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Minutes_Safe Community Advisory Committee 7 13 11DRAFT MINUTES SAFE COMMUNITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE Wednesday, July 13, 2011 Mines of Spain Recreational Area — E.B. Lyons Interpretive & Nature Center Meeting was called to order by Chair Doug Stillings @ 7:13p.m. Committee members present: Doug Stillings, Anthony Allen, Mary Rae Bragg, Ann Ernst, Rachel Daack, Amanda Elkins Staff present: Atty Crenna Brumwell, Terry Tobin, Jerelyn O'Connor, Kelly Larson, Phyllis Russell, Marie Ware, Chief Mark Dalsing Committee members absent: Susan Stork, Diane Callahan, Jonathan Cheatham Approval of minutes of June 8,2011. Motion by Bragg, second by Ernst to approve minutes as submitted. All approved. Action Items • Progress Reports from City Departments o Marie Ware, Leisure Services Manager ; Submitted report Attached Ware gave an overview of the changes, that have been made in the department since her appointment last year. She expounded on the additional Programming for low- income citizens and extension program offerings. She noted that program scheduling has been expanded to accommodate the schedules of the participants and in partnership with other community youth programs. Summer playground program is now coordinated to make sure that no kid stays one place alt day long; but can participate in activities from morning until night if. desired. UrbanYouth Core grant allowed for 3 at -risk youth to be hired for thesummer. Mary Bridget Corken hired through a VISTA grant for one year as a volunteer coordinator To comply with the SCTF's recommendation cameras will be installed to Comiskey Park soon. The cameras at Allison- Henderson caught kids behaving undesirably., `asked if_there are areas for growth for those kids that are middle school,and high school age. -Ware stated that programming with the DCSD beginning with middle school kids through the 21st Century grant this fall. Further discussion followed regarding this hard to reach age demographic. Motion by Daack, seconded by Ernst to approve staff report. All approved. There were no items from the public Items from Staff The Committee reviewed the letter from David Harris regarding the opening of the waiting list for the Section 8 program. Stillings and Daack noted that they had been requested to keep their schedules open but had not been called to appear before the HUD reviewers that were recently in the City to audit the Section 8 program and review the recent changes made to the program DRAFT based on the SCTF recommendations. It was reported to them that HUD has 60 days to report their findings to the City. And those findings will be shared with the committee. Chief Dalsing'officially' introduced himself to the committee. He had been in Virginia at the FBI Academy during the inception of the group. He reported that mandatory background checks began July 15` and as of July 13th 134 names had been processed. Noise enforcement efforts — cyclist don't all share the same perspective in regards to the police efforts in toning down the loud cycle exhausts. 1.4% of all registered bikes have gotten tickets. 323 tickets have been written for loud mufflers, 63 of those belong to bikes and several are repeat offenders. Stillings encouraged calls to City Council to support police and noise' ordinance efforts. Bragg noted that she appreciates the police and how it has been a nice quiet summer in her neighborhood. Chief Dalsing stated that in they are looking for behavior ch'ange ;.ir. their efforts so that everyone can enjoy a quiet summer. Jerelyn O'Connor reported that Tuesday, August 2nd (5:OOp- 8:OOp) is the'National Night Out event sponsored by Target. Officer Scott Baxter is heading the effort Russell will obtain information from Baxter and distribute to the group. Items from the Committee. Because of the concern of having a quorum in order for a meeting to be called to order Stillings requested that members state their attendance a few days prior to each meeting so that a quorum will be,present. Russell stated that she will contact members a few days prior to each member requesting that they state their`attendance to the scheduled meeting. Stillings and Bragg will not be present at. the August 10`h meeting. After the August meeting it was agreed that the September meeting will include a discussion on how to report back to City Council on the progress that has been made by the Advisory Committee. Meeting was adjourned at 7:47 p.m. Respectfully submitted, Phyllis ERussell ICMA Management Fellow These minutes were passed and approved on SAFE COMMUNITY TASK FORCE REPORT REGARDING YOUTH AND OTHER INITIATIVES July 13, 2011 LEISURE SERVICES DEPARTMENT City of Dubuque, Iowa Marie L. Ware, Leisure Services Manager I. RECREATION / PROGRAMMING A. Brochure Changes 1. Incorporating Neighborhood Programming into the Leisure Services summer brochure — used all over town and distributed by school lists for public and parochial. 