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REQUEST FOR COUNCIL ACTION <br />COUNCIL MEEHNG <br />FEB 1 4’1994 <br />cmroFORONo <br />DATE: February 8, 199^ <br />ITEM NO.: / ^ <br />Department Approval: <br />Name Ron Moorse <br />Title City Administrator <br />Administrator Reviewed:Agenda Section: <br />City Administrator’s <br />Report <br />Item Description: ' <br />Request to Designate Funding for the Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) Program <br />When the DARE program was initiated seven years ago, the program expenditures were added <br />to the Police Department budget in the amount of $1,600. These costs are shared with all of <br />the contract cities. When reviewing the Police Department budget for expenditure reductions <br />related to the Spring Park contract proposal, the DARE program expenditures were identified <br />as a potential issue of concern for Spring Park. The potential concern is that the DARE <br />program is provided in the Orono School District while Spring Park is in the Westonka School <br />District. <br />To eliminate this potential issue the DARE program expenditures were eliminated from the <br />general police expenditure budget with the intention of requesting the Council to authorize other <br />sources of funding for the program. <br />One of the sources of funding is a new revenue source provided to Cities as a special distribution <br />of Court fines from drug related offenses. This revenue is distributed based on the number of <br />DARE classes provided by the pol'ce department. Although this revenue is not required to be <br />used for DARE programs, it is staffs recommendation that this revenue be designated to fund <br />the DARE program. The City recently received the distribution of this revenue in the amount <br />of $1,016.77. If the DARE program requires additional funding, it is recommended drug <br />forfeiture funds be used to cover the remaining expenditures. In past years the amount of DARE <br />program expenditures has been approximately $1,600. <br />COUNCIL ACTION REQUESTED: <br />Motion to designate the $1,016.77 special drug prevention revenue distribution toward the <br />DARE program and to authorize the use of drug forfeiture funds in an amount not to exceed <br />$600.00 for the 1994 DARE program.