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HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution 05-2022CITY OF WHEAT RIDGE RESOLUTION NO. 05-2022 Series of 2022 TITLE: A RESOLUTION APPROVING A MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN THE CITY OF WHEAT RIDGE AND THE JEFFERSON CENTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH FOR MENTAL HEALTH CO-RESPONDER SERVICES 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 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 provide law enforcement services and the Jefferson Center for Mental Health (JCMH) is authorized to provide mental health crisis and co-responder services; and WHEREAS, the City and JCMH each recognize the value in cooperating to proactively provide a mental health case manager clinician to consult with the City’s police department, to act and follow up on referrals from the police, and ride with patrol officers on duty to provide services to persons in the community that are experiencing mental health crisis or substance use problems; and WHEREAS, the parties have therefore developed a Co-Responder Program that places a case manager clinician, employed by JCMH, to work full-time in the police department to assist with community mental health issues; and WHEREAS, the parties have memorialized the terms of said School Resource Officer program in a memorandum of understanding; and WHEREAS, in accordance with Section 14.2 of the City’s Home Rule Charter, the City Council wishes to approve said memorandum of understanding by resolution. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Wheat Ridge City Council of the City of Wheat Ridge, Colorado, that: The Memorandum of Understanding for a mental health case manager/ co- responder by and between the City of Wheat Ridge and the Jefferson Center for Mental Health, attached to this Resolution as Exhibit A and incorporated herein by reference, is hereby approved. The Mayor and City Clerk are hereby authorized and directed to execute the same. 2 DONE AND RESOLVED this 10th day of January, 2022. Bud Starker, Mayor ATTEST: Steve Kirkpatrick, City Clerk 3 Exhibit A Memorandum of Understanding [attached]