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RESOLUTION NO. 2012-Oa
A RESOLUTION ESTABLISHING A REWARD FUND FOR
INFORMATION RESULTING IN THE APPREHENSION AND
CONVICTION OF PERSONS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE MURDER OF
DAVID MICHAEL GRUBBS
RECITALS:
A. The recent violent death of David Michael Grubbs has profoundly saddened the citizens
of Ashland; challenged their normal confidence in the security of the City's environs; and
increased their determination to keep Ashland a city where one feels safe and is safe.
B. The City of Ashland fully supports law enforcement officials' efforts to apprehend and
bring to justice anyone involved in perpetrating this heinous attack.
C. Concerned citizens have expressed a desire to contribute to a publicly-managed fund to
reward those who provide to law enforcement officials information that results in the
arrest and conviction of the person(s) responsible for the death of David Grubbs.
D. Pursuant to independent criteria, the family of the victim is establishing a separate,
privately-administered reward fund to supplement the public reward fund authorized
herein.
THE CITY OF ASHLAND RESOLVES AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Reward Account. The City hereby establishes a committed account within its
general fund for the deposit of money contributed by persons who wish to reward persons
providing new information essential to the apprehension and conviction of those responsible for
the fatal attack on David Grubbs on November 19, 2011. The account shall be the City's David
Grubbs Reward Account and shall be used exclusively for such reward, except as specifically
provided below. Any interest accrued on funds in this committed account will be paid to the
City as partial reimbursement for the costs of administering the account and the issuance of
rewards from it.
SECTION 2. Issuance of Rewards. The City shall pay all funds deposited in this reward
account to the person or persons who submit to law enforcement officials information
determinatively resulting in the apprehension and conviction of those responsible for the murder
of David Grubbs. Issuance of rewards from this account shall be subject to the following
conditions:
A. No reward shall be paid until the perpetrator(s) is legally convicted under ajudgment
which is final, or, if for any reason the case is not tried or is otherwise disposed of
upon proof the perpetrator(s) committed or participated in the commission of the
aforesaid crime.
B. In no event shall the reward or combination of rewards exceed the amount deposited in
the account established for such purpose, regardless of the number of perpetrators
involved in the act and regardless of the number of persons who supply information
leading to the apprehension and conviction of such perpetrators.
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C. Officers and employees of the City of Ashland, officers of state and local police forces
and officers of the federal government shall not be eligible to receive any reward from
this account.
D. A reward may be apportioned between two or more persons who give information
leading to the apprehension and conviction of the perpetrator(s).
E. Unless the City and Jackson County agree otherwise, the County Commission of
Jackson County shall be the sole and final judge of the right of any claimant to a
reward, PROVIDED HOWEVER, that the Chief of the Ashland Police Department
shall prepare recommendations for such reward claims, and rewards shall be
determined in accordance with such recommendations in the event the County
Commission chooses not to take action on reward claims within 60 days after
documentation supporting any such claims have been submitted to the City and the
County.
F. In the event a person(s) is convicted in this matter, to the extent allowed under ORS
131.897, any reimbursement the convicted person(s) is required to make to the City for
funds paid out of reward accounts will be used to first pay back rewards issued by
family members of David Grubbs from their separate account, and thereafter the
remaining reimbursements, if any, will be paid to donors to the City's reward account
in the proportionate share of their individual donations, and finally to the City for its
costs to administer the account and issuance of rewards from it.
SECTION 3. Termination and Refund. This account may be terminated.at any time upon
determination in a City Council resolution that continuation of the account and reward offer are
not likely to serve the purposes for which they were established. If not terminated earlier, this
account and reward offer shall terminate on January 1, 2017. If for any reason rewards are not
made, the money in the account shall be refunded, upon request, to those who donated fifty
dollars or more. All money not refunded shall be deposited in the City's general fund for use by
the Ashland Police Department.
This res lution was duly PASSED and ADOPTED this��day of
2012, and takes effeM2=ayor.
arbara Christensen, City Recorder/ r/
SIGNED and APPROVED this ` a day of 2012
4n o Stromberg, Mayor
Rev ie as to form:
David Lohman, City Attorney
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