City Council

21. CONSIDERATION OF AN ORDINANCE APPROVING AN UPDATED AB 481 POLICY\nAND APPROVAL OF ANNUAL MILITARY EQUIPMENT REPORT – F2M22-41, O2M25-\n4843, M2M25-50\nOn April 25, 2022, the City Council adopted Ordinance No. O2M22-4803 approving a\nMilitary Equipment Use Policy (“Policy”) pursuant to assembly Bill 481 (“AB 481”). In\naccordance with the legislation and the Policy, a military equipment report must be\nsubmitted to the City Council annually for each type of military equipment approved within\none year of approval, and annually thereafter for as long as the military equipment is\navailable for use. Alhambra’s 2024 Annual Military Equipment Report, which summarizes\nequipment deployments and purchases during the 2024 calendar year and the Police\nDepartment’s updated policy, which contains edits to equipment and munition inventory\nnumbers and removal of an armored personnel carrier which was initially being considered\nvia an Urban Area Security Initiative Grant are outlined in the Chief of Police’s staff report\ndated April 14, 2025. AB 481 requires that the Council determine, based on the annual\nmilitary equipment report submitted pursuant to Section 7072, whether each type of\nmilitary equipment identified in that report has complied with the standards for approval\nset forth in Government Code section 7071(d). Staff reviewed Department records and\ndetermined there were no complaints or concerns reported on the use of the equipment\nin 2024. Additionally, the Department conducted an internal audit and determined that\nthere were no violations of the military equipment use policy.\nRecommended Action: City Council, by one motion, take the following actions:\n1. Declare introduced for its first reading the following ordinance entitled:\nOrdinance No. O2M25-4843: An Ordinance of the City Council of the City of\nAlhambra implementing AB 481 by approving an updated policy for the use of\nmilitary equipment by the Alhambra Police Department\nwhich ordinance will return for a second reading and adoption at the next regular\nCouncil meeting; and,\n2. Approve the Alhambra Police Department’s Annual Military Equipment Report set\nforth in the Chief of Police’s April 14, 2025 report per the requirements under\nAssembly Bill 481. (M2M25-50)