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RESOLUTION NO. 05-2001
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) FOR THE PURPOSE OF STANDARDIZING
POLICE WEAPONRY EQUIPMENT
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 an extension of the COPS program that provides
local government law enforcement jurisdictions with annual baseline funding in the amount of $1 00,000,
for frontline law enforcement personnel and other related equipment, and
WHEREAS, the Town Council, at a public hearing held in September 2000, approved of an
expenditure plan to utilize Supplemental Law Enforcement Funds (COPS) monies to: a full-time
DetectivelInvestigator; Department participation in the Countrywide 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 Chief of Police has identified a health and safety concern, associated with the
lack of standardization in the weaponry stock of the Department, that may be addressed and mitigated
through the expenditure of COPS monies, and
--. WHEREAS, the proposed use of COPS funds is appropriate and in accordance with the State
legislative guidelines concerning the expenditure of COPS monies:
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 appropriates $15,100 ofSLESF
monies for the purpose of acquiring standardized weaponry equipment that is used by frontline law
enforcement personnel of the Tiburon Police Department.
PASSED AND ADOPTED at a regular meeting of the Town Council of the Town ofTiburon
on, February 7. 2001, by the following vote:
AYES:
NOES:
ABSENT:
COUNCIL MEMBERS:
COUNCIL MEMBERS:
COUNCIL MEMBERS:
Bach, Gram, Matthews, Slavitz, Thompson
None
None
BY:
(}d:W<~AYOR
TOWN OF TffiURON
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ATTEST:
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DIANE CRANE IACO~
TOWN CLERK
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