HomeMy WebLinkAboutReso - CC - 029-1975RESOLUTION NO. 29- 75
URGING SUPPORT OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE
COUNCIL PROJECTS AND FUNDING
RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Burlingame,
California, that:
Whereas, over $200,000,000 has been appropriated by
the Congress of the United States for the purpose of improving
the effectiveness of criminal justice system agencies, both State
and local, within the State of California, pursuant to the
Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968; and
Whereas, the Office of Criminal Justice Planning
(OCJP), an agency of the State of California, has exercised
ongoing and continuing responsibility to administer and to carry
out these Federally funded programs within the twenty-one regions
of California; and
Whereas, since February, 1975, Governor Edmund G.
Brown, Jr., has caused the Office of Criminal Justice Planning
to cease exercising the responsibilities imposed upon that
agency by State and Federal law; and
Whereas, by reason of the acts of said Governor, no
Federal funds are made available for many ongoing projects which
had been approved for funding, as well as for new projects which
had been authorized; and
Whereas, it is in the public interest that continued
efforts be made to improve the effectiveness of the various
component local agencies of the criminal justice system, including
police, prosecuting and defending attorneys, courts, and
correctional and rehabilitative agencies; and
Whereas, there exist within the State of California
twenty-one local planning boards by which Federal funds could
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continue to be made available for local programs, without the
necessity of the intervening State agency, the Office of
Justice Planning; and
Whereas, the Criminal Justice Council of San Mateo
County is the local planning board for the region encompassing
San Mateo County and is an agency through which said Federal
funds could continue to be made directly available for projects,
rather than through the said State agency; and
Whereas, the Criminal Justice Council of San Mateo
County desires to continue to act as the responsible public
agency for the expenditure of Federal funds for criminal justice
planning and projects within San Mateo County without regard
to the existence or non-existence of an administratively inter-
vening State agency;
NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council of the City of
Burlingame hereby RESOLVES as follows:
1. The Legislature, with the approval of the Governor
of the State of California,should enact laws providing for a
"Block Grant" to existing regions and by which Federal funds
would continue to be made available for local and regional
planning and funding of criminal justice projects.
2. Legal and fiscal authority should immediately be
delegated to Regional Boards to continue to carry out the pro-
visions of the Federal Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets
Act of 1968;
3. Responsible action should be taken forthwith to
prevent reversion of the balance of Federal funds available from
the 1973 appropriation, the loss of which is contrary to the
best interests of the People of the State of California;
4. Copies of the resolution shall be sent to the
Governor, the members of the State Assembly and Senate repre-
senting San Mateo County, the Board of Supervisors of San Mateo
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County, and to the city councils of all cities within San Mateo
County; and
51 This Council urgently requests that the Governor
take definitive action in accordance with this resolution.
Vfayor
I, HERBERT K. WHITE, City Clerk of the City of
Burlingame, do hereby certify that the foregoing resolution was
introduced at a regular meeting of the City Council held on the
5th day of May, 1975, and adopted thereafter by the following
vote:
AYES: COUNCILMEN: Amstrup-Crosby-Cusick- Harr ison-Mangini
NOES: COUNCILMEN: None
ABSENT: COUNCILMEN: None
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