NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on September 20, 2011, the Violent Crime and Drug Control Council, received a petition for a permanent waiver of subsection 11N-1.0051(15), F.A.C., from Fort Lauderdale Police Department. Subsection 11N-1.0051(15), F.A.C., precludes the use of VCDCC moneys to purchase equipment. The petition supports the requested waiver by stating that a reshuffling of personnel and plunging revenues jeopardized their multijurisdictional operation by removing a critical piece of equipment. Petitioner states that it used VCDCC money to purchase replacement equipment. Petitioner states that it will suffer a substantial hardship if it were required to refund the money spent on the equipment or sell the equipment and refund the money. Petitioner further states that it would violate the principles of fairness to deprive it of a viable means of efficiently carrying out its duties.
A copy of the Petition for Variance or Waiver may be obtained by contacting: Grace A. Jaye, Assistant General Counsel, Florida Department of Law Enforcement, P. O. Box 1489, Tallahassee, FL 32302 or by telephoning (850)410-7676.