HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution No. 214CITY OF MEDINA
RESOLUTION NO. 214
WHEREAS, the Washington State Legislature recognized the need for
additional funding support for local criminal justice agencies
when they enacted the City/County Criminal Justice Assistance
Act; and
WHEREAS, the cities and towns have used the recently provided
criminal justice assistance funds to improve the criminal justice
system at the local level; and
WHEREAS, the criminal justice system continues to be adversely
impacted by crime, drugs, and gangs; and
WHEREAS, all cities are not the same and urban cities have vastly
different needs and resources than lesser populated cities and
towns yet the citizenry expectations may be the same; and
WHEREAS, many municipalities have exhausted their fiscal
capacities and do not have adequate resources to meet the
challenges of the increasing demand for criminal justice
services; and
WHEREAS, the provision of the additional criminal justice
assistance funds sunset in 1993;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the City of Medina requests
that the Legislature continue the criminal justice assistance
funding, extending the authority for all counties to impose a
one -tenth of one percent increased sales tax for criminal justice
purposes, including domestic violence community advocates who
form a critical piece of an effective coordinated response to
this epidemic of violence in our cities, and urges the
Legislature to remove the non -supplanting language from current
law; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the City of Medina requests that the
Legislature enact legislation that gives cities and towns
additional local option funding sources for local criminal
justice programs.
PASSED by the City Council this filth day of January, 1993, and
signed in authentication of its passage this llth day of January,
1993.
C. �Ray CoMayor
Attest:
M rgarr R. Davis, City Clerk