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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTC Res 1990-08-01 (2) RESOLUTION NO. 2731 A RESOLUTION OF THE TOWN COUNCIL OF THE TOWN OF TIBURON DESIGNATING SEPTEMBER 13, 1990 AS NATIONAL DRUG ABUSE RESISTANCE EDUCATION (D.A.R.E.) DAY WHEREAS, D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) is a semester-long program that teaches young people ways to resist peer pressure to experiment with drugs and alcohol, and WHEREAS, D.A.R.E. targets young people when they are most vulnerable to tremendous peer pressure and teaches the skills to make positive decisions and resist pressure to engage in negative behaviors, and WHEREAS, more than 100,000 classrooms in 49 states as well as Department of Defense Dependent Schools and schools in American Samoa, Canada, Australia and New Zealand conduct the D.A.R.E. program, and WHEREAS, over 20 million students have been reached through D.A.R.E., and WHEREAS, the D.A.R.E. program is taught by veteran police officers with direct experience in cases involving criminal activities and ruined lives caused by substance abuse, and WHEREAS, each police officer who teaches the D.A.R.E. program completes an 80-hour training course that includes instruction in teaching techniques, officer-school relationships, development of self-esteem, child development and communication skills, and WHEREAS, the D.A.R.E. curriculum, developed by the Los Angeles Police Department and the Los Angeles Unified School District, helps students understand self-image, recognize stress and manage it without taking drugs, evaluate risk-taking behavior, resist gang pressure, apply decision making skills, and evaluate the consequences of the choices available to them, and WHEREAS, the D.A.R.E. program has achieved outstanding success teaching positive and effective approaches to what is one of the most difficult problems facing our young people today -- drug abuse. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Town Council of the Town of Tiburon does hereby designate September 13, 1990 as "D.A.R.E. Day", and the Mayor of the Town of Tiburon calls upon the people of Tiburon to observe that day with appropriate ceremonies and activities. PASSED AND ADOPTED at a regular meeting of the Town Council of the Town of Tiburon on AUl:Ust 1, 1990 by the following vote: AYES: COUNCILMEMBERS: Friedman, Coxhead, Thayer, Kuhn, Logan NOES: COUNCILMEMBERS: None ABSENT: COUNCILMEMBERS: None /'/-j / , / ,/ i '-, ~..."- ( ,/'__../ ?\ ,,/'- / ' " f 1/" I "\ '. '-;l1"ZA ~::vCL, "../ '.j <f"V--- PETER B. LOG~, MAYOR Town of TiburoR' ATIEST: CLERK