R-529A-72 RESOLUTION NO. 529-A
A RESOLUTION URGING RECONSIDERATION OF
FAILURE TO ALLOCATE FEDERAL FUNDS TO
THE CITY OF MIAMI TO COMBAT CRIME.
WHEREAS, the City of Miami, Florida, has been designated
as the city having the highest crime rate in the United States; and
WHEREAS, the Federal Government in the allocation of funds
to crime ridden cities to combat crime failed to include the City of Miami; and
WHEREAS, the City of Miami is the core city of the urban
Metropolitan-Dade County complex and crime within the City of Miami adversely
affects, directly or indirectly the over 1, 250, 000 citizens of Dade County; and
WHEREAS, the Directors of the Dade League of Municipalities
are appalled at the failure of the Federal authorities to make funds available
to the City of Miami while making large sums available to other cities in the
country whose crime problems are not as acute and as severe as those of
the City of Miami; and
WHEREAS, the Directors of the League of Municipalities are
of the opinion that the City of Miami should participate in the Federal program
to fight crime in large cities;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE MIAMI SHORES
VILLAGE COUNCIL:
Section 1. That the Federal authorities be hereby urged to
reconsider the allocation of funds to municipalities to combat crime and to
include the City of Miami among the cities to receive Federal aid.
Section 2. That the Miami Shores Village Council in cooper-
ation with the League of Municipalities call upon each and every municipality
in Dade County to pass Resolutions urging the reallocation of funds to the
City of Miami and to send copies of such resolutions to representatives of
the Legislative and executive branches of the Federal Government.
Section 3. That the Clerk of Miami Shores Village is hereby
instructed to send copies of this resolution to the President of the United
States, the Justice Department of the United States, and to the
United States Senators and Representatives from the State of Florida.
PASSED and ADOPTED this 4th day of April, 1972 at
Miami Shores, Florida.
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Mayor
ATTEST:
Village Clerk