Resolution 0836943E
CITY OF ALAMEDA RESOLUTION NO, 8369
SUPPORTING CRIME CONTROL PROGRAM AS PPOPOSED BY CHAIRMEN OF
REGIONAL CRIMINAL JUSTICE PLANNING BOARDS ASSOCIATION
WHEREAS, the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act his, by act of Congress,
appropriated over $200 million for use by California bcal government, as well as the State of
California; and
WHEREAS, the Office of Criminal Justice Planning is designated by PC 13820 to
administer these funds; and
WHEREAS, the Office of Criminal Justice Planning does have legal authority to execute
grant contracts and conduct audits; and
WHEREAS, local governments in the State of California are presently organized into
twenty-one (21) regional planning boards (PC 13901), and which do not have such contracting
and auditing authority, but who do have responsibility for local criminal justice planning as
well as the authority to review and recommend programs for funding; and
WHEREAS, the regional planning boards are composed of local government officials,
both elected and appointed as well as public members representing the communities; and
WHEREAS, Governor Edmund G. Brown, Jr., has, on several occasions, been publicly
critical of the Office of Criminal Justice Planning administered programs, and has "Threatened"
to return the congressionally appropriated Safe Streets monies to the federal government instead
of providing the funds to local government as required by the Safe Street Act; and
WHEREAS, the City Council agrees with the Governor's concern about the apparent and
continuing inability of the Office of Criminal Justice Planning to expeditiously administer such
funds; and
WHEREAS, it is the consensus of the City Council that they support the Governor's
desire to eliminate any and all of the unnecessary, confusiny, redundant, and replicative processes
at all levels of the funding process; and
WHEREAS, the City Council believes that local government can best perform the role of
criminal justice planning; and
WHEREAS, the Chairmen of the Regional Criminal Justice Planning Boards' Association has
proposed a viable, efficient Crime Control Program in its resolution passed April 9, 1975,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Council of the City of Alameda give its
support to the proposed Crime Control Program,
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Council urge the Governor to take definitive action as
soon as possible in accordance with such plan.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this resolution be sent to Governor Edmund G.
Brown, Jr., the Office of Criminal Justice Planning, and the twenty-one (21) Regional Criminal
Justice Planning Boards.
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I, the undersigned, hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution was duly and regularly
introduced and adopted by the Council of the City of Alameda in regular meeting assembled on the
3rd day of June, 1975, by the following vote, to wit:
AYES: Councilmen Beckam, Diament, Hurwitz, Sherratt and President Corica, (5),
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None,
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the official seal of said City
this 4th day of June, 1975,
(SEAL) ETHEL. M. PITT
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City Clerk of the City of Alameda
I hereby certify that the foregoing is a full, true and correct copy of 'City of Alameda
Resolution No. 8369, SUPPORTING CRIME CONTROL PROGRAM AS PROPOSED BY CHAIRMEN OF REGIONAL CRIMINAL
JUSTICE PLANNING BOARDS' ASSOCIATION", introduced and adopted by the Council of the City of Alameda
on the 3rd day of June, 1975.
City Clerk of the City of Alameda