I applaud the work of Mayor Edward Mulvaney and Chief Beto Perez in seeking this grant. The Child Care Center will relocate from its present location in the Wallace School. The new facility will provide more space for additional day care rooms and better parking and playground areas. The current facility does not meet the needs of new day care facilities standards that take effect in 2000. With the recent incidents of violence in our schools there is a strong need for the COPS in Schools Program.
Community policing officers perform a variety of functions within the schools.
From teaching crime prevention and substance abuse classes to monitoring troubled students to building respect for law enforcement among students. School officers combine the functions of law enforcement and education. One of the most important goals we can achieve is to provide personal security to our communities, schools, and neighborhoods. That is what this program helps deliver. Hazard Mitigation Grant for the purchase of 8 residential structures in unincorporated areas of of Whiteside County near Erie along the Rock River.