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RESOLUTION NO. 77-81 WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners of Indian River County, Florida, herein called the "Applicant", after thorough consideration of the problem and available data, has hereby determined that the project described below is in the best interests of the general public. To establish a Youth Aid Bureau in order to deal more efficiently and progressively with the juvenile offender. The Bureau will utilize the services of two trained law enforcement officers to work with other juvenile justice and law enforcement agencies in the prevention and diversion of juvenile delinquency. The Indian River County Sheriff's Department will hire the officers, and will be directly re- sponsible for their administration of the project. As Pro- ject Director, the Sheriff will form an Advisory Board of representatives from other criminal justice and law enforce- ment agencies in the county to work with him towards effective administration of the project. The officers will work out of the Sheriff's Department on separate but overlapping shifts, and will be receiving agents for juvenile referrals to law enforcement throughout the county. They will be available to other community agencies for advice in establishing youth programs, and will conduct educational programs concerning criminal justice in the schools and comm- unity. They will work closely with the Department of Health & Rehabilitation Service intake counselors and youth probation officers. Files will be maintained on each child with whom they come in contact, and officers will be availableto parents for consultation concerning juvenile crime. WHEREAS, under terms of Public Law 90-351, as amended, the United States of America has authorized the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration, through the Florida Bureau of Criminal Justice Planning and Assistance, to make Federal Grants to assist local governments in the improvement of criminal justice; and WHEREAS, the Applicant has examined and duly considered such Act and the Applicant considers it to be in the public interest and to its benefit to file an application under said Act and to authorize other action in connection therewith; BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY, FLORIDA IN OPEN MEETING ASSEMBLED IN THE INDIAN RIVER COUNTY COURTHOUSE, VERO BEACH, FLORIDA THE 10th DAY OF AUGUST, 1977, AS FOLLOWS: