9012-18 Accept Funds for D.A.R.E. Program

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RESOLUTION N0. 9012 -18 BY: Anderson, Bullock, George, Litten, O'Leary, O'Malley, Rader A RESOLUTION to take effect immediately provided it receives the affirmative vote of at least two thirds of the members of Council, or otherwise to take effect and be in force after the earliest period allowed by law, authorizing the Mayor as the Director of Public Safety or his designee to enter into an agreement with the Ohio Attorney General to accept and expend funds for the City's Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.) program in the amount of $44,019 to continue to educate young people of the City of Lakewood as to the hazards of alcohol and drugs. WHEREAS, the Division of Police (Police) has operated the Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.) program since 1990; and WHEREAS, the Police are currently operating D.A.R.E. programs in all elementary and middle schools within the City; and WHEREAS, the D.A.R.E. program has a positive influence on the young people of the City through education as to the hazards of alcohol and drugs; and WHEREAS, the number of students participating in and graduating from the D.A.R.E. program increases annually; and WHEREAS, as set forth in Section 2.12 of the Third Amended Charter of the City of Lakewood, this Council by a vote of at least two thirds of its members determines that this resolution is an emergency measure and that it shall take effect immediately, 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 municipal departments, in that the City of Lakewood has received and award in the amount of $44,019 for the continued operation of the D.A.R.E. program from the Ohio Attorney General's office and must return a signed agreement by September 15, 2018; now, therefore, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY OF LAKEWOOD, OHIO: Section 1. The Mayor as the Director of Public Safety or his designee is hereby authorized to enter into an agreement, in substantially the same form as attached as Exhibit A, with the Ohio Attorney General to accept and expend funds for the City's Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.) program in the amount of $44,019. Section 2. 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,