2. Changing the name of Uptown Recreation Program to Neighborhood Recreation Program. 3. Changing up programming. Programs for all interests. 4. Also incorporated Multi- Cultural Family Center programs into brochure. B. After - School Programming 1. Five free programs — Audubon, Fulton, Lincoln, Marshall and Prescott. 2. This last year incorporated partnerships and programming with National Mississippi River Museum and Aquarium and Dubuque Art Center. Quality programs brought to location. Work with St. Mark's. Focus on Every Child /Every Promise — five promises — especially healthy starts, including fitness and nutrition. C. Summer Programming isn't overlapping. Go to Leisure Services program, lunch with Boys & Girls Club, St. Mark's in the afternoon, Leisure Services evening activities. Prescott School presentation at the end of the year to let kids and families know. Have sixteen (16) playground sites. D. 21st Century Grant — Middle School was received by school. School surveyed parents and talked to kids about activities they wanted. Working to get ready for starting middle school after - school program when school starts. Service Projects — looking at doing some through the year with kids. E. Summer Programming. Engage teens; had demonstrations at middle schools — Zumba, Hip Hop. Looked at what kids want — Skateboarding. F. Fall Programming. Working on a great lineup right now. G. Partnerships. Beginning to explore opportunities with the Colts building. H. Recreation Program Supervisor position — re -wrote job description when had position opening and recruited person with skills to build stronger neighborhood program. Tony Elskamp hired. He had run the Milwaukee Community Center working for the school district. I. After - School Sports Programming — has really grown with more kids than ever participating. J. Weekend Open Gyms engage kids and families in play through fall and winter. 1 K. Prescott Neighborhood Center and gymnasium usage facilitates lots of programs because of special use agreement with school. L. Very important CDBG funding continues. II. MFC A. The City is a part of partnership (Non - profit board pays for programming; City hired staff.) B. Programming — wide and varied. C. Cooperation to partnering between Leisure Services and Multi- Cultural Family Center looking at new ways to partner. D. Great Staff — lots of connections with kids and families III. AMERICORPS A. Servicing fifteen (15) locations in community, with forty -one (41) members this summer. B. Summer Playgrounds are well attended throughout the city. C. Service Component - Martin Luther King service event engages people in community. D. Very important AmeriCorps funding continues. IV. VOLUNTEERS A. AmeriCorps VISTA Grant — Mary Bridget Corken hired. B. Cities of Service — Chief Service Office. Move the needle on a community need /initiative. C. Software to register volunteers. Choose by interest area. D. Build within city and build out to partners then community. E. Build sustainability so we can continue after Mary Bridget's one year. V. PARKS A. Important to keep things clean and well kept. 1. Comiskey. 2 -3 times per day clean -up 2. Washington Park / Town Clock Plaza. Extra efforts. B. Improvements to Physical Environment 1. Look at things that are dated and get them improved or out. 2. Pinard Park. Concerns of neighbors of negative kid behaviors. Increase patrols. (Meeting held with parks, COP's, park patrol to determine a plan. Results in improvements in the park.) 3. Jackson Park. Inspection at beginning of spring season to set plan for improvements. 4. Funds for Comiskey lighting of trail from 22nd to 32nd. C. Getting kids involved in parks. 1. Future Talk — Jackson Park steps project. 2. Service as component of After - School Program and other programs. D. Work with Schools 1. School playgrounds. 2. Kennedy Elementary School — basketball hoops were paid half by school, half by City. E. Internal Working Group — work with all departments. Great ideas like speed monitors going in /out of Bunker Hill Golf Course that increased safety for neighborhood kids. F. Vandalism /Graffiti - fixed as fast as possible. Don't want others to see vandalism. 2 G. Use of Cameras. WiII be adding at Comiskey Park soon. Have some cameras at Allison - Henderson Park restrooms in which we have caught some kids doing negative behaviors, Veterans' Memorial Park and the Comiskey Center. H. Urban Youth Corps Grant — hired three (3) at -risk youth to do projects and life skills coaching. I. Programming Lights at Comiskey Park (soccer /basketball) - control from remote locations, assist with safety. VI. PARK PATROL. Two (2) full -time rangers work from 4:00 pm to midnight, rest of the rangers are part -time. Our full -time rangers are trained in law enforcement. Our lead ranger is Tyson Brown. A. Attends neighborhood meetings. B. Last year instituted Bikes by request — Bike patrol bike. C. Did extra training with police officers on other things they may run across. D. Try to keep kids and adults active in parks, but if necessary, we suspend individuals form specific parks or all parks. Share this information with police. Helps all of our efforts. E. Tyson at Multi- Cultural Family Center this past winter. He was mentoring, tutoring and building relationships with kids. F. Communicate a lot with police, especially COP's. G. Visible at events like "Movie in the Park" at Comiskey. 