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Councilmember Sharon Ambrose To establish a
Correctional Facility Site Selection Advisory Panel with the purpose of
preparing comprehensive recommendations to the Council that identify
tracts of land suitable
for correctional facilities within appropriately zoned sections of the
District that safeguard
the health, safety and welfare of residents and businesses.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, That this act
may be cited as the "Correctional Facility Site Selection Advisory
Panel Act of 2001 ". Sec. 2. Correctional
Facility Site Selection Advisory Panel established.
(a) There is established the Correctional Facility Site Selection
Advisory Panel ("Panel") with the purpose of preparing
comprehensive recommendations to the Council that identify tracts of land
suitable for correctional facilities within appropriately zoned sections
of the District that safeguard the health, safety and welfare of residents
and businesses.
(b) The Panel shall submit its recommendations in a report, which shall
include a map that identifies potential sites for the location of
correctional facilities, within one year of the Panel's first meeting. The
Panel shall rate each site according to its suitability for a correctional
facility and shall consider the proximity of other potential sites in
rating each site. The potential sites the Panel identifies shall comply
with all siting requirements of this act, shall not be inconsistent with
the Comprehensive Plan and shall not increase or compound existing
detrimental environmental impacts. (e) Composition; appointment; vacancies; terms of office; compensation. "(c) Members of the Panel shall serve a single, non-renewable term not to exceed 1 year. "(d) Members of the Panel shall serve without compensation. Members, however, may be reimbursed for actual expenses incurred in the performance of official duties for parking, transportation or mileage, not to exceed $15 per meeting. "(e) The Panel is authorized to receive funding for office space and for administrative expenses not to exceed $150,000, which funds shall be made available from the Non Personnel Services budget of the City Administrator based on the availability of appropriations.". Sec. 3. Fiscal impact statement. .The Council adopts the fiscal impact statement in the committee report as the fiscal impact statement required by section 602(c)(3) of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act, approved December 24, 1973 (87 Stat. 813; D.C. Code § 1-233(c)(3)). Sec. 4. Effective date.
This act shall take effect following approval by the Mayor (or in the
event of veto by the Mayor, action by the Council to override the veto),
approval by the Financial Responsibility and Management Assistance
Authority as provided in section 203(a) of the District of Columbia
Financial Responsibility and Management Assistance Act of 1995, approved
April 17, 1995 (109 Stat. 116; D.C. Code § 47-392.3(a)), a 30-day period
of Congressional review as provided in section 602(c)(1) of the District
of Columbia Home Rule Act, approved December 24, 1973 (87 Stat. 813; D.C.
Code § 1-233(c)(1)), and publication in the District of Columbia
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