HomeMy WebLinkAboutCity Council - 4345 RESOLUTION NO. 4345
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF HUNTINGTON BEACH REGARDING THE NEIGHBORHOOD
WATCH PROGRAM
WHEREAS, the City Attorney of the City of Huntington
Beach has expressed some legal concerns respecting the method
of budgeting items in the police department budget in connec-
tion with the Neighborhood Watch Program and the format of
the Watch newsletter; and
The City Council endorses the Neighborhood Watch Program
and desires that the police department continue to cooperate
with the Watch in its programs of crime reduction which have
been of great benefit to the citizens of Huntington Beach; and
The City Council desires the relationship of the City
with Neighborhood Watch to be on a sound and proper legal footing
and desires to improve the method of budgeting items in connec-
tion with the Neighborhood Watch Program and the format of the
Watch newsletter and to clarify the position of the City vis-a-
vis Neighborhood Watch; and
The City of Huntington Beach does not sponsor Neighborhood'
Watch, however, the City endorses the Watch program and acknowl-
edges the good work that is being done by the Watch,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the
City of Huntington Beach as follows:
1. The City of Huntington Beach does not sponsor the
Neighborhood Watch, which is a private, nonprofit corporation,
but endorses the program of the Watch;
2 . The police department budget is hereby amended as
follows :
(a) Identify. Account No. 331-550 for printing Neighbor-
hood Watch newsletter for Fiscal Year 76-77 -- $ 750 . 00
DPB: cs 1.
(b) Overtime pay attributable to Neighborhood Watch
is authorized for police officers attendance at meetings of
Neighborhood Watch or other Watch events from the crime pre-
vention budget, Account No. 331-130, on the same basis as
attendance of officers at functions of any other group involved
in crime prevention.
3. The Neighborhood Watch newsletter shall not bear a
reproduction of the letterhead of the Chief of Police, nor
the imprinting of the police department insignia or the name
of the Chief. Inasmuch as the City does not officially sponsor
Neighborhood Watch, the newsletter should not by its format
imply such sponsorship.
4. As a public service, the Neighborhood Watch newsletter
may regularly print the telephone numbers of the police depart-
ment .
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of
Huntington Beach at an adjourned regular meeting thereof held
on the 26th day of October, 1976.
ATTEST: � -r7 r1
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Y 'May6r
City Clerk
APPROVED AS TO CONTENT: APPROVED AS TO FORM:
Ci y Administrator City Attorn
APPROVED, INITIATING DEPARTMENTS :
0) 1 M--- �- - NO FISCAL IMPACT
Chief of -Police FISCAL IMPACT -- ''"GETED
FISCAL. IMPACT a 5U G E T E D
City AttorneyV REQUIRES FINANCIAL IMPACT RE 0RT__
2.
Res. No. 4345
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE
CITY OF HUNTINGTON BEACH )
I, ALICIA M. WENTWORTH, the duly elected, qualified City
Clerk of the City of Huntington Beach, and ex-officio Clerk of the
City Council of said City, do hereby certify that the whole number of
members of the City Council of the City of Huntington Beach is seven;
that the foregoing resolution was passed and adopted by the affirmative
vote of more than a majority of all the members of said City Council
at a regular adi n_,-„pj meeting thereof held on the 26th day
of October , 19 76 by the following vote:
AYES: Councilmen:
Bartlett, Pattinson, Gibbs, Siebert, Wieder
NOES: Councilmen:
None
ABSENT: Councilmen:
Coen, Shenkman
City Clerk and ex-officio Clerk
of the City Council of the City
of Huntington Beach, California