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CITY OF PALM BEACH GARDENS
MINUTES OF SPECIAL MEETING OF CITY COUNCIL
MONDAY, AUGUST 27, 1962
Upon call of the Vice - Mayor, acting as Mayor, a special meeting of
the City Council was held at 1001 Park Avenue, Lake Park, Florida,
on Monday, August 27, 1962, at 10:00 o'clock A. M.
QUORUM: The City Clerk announced that a quorum of the City Council was
present.
WAIVER OF Waiver of Notice and Ratification is attached to these minutes.
MUTUAL WHEREAS, the City of Palm Beach Gardens and the Village of North
POLICE
AID: Palm Beach, Palm Beach County, Florida, are desirous of extending
mutual police aid and protection to each other in time of emergency need
so long as the same shall not jeopardize the interests of each govern-
mental unit;
RESOLUTION: NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT AND IT IS HEREBY RESOLVED BY
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PALM BEACH GARDENS,
FLORIDA, AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. The City of Palm Beach Gardens shall render emergency
police assistance to any point within the Village of North Palm Beach
requested.
Section 2. Each unit shall provide compensation for their own
employees and there shall be no charges from one unit to another for
the assistance.
Section 3. The equipment shall be dispatched to a police emergency
as follows:
(a) In the event the City of Palm Beach Gardens receives the first
notice of a police emergency in the Village of North Palm Beach, the
City may dispatch Palm Beach Gardens personnel at once to the scene
if it is deemed expedient due to proximity or nature of the emergency.
The City of Palm Beach Gardens shall forthwith notify the Village of
North Palm Beach Police Department of the emergency and of the fact
that Palm Beach Gardens personnel has been dispatched. Upon the
Village of North Palm Beach personnel arriving at the scene, the North
Palm Beach police official in charge shall decide whether Palm Beach
Gardens personnel shall remain upon the scene to assist or shall be
relieved. Once the North Palm Beach police arrive at the scene, the
direction and control of all police activities shall be under the super-
vision of the North Palm Beach police official.
(b) In the event of any police emergency in North Palm Beach, the
first call of which shall have been answered by North Palm Beach
police, the North Palm Beach police chief, or in his absence the
North Palm Beach officer in charge, shall decide whether it will be
helpful to obtain the assistance of the City of Palm Beach Gardens
police. If so, he shall telephone or radio the Palm Beach Gardens
Police Department and request the same.
(c) Upon receiving the request, the City of Palm Beach Gardens
Police Chief, or the person then in charge of the Palm Beach Gardens
Police Department, shall have full discretion to decide whether
granting the request for aid will jeopardize the police protection of the
City, and, if in his opinion it will, the request shall be denied.
(d) When in the opinion of the Palm Beach Gardens Police Chief, or
police officer in charge, police assistance from North Palm Beach will
be helpful in an emergency within the Palm Beach Gardens corporate
limits, he shall telephone or radio the North Palm Beach Police Depart-
ment and request aid. Any North Palm Beach police assistance sent to
the City shall be under the control and direction of the Palm Beach
Gardens police officer in charge.
(e) Upon receiving the above request, the North Palm Beach police
chief or the person then in charge of the North Palm Beach Police
Department shall have full discretion to decide whether granting the
request for aid will ,jeopardize the police protection of North Palm
Beach and, if in his opinion it will, the request shall be denied.
Section 4. It is hereby expressly understood that any emergency
equipment furnished by the City of Palm Beach Gardens shall be
operated exclusively by Palm Beach Gardens personnel but under the
direction of the North Palm Beach police officer in charge.
Section 5. Each of the parties hereto shall arrange their liability
and workman's compensation insurance coverage so that their personnel
will be covered although acting beyond the boundaries of the municipa-
lity.
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Section 6. The members of the Police .Force of the Village of North
Palm Beach shall be sworn in as policemen by the City of Palm Beach
Gardens and shall have all the powers and duties of the policemen of
the City of Palm Beach Gardens whenever they are officially acting
within the borders of the City of Palm Beach Gardens according to the
terms of this resolution; and the policemen of the City of Palm Beach
Gardens shall be sworn in as regular policemen of the Village of North
Palm Beach and shall have all the powers and duties of the policemen
of the Village of North Palm Beach whenever they are officially acting
within the borders of the Village of North Palm Beach according to the
terms of this resolution.
Section 7. This resolution shall not be repealed without first giving
ten days prior notice to the Village Council of the Village of North
Palm Beach.
ADJOURN- There being no further business to come before the meeting, it was
MENT :
duly adjourned.
ATTEST:
�L�rgill, City
Clerk
APPROVED-
Vice-Mayor, actin as Mayor
Norman D. Rowland
Wirliam L. Cargill' -- " �[
Paull D. Doolee
orace Miller
L. J. ehane