1975-5313r1~SOLUTI0~' N0. 5313
RESOLUTION
FOR SUPPORT OF
POLICE SELECTION STANDARDS STUDY
OF THE
METROPOLITAN AREA MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION
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WHEREAS, the Metropolitan Area Management Association is an organization of
individuals holding positions of executive administrative authority in the public
sector Hrho are dedicated to maintaining high ethical standards of professional
conduct and to the delivery of effective and effecient governmental services, and
WHEREAS, the Metropolitan Area Management Association, as an organization
structure, is reflective of the quality of its dedicated Board of Directors and
officers, and
4JHEREAS, the Metropolitan Area Management Association has determined that
there is a need for improved police recruitment and selection procedures within
the suburban metropolitan area, and
WHEREAS, this need for improved police recruitment and selection procedures
must be formalized in an extensive research study involving various municipalities
to validate the selection standards and to implement the research study, and
WHEREAS, the Metropolitan Area Management Association realizes that one
municipality cannot effectively be expected to ,provide sponsorship for the neces-
sary research grant nor the customary cash match, and
WHEREAS, the Metropolitan Council, being a governmental agency representing
. all communities <<~ithin the metropolitan area, has been asked by the Metropolitan .
Area Managemeht Association to act only as the sponsoring agency to the grant;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the City of Richfield does hereby endorse
and support the Police Selection Standards Project of the Metropolitan Area Manage-
ment Association; and does further endorse the Metropolitan Council's sponsorship
of a federal grant application on behalf of the Metropolitan Area Management
Association to implement the necessary study and research to accomplish the objec-
tives of this project.
Passed by the City Council of the City of Richfield, Minnesota, this 10th day
of February, 1975. ,,
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~` oren L." La = ayor
Attest:
Thomas J. M~-i~ Cit Cler
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