Explanation
This legislation authorizes and directs the Division of Police to pay to send an officer to a train-the-trainer session entitled "Crime Free Multi Housing" which teaches law enforcement officers innovative, crime prevention methods for rental property.
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To authorize and direct the appropriation of $1,200.00 within the Public Safety Initiatives Fund to the Division of Police to pay expenses associated with Crime Free Multi Housing Training that will take place in Mesa, Arizona; and to declare an emergency. ($1,200.00)
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WHEREAS, Council member Kevin Boyce launched the Franklinton Health, Safety, and Crime Prevention Campaign in November 2005, which is a comprehensive pilot program with the goal of finding collaborative solutions to neighborhood issues. As a result of some of the issues that have been discussed in the meetings, Council member Boyce now recommends this expenditure to send an officer from CPD to Mesa, Arizona for the Crime Free Multi Housing training. This officer would then, in turn, "pilot" some of these lessons in Franklinton and, if successful, citywide; and
WHEREAS, City Council set aside $2 million in its 2006 budget amendments for Public Safety initiatives; and
WHEREAS, The Crime Free Multi- Housing Program began in Mesa, Arizona in October 1992, and has received state, national, and international recognition and awards It has since spread out to over 1700 cities in 44 states and all across Canada. The Crime Free Multi Housing Program has achieved a national average of nearly 70% reduction in police calls for service to problem rental properties; and
WHEREAS, the Division of Police will send one officer to the National Train -The- Trainer Workshop to take place in March, 2006 in Mesa, Arizona; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operations of the Department of Public Safety, in that it is immediately necessary to allocate these funds for the immediate preservation of the public health, peace, property, safety and welfare; now, therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS
SECTION 1. That the City Auditor is hereby authorized to appropriate $1,200.00 within the Public Safety Initiatives Fund, 016, to the Division of Police 30-03, OL1 one 03, OL Three 3330, OCA Code 300316.
SECTION 2. That the Division of Police shall ise these funds for costs associated with sending one officer to Mesa, Arizona for Crime Free Multi Housing Training.
SECTION 3. That for reasons stated in the preamble hereto, which is hereby made a part hereof, this ordinance is hereby declared an emergency measure and shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval by the Mayor, or ten days after passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.