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HomeMy WebLinkAboutSafe City - 1996-03-05SAFECI'I'Y~1996-03-05 SAFE CITY COMMITTEE MINUTES MARCH 5, 1996 The Safe City Committee held its meeting under the Chairmanship of Trudy Beaulne and Councillor Karen Redman with the following members present: Brock Stanley, Julie Dean, Manuela Almeida, Nancy Brawley, Philip Fernandez, Gregory Jahn, Wilf Park, Alan Richardson, Bryan Stortz and Bob Arnot Others Present: Christiane Sadeler. Members Absent: Councillor Mark Yantzi, Karen Taylor-Harrison, Rita Westbrook. 1 All Committee Members For the Next Meeting, 1. Review Summary of March 26, 1996. Initiatives. 2. Bring 1 unmentioned Initiative to the next meeting. 3. Bring any questions or undefined terms to the next meeting. The meeting began with Trudy Beaulne introducing Christiane Sadeler and explaining that she would be facilitating our meeting today. Trudy Beaulne also mentioned that we would be deferring Other Business item # 1, Letter of Resignation from Wilf Park until after our 2 meetings set aside for Prioritizing our Initiatives were over. At this point Trudy Beaulne turned the meeting over to Christiane Sadeler. -73- 1. PURPOSE OF THE MEETING Christiane Sadeler indicated that due to the amount of time it would take to prioritize the initiatives it was decided that we would set aside 2 meetings to ensure that we did not look over any items too quickly. She noted the two main purposes of today's meeting would be looking at the initiatives and accessing priorities, adding that how and when we deal with the initiatives would be discussed at the second meeting. Christiane then continued by reviewing the document entitled "Goals and Hopes for Joint Meeting on March 5, 1996" (See attached). She then explained that there was a piece a paper on the flip chart for the committee members to write down questions or undefined terms that arise during the meeting and they will be dealt with at the next meeting. 2. VISIONING EXERCISE Christiane Sadeler continued by indicating that we were going to do a visioning exercise that would require us to draw a picture with our non-dominant hand of how we see a safe city. She explained she wanted us to imagine a helicopter of information that could be in 2 places at one time, jump forward in time, hover unnoticed, equipped with machines to see inside buildings, which would allow you to see at night and use as you wish. She then asked us to draw a time or place where the city was safe, including in our picture the following: time of day, what houses look like, people, gender, race, what you feel, hear and smell. Some paper and markers were then handed out a each committee member and they then drew a picture of what it means to be a safe city. After all members finished their pictures, Christiane had each person explain their picture and comment on the items in the picture. While the members were explaining their pictures Christiane Sadeler wrote the comments on a piece of flip chart paper (See comments attached -Visioning Exercise Comments). After each committee member commented on their picture Christiane noted that the two main similarities were a lot of activity on the streets and a feeling of safety. 3. PRIORITIZING INITIATIVES At this point it was explained by Christiane that we would look at the initiatives in 3 different groups to correspond with the 3 groups of initiatives attached to the Agenda, (see attached), Safe City Committee Initiatives, Safety Committee Initiates and Initiatives taken from Toronto. She continued by saying that in each section of Initiatives we would vote on the 4 most important Initiatives to each committee member. Christiane then handed coloured circle stickers to each committee member noting a Red sticker meant 1st priority, Green meant 2nd priority, Blue meant 3rd priority and Yellow meant 4th priority, and each committee member placed a red, green, blue and yellow sticker on each group of initiatives. -74- Christiane then removed the initiatives with the most visible amount of stickers off the wall and quickly noted which priorities seemed to be the most common top priorities for the committee. She continued by explaining there would be a summary of all the initiatives including those without a sticker put in document form and circulated to each committee member (see attached Summary of Prioritized Initiatives). 4. WRAP-UP AND FEEDBACK Christiane then explained she had homework for all the committee members, she continued by explaining she would like us to review the Summary of Initiatives, Bring any questions or undefined terms and would like each committee member to bring 1 initiative not yet mentioned to the next meeting. She indicated that at the next meeting we would be prioritizing the initiatives on a 5 year time-line. Christiane then asked the committee for feedback on the meeting, Philip Fernandez commented that he felt their was a sense of clusters within the initiatives. Bryan Stortz mentioned he was pleased to see what came from the exercises today as the initiatives chosen today are already underway in some form or another, noting that the committee would therefore not be starting from ground zero. Other comments were made by other committee members on how productive they felt the meeting was. 5. OTHER BUSINESS Councillor Karen Redman noted that tomorrow evening at 7:00 pm the Regional Headquarters on Frederick Street was holding a public meeting on the 1 way ring road to 2 way. Christiane Sadeler referred to the flyer attached to the Agenda about the Justice Dinner (see attached), noting they were looking for corporate sponsorship for people with displays who could not afford to pay for the dinner. She added there would be a display on behalf of the Safe City Committee. Christiane also mentioned that Mayor Richard Christy was invited to the International Crime Prevention Conference and suggested that this Committee meet with him before he attends the conference to share the vision of the committee with him. Julie Dean emphasized that a brochure is being put together for the display at the Justice Dinner and that if anyone had any comments to contact her. Trudy Beaulne suggested having members available at the booth for people to talk to if they have any questions or comments. Trudy Beaulne then asked the committee if they still wanted to hold our meeting on April -75- 2nd or if the date for the next meeting should be changed. After some discussion it was decided to move our April 2nd meeting to March 26th between 3:00 and 5:30 pm. Meeting adjourned 5:30 PM A. Tanner LIST OF ATTACHMENTS 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Goals and Hopes for Joint Meeting. Visioning Exercise Comments. Initiatives To Be Prioritized. Summary of Prioritized Initiatives. Justice Dinner Undefined Terms and Unanswered Questions. -78- VISIONING EXERCISE COMMENTS WHATISEE? WHEREIAM? Homes, baking, cooking (good smells), play, places of worship, brightness, library, community hall, wider sense of openness, birds, being in park. I'm with people. Living, retail, offices together, balconies look on street, trees on top, colour. I'm walking in street with big smile. 2001-3001, City Hall in middle, lots of people downtown, 2001 jail, big dogs; 3001 execution, not driving but flying, little dogs. I'm at City Hall with Nancy. Major part of O.T. & N.H halloween night, people out and friendly, fall-leaves (playing in), pool in downtown outside City Hall, Mayor in costume, doors are open, People: grey, green, brown, all shops you need(essential), cross streets safely, "conflict" centre, green people working together. I'm walking down the road. Night time, building for rent (Police Station), people, movement in parks. I'm in the Park. Night time (street lights), well lit, all kinds of people. I'm stretching out in park at night. Heritage building, reminder of past, solar power. I'm walking in park alone. Lots of lights, no guns or knives, houses close together, trees, lights below the trees, lots of people, park, no cars (pedestrian), porches, compact, not sprawling, neighbourhood close to active street (design). I'm on front porch (watching street). No cars, bike, wheelchair, daytime, lights on, porches, birds in trees. I'm on the front porch. Back in time, grass, market, in front of City Hall, no locks, no screen door, kids out at night. You know your neighbours. I'm on a wagon coming in. Traffic separated from buildings, lots of children and families, TV cameras, built in security system. I'm in security helicopter. -92 - UNDEFINED TERMS AND UNANSWERED QUESTIONS Are these different priorities or focus on initiatives if we think of residential or commercial developments.