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Public Safety Minutes 1999 07-26-99 UNITED Cl'rY OF YORKVILLE Committee lvfinutes—Public Safety Date of Meeting:July 26, 1999 Time Convened:6:38 P.M. Location: 111 W.Fox Time Adjourned 9:15 P.M. Attendees: Bert Callmer Art Prochaska Richard Sticka Harold Martin Rose Spears Larry Kot Discussion: 1.) In Car Video Camera' roposaMemonshaticn—Oswego has in car video equipment. Equipment is mounted in the car. It can not be moved from car to car. Timmy Jenson came from Oswego with videotape for a demonstration. Jenson said they get a lot of gutlty pleas by having the video. He does not think a VHS tape has ever been beaten. Tt someone tries to beat it they would be spending a lot of time and money. It records audio and video both. Oswego has four cameras and they are mostly used in the afternoons and at nighttime. Basically used for drugs and alcahoL They also use it for domestic cases. When the officer goes into the home it is recording. They feel it is very cost effective. If you can save court time then it cuts down on your cost. Oswego has had them for three to four years. When they decided to get them they solicited bars and insurance companies and got$5,500 in donations. Once they advertised it in the newspapers,people started sending donations. 2.) Budget Review FY 99/00—Overtime Report—Vacations are the major reason for overtime this pay period. We are in line with last year. We want to stay under incase we have an investigations. 3.) Monthly Police Reports—June 1999—Traffic violations are up. Officers have not been giving tickets for loud radiostcar stereos. State law says that if you can hear it 75 feet away then it is in violation. We have written tickets for that in the past. It is not considered a moving violation so a person can get as many tickets as necessary because their licenses can not be revoked. We had an officer that went to the sexual offender training class. Property Crime is high. This is basically higher in the summer time. Sticka is wondering if we have any kind of report that shows what gets solved? it would be really difficult to have this type of report because it may take two years to solve a case. A conviction can take six-months to one year. A DUI can take well over one year and a traffic ticket can take six months if the person wants to drag it out. Callmer suggest maybe a report that list arrest,convictions, and pendings,basically just to see how things flow,not to judge our officers. The officers do get a result from their tickets. Kot does not want the report to be used as a gage for the police department. To be viewed as something positive and he does not want to see it by officer. it needs to be done as an overall group. Traffic would be good for this. Traffic monitoring is down. Rebuilt car is running well. 4.) Hunting on the Fox River Update—Kot talked to Graff. There is no update except what was in the paper. Still working on annexing the river that is in the City limits. 5.) Cops Grant Update—Mobile Data Terminals—We are looking at September 1. There were some problems with the keyboards. They are also a little behind. The City and the County are using the same installers. School-Based Partnership Project—Finishing up. Have not heard back on e big grant. Molly is worldng on paperwork from Matt.Problem Solving Partnership Project(Pinewood Resource Curter)—No update. 6.) New Facility Update/Review/Concerns—Pro posed Temporary Site for Polio Station During Construction—There is 3,000 square feet at the old Brenert Eye Care building for$1,000 per month and they plan on repainting. The Daly Center at Beecher could be used,but it has already been tinted out. Countryside has space,cost is 51,500 per month for 1,500 square feet: Cb ecked into the Shopper building,cost is$2,800 per month for 2,800 square feet. There are placep that we cart move into with photit lines already ran to the building. The hirrem facility needs to be sold acid moved by September 15. At Worst eAl6 we will hav6 tb rent a piacd for five moi ih ,best case&V6 inoAs. Everydhe 1t ` aware that this is short term. Graff suggest the Brenert building. Mayor Prochaska does not want to spend any money on a location that we are moving out of He does not want to be putting up doors and walls etc. Hoping to get some donations/vol mteers to help with the move. This is probably not going to be real comfortable. Mayor Prochaska does not want us to move any sooner than we have to. The Brenert building is the best-priced location. We will need a sign. Calimer is wondering if anyone conwed Sheriff Randall to see if there is any space available at the County Public Safety Center? They are looking to add on. There is room for 60 people and they are full. They are not housing for any other Counties. We need to find out if Graff has talked with Sheriff Randall to make sure all our bases have been covered. if there is not any space available then recommend the Brenert building. 7.) Blinois First Equipment Grant Budget Proposal—Update—Speed Control Devices—Road Spikes and Portable Speed Bumps—Speed bumps are out because of the cost Mayor Prochaska would like to sec the Illinois First Grant to clarify what is corning from the budget. Evidence Collection Equipment— DigiW Camera and 3 5m camera,would like to see the money spent on each item. Police Radios for Citizens Police Academy Alumni—No discussion. New Business I-) Police Commission Research/Planning information—Kot talked to Graff A census will be taken next year_ Population will be over 5,000. We will have to have a Police Commission. Mayor Prochaska would like to keep working on this so we are ready for it when it happens. 2.) Police Officers,Liability Ordinance—Informational—In light with what happened in DuPage with the DuPage Seven,we need to get some input from the Illinois Municipal League. Read over and bring back next month for further discussion 3,) Seatbelt Ordinance—Information—If we adopt an ordinance for seatbelts then we can stop people just for that. State law does not allow us to make a stop because someone is not wearing a seatbelt. There are a number of communities that have already done this. it is a law and if someone is breaking the law then we should not have to look for other reasons to stop someone for doing something else. We would only be stopping for seatbelts, Kot feels that we need to allow our officers to enforce the law. We need to do some more research. We need to get a sample ordinance from a community that does this. We need to find out how often it is enforce. Maybe we could do a warning on the first stop,then if someone gets stopped a second time within a year then we ticket them. It would be nice to do this Countywide. Additional Business Mot Out—Kot has asked Graff to supply us with schedules. Weather Warning Sirens—We have received a quote for moving the siren from the old fire department, south on RI.47 by the new fire department on our pump. Cost with pole is$2,700,if we supply the pole S 1,800. Kot would like to have a map outlining the area this siren will cover. We are going to be looking at grant money for sirens in the spring. People to the north and west can not hear anything. This is a concern. We need to figure out the greatest need and we need to figure out where the money is coming from. Kot asked if we have considered getting together with Plano to cover the area by EIdamine Road. There would be a startup cost of approximately$25,000. We need to work on this. Bring back. Department of Natural Resources—Mayor Prochaska received a letter that said they are going to continue to study to remove the dam. Mayor Prochaska and Nanninga are going to send a letter. There are a lot of concerns. We need to get our concerns out now. We do not know if it is a good idea to remove the dam or not. It does need to be safer. We are still looking at the radium issues. At least we have a reservoir of water there. Kot feels that a public statement needs to be made. Mayor Prochaska will crake a copy of the letter for everyone. Nrinutes by:Mollie Anderson -2-