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Home My WebLink About69-21 Crime Prevention Committee1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 ORDINANCE NO. 6 �--2) AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COSTA MESA, CALIFORNIA, CREATING AND ESTABLISHING A CRIME PREVENTION COMMITTEE; FINDING AND DECLARING A NEED THEREFORE; PROVIDING FOR ITS MEMBERSHIP; SETTING FORTH ITS POWERS AND DUTIES; PROVIDING FOR ITS STAFF AND GENERALLY INITIATING ITS PURPOSES. THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COSTA MESA, CALIFORNIA, DOES HEREBY ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. The City Council of the City of Costa Mesa does hereby make the following findings and declarations: There has been an alarming increase in crime and lawlessness in the past several years in the City of Costa Mesa. It is necessary for citizens involvement in the reasons for this increase, its causes, sources, possible and probable deterrents and solutions which must come from grass roots, person to person concern with these growing problems. It is also necessary that local government go into the neighborhoods among its citizens for information, advice, knowledge and ideas aimed toward crime prevention. It is also necessary that local government rely upon its citizens for community help which, hand in hand with city government and the law enforcement agencies, will effectively combat this alarming and unnecessary increase in crime and lawlessness in our community It is also necessary that an orderly, convenient and workable meth be developed to accomplish these goals, avoiding cross-purposes, duplication of effort and wasted motion. Accordingly, there is hereby enacted the following article to Chapter II of the Costa Mesa Municipal Code to effectuate the aforementioned purposes. SECTION 2. Chapter II, Article 5.5, Section 2500 of the Cotta Mesa Muncipal Code shall read as follows: -1- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 CHAPTER II ARTICLE 5.5 crime Prevention Committee Sec. 2500.1 Committee Established There is hereby established as a part of the government of the City of Costa Mesa, a Crime Prevention Committee, whose prime function shall be the responsibility for planning the improvements in crime prevention and control and encourag- ing their implementation through recommendations to the City Council. Sec. 2500.2 Regular Members. The Committee shall consist of not less than nine (9) members and shall be appointed by the Mayor, subject to approval by a majority vote of the City Council. Six of said members shall be chosen one each from the six areas of the city which have been established and now provide members for the Costa Masa Beautification Committee. One member shall be chosen as a student from a Costa Mesa High School and one shall be chosen as a student from a Costa Mesa College. A ninth member shall be picked from the City at large. Members shall serve without compensation and all regular members mall be entitled to vote. Sec. 2500.3 Ex -officio Members. The City Council, may, from time to time, by resolution designate ex -officio members of the crime Prevention Committe Ex -officio members shall participate in all discussions but shall have no vote and may include, but not be limited to, members of the judiciary, county juvenile department, police department, city attorney's office, and members of the City Council. Sec. 2500.4 Terms of Members. All regular members shall be appointed for a term of four years. Upon the initial meeting of the committee, following -2- 1 appointment by the City Council, the regular members shall 2 draw lots for terms with three committeemen's terms expiring 3 in two years from date of appointment; three committeemen's 4 terms expiring in three years from the date of appointment an 5 three committeemen's terms expiring in four years from date 6 of appointment. 7 Sec. 2500.5 Requirements. 8 All regular members shall be qualified electors of the City 9 of Costa Mesa, with the exception of the student members 10 who must be residents of the City of Costa Mesa during their 11 term of office. Any committeeman who no longer qualifies 12 as an elector of the City of Costa Mesa or moves his or her 13 residence from within the geographical limits of the City of 14 Costa Mesa, shall forthwith be deemed no longer a member 15 of the Committee and the :position thus vacated shall be 16 filled in accordance with Section 2500.2. 17 Sec. 2500.6 Powers and Duties 18 The Committee shall serve as an advisory board to the 19 City Council. 20 The Committee shall gather and analyze statistics about 21 crime; acquire knowledge about the program and procedures 22 to fight crime; and about those that have proved successful 23 elsewhere; gather data about the social conditions that appea 24 to be linked with crime; and information about potentially 25 helpful individuals and organizations in the community, and 26 communicate their recommendations on such matters to the City 27 Council. 28 The committee shall appraise the needs of the city to 29 reduce crime and analyze the resources available to meet 30 those needs. 31 The Committee shall also make recommendations to the 32 City Council on any other matter which, in their opinion -3- I will assist in preventing crime, improve the social environ - 2 ment, and will make better utilization of the human resources 3 of the community, in accordance with its prime responsibility 4 as stated herein. 5 Sec. 2500.7 Police Review Board Not Created. 6 This article shall not be construed as granting authority 7 to the Crime Prevention Committee to review, discipline or 8 regulate the act or actions of any police officer of the City 9 of Costa Mesa. 10 Sec. 2500.8 Meetings. 11 The Committee shall meet not less than once a month, and 12 oftener, as may be necessary, if so determined by a majority 13 of the Committee. Meetings shall take place in the City Hall 14 unless special problems necessitate meeting elsewhere. The 15 Committee shall choose its own presiding officer, and such 16 other officers as may be needed. Members may be reimbursed 17 for their actual expenses incurred in the course of 18 committee duties. 