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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2008-07RESOLUTION 2008-07 ASSIGN-A-HIGHWAY PROGRAM • WHEREAS, the Pulaski Town Council and Pulaski County Board of Supervisors and the Sheriff have made it a priority to clean up Pulaski County's highways, streets and roads; WHEREAS, the Town of Pulaski and Pulaski County believe that the Assign-A-Highway Program will improve tourism and the natural beauty of our region and that the proposed Assign-A-Highway Program will protect the health, safety and welfare of the citizens of Pulaski County. WHEREAS, the Pulaski County Circuit Court based upon its constitutional and statutory powers and authorities may assign criminal defendants and probationers to pick up litter along Pulaski County's highways, streets and roads a part of the court's probation powers; WHEREAS, the Pulaski's Town Council and Board of Supervisors strongly believes that the Pulaski Town and County Litter Control Officers working in conjunction with the Circuit Court of Pulaski County can develop a program to abate litter on the Pulaski County's highways, streets and roads. NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Pulaski Town Council and Pulaski County Board of Supervisors hereby establishes the Pulaski Town/County's Assign-A-Highway Program for the health, • safety, and welfare of its citizens and as outlined in a court order to be entered by the Pulaski County Circuit Court; IT IS FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Assign-A-Highway Program shall be modeled and authorized pursuant to the prospective court order and that the prospective court order shall be incorporated into the resolution by reference. ADOPTED this 15t day of April, 2008 by the Pulaski Town Council on the following recorded vote: Jeffrey S. Worrell -Aye Daniel Talbert, Jr. -Aye Lane R. Penn -Aye ATTEST• • c~ l Gc..,,c~_.e.~ Patricia Cruise, Clerk of Council Joel B. Burchett, Jr. -Aye David L. Clark -Aye Larry G. Clevinger, II -Aye f BY: Charles L. Wade, Mayor • RESOLUTION PULASKI COUNTY ASSIGN-A-HIGHWAY PROGRAM WHEREAS, the Board of Supervisors of Pulaski County, Virginia and the Sheriff have made it a priority to clean up Pulaski County's highways, streets and roads; and WHEREAS, the Board of Supervisors of Pulaski County, Virginia, believes that the Assign-A-Highway Program will improve tourism and the natural beauty of our region and that the proposed Assign-A-Highway Program will protect the health, safety and welfare of the citizens of Pulaski County; and WHEREAS, the Pulaski County Circuit Court based upon its constitutional and statutory powers and authorities may assign criminal defendants and probationers to pick up litter along Pulaski County's highways, streets and roads as part of the court's probation powers; and WHEREAS, the Board of Supervisors of Pulaski County, Virginia, strongly believes that the Pulaski County Litter Control Officers working in conjunction with the Circuit Court of Pulaski County can develop a program to abate litter on the County's • highways, streets and roads. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Board of Supervisors of Pulaski County, Virginia, hereby establishes the Pulaski County Assign-A-Highway Program for the health, safety, and welfare of its citizens and as outlined in a court order to be entered by the Pulaski County Circuit Court; IT IS FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Assign-A-Highway Program shall be modeled and authorized pursuant to the prospective court order and that the prospective court order shall be incorporated into the resolution by reference. ADOPTED this 24th day of March, 2008, by the Board of Supervisors of Pulaski County, Virginia. l~~ .~xa- Gena T. Hanks, Clerk Board of Supervisors of Pulaski County, Virginia • VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR PULASKI COUNTY IN REF: APPOINTMENT OF MONITORS FOR THE TOWN OF PULASKI . AND PULASKI COUNTY'S ASSIGN-A-HIGHWAY PROGRAM The Court, by this Q~$ hereby assigns current and future criminal probationers to pick up litter along Pulaski County's highways, streets, and roads on a continuous basis as part of the temps and conditions of probation. The Court's probation officers are herby assigned the task of designating areas to be cleaned by each probationer, but given current budget restraints, said probation officers do not have sufficient time to consistendy monitor this worthy program The Pulaski Town Council and The Pulaski County Board of Supervisors has made the cleaning of Pulaski's highways, streets and roads a priority for the benefit of the Pulaski's dozens and environment and accordingly has green the responsibdity to litter control officers as appointed by the Pulaski Town Counpl and Pulaski County Board of Supervisors to enforce littcr control laws and monitor litter pick up assigpments to assist probation officers in assuring compliance with duly assigned cleanup areas. WHEREFORE, it is the ORDER of the Court that all litter control officers, present and future, who work for Town of Pulaski and Pulaski County are herby designated as monitors of the Pulaski Town and County Assign A-Highway Program, with all of the privileges, immunitics and duties thereto, and, specifically, the litter control officers shall: 1. Coordinate with the probation office to assign criminal defendants to specific sections of highways, streets and roads throughout Pulaski County and appear at least four (4) ties annually before the Court with the probation officer(s) when the Court reviews the Probation Docket on the first day of each term of the year, for the purpose(s) of informing the Court as to each assigned probationer's compliance or lack thereof; • 2 Prepare a road assignment map of Pulaski County, to be kept current with the names, ~ telephone numbers and dates of assignments for each section to be cleaned by such criminal defendant,; and 3. Monitor each assigned section of road on a periodical basis (at Least bi-weekly) to assure compliance with the assignments and to report to the probation officer any failure by a criminal defendant to keep his or her assigned section &ee of litter on a continuous basis, having first contacted the defendant by telephone or in person to ascermin the defendant's reasons, if ate, for non-compliance, which shall be made part of the report, The litter control officers designated by this order shall report and refer to the probation office any matters that arise with the cxminal defendants prior to taking any independent enforcement action other than that authorized herein or infomung the Court on teen day as herein specified. • All probationers who have been assigned the duty of picking up litter as set forth is their v respective cases shall forthwith begin working the assigned area upon being contacted by his or her probation officer and shall timely and truthfully respond to a~ inquires by the litter control officers relative to this progfiam. Faihire of any probationer(s) to respond effectively within the judgment of the litter control officer and the responsible probation officer(s) shall, with the proper findings of the Court, be grounds for revocation of probation. The Clerk is directed to record this order in the current order book and send copies to the county probation and litter control officers. ,r ENTERED this ~ day of ~f ~ 2b08. ~.. " ~` ~ )URGE REQUESTED BY: ~• Pulaski Town Council and Pulaski County Board of Supervisors,