File #: 11376    Version: 0 Name: COMBAT Drug Awareness Month
Type: Resolution Status: Passed
File created: 8/5/1996 In control: Clerk of the County Legislature
On agenda: Final action: 8/5/1996
Title: A RESOLUTION recognizing the importance of awareness and education in fighting illicit drugs and proclaiming August of 1996 as COMBAT Drug Awareness Month in Jackson County.
Sponsors: James D. Tindall, Dennis Waits
Indexes: COMBAT
IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI Title A RESOLUTION recognizing the importance of awareness and education in fighting illicit drugs and proclaiming August of 1996 as COMBAT Drug Awareness Month in Jackson County. Intro RESOLUTION #11376, August 5, 1996 INTRODUCED BY James D. Tindall and Dennis Waits, County Legislators Body WHEREAS, COMBAT is leading a comprehensive, multidisciplinary, community-based approach to fighting illicit drugs throughout Jackson County; and, WHEREAS, some eighty-six agencies throughout the County receive financial support from COMBAT and form a significant component of the effective network of law enforcement, treatment, prevention, community policing, neighborhood prosecution, drug court, and family court; and, WHEREAS, the legislatively appointed Special Advisory Committee in 1993 recommended that informing the taxpayer about the services and progress of each of these programs was imperative; and, WHEREAS, COMBAT created an information line in partnership with the Metropolitan Kansas City Bar Association to provide a menu of information about COMBAT programs and services which has received over 5,000 calls from citizens of Jackson County since February of 1995; and, WHEREAS, COMBAT has taken legal action in over 2,000 drug houses; more than 700 children, women and adults get treatment for substance abuse each month; nearly $60 million in drugs have been seized throughout Jackson County and violent crime in Kansas City is down 9% from last year; and, WHEREAS, over 50 special events will be held throughout the County to inform the citizens of substance abuse services offered through COMBAT and the availability and progress of COMBAT programs; now therefore, BE IT RESOLVED by the County Legislature of Jackson County, Missouri, that the Legislature does hereby join County Executive Katheryn Shields in recognizing the importance of awareness and education in fighting illicit drugs and hereby proclaim August of 1996 as COMBAT Drug Awareness Month in Jackson County. Attorney Effective Date: This Resolution shall be effective immediately upon its passage by a majority of the Legislature. APPROVED AS TO FORM: _______________________ ________________________________ County Counselor Certificate of Passage I hereby certify that the attached resolution, Resolution # 11376 of August, 1996, was duly passed on __________August 5____________, 1996 by the Jackson County Legislature. The votes thereon were as follows: Yeas ________7___________ Nays ________0___________ Abstaining ______0_________ Absent ______2____________ ______________________ _________________________________ Date Mary Jo Brogoto, Clerk of Legislature