22-2022 - Create DARE Special Revenue Fund

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Placed on 1st reading & referred to Finance 06/21/22; 2nd reading 07/05/22 Baker, Bullock, Litten, Marx, ORDINANCE NO. 22-2022 S ha cline r AN ORDINANCE to take effect immediately provided it receives the affirmative vote of at least five (5) members of Council, or otherwise to take effect and be in force after the earliest period allowed by law, creating a D.A.R.E. (Drug Awareness Resistance Education) special revenue fund for internal financial controls pursuant to Ohio Revised Code §2981.13(D). WHEREAS, O.R.C. §2981.13(D) requires that at least ten percent of the first one hundred thousand dollars of amounts deposited during any calendar year in the agency's law enforcement trust fund under this section, and at least twenty percent of the amounts exceeding one hundred thousand dollars that are so deposited, shall be used in connection with community preventive education program." WI -AREAS, O.R.C. §2981.13(D) also states community preventative education programs include but are not limited to, DARE programs and other programs designed to educate adults and children with respect to the dangers associated with using drugs of abuse; and WHEREAS, the City of Lakewood's Division of Police presently provide a city-wide DARE program in the Lakewood City Schools; and WHEREAS, creating this fund will allow for financial controls of these funds; 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 ordinance 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 this fund is needed for. financial control purposes; now, therefore, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF LAKEWOOD, STATE OF OHIO Section 1. That new Section 129.321 DARE Special Revenue Fund of the Lakewood Codified Ordinances, is hereby created to read as follows: Section 129.321 DARE Special Revenue Fund. Ten percent of all annual revenues deposited in the Law Enforcement Trust Fund and Drug Enforcement Trust fund shall be kept and maintained in a separate fund hereby designated the DARE Special Revenue Fund. All expenditures for the city-wide DARE program and any other eligible expenses shall be paid from this fund. Section 2. It is found and determined that all formal actions of this Council concerning and relating to the passage of this ordinance were adopted in an open meeting of this Council, and that all such deliberation of the Council and of any of its committees that resulted in such formal action were in meetings open to the public in compliance with all legal requirements.