Number
020456
Version
SUBSTITUTE 2
Reference
Sponsor
ALD. HENNINGSEN
Title
Substitute resolution relating to funding of the Drug Abatement Program Hotline.
Analysis
The Social Development Commission is unable to continue the operation of the Drug Abatement Program Hotline after August 31, 2002 due to the discontinuation of funding from the Milwaukee HIDTA Street Drug Task Force grant.
This substitute resolution requests that the Police Department appropriate funding in the amount of $21,400 from the Police Department's budget to the Social Development Commission to continue the operation of the Drug Abatement Program Hotline through December 31, 2002.
Body
Whereas, The Drug Abatement Program (DAP) Hotline, which started in 1989 as a demonstration program funded through the State of Wisconsin Department of Justice to receive anonymous phone calls from residents reporting drug houses or drug activity, was taken over in 1992 by the Social Development Commission (SDC); and
Whereas, When the state discontinued funding of the hotline in 1998, the Milwaukee High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) program provided $50,000 for each of the next 2 years to partially fund the DAP hotline; and
Whereas, In June, 2001, the Milwaukee HIDTA program, which is a federally-funded program that promotes a coordinated interagency law enforcement strategy to target the drug, gang and violent criminal activity in the Milwaukee metropolitan area, notified the SDC that, due to strategy changes in HIDTA's focus, HIDTA will no longer provide funding to the SDC for the operation of the DAP hotline; and
Whereas, Given Milwaukee HIDTA's discontinuation of funding, the Safe & Sound program awarded a $50,000 grant to the SDC to continue the operation of the DAP hotline through August 31, 2002; however, due to the lack of additional funds, the SDC is unable to continue the operation of the DAP hotline after August 31, 2002; and
Whereas, In 2001 and 2002, ...
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