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Jane E. Cantu, City Clerk
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
OFFICE OF THE/CITY ATTORNEY
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Passed by the City Council:
Resolution Number 5 R
City of Tukwila
Washington
Resolution No. 1238
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
TUKWILA, WASHINGTON, REGARDING CRIMINAL
JUSTICE FUNDING.
WHEREAS, the Washington State Legislature recognized the need for additional
funding support for local criminal justice agencies when they enacted the City /County
Criminal Justice Assistance Act; and
WHEREAS, the cities and towns have used the recently provided criminal justice
assistance funds to improve the criminal justice system at the local level; and
WHEREAS, the criminal justice system continues to be adversely impacted by crime,
drugs, and gangs; and
WHEREAS, all cities are not the same and urban cities have vastly different needs and
resources than lesser populated cities and towns yet the citizenry expectations may be the
same; and
WHEREAS, many municipalities have exhausted their fiscal capacities and do not have
adequate resources to meet the challenges of the increasing demand for criminal justice
services; and
WHEREAS, the provision of the additional criminal justice assistance funds sunset in
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF TUKWILA,
WASHINGTON, DO HEREBY RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS:
That the City of Tukwila requests that the Legislature continue the criminal justice
assistance funding, extending the authority for all counties to impose a one -tenth of one
percent increased sales tax for criminal justice purposes, including domestic violence
community advocates who form a critical piece of an effective coordinated response to
this epidemic of violence in our cities, and urges the Legislature to remove the non
supplanting language from current law; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the City of Tukwila requests that the Legislature
enact legislation that gives cities and towns additional local option funding sources for local
criminal justice programs.
PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF TUKWILA, WASHINGTON, at a
regular meeting thereof this 4th day of January 1993.
Steve Lawrence, Council President