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RESOLUTION NO. 3442
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A RESOLUTION OF THE TOWN COUNCIL OF
THE TOWN OF TIBURON APPROVING AN EXPENDITURE PLAN
FOR THE UTILIZATION OF SUPPLEMENTAL LAW ENFORCEMENT FUNDS
( .COPS' MONIES) IN FISCAL YEAR 2000-2001
WHEREAS, Assembly Bill 3229, signed into law as Chapter 134, Statutes of 1996, establishes
the Citizens Option for Public Safety (COPS) Program; and
WHEREAS, the Governor recently signed a four-year extension of the COPS program that
provides local government law enforcement jurisdictions with annual baseline funding in the amount of
$100,000, for frontline law enforcement personnel and other related equipment, and
WHEREAS, the Town Council, at a public hearing held annually in September, must approve of
a plan for the expenditure of Supplemental Law Enforcement Funds (COPS), and
WHEREAS, in Fiscal Year 2000-01 the Tiburon Police Department proposes to utilize
additional and available COPS monies to employ a full-time Detective/Investigator; fund Department
participation in the Countywide MERA Program; defray ongoing operating costs associated with patrol
mobile computing units; and purchase mobile communications and emergency equipment for use by
frontline law enforcement personnel, and
WHEREAS, the Town Council of the Town ofTiburon, at its meeting of July 5, 2000, adopted
the recommended Police Department Budget that included authorization of a new COPS-funded
frontline position (Investigator), and COPS-funded participation in the Countywide MERA Program:
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NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS RESOLVED by the Town Council of the Town of Tiburon to
approve the proposed and recommended use of COPS funds, and further, that the action to employ
additional frontline personnel shall be effective contingent upon receipt and continuation of baseline
funding in the amounts referred to above. This Resolution, which approves of the recommended plan
for the expenditure of COPS monies, is to be submitted to County Supplemental Law Enforcement
Oversight Committee.
PASSED AND ADOPTED at a regular meeting of the Town Council of the Town ofTiburon
on, September 6. 2000, by the following vote:
AYES:
COUNCIL MEMBERS:
GRAM, BACH, HENNESSY
MATTHEWS, THOMPSON
NONE.
NONE
NOES:
ABSENT:
COUNCIL MEMBERS:
COUNCIL MEMBERS:
M GRAM, MAYOR
TOWN OF TffiURON
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ATTEST:
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TOWN CLERK