Police body cameras and new bike lanes will now be possible due to two grants Yuba City accepted at a City Council meeting Tuesday night.
A $100,000 grant was awarded to the city through the California Citizens' Option for Public Safety funding.
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Police body cameras and new bike lanes will now be possible due to two grants Yuba City accepted at a City Council meeting Tuesday night.
A $100,000 grant was awarded to the city through the California Citizens' Option for Public Safety funding.
The money will be used to purchase 20 cameras that police officers can wear on their uniform, Police Chief Robert Landon said.
Video from properly-used body cameras can serve evidentiary value and provide the opportunity to review officer behavior if a complaint has been raised.
It also provides opportunities for officers to review incidents when writing reports and catch details that may have been missed in the moment.
The department will also use the grant funds to purchase mobile audio and video recorders for police vehicles, Landon said.
The city also accepted a Blue Sky Grant, administered by the Feather River Air Quality Management District, that will allow the city to install striped bike lanes on Teegarden Avenue from the levee bike path on Sutter Street to Shasta Street.
The project will cost $94,000. The Blue Sky grant will award $48,785 to the city. The remaining cost will come from an unallocated account in the city road funds, amounting to $45,215.
"One of the reasons we use road funds for bicycle lanes is that the more people we can get to use a bicycle rather than a vehicle, the less wear and tear there is on our roads," said Diana Langley, Public Works director.
The project is a component of the city's Bicycle Master Plan that includes a multitude of proposed projects that will eventually crisscross the city with bike lanes.
The city choose to install a bike on Teegarden because the project is can be completed in a one-year time frame and is relatively inexpensive, Langley said.
The project should start in the fall, Langley said.
CONTACT reporter Andrew Creasey at 749-4780 and on Twitter @AD_Creasey.
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