RECOMMENDATION(S):

APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Sheriff-Coroner, or designee, to execute a contract with Bay Alarm Inc. in an amount not to exceed $20,000 and includes a contribution from Bay Alarm Inc. in the amount of $40,000, for a profile and recruiting video, which will be produced by the subcontractor Campcreative, for the term January 1, 2019 through December 31, 2019.

FISCAL IMPACT:

$20,000; Budgeted.

BACKGROUND:

The Contra Costa County Office of the Sheriff Recruiting Unit is seeking the development of a recruiting video to help attract Deputy Sheriff-Recruit and Dispatch candidates to our agency. Competition for recruitment has increased and a having a professionally produced recruiting video has become industry standard. Bay Alarm and the Contra Costa County Office of the Sheriff are presently entered into a Sponsorship and Licensing Agreement that assists our agency with sponsorships for non-affiliated recruits in the Sheriff’s Office Law Enforcement Academy, and also with advertising for recruiting. Bay Alarm has generously agreed to assist our agency in the production of a recruitment video, to be produced by the subcontractor Campcreative, by contributing $40,000 towards the total cost of production of the recruitment video.