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CITY OF NORTH OLMSTED <br />ORDINANCE NO. 2020 - 37 <br />By: Mayor Kennedy <br />AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING A CITY OF NORTH OLMSTED <br />JUVENILE COMMUNITY DIVERSION PROGRAM WITHIN THE <br />DIVISION OF YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES, AND DECLARING AN <br />EMERGENCY. <br />WHEREAS, the City of North Olmsted has a long history and proactive policies directed <br />toward assisting and rehabilitating juveniles suspected of being in violation of state statutes or <br />local ordinances; and <br />WHEREAS, in 1970, the Citizens of the City of North Olmsted enacted a Charter <br />Amendment to establish a Youth Advisory Commission to review juvenile and sociological <br />problems in the City of North Olmsted; and <br />WHEREAS, as a follow-up to the 1970 Charter Amendment, City Council in 1974 <br />enacted Ord. No. 74-26, thereby creating the Department of Human Resources; and <br />WHEREAS, in 1978, the City of North Olmsted received a $10,000.00 grant from the <br />Cleveland Foundation to assist in the operation of a sustainable, independent Youth Diversion <br />Program ("YDP") and the YDP was up and running; and <br />WHEREAS, the YDP was successfully operated as an independent entity of the City of <br />North Olmsted from 1978 through 1998; and <br />WHEREAS, in 1998, via Ord. 98-149, the City Council replaced the YDP program with <br />contractual services provided by the Cuyahoga County Juvenile Court and until 2020, the <br />diversion program became known as the Community Diversion Program ("CDP"); and <br />WHEREAS, embracing its longstanding history of being proactive in matters related to <br />juvenile concerns, the City in 2013 created the locally -controlled Juvenile Traffic Intervention <br />Program ("JTIP"), to provide traffic education to juveniles before their involvement in the <br />juvenile justice system; and <br />WHEREAS, the authority to operate a local CDP and JTIP, independent of the Juvenile <br />Court, is well established, as Art. XVIII, §3 of the Ohio Constitution, ("Home Rule <br />Amendment'), provides that "[m]unicipalities shall have authority to exercise all powers of local <br />self-government and to adopt and enforce within their limits such local police, sanitary and other <br />similar regulations, as are not in conflict with general laws." Further, the Home Rule <br />Amendment provides independent authority to Ohio's municipalities with regard to local police <br />regulations. W. Jefferson v. Robinson, 1 Ohio St.2d 113, 115, 205 N.E.2d 382 (1965); and <br />