2002-44

A RESOLUTION

AUTHORIZING AN AMENDMENT TO THE INTERGOVERNMENTAL AGREEMENT FOR THE JUVENILE ASSESSMENT CENTER

WHEREAS, Part 2 of Article 1 of Title 29, C.R.S. permits and encourages governments to make the most efficient and effective use of their powers and responsibilities by cooperating and contracting with other governments; and

WHEREAS, Part 2 of Article 1 of Title 29, C.R.S. authorizes governments to contract with one another to provide any function, service, or facility lawfully authorized to each of the contracting units through the establishment of a separate legal entity; and

WHEREAS, Jefferson Center for Mental Health ("Mental Health"), a nonprofit corporation, has operated a program known as the Jefferson County Juvenile Assessment Program (the "Program") which has provided a centralized location for the coordinated provision of mental health and other intervention programs and services for juveniles and their families who were referred to the Program by the Law Enforcement Participants (Lakewood, Arvada, Golden, Wheat Ridge, Westminster, Edgewater, and the Sheriff shall collectively be referred to as the "Law Enforcement Participants"); and

WHEREAS, the County, Mental Health, and the Law Enforcement Participants previously entered into an agreement in 1998 for funding and operating the Program and the County, R-1 Schools, and Mental Health entered into a Partners Agreement dated for reference purposes the 1st day of July, 1997 to provide additional funding for the Program; and

WHEREAS, the County, Mental Health, and the Law Enforcement Participants previously entered into an intergovernmental agreement in 2000 creating a separate legal entity with its own governing board to provide the services previously provided by Mental Health; and

WHEREAS, the parties desire to amend the intergovernmental agreement to add a representative of the Chief Judge of the First Judicial District Court, the Chief Probation Officer of the First Judicial District, and the Director of the Central Region of the Colorado Division of Youth Corrections as directors to serve on the Juvenile Assessment Center Board.

NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Lakewood, Colorado that:

1) The City Manager is hereby authorized to execute, and the City Clerk to attest an amendment to the Intergovernmental Agreement for the Juvenile Assessment Center, in form approved by the City Attorney.

INTRODUCED, READ AND ADOPTED by a vote of 10 for and 0 against at a regular meeting of the City Council on July 8, 2002, at 7 o'clock p.m. at Lakewood Civic Center, 480 South Allison Parkway, Lakewood, Colorado.

Stephen A. Burkholder, Mayor

ATTEST:
Margy Greer, City Clerk