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RESOLUTION NO. 26
SERIES OF 2025
TITLE: A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY OF WHEAT RIDGE, COLORADO
APPROVING THE SECOND AMENDED AND RESTATED
INTERGOVERNMENTAL AGREEMENT FOR THE USE AND MAINTENANCE
OF A REGIONAL CRIMINAL JUSTICE RECORDS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 14.12 of the Home Rule Charter, C.R.S. §§ 29-1-
201 and 203, and Colo. Const. Art. XIV, § 18(2)(a), the City of Wheat Ridge, acting by and
through its City Council, is authorized to enter into cooperative agreements with other
governmental entities to provide any function, service or facility each is authorized to undertake; and
WHEREAS, the City is authorized to establish, maintain, and provide law
enforcement services; and
WHEREAS, the City’s Police Department is engaged in emergency response and
other public safety functions that rely on an effective and efficient criminal justice records management system; and
WHEREAS, an effective criminal justice records management system functions to
enhance the ability to identify and manage crime and other incidents, to streamline
management of intelligence information, and to ease preparation for trials and other
courtroom proceedings; and
WHEREAS, the City previously maintained its own individual criminal justice
records management system ("RMS"); and
WHEREAS, on or about January 1, 2015, the City entered into an amended and
restated intergovernmental agreement with the cities of Arvada, Edgewater, Golden,
Lakewood and the Town of Mountain View (the “Previous Agreement”) to combine their RMSs to standardize workflow processes, support more robust crime analysis, better
identify crime trends, and ensure continuity of criminal justice records management
services; and
WHEREAS, the parties have partnered in the creation and maintenance of a
combined, or regional, RMS ("Regional RMS”) through a Second Amended and Restated Intergovernmental Agreement which allows each of the parties to enhance its ability to
consistently utilize and manage criminal justice records; and
WHEREAS, the City Council, upon the recommendation of the Police Chief, wishes
to approve the Second Amended and Restated IGA.
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Wheat Ridge,
Colorado:
Section 1. The Second Amended and Restated Intergovernmental Agreement
among the Cities of Arvada, Edgewater, Golden, Lakewood, Wheat Ridge, and the Town of Mountain View for the Use and Maintenance of a Regional Criminal Justice Records
Management System, attached hereto as Exhibit A, is hereby approved.
Section 2.
This Resolution shall be effective upon adoption.
DONE AND RESOLVED this 12th day of May, 2025
Bud Starker, Mayor
ATTEST:
Margy Greer, Sr. Deputy City Clerk