1997-074RESOLUTION NO. 97-74
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
SOUTHLAKE, TEXAS, IN SUPPORT OF THE COPS UNIVERSAL HIRING
COMMUNITY ORIENTED POLICING GRANT SUPPLEMENT PROGRAM.
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Southlake concurs with efforts to make America's
neighborhoods safe places in which to grow, live, and work, and
WHEREAS, the Department of Justice has established a COPS UNIVERSAL HIRING grant
program designed to assist communities in the development of innovative, locally designed, long-term
community policing public safety plans, which enable deployment of police in community policing
programs by making funding available to support such programs, and
WHEREAS, the objectives of such programs have been designed to, promote community-based
problem -solving, prevent crime, and enhance public safety through community based policing, and
WHEREAS, the City of Southlake is a small, but rapidly growing community with a need to provide
pro -active community policing efforts, with emphasis during the incipient phases of community
development, and
WHEREAS, the City of Southlake agrees to provide the necessary support as outlined in the grant
proposal to augment a pro -active community policing operations, and
WHEREAS, the City of Southlake agrees to conform to all of the requirements of the COPS
UNIVERSAL HIRING grant program upon being awarded such grant funding,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by the City of Southlake, that the City Council of
Southlake, Texas supports the COPS UNIVERSAL HIRING grant program, and authorizes the
Southlake Department of Public Safety, Police Services Division, to apply for grant funding under
the terms and conditions of the program.
PASSED AND APPROVED THIS THE _ DAY OF AL , 1997.
CITY OF SOUTHLAKE, TEXAS
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