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Juanita Hilkin -Fwd: Re: Crime Meeting
From: Mike Van Milligen
To: Hilkin, Juanita
Date: 9/21/2009 11:32 AM
Subject: Fwd: Re: Crime Meeting
»> Phyllis Russell 9/19/2009 5:51 PM »>
Thank you so much Terry!
I will include these suggestions along with all the ideas we received from the citizens in the meeting on
Thursday night. Thanks for your support and concern and feel free to forward any information you feel will help
keep the momentum going in our crusade.
Have A Wonderful Day,
Phy//is E. Russe//, MPA
Management Intern
The City of Dubuque
City Manager's Of>~ice
City Hall
50 West 13th Street
Dubuque, IA 52001-4805
563.589.4110
563.589.4149 fax
prussellCa~cityofdubuque org
»> "Terry Mozena" <TMozena@premierbanking.com> 9/18/2009 9:34 AM »>
I wanted to Thank You for offering an opportunity for concerned citizens a chance to get together to discuss
their concern about crime in our community. I look forward to the results from the "Crime Commission" and
encourage you to move forward expeditiously. I was speaking to a member of the Waterloo City Council the
other day and he stated that we need to get on top of this immediately and with decisive action. He stated that
their mistake in Waterloo is that they thought their increase in crime was a short term issue and that it would
go away, and waited too long to address it many years ago and the crime has since become entrenched in their
community and is proving very difficult to remove it.
I have attached a list of items that I think can be helpful to the "commission", it focuses a bit more on housing
as it was put together for another meeting, but still offers some good suggestions that could be incorporated
into a more comprehensive plan.
Thanks and good luck.
Terry L. Mozena
Commercial Loan Officer
Premier Bank
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1. Licensing landlords to insure they are using correct forms, doing criminal background
checks, understanding their obligations of being a landlord, explaining expectations and
rules.
2. Discuss Supreme Court ruling that allows section 8 staff members to inspect recipients
dwelling for illegal items/guests.
3. Enforce building codes health codes concerning the condition of the properties and
exterior looks including accumulated garbage/litter/etc.
4. Creating a list of renters that have violated/damages properties or created unsafe
conditions by drugs and criminal behavior. Landlords would refer to this list when
making decisions.
5. Housing staff to compare addresses of police calls against section 8 housing and
landlords. Landlords that allow troubled tenants to live in their property will lose their
rental license.
6.Reduce the number of violations that a landlord can accumulate prior to intervention.
Before a landlord is allowed to rent, all of his rental property has to be in compliance.
7. Work with neighborhood organizations to help be the eyes and ears for the housing
department.
8. Create a hotline were violations can be reported anonymously. Housing department to
work with building services/ police department to resolve issues on a more timely basis.
9. Work to reduce the concentration of rental units in specific areas. Support home
ownership.
10. Work to reduce the number of section 8 housing vouchers. Push to support
responsibility and independence. What is the number of section 8 units? Compared to last
year? 5 years ago?
11. Develop standardized lease so all areas of concern are covered. Provide landlords
with the form for background/criminal checks by the police department.
12. All renters must be cleared through the police department which will conduct
criminal and credit background check. They will control the master list and issue a renter
identification that the landlord will refer to when renting a unit out. Landlords would not
be able to rent to someone who is not on the list. Criminals are not going to go to the
police department to fill out an application, they will go to another city that is less strict.