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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
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PETER B. LOG~, MAYOR
Town of TiburoR'
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