Explanation
This resolution authorizes the City of Columbus to enter into an agreement with Franklin County for the purpose of establishing the Columbus/Franklin County Homeland Security Planning Board. This board will be comprised of members of the Franklin County Criminal Justice Planning Board as well as the Director of the Department of Public Safety. This board is being created in order to provide planning and funding for local Homeland Security efforts.
Title
To authorize the City of Columbus to enter into an agreement with the government of Franklin County, Ohio to establish the Columbus/Franklin County Homeland Security Planning Board and to declare an emergency.
Body
WHEREAS, since September 11, 2001 the Government of the United States of America has created agencies and funding resources to provide for the security of the fifty states of the United States, now referred to as Homeland Security; and
WHEREAS, in establishing these agencies and funding resources the national government has provided funding opportunities to regions of the United States whose units of local government establish cooperative agreements among themselves that are designed to effectively plan and fund local Homeland Security efforts; and
WHEREAS, the Central Ohio area has been designated as an urban area initiative; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the City of Columbus in that it is immediately necessary to adopt this resolution as an emergency measure to ensure the preservation of the public health, peace, property, safety, and welfare; now, therefore
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS, OHIO:
SECTION 1. That the City of Columbus, Ohio, represented by the Director of the Department of Public Safety, or his designee, is authorized to enter into an agreement with the government of Franklin County, Ohio to establish the Columbus/Franklin County Homeland Security Planning Board.
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