CC RESOLUTION 3598RESOLUTION NO. 3598
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF EL SEGUNDO, CALIFORNIA, URGING THE FEDERAL
GOVERNMENT TO ALLOCATE ADDITIONAL ANTI -DRUG
RESOURCES TO LOS ANGELES COUNTY
WHEREAS, Los Angeles County has become a major drug
importation and trans - shipment center for the United States, with
massive amounts of cocaine and Mexican heroin flowing into the
area; and
WHEREAS, the dramatic rise in drug trafficking and abuse
within Los Angeles County has severely overburdened our justice
and health care systems, as is evidenced by the growing numbers
of arrests, drug seizures, emergency room episodes and deaths;
and
WHEREAS, the allocation of Federal resources is
disproportionate and grossly inadequate for locally -based Federal
anti -drug investigation and enforcement agencies.
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO,
CALIFORNIA DOES RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. The City of E1 Segundo joins with other cities
in Los Angeles County to urge the Federal Government to
reallocate resources -- including personnel, technology and
funding -- available to Federal anti -drug enforcement agencies to
those areas of highest drug abuse and trafficking activity;
particularly to those Federal agency offices working in the Los
Angeles County area.
SECTION 2. The City further urges
implementation of the Anti -Drug Abuse Act
resources made available under the Act to
demonstrated the greatest need -- including
assist with local law enforcement, health
education efforts.
expeditious
of 1988, which targets
those areas which have
Los Angeles County - -to
care, prevention and
SECTION 3. The City Clerk shall certify to the passage and
adoption of this resolution; shall cause the original of the same
to be entered into the book of resolutions of the said City of E1
Segundo; and shall make a minute of the passage and adoption
thereof in the records of the proceedings of the City Council of
the said City, in the minutes of the meeting at which the same is
passed and adopted.
PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED this 20th day of,JAne,,%1989.
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I, Ronald L. Hart, City Clerk of the City of El Segundo, California, DO HEREBY
CERTIFY that the whole number of members of the City Council of said City is five;
that the foregoing resolution, being Resolution No. 3598 was duly passed and adopted
by the said City Council, approved and signed by the Mayor of said City, and attested by
the City Clerk of said City, all at a regular meeting of the said Council held on the 20th
day of June, 1989 and that the same was so passed and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Councilmembers Clutter, Dannen,
West, Anderson and Mayor Jacobson
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
WITNESS MY HAND THE OFFICIAL SEAL OF SAID CITY this 23rd day of
June, 1989.
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City of El Segundo, California
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