15 04 Establish Community Diversion Prog Fund

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ORDINANCE NO. 15-o4 FitzGerald, Nadigan, Seelie. AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE to enact a new section of Chapter 129 of the Codified Ordinances of the City of Lakewood establishing the Community Diversion Program Fund, for the purpose of receiving monies from the Cuyahoga County ]uvenile Court to help offset some of the costs assodated with the Community Diversion Program, WHEREAS, the City of Lakewood has been awarded financia! assistance from the Court of Common Pleas~ .luvenile Court Division for the reimbursement of costs associated with the Community Diversion Program, which diverts youth who are first time juvenile offenders from formal court action and to utilize community resources to ameliorate the situations. WHEREAS, a special revenue fund will permit the City to properly track the finandal assistance and expenditures relating to the program as well as provide adequate documentation for the Court; and WHEREAS, this Coundl by a vote of at least five (S) members elected thereto determines that this ordinance is an emergency measure, and that this ordinance shall take effect at the earliest date possible as set forbh in AR'~CLE III, SECTIONS 10 and 13 of the SECOND AMENDED CHARTER OF THE C1TY OF LAKEWOOD, and that it is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public property, health and safety, and to provide for the usual daily operation of munidpal departments in that the services and costs for thi~ program have already been incurred. BE ~T ORDAINED BY THE O-fY OF LAKEWOOD, STATE OF OHIO: Section L Establishment. There is hereby established a Special Revenue Fund which shall be known and referred to as the Community Diversion Program Fund. The Director of Finance is hereby authorized and directed forthwith to take such action and to make such records as may be necessary to establish the Community Diversion Program Fund and thereafter to show its existence and condition at all times upon the proper records of the City. Section 2, Money for Fund. All revenues derived from the Community Diversion Program shall be kept and maintained in a separate fund hereby designated as the Community Diversion Program Fund. Section 3. Authorized Expenditures. All expenditures incurred for services meeting the criteria of the progi~m shall be paid from this fund. Section 4. Custody of Fund. The Director of Finance shall have possession and custody of the Community Diversion Program Fund and the supervision of all accounts with respect thereto: No further bond shall be required of the Director of Finance because of the Fund, but the Community Diversion Program Fund shall be under the protection of any bond heretofore given to that may be given hereafter by the Director of Finance. Section 5. It is found and determined that all formal actions of this Council concerning and relating to the passage of this resolution were adopted in an open meeting of this Council, and that all such deliberations of this Coundl and of any of its committees that ~esulted in such formal action were in meetings open to the public in compliance with all legal requirements.