City of Milwaukee - File #: 011458

• File #: 011458
• Version: 1
• Type: Resolution
• Status: Passed
• File created: 2/12/2002
• In control: PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE
• Final action: 3/5/2002
• Title: Substitute resolution establishing a Truancy Abatement Task Force to study and make recommendations concerning the problem of truancy in the City of Milwaukee.
• Sponsors: ALD. BOHL
• Indexes: COMMITTEES, CRIME PREVENTION, MILWAUKEE PUBLIC SCHOOLS, SOCIAL CONCERNS, YOUTH

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result	Tally
10/15/2013	1	COMMON COUNCIL	SIGNED
3/5/2002	1	COMMON COUNCIL	ADOPTED	Pass	14:1
2/21/2002	1	CITY CLERK	DRAFT SUBMITTED
2/21/2002	1	PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE	RECOMMENDED FOR ADOPTION	Pass	4:1
2/14/2002	0	PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE	HEARING NOTICES SENT
2/14/2002	0	PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE	HEARING NOTICES SENT
2/14/2002	0	PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE	HEARING NOTICES SENT
2/12/2002	0	COMMON COUNCIL	ASSIGNED TO

Number
011458
Version
SUBSTITUTE 1
Reference

Sponsor
ALD. BOHL
Title
Substitute resolution establishing a Truancy Abatement Task Force to study and make recommendations concerning the problem of truancy in the City of Milwaukee.
Analysis
This resolution establishes an 11-member task force to study and make recommendations to the Common Council concerning the problem of truancy. The task force will be composed of 2 members of the Common Council as well as representatives of the Milwaukee Public School system, the Milwaukee School Board, the Milwaukee Teachers' Education Association, the Milwaukee County Board, the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, the Milwaukee Police Department, the Milwaukee County Sheriff's Department and the Boys' and Girls' Club of Greater Milwaukee. The President of the Common Council will designate the task force chair. The task force is directed to submit a report of its findings and recommendations to the Common Council by October 1, 2002.

Body
Whereas, Regular school attendance has been empirically established as one of the most important predicates of both academic and economic success in young people; and

Whereas, The Milwaukee Public School (MPS) system, caretaker of the City's most cherished asset – its children – has the highest truancy rate in the State of Wisconsin by a wide margin; and

Whereas, Other issues, notably the state budget, threaten to distract attention from the truancy issue even as the MPS truancy rate climbs to its highest level ever; and

Whereas, No one agency or body can accept full responsibility or blame for solving what research has determined to be a multi-faceted problem; and

Whereas, A city-wide study could result in a more uniform program of truancy abatement throughout the City; now, therefore, be it

Resolved, By the Common Council of the City of Milwaukee, that a Truancy Abatement Task Force is created, composed of the following 11 members:

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