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Ordinance No. 98-3184
An Ordinance of the City of Piainview, Texas, amending
Ordinance No. 97-3135, the 1997-1998 Budget of the City of
Plainview as such pertains to the Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner
(SANE) Program.
Whereas, the Plainview City Council through the adoption of Ordinance No. 97-3135, adopted a
Budget for the 1997-1998 fiscal year; and
Whereas, the annual budget serves as a guideline for revenues and expenditures; and
Whereas, from time to time unanticipated expenditures create a need to amend the budget; and
Whereas, over 700,000 women are sexually assaulted each year in the United States of America. It
is estimated that fewer than fifty percent of rapes are reported. Approximately twenty percent of
sexual assaults against women are perpetrated by assailants unknown to the victim. The remainder
are committed by friends, acquaintances, intimates and family members. Acquaintance rape is
particularly common among adolescent victims. Male victims represent five percent of reported
sexual assaults. Among female rape victims, sixty-one percent are under age 18. At least twenty
percent of adult women, fifteen percent of college women, and twelve percent of adolescent women
have experienced some form of sexual abuse or assault during their lifetime. In Hale County, last
year, twenty-eight rapes were reported; and
Whereas, compassionate and proper medical examinations of sexual victims is an important part of
the successful prosecution of sexual assault perpetrators; and
Whereas, the Hale County criminal justice system and the Hale County Crisis Center has proposed
that volunteer registered nurses be trained to perform sexual assault medical examinations through
the Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) program; and
Whereas, the program is seeking funding and support from Methodist Hospital Plainview, District
Attorney Terry McEachern, Hale County Commissioners Court and the Plainview Mayor and City
Council; and
Whereas, the Director of Finance certifies funds are available to fund the changes made herein.
Now, therefore, be it ordained the following amendment is hereby made to the 1997-1998 Budget
of the City of Plainview, Texas:
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Account Name of Account 1997-1998 Budget
1-3-6527 Special Projects -0-
Passed and apprOved this the 25th day of August, 1998.
McBeth, City Secretary
Amended 1997-1998 Budget
$5,000
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
Wa ly Hat~, City Attorney
CERTIFICATION THAT FUNDS ARE AVAILABLE:
Norman Huggins, Di~c~r of Finance
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