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DATE: November 16, 2005 CONSENT CALENDAR
SUBJECT: ACCEPT THE GRACIOUS DONATION FROM THE BERNS-SOLOMON
FAMILY FOUNDATION FIDELITY CHARITABLE GIFT FUND AND THE
ANDERSON CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION TO THE POLICE
DEPARTMENT'S YOUTH POLICE ACADEMY
FROM: David H. Ready, City Manager
BY: Police Department
SUMMARY
The City Council will consider a resolution accepting a donation of $10,000 to the Police
Department for the Youth Police Academy. The donation includes $7,500 from the
Anderson Children's Foundation, Bill Schlessinger, Trustee, and $2,500 from the Berns-
Solomon Family Foundation Charitable Gift Fund, Steve and Abby Solomon, Trustees.
RECOMMENDATION:
Adopt Resolution No. , "A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF PALM SPRINGS, CALIFORNIA, ACCEPTING WITH GRATITUDE THE DONATION
FROM THE ANDERSON CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION AND THE BERNS-SOLOMON
FAMILY FOUNDATION CHARITABLE GIFT FUND TO THE POLICE DEPARTMENT'S
YOUTH POLICE ACADEMY."
STAFF ANALYSIS:
The Police Department's Police Activities League (PAL), in cooperation with the Palm
;iprings Unified School District, now offers a Youth Police Academy, which has a similar
curriculum to our current Citizens Police Academy. The Youth Police Academy is
coordinated by our PAL Officer and is offered after school to students in grades seven
through twelve. Bill Schlessinger, Trustee of the Anderson Children's Foundation, and
Steve and Abby Solomon, Trustees of The Berns-Solomon Family Foundation
Charitable Gift Fund have donated a total of $10,000 to begin this program, which is
now underway.
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City Council Staff Report
November 16, 2005 — Page 2
Acceptance of Donation
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FISCAL IMPACT: Finance Director Approvo,ice
$10,000 increase in revenue restricted to the use by tl,ee Police Department for the
Youth Police Academy.
Gary J n o , Chief of Police David H. Ready, City Matiager
Attachments:
Resolution
RESOLUTION NO.
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
PALM SPRINGS, CALIFORNIA, ACCEPTING WITH
GRATITUDE THE DONATION FROM THE ANDERSON
CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION AND THE BERNS-SOLOMON
FAMILY FOUNDATION CHARITABLE GIFT FUND TO THE
POLICE DEPARTMENT'S YOUTH POLICE ACADEMY.
WHEREAS the Anderson Children's Foundation, Bill Schlessinger, Trustee, has
donated $7,500 to the begin a Youth Police Academy through the Palm Springs Police
Department; and
WHEREAS the Berns-Solomon Family Foundation Charitable Gift Fund, Steve and
Abby Solomon, Trustees, has donated $2,500 to begin the Youth Police Academy
through the Palm Springs Police Department; and
WHEREAS the Police Department's Police Activities League (PAL), in cooperation with
the Palm Springs Unified School District, now offers a Youth Police Academy to youth in
grades seven through twelve; and
WHEREAS the Youth Police Academy is built on a similar format and curriculum as the
Police Department's Citizens' Police Academy.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, by the City Council of the City of Palm Springs,
that the City Council accepts the donation with gratitude and authorizes the City
Manager to accept this donation for use by the Police Department for the Youth Police
Academy.
ADOPTED THIS 161h DAY OF NOVEMBER, 2005.
David H. Ready, City Manager
ATTEST:
James Thompson, City Clerk
CERTIFICATION
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF RIVERSIDE ) ss.
CITY OF PALM SPRINGS )
I, JAMES THOMPSON, City Clerk of the City of Palm Springs, hereby certify that
Resolution No. is a full, true and correct copy, and was duly adopted at a
regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Palm Springs on November 16, 2005,
by the following vote:
AYES:
NOES:
ABSENT:
ABSTAIN:
James Thompson, City Clerk
City of Palm Springs, California