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Resolution 098-2000 OMB/Grants RESOLUTION NO. 098 - 2000 o a::: It) W ~J o ._ .~ .J A RESOLUTION OF THE MONROE COUNTY BOARD (.) ''..:z -<}.... ~ :z: 3c..;~ OF COMMISSIONERS ESTABLISHING A MONROE a::: 0... ~O::5 COUNTY PUBLIC SAFETY COORDINATING COUNCIL o CD .wo t.L. N ...J . (.) a:: ;:-Xw A ~ z....Jo ...... :z: Z (.) 0:: == 0 <( :z u.. (:) 0 ~ WHEREAS, Florida Statute 951.26 provides for the establishment of a Public Safety Coordinating Council by each Board of County Commissioners; and WHEREAS, the Council is to consist of local law enforcement, judicial, substance abuse, mental health, and school professionals for the purpose of assessing the population status of all detention or correctional facilities owned or contracted by the County as well as formulating recommendations to ensure that the capacities of such facilities are not exceeded; and WHEREAS, in order to be eligible to receive Department of Corrections Community Corrections Funds a county must have a Public Safety Coordinating Council established and designate a county agency officer or agency to be responsible for administering community correction funds received from the sate; and WHEREAS, the Office of Substance Abuse and the Substance Abuse Policy Advisory Board fulfill a similar purpose under the State's Anti-Drug Abuse Program; and WHEREAS, the Substance Abuse Policy Advisory Board unanimously supported the establishment of a Public Safety Coordinating Council and agreed to accept that role; now therefore BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF MONROE COUNTY, FLORIDA, that: Section 1. Board Membership The Board shall consist of the following members from Monroe County: State Attorney, Public Defender, Chief Circuit Judge, Chief County Judge, Chief Correctional Officer, Sheriff, State Probation Circuit Administrator, Chairperson of the Monroe County Board of Commissioners, Director of Pretrial Services, Director of a Substance Abuse Treatment Program, and representatives from County and State job programs and other community groups who work with offenders and victims, appointed by the Chairperson of the Board of County Commissioners. All appointments can be represented by their designee. Those members who serve by reason of their job position shall continue to serve until they are no longer in that position or termination of the Council by the Board of County Commissioners. The County Commission member of the Council shall be designated by the Board of County Commissioners in November of each year. The State Probation Circuit Administrator, the Director of Pretrial Services, Director ofa Substance Abuse Treatment Program, and the representatives from County and State job programs and other community groups are appointed for 4-year terms. Meetings shall be conducted in accordance with Robert's Rules of Order and the Council shall adopt their own Administrative Procedures and By-Laws in accordance with the Monroe County Board of Commissioners ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES. Section 2. Primary Function The Public Safety Coordinating Council is charged with the following: I. Assessing the population status of all detention or correctional facilities owned or contracted by the County; 2. Formulating recommendations to ensure that the capacities of such facilities are not exceeded; 3. Assessing the availability of pretrial intervention or probation programs, work-release programs, substance abuse programs, gain-time schedules, applicable bail bond schedules, and the confinement status of the inmates housed within each facility owned or contracted by the County; 4. Developing a comprehensive public safety plan; and 5. Acting as the liaison for the distribution of Department of Corrections Community Corrections Funds to local programs that are responsive to the Comprehensive Public Safety Plan. Section 3, Coordination and Liaison The Monroe County Public Safety Coordinating Council will work with and through the Office of the Monroe County Grants Manager who shall serve as liaison for the County and work with the council to accomplish the work identified above. PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Board of County Commissioners of Monroe County, Florida, at a regular meeting of said Board held on the 15th day of March, A.D. 2000. yes yes yes yes yes D.C..