Number
091324
Version
ORIGINAL
Reference
991973
Sponsor
ALD. WITKOWSKI
Title
Resolution authorizing the proper City officials to execute a Memorandum of Understanding between the City of Milwaukee and the Milwaukee Area Technical College for the provision of defensive driving courses.
Analysis
This resolution authorizes the proper City officials to execute the attached Memorandum of Understanding between the City of Milwaukee and the Milwaukee Area Technical College for the provision of defensive driving courses. The class is currently administered by the Police Department. Completion of this class is required of applicants for a public passenger vehicle driver’s license and is also one of the conditions that the Municipal Court has required of traffic defendants who want to have an opportunity to stipulate to a lesser offense that carries lower traffic points than those associated with the original charge. the class is also one of several referral mechanisms that the Municipal Court Judges use in the adjudication of traffic cases.
Body
Whereas, Completion of a defensive driving and safety course class is one of the conditions required of applicants for a public passenger vehicle driver’s license; and
Whereas, Municipal Court Judges require the opportunity to refer defendants to a defensive driving course as appropriate Completion of this class is one of the conditions that the Municipal Court has required of traffic defendants who want to have an opportunity to stipulate to a lesser offense that carries lower traffic points than those associated with the original charge ; and
Whereas, The Milwaukee Area Technical College has agreed to provide sessions of this class with the needed administrative support for reporting the status of completion of each referral; now, therefore, be it
Resolved, By the Common Council of the City of Milwaukee, that the City Clerk is authorized to execute the attached agreement with the Milwaukee Area Technica...
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