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HomeMy WebLinkAboutSafe City - 1997-12-05 1 -- SAFECITY\1997-12-05 SAFE CITY COMMITTEE MINUTES DECEMBER 5, 1997 The Safe City Committee held its meeting under the Chairmanship of Brock Stanley with the following members present: Trudy Beaulne, Philip Fernandez, Lirondel Hazlneh, Councillor Karen Taylor-Harrison, Rita Westbrook and Jackie Marsh. Others Present:Bob Arnot, Barb Steiner and Avril Tanner (Minutes). Absent:Councillor Mark Yantzi, Nancy Brawley, Alan Richardson, David Ryan and Richard Swanson. ACTIVITY REPORT FOR FUTURE MEETINGS From:JULY 8, 1997 TO BE DONE NAMECOMPLETION DATE All Committee MembersJanuary 9, 1998Review the Draft Safe City Web Page and send any changes or comments to th Avril by January 9. ADMINISTRATIVE 1. WELCOME NEW MEMBERS Due to the short notice given to the new members that were appointed neither of the two new members were able to attend. Brock did however introduce Barb Steiner and indicated that she was our new Safe City Co-ordinator. He also shared some of Barb’s background and experience with the Committee. Everyone welcomed Barb and introduced themselves and indicated their 1 151 -- relationship to the Committee. ELECTION OF NEW CO-CHAIRS Considering the Committee did not reach quorum it was decided that we would elect the new Co-Chairs at the next meeting and that Brock would continue to Chair today’s meeting. 3.SMILES & CHUCKLES PARK Brock introduced Grant Nixon and Peter Wetherup from the Parks & Recreation Department and indicated that they were here to discuss the Smile & Chuckles Park (please refer to map attached and Info). The Applicant is building street fronting townhouses around the area indicated on the map. The highlighted section is an area that the builder is proposing to convey to the City for Parkland. Peter indicated that there were several safety and visibility concerns with the proposed donation of land if used as Parkland. There would be little visibility off of Weber Street into the Park and no visibility from Cameron and Troy Streets. He indicated that the Parks & Recreation Department could chose to turn down the donation due to the safety concerns. The following points were made during discussion of the proposed Park area: As far as we know there will be no privacy fence placed behind the townhouses, only a fence. The backs of the homes will be lit up with either sensor lights, full time lighting or flood lighting. Seems more of a private playground as opposed to a public playgournd. Peter indicated that there would be signage on the main streets to indicate that it was a City owned Park. Councillor Karen Taylor-Harrison indicated that they have a park like this in their neighbourhood and there have not been any safety issues only kids partying back there in the summer time. The people in the area are concerned with the property the way it is and would like to make the area into a park as this would create a vast improvement to the area. If the City turned down the donation the land would be a private gated area. It might be possible to purchase the property on Weber or Troy in the future in hopes to open up the parkland more. It was mentioned that there was an area like this in Toronto and they lit the park well and it was magnificently landscaped. This park also had a play area. In general the Committee resolved that the City should proceed with the parkland 151 152 -- conveyance that we could have a future possibility of purchasing some land along the back of the property particularly on Troy Street. It was also noted that we could make the land acceptable with creative landscaping. A suggestion was made that the immediate neighbourhood meet to gain a feeling of ownership and that Karen Taylor-Harrison would meet with people in the area to follow through with any concerns. Moved By: Councillor Karen Taylor-Harrison Seconded By: Trudy Beaulne CARRIED. Trudy thanked Grant and Peter for bring this item forward for the Committee’s review and indicated that this Committee would like to do this sort of review more often. 4.APPROVAL OF DECEMBER 5, 1997 AGENDA It was decided to approve the Agenda for today’s meeting with the following changes being noted: Items 1, 2 & 9 be deferred to the next meeting. Add a discussion on Transit to the Agenda Moved By: Rita Westbrook Seconded By: Trudy Beaulne CARRIED. 4.APPROVAL OF NOVEMBER 7, 1997 MINUTES th Brock indicated that the Tenders for Lighting were not reviewed at the November 24 Council meeting however they are hoping to bring them to the next Council Meeting in December. Brock also mentioned that he had spoken to Ron Schirm pertaining to developing Safe School Walks and Ron had indicated that they do not have any written standards, only what he discussed at the last meeting. The Safety Audit Working Group volunteered to help in developing these standards in a written format. Moved By: Councillor Karen Taylor-Harrison Seconded By: Jackie Marsh CARRIED. 152 153 -- 6.MEETING DATE REVIEW It was mentioned that one of the two new members is unable to make the meeting time established. Brock referred to the list of meeting dates attached to the agenda and indicated that next th meeting date would be January 9, most of he committee’s are not meeting till the following th meeting. After some discussion is was decided that we keep the date of January 9 for our next meeting. It was indicated that if we did not wish to change the regular meeting time then we would have 2 vacant positions on this committee. This turned into a discussion on what the definition of quorum was and it was pointed out that it was not really clear in the Terms of Reference if 50% + 1 to make quorum included the 2 vacant positions. It was decided that that the 50% referred to the number of current members and not number of members allotted for the committee. It was decided that the Terms of Reference should be revised to reflect this. It was decided to cancel the Meeting scheduled in August and that the Regular Meeting Time should stay the same (8:00 – 10:00 am). It was suggested that we should look at asking the applicant to list the times they would be available to meet on the application form. It was also suggested that we should add an outreach discussion as a future agenda item in hopes of developing some ways to find more members. Trudy Beaulne volunteered to contact Richard Swanson and let him know that the committee decided to keep the meeting time the same and to let him know that the Working Groups are open for membership. Karen Taylor-Harrison volunteered to call the other new member David Ryan and discuss any information that he would like to discuss about the Committee. It was also suggested that we contact Diane Biuk and thank her for submitting her application and also inform her about the Working Groups. 7.REVIEW DRAFT OF SAFE CITY COMMITTEE WEB PAGE Avril handed the Draft that was developed for the Safe City Committee Web Page and reviewed the draft with the Committee. It was suggested that all committee members review the Draft and return any comments and suggestions to Avril by January 9, 1998. It was also decided that if at that time no comments or suggestions were made we should make arrangements to have the draft set up for the internet. Councillor Karen Taylor- Harrison indicated that it would have taken a long time to produce the draft handed out and 153 154 -- thanked Avril for the time spent and indicated that she did a wonderful job. The rest of the committee agreed with Karen’s comment. Meeting adjourned: 10:00 am. A. Tanner LIST OF ATTACHMENTS Smiles & Chuckles Park Map & Information. List of Meeting Dates Safe City Web Page Draft 154