Number
201701
Version
SUBSTITUTE 1
Reference
161061
Sponsor
ALD. MURPHY
Title
Substitute resolution amending the membership of the City-County Heroin, Opioid, and Cocaine Task Force.
Analysis
This substitute resolution amends the membership of the City-County Heroin, Opioid, and Cocaine Task Force by removing the representative of the Milwaukee County District Attorney’s Office from the Task Force. The Task Force has determined that the Milwaukee County District Attorney’s Office is no longer essential to the ongoing work of the Task Force. The resolution also adds the Chief of the Milwaukee Police Department or the Chief’s designee.
Body
Whereas, The City-County Heroin, Opioid, and Cocaine Task Force was created by Common Council File Number 161061 on January 18, 2017, for the purpose of addressing the problem of rising prevalence of opioid, heroin, synthetic analog, and cocaine (in both powder and crack form) misuse and addiction in Milwaukee and to make evidence-based recommendations to reduce fatal and nonfatal overdose within the community; and
Whereas, The Task Force has determined that the Milwaukee County District Attorney’s Office is no longer essential to the ongoing work of the Task Force; and
Whereas, The Task Force has determined that a representative of the Milwaukee Police Department is essential to the ongoing work of the Task Force; now, therefore, be it
Resolved, By the Common Council of the City of Milwaukee, that Common Council Resolution File Number 161061, adopted on January 18, 2017, is amended by:
1. Deleting “The Milwaukee County District Attorney or the District Attorney’s designee” from item number 3 in the “Resolved” clause.
2. Inserting into item number 3 in the “Resolved” clause the following language: “The Chief of the Milwaukee Police Department or the Chief’s designee.”
Requestor
Drafter
LRB176647-2
Tea Norfolk
4/21/2021