19 Sec. 2500.9 Staff. 20 Within the limitations of funds appropriated in the annual 21 budget, the City Council may provide for such employees as 22 they may determine to assist the City government in the 23 prevention of crime. Such employees shall be appointed by 24 the City Manager and shall be responsibile to him. 25 Employees of the city, designated by the City Manager to 26 perform work in the field of crime prevention, shall provide 27 assistance to and work in harmony with the Crime Prevention 28 Committee to the end that the policies of the city, as 29 specified by the City Council, are carried out. However, 30 any specific orders or instructions to such employees shall 31 be channeled through the City Manager by him through the 32 appropriate established administrative supervisory personnel -4- I of the City. The Chief of Police or an officer designated 2 by him and the City Attorney or his Assistant or a deputy 3 shall in any event be required as additional duties to serve 4 the Crime Prevention Committee as a staff officer. 5 SECTION 2. This Ordinance shall take effect and be in full force 6 thirty (30) days from and after its passage and prior to the 7 expiration of fifteen (15) days from its passage shall be 8 published once in the Orange Coast Daily Pilot, a newspaper of 9 general circulation, printed and published in the City of Costa 10 Mesa, together with the names of the members of the City council 11 voting for and against same. 12PASSED this day of ,Q.-t/ 1969. 13 ATTEST: 14 i � p 15 ty Clerk of the City f Mayor of the City of Costa Mesa 16 osta Mesa 17 STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) COUNTY OF ORANGE ) as. 18 CITY OF COSTA MESA ) 19 I, C. K. PRIEST, City Clerk and ex-officio Clerk of the city Council of the City of Costa Mesa, hereby certify that the above 20 and foregoing Ordinance No. 67-JI was introduced and considered section by section at a regular meeting of said City Council on th 21 amd day of'40.>....vy , 1969, and thereafter passed and adopted 22 as a whole a regular meeting of said City Council held on the lscl, day of 1969, by the following roll call vote: 23 AYES: h/i/San, rq&ee!, Toi,d.2/n, St. 24 NOES: Al61)e- 25 ABSENT: Pin e/e� 26 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed 27 the Seal of the city of Costa Mesa, this /g,day o z 1969. 28 29 City Clerk and ex-officio Clerk of the City Council of the City of 30 Costa Mesa. 31 �Le�i1 ux.Z„ 32 Deputy -5- STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) COUNTY OF ORANGE ) SS. CITY OF COSTA MESA ) 1 am a citizen of the United States and a resident of the County aforesaid; I am over the age of eighteen years, and not a pony to or interested in the below entitled matter. 1 am the Lee�al Advertising ?Manager of the ORANGE COAST DAILY PILOT, a newspaper of gen- eral circulation, printed and published in the City of Costa Mesa, County of Orange, State of California, and 1 certify than G'_ty Ordinance Nwmber 69-21 of which the copy attached hereto is a true and complete copy, was printed and published in the regular issue(s) of said newspaper o: sept er''Jer 18, 1969 I declare, under penalty of perjury, that the foregoing I. true and correct. Ex«.red on SePtesber 18 , 1959 at Costa Mesa. California. (Aonatunl STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) COUNTY OF ORANGE ) SS. CITY OF COSTA MESA ) 1, C. K. PRIEST, City Clerk of the City of Costa Mesa and ex -officio Clerk of the City Council of the City of Costa Mesa, hereby certify that Ordinance No 69-21 was introduced and considered, section by section, at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Costa Mesa, held on the —2nd _ day of September 19 69 and thereafter passed and adopted as a whole at a regular meeting of said City Council held on the 15t -h day of CPpfomber 19114, by the following roll -call vote AYES: COUNCILMEN - Wilson, Tucker, Jordan, St. Clair _ NOES: COUNCILMEN None ABSENT: COUNCILMEN - Pinkley 1 FURTHER CERTIFY that said Ordinance No. 69-21 was published in the ORANGE COAST DAILY PILOT, a newspaper of general circulation, printed and published in the City of Costa Mesa, on the 18th day of September 19 69 City Clox-officio Clerk of the City Council of the City of Costa Mesa ORDINANCE NO. 11-21 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUN- CIL OF THE CITY OF COSTA MESA, CALIFORNIA, CREATING A N D ESTABLISHING A CRIME PREVEN- TION COMMITTEE; FINDING .0 DECLARING A NEED THEREFOREI PRGVIDING FOR M MEMBERSHIP; SETTING FORTH ITS POIYERS AND DUTIES; PROVIDING FOR ITS STAFF AND GENERALLY INITIATING ITS PURPOSES. The ON Council of the City of Costs Mead, California, doge hereby ordain as fell.; SECTION 1. The City Coundl N the Cl- ty cf Costa. Mesa does hereby make fire se also necessary that local govem- 00 into thenelghbcrMpds among cillzens for Information, advice, ledge and 'Ideasimed toward vention. It IS also necessary l ssary I caul government rely upon .its ns for communm help wMU, hand Ind with city acot and me enforcement en Cies, will el- lelY combat this alarmism and u aary m crime and munit, If Is also vsathat our o Poorderly, convenient orkable mNhad be developed to piish these geals, avoided crow, ises du lficaupn M effort and Iur ears. upon I othe yc mitt.¢, W IM City Chum s shall draw lots committeemen's Years it= date mmlHeemen's aears from ne hree m m iring In four aomprost. shall be suflifiad Cost. Mesa. elth student members of the Clly of 11 term of of who n0 longer 1 the City of es his or her the ume aphical :seta Mesa, 6full I n longer Ilea and me pwi- I be filled In ac Shoo.z. mles Serve as an ae- nliiee eh all appraise the city for reduce crime and resur¢s available to meet antlers, with lis Prime �esnosedi'I I Secs stated hereto. . udoa F.116 aeNed, Geard Nat Crested. nm TMs amshelf no be mnsbnea as mneme authority to me Crime Players - An Committee N rautow, disnl"fie or regulate of the SHY of Closts Mesa. Police