3 Masterpiece on the Mississippi Dubuque All-America City 1 2007 TO: Michael Van N l igen, City Manager FROM: David Ha , Housing and Community Development Department SUBJECT: Action to open waiting list for Section 8 Housing Voucher Program DATE: 11 July 11 The waiting list for new housing voucher applicants was closed to persons not qualifying for local preferences in November 2009. At that time, 893 applicant families were listed. Per your directive, we also ceased issuing new vouchers at that time, in an effort to reduce the Program size to 900 vouchers. We achieved that target number in October 2010, at which time we began issuing again. As of June, we have exhausted the waiting list. All persons who previously applied have either been issued vouchers, are in the process of being issued or are under review to determine final eligibility. We are struggling to reach the threshold number of 900 vouchers. For this reason, we have considered re- opening the waiting list to all applicants. This means that we would remove the requirement to qualify for local preference points in order to apply, but still apply those standards in ranking all applicants. Local preference points include having Dubuque (30 points), Dubuque County (20) or Iowa (15) residence; or having a household member who is 62 years or older (5); or the head of household or spouse is disabled (5). This scoring system insures that non - Dubuque residents will not rise to the top of the list more quickly than those qualifying for local preference points. All other current eligibility restrictions as specified in the Section 8 Program Administrative Plan would remain in effect. These include ineligibility for reason of criminal charges or . convictions involving drug - related or violent behaviors, theft, fraud, and disturbance of the peace, and related behaviors by juvenile members of the household. HUD regulations require that a housing authority must maintain a waiting list of applicants sufficient to replace turnover vouchers. The intent of re- opening the list is to recruit a Program size of 900 vouchers — generating administrative fee revenues to reach budgetary target levels -- and to maintain a waiting list of sufficient size to insure continued utilization of vouchers at that level. HUD requires that re- opening of the waiting list must be published as a public notice. With your concurrence, we will publish this notice in the 12 July edition of the Telegraph Herald. This matter will also be publicly discussed at the July meetings of the Section 8 Program Resident Advisory Board and the Housing Commission. New E- Newsletter Page 1 of 2 Phyllis Russell - Fwd: Multi- Agency Safety & Enforcement Project (Phase II results) From: Mike Van Milligen To: Russell, Phyllis Date: 7/9/2011 7:35 AM Subject: Fwd: Multi- Agency Safety & Enforcement Project (Phase II results) For former Safe Community Task Force ad current Safe Community Committee »> "City of Dubuque Police Department" <listsery ©civicplus.com> 7/8/2011 2:24 PM »> View this in your browser DUBUQUE POLICE DEPARTMENT News Release Date: July 8th, 2011 Contact: Lieutenant Scott Baxter (563) 589 -4473 sbaxteraC ..citvofdubuque.orq Multi- Agency Safety & Enforcement Project (Phase II results) On July 7th, 2011, the Dubuque Police, along with the Dubuque County Sheriffs Department, the Iowa State Patrol, the City of Dubuque Animal Control Unit and City of Dubuque Park Patrol Unit conducted a multi- agency safety and enforcement project. The project focused on traffic related violations, park issues and animal control issues. Law enforcement officers from the above agencies issued both traffic citations and warning citations during the project, which ran from 3:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. The specific number & nature of offenses were as follows: Offense Citations issued Warnings issued No Front Plate 4 0 Driving Suspended 1 0 No insurance 10 1 file: / /C:\Documents and Settings \prussell\Local Settings \Temp \XPgrpwise \4E1804... 7/27/2011 New E- Newsletter Speed 2 5 No Drivers License 3 0 Seatbelt 21 2 Window Tint 6 0 Registration Violation 7 4 Loud Exhaust 2 0 Red Light / Stop Sign 3 1 Equipment Violations 1 23 Restricted License 1 0 Loud Stereo 2 0 Animal Violations 6 5 Warrant Arrest 1 0 Possess Paraphernalia 1 0 Possess Controlled Subst. 0 TOTALS 73 41 This complimentary message is being sent to opt -in subscribers who might be interested in its content. 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