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Public Safety Minutes 2005 05-12-05 A f Page 1 of 3 APPROVED 6/9/05 PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE Thursday,May 12,2005 6:30 pm City Conference Room Present: Mayor Art Prochaska Police Chief Harold Martin Alderwoman Wanda Ohare Jack Morgan, Chestnut Circle Alderman Jason Leslie Carol Foster, Chestnut Circle Alderman Dean Wolfer John Borneman, Kendall County Record The meeting was called to order at 6:35 pm by Wanda Ohare 1. Approval/Correction of Minutes: None. 2. Police Reports—April 2005 The Police department is averaging 24,000 miles a month on the squads. The Administration cars with more than 100,000 miles are still being used. M3 is being used at the High School and M5 is a utility car. M2 will be switched out, M4 and M 14 will become Administrative cars. The old DARE car is still being used; the new DARE car is still in the shop with different things being done to it. The old DARE car will probably be put up for sale when the new one is back, hopefully by July 4h. There were 41 crimes involving children in 2004 and so far in 2005 there were 11. These offenses could be a juvenile against another juvenile or adults against juveniles, Battery offenses. Community Relations hours are up. The Police department is trying to build up the Neighborhood Watch. The crossing guard hour's increase was due to the new crossing guard at the new school. The DARE class has increased to 3 officers working with it. The class sizes have been growing. On next year's budget there will be a separate line item to continue what has been done in the past as far as books, and graduation. A 10% - 15%increase is expected. It is felt that if the kids want to be part of DARE there should be no reason to tell them no. Some of the things the DARE program works with being against drugs, alcohol, with conflict mediation, and anger management. Barry's whole job is tied to the High School. The overtime has been averaging at 50 hours per pay period, 90— 100 hours per month with the 12 hour shifts. When the shifts were 8 %2 hours the overtime was close to double that. The speed trailers are out and if anyone wants to see it in a particular place let Chief Martin know. On Rt. 47 in the downtown area,when the traffic is light,the trucks go zooming through. A stationary sign will be down there with a permanent post on each side of the road where the sign could be moved periodically for each direction of traffic. Pa eg_ 2 of 3 On Rt. 71 near Country Hills the traffic is backed up where you cannot pull out, or if the traffic is not backed up, the traffic flies through about 65—70 miles per hour. An officer can periodically be down there. 3. Business Registration/Alarm Response—There will be something put together for June. 4. Parking—On Street/Overnight -The draft for the ordinance in Fox Hill will be at the June meeting. The ordinance would be for overnight parking of oversized vehicles. There is a tour bus in Country Hills. This vehicle could be over the weight limits for spring. There is also a trailer used for a bobcat that is not attached to a vehicle and does not have any lights or reflectors. The trailer has to be attached to a vehicle to be parked there. 5. Weather Warning Siren Update/Map—There is a water tower being put up at the water tower at MPI. Next year there will be one going up at Heartland Circle. The developers are paying for the sirens. There was an educational bit in the neighborhood watch newsletters about the testing of the sirens the first Tuesday of the month at 10 am and the lightning sirens going off and what they mean. 6. Request to Purchase Radar—Hand Held Unit—there was no information in the packet. Chief Martin would like to see this move forward. This unit will be used for the Bike Patrol. This will move on to COW and Chief Martin will get the information for it before the COW meeting. 7. Liquor Control Amendments— John Wyeth is working on the amendments. This will allow Bar and Grill establishments to be a restaurant's until a certain time, for example 9 pm, then they would be a Tavern which would let them limit who is able to enter the establishment to 21 and over. Banquets and catering may need different amendments. This will come back to the June Public Safety meeting. 8. Equipment/Project Update—The speed trailer and speed sign were ordered. The damage to M10 was due to an accident, a woman pulled out in front of the officer on River Rd and 47. 9. Additional Business The officers train with their handguns once a month rifles, and less than lethal. There is training for rapid response. There are 4 officers on the special response team and a 5t`one is currently in training. There are 2 master firearm instructors, and there is a 3rd ready to go. There is 1 master rifle instructor. This department has training two to three times more often than other departments in the area. The ball park in Fox Hill needs a no parking sign on one side of the street. There are parking spaces on one side of the street and when they are full people park on the other side of the street also. There could possibly be parking set up on the blocks on either side of the park. There needs to be an ordinance specific to the area to be able to enforce the sign. Page There is a dog problem in the Duplexes on Chestnut. The homeowners are afraid to call about it. The homeowners can call anonymously and the police will eventually catch it. This can also be handled as a project. Whenever the officers have time they can go over to the area and wait for the dog to come out so they can be the witness if the homeowners are afraid to sign the complaints. Fawn Ridge and Country Hills Drive intersection has no obvious right of way. There is a sign that has been ordered for that intersection. There is a specific requirement for what warrants at stop sign or yield sign. The intersection of John St and Sycamore has a yield sign on Sycamore and the resident feels there should be a stop sign. If the street were to run through the traffic study could be revisited to see if it would warrant a stop sign. The smoke levels at some of the bars are very high. Specifically the Big Easy. This is probably a Health Department issue. Bill Dettmer can be contacted about the building codes for the air turnover. The next training for the citizen's police will possibly be early summer. Chief Martin will find out. There was a request that an officer would be available for the relay for life money collection. Chief Martin asked Eric to get a hold of the Illinois RailNet about the signs and post conditions. Certain individuals that are hired that have access to lots of money or secured information should have a criminal history background check. Chief Martin will get John's opinion about how to go about doing this. HVAC units need to have some sort of security around them, such as bushes or fencing. They are eyesores and it is also a homeland security issue. The Cadet program started in December. The first part of June John will be able to help get it going. It will take some time to get it up and running. There is no job description available,but Yorkville is going to mirror what Aurora is doing with the policies of their duties. There needs to be a liaison to Ken Com from the Public Safety Committee. The meetings are once a month the 4t'Wednesday at 4 pm. Ron goes to all the meeting. Wanda said she could be the liaison. The meeting was adjourned at 7:55 pm. Minutes submitted by Laura Leppert.