HomeMy WebLinkAboutRES 99-031 RESOLUTION N0. 9q- 31
WHEREAS, the Lamar University Regional Police Academy, of the Lamar University
Institute of Technology, is the primary provider of law enforcement training for the
Southeast Texas Region; and,
WHEREAS, as such, the Southeast Texas law enforcement agencies are
dependent on the academy to meet their training needs; and,
WHEREAS, the academy has not had a permanent location in its thirty years as a
regional academy associated with the Lamar University Institute of Technology, Lamar
University, or Lamar State College of Technology; and,
WHEREAS, the current location is a hotel and is not designed to accommodate the
training needs of local law enforcement agencies; and,
WHEREAS, such structure is in terrible condition and will not be serviceable much
longer;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED
BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BEAUMONT:
THAT the City of Beaumont requests that the legislature in its current session give due
consideration to the request by the Lamar University Institute of Technology for funding
of a criminal justice center to provide the academy with a permanent, appropriate facility
in which to conduct the training it provides for the region, and to cement the longstanding
partnership of Lamar and local law enforcement.
PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL of the City of Beaumont this the day of
1999.
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