(A) The city has no intention of allowing persons being held for violation of city ordinances to be housed in a privately operated jail.
(B) A jail is not an institution or a customer, personal, or business service allowed in the conventional zoning categories of the zoning code; jails, whether publicly or privately operated, are intended to be allowed only in SU Special Use zones where such use is specifically and affirmatively indicated in the text of the zone as an allowed use.
(C) It is not policy of the city to sell or sell-and-lease back city-operated land for use as a privately owned jail.
(D) The city does not endorse privately operated county jails except when it is to the advantage of the taxpayer to provide:
(1) Privately operated special incarceration programs and facilities for the mentally ill and/or DWI offenders; or
(2) Specific housekeeping functions such as medical, dental, or food services.
(E) The city recommends the financing of jail facilities through voter-approved bond issues except when lease or lease-purchase-option contracts with the private sector can provide space to relieve jail overcrowding in emergencies or brief periods at reasonable costs to the taxpayer.
(Res. 72-1988, approved 5-3-88)