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HomeMy WebLinkAboutSafe City - 1999-01-05SAFECITY~1999-01-05 Present: Others Present: Absent: The Safe City Committee held its meeting under the Chairmanship of Coun. Karen Taylor-Harrison with the following members present: Trudy Beaulne, Sandro Bassanese, Fred Bishop, Steve Bongelli, Rita Westbrook and Jackie Marsh, Coun. Mark Yantzi. Brock Stanley, Dennis Scharr, Julie Dean and Avril Tanner (minutes). Nancy Brawley and Lori Gove. Brock Next Meeting Report to Council - Election of Co-Chairs. Coun. Karen Taylor-Harrison Soon Reply to Barry McClinchey's letter. EleCtion of hai rs Brock explained the process used to elect Co-Chairs for the Committee and reviewed the role of the Co-Chairs. Both Councillor Karen Taylor-Harrison and Sandro Bassanese were nominated to act as Co- Chairs of the committee. A motion was made that both Councillor Karen Taylor-Harrison and Sandro Bassanese be elected as Co-Chairs of the Safe City Committee. Moved By: Fred Bishop Seconded By: Court. Mark Yantzi Approved Brock indicated that he would take a report to Council requesting the approval of the above noted appointments. 2 The agenda for today's meeting was approved with the following information items being added: Letter from Kitchener Public Library. Letter to Barry McClinchey. Moved By: Trudy Beaulne Seconded By: Jackie Marsh Approved The minutes from the December 1, 1998 meeting were approved. Moved By: Fred Bishop Seconded By: Trudy Beaulne Approved Brock reviewed the process taken to date and explained that a presentation will be made at the Community Services Committee Meeting on January 11, 1999. He explained that Julie Dean's position description currently allots 25% of her time towards Safe City Committee related issues, we are requesting that this percentage be expanded to 100% therefore making her position as Safe City Co-ordinator a full time position. Brock reviewed Council's concerns regarding this request and pointed out that Management Committee felt that we should change the original request from being a permanent position to one on a temporary basis until such time that the report on Community Development that is to be tabled in June of 1999 can be fully reviewed. It was noted that the sub-committee has met 2 times since the last Safe City Committee meeting and has developed the attached Outline for the presentation that will be made to Community Services Committee on Monday. Coun. Karen Taylor-Harrison added that the sub-committee can meet in the Council Caucus room if it is not being used or as a back up could meet in her office prior to the presentation to go over any last minute details. Attached for the reference of the committee are the reports prepared by the Departments of Business & Planning Services and Parks & Recreation that were reviewed by Management Committee. A copy of the consolidated report prepared by Paul Sinnott is also attached. 3 A motion was made that the Kitchener Safe City Committee recommends that Council give consideration to the expansion of the present Safe City Co-ordinator position from 25% to 100% on a temporary basis for a period of one year. Moved By: Trudy Beaulne Seconded By: Jackie Marsh Approved Kitchener Public Library Letter Avril Tanner circulated the attached letter that was received on behalf of the committee. Letter from Barry McClinche¥ Avril Tanner circulated the attached letter that was received on behalf of the committee. After the committee had a chance to review the circulated letter Trudy Beaulne indicated that over the last few years some projects were completed within the Region that relate to information gathering. If it is decided that we should accept the offer given by Barry McClinchey these projects should be taken into consideration. It was also mentioned that this type of survey would have to be completed on a yearly basis in order to be able to track specific trends. After some discussion it was decided that Councillor Karen Taylor-Harrison would reply by letter to Barry McClinchey indicating that his offer was reviewed by the committee and his suggestion had been added to the committee's list of priorities for review at a later date. Julie Dean circulated copies of the updated priority charts. She indicated that the suggestions given at the previous meeting were added in the year 1999. The committee reviewed these updated charts and the suggestions given during this review have been incorporated into the charts attached. During review of the above noted charts the following suggestions were made: Councillor Karen Taylor-Harrison indicated that she had received many compliments on the Lighting improvements that have been installed to date. It was suggested that we should include a safety audit of Victoria Park School, Julie Dean indicated that she would put a package of audit information together and forward it to Fred Bishop. That we focus in on a project that can be done in the suburban part of the city. It was suggested that we could look at Youth and vandalism in the suburban areas of the city. 4 Julie Dean informed the committee that there is a student in the Business & Planning Services Department that will be working on collating the audit results and developing the report for the College Street Safety Audit. The safety surveys being completed by the University students are just about completed. Brock indicated that he has prepared a report to update Council on the status of the Youth Issues Committee that will be reviewed at Planning Committee on Monday. Brock summarized the report and indicated that the report would be reviewed at the Youth Issues Committee Meeting tomorrow afternoon. The report was reviewed and endorsed fully by the Safe City Committee at their meeting on January 5, 1999. Moved By: Fred Bishop Seconded By: RitaWestbrook Approved Attached please find a copy of the revised report that incorporates any suggested changes from the meeting. It was decided that a regular Agenda Item be included on the Agenda to complete a review of the meeting. The following Future Agenda Items have been removed from the Agenda: 1. Safe City Committee's Priority Chart (MS Project Worksheet). 2. Traffic Calming Measures and Home Based Radar. 3. Develop an Evaluation Plan for Lighting Design Study. And the following changes were made to the remaining Future Agenda Items: 4. Developing Committee Resource Kits- February. 5. Review of Mutual Group Parking Plan - February. 6. Expansion of COPS Program - April. 7. Citizens Responding to Citizens Presentation - March. 8. Options for Resources and Funding - (Trudy Beaulne) March. 5 NEXT MEETING: Tuesday, February 2, 1999, Human Resources Learning Rm 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm Meeting Adjourned: 6:00PM. List of Attachments 1. Outline for Safe City Co-ordinator Presentation. 2. Community Development Report- Business & Planning Services. 3. Community Development Report- Parks & Recreation. 4. Consolidated Community Development Report- Paul Sinnott. 5. Letter from Kitchener Public Library. 6. Letter from Barry McClinchey. 7. New Priority Charts. 8. Healthy Community Pilot Project Report. 9. New Youth Issues Committee: Status Report. SUBMITTED BY: Avril Tanner, Committee Secretary