complaint, filed by Tupelo attorneys Jim Waide, Shane McLaughlin and Victor Fleitas, they say Hughes beat Hawn "in a state of rage" after Hawn drove around a roadblock set up by Hughes and then-MHP officer Jody Berryhill at State Park Road and Highway 178 on July 16.
Berryhille no longer works for MHP.
Hawn suffered a broken jaw and other injuries and was held in jail for five days.
The lawsuit claims that this incident likely was reported to the FBI.
Since "at least 2007," the new lawsuit claims that Hughes' supervisors knew about his "propensity for violence" and did nothing about it.
The suit names six other people allegedly assaulted by Hughes – under the color of law – including the woman whose beating prompted the federal civil rights indictment.
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