PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE
SEPTEMBER 17, 2001
COUNCIL CHAMBER
6:00 PM
Convened: 6:04
p.m.
Adjoined: 7:20
p.m.
Councillor Stephen G. Abraham
Councillor Paul P. Clancy, Jr.
Also Police Chief, James Gallagher
Fire Chief, Gerard A. Dio
Assistant City Manager, Paul LaCava
Local 1009 President, Frank Raffa
Collette Johnson, Director of Communications
Assistant City Clerk, Michael Dolan
POLICE DEPARTMENT
Communications of the City Manager
1. Relative to assaults involving handguns and knives over the
past five years in the City of Worcester.
#20B
CM April 25, 2000
In Committee - September 20, 2000 – Held
Recommend:
File
2. Relative
to FY 00 Local Law Enforcement Block Grant.
#8AA CM
September 26, 2000
Recommend:
File
3. Relative to the City's award of $60,136.00 for the
continuation of the FY 2001 Juvenile Accountability Incentive Block Grant
(JAIBG) program.
#8DD CM
October 3, 2000
Recommend:
File
4. Relative to the City's award of $13,000.00 for the FY 2001
Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) Program.
#8BB CM October 31,
2000
Recommend: File
5. Relative to the award of $787,000.00 in FY 2001 Community
Policing funds from the Massachusetts Executive Office of Public Safety.
#8FF CM November
21, 2000
Recommend: File
6. Recommending that $215,011.00 be raised and appropriated into
Account #270-93000 Communications Capital Account. Funds for this recommendation will be derived from using $215,011.00
in unclaimed Drug Seizure Funds. This
appropriation will be used to fund the overall upgrade of the two microwave
dishes on top of the Police Department Headquarters and Skyline Dr.
In City Council November 21,
2000 #13 CC - Order Adopted
In Committee for
Informational Purposes Only
Recommend: File
7. Recommending that
$150,000.00 be transferred when and as received from Account #91C780, Capital
Equipment and appropriated to Account #25C701, Police Department Capital
Equipment. This recommendation coupled
with a portion of the anticipated $57,000.00 in Federal Reimbursement funds for
Police Vests will be used to fund the enclosed items. The repair or replacement
of these items are described as in the attached report from Police Chief
Gallagher. Furthermore, Chief
Gallagher indicates that once Federal and State monies for the vests are
received, a funding plan to proceed with Phase 1 of the cell room
rehabilitation and repair project will be forwarded to the Council for
approval.
In City Council November 21,
2000 #28D CM - Order Adopted
In Committee for
Informational Purposes Only
Recommend: File
8. Relative to developing a Challenge Grant Program with Law
Enforcement Block Grant Funds.
#8EE CM December
19, 2000
Recommend: File
9. Relative to LLEBG to fund traffic control around schools.
#8FF CM December
19, 2000
Recommend: File
10. Relative
to Community Development Block Grant Funds, evaluation process of CDBG and
LLEBG Funds, and Goals and Objectives of organizations receiving Community Development
Block Grant Funds.
#18B CM May 15, 2001
Recommend: File
11. Relative
to FY 01 Local Law Enforcement Block Grant Round VI Award and process timeline.
#18D CM August 21, 2001
Recommend: File
12. Relative to landlord training/CMHA.
#18C CM April 24, 2001
Recommend: File
13.
Relative
to Park & Walk frequency.
#20A CM December 5, 2000
Recommend: File
14. Relative to implementing a Park & Walk Program.
#20A CM January 2,
2001
Recommend: File
15. Relative to new police class in February of 2001.
#14A
CM October 17, 2000
Recommend:
File
16. Relative
to staffing levels in the Police Department.
#20A
CM March 20, 2001
Recommend: File
17. Relative
to ideal period for manning a police class and the cost.
#20B
CM June 19, 2001
Recommend: File
18. Relative
to the number of uniformed police officers versus plain clothes police officers
over the past year.
#20A CM July 17, 2001
Recommend: File
19. Relative to hiring additional officers for
Traffic Division.
#20G CM July 17, 2001
Recommend: File
20. Relative
to number of assigned personnel on sick leave, I.O.D., military or other leave
during the past year.
#20H
CM August 21, 2001
Recommend: File
Chairman’s Order: Request the Worcester Fire
Department and Worcester Police Department to provide a report relative the
number of vacant personnel positions and personnel in the military reserves.
21. Relative to estimate of overtime budget.
(Police Dept.)
#20B CM July 17, 2001
Recommend: File
22. Relative
to crime statistics in the Green Island/Vernon Hill Crime Watch Area.
#20A
CM May 1, 2001
Recommend: File
23. Relative
to New England Outlaw Motorcycle Gang Task Force (NEOMGTF).
#20A
CM May 29, 2001
Recommend: File
24. Relative
to brochures of “The Human Rights Commission” and “Your Rights If Stopped By
The Police”.
#15A
CM February 27, 2001
Recommend: File
25. Relative
to the posting of johns and prostitutes pictures.
#6
CC October 17, 2000
Recommend:
File
26. Relative
to comprehensive report on prostitution.
#20E
CM October 17, 2000
Recommend:
File
27. Relative to enforcing laws on prostitution from Webster Square
to Madison St.
#20 CC CM October 17, 2000
Recommend: File
Orders
28. Mayor
Mariano – Request Public Safety Committee work with the City Administration to
find community based strategies to respond and additionally to look at ways to
publicize the name, photos, and addresses of those individuals convicted of
crimes involving prostitution.
#20a CC October 17, 2000
Recommend: Hold
29. Councillor
Luster – Request that when Policy & Procedure Manual for the Internal
Affairs Division of the Worcester Police Department comes back, after
consideration by Administration to delete from and including the fourth
paragraph, second sentence up to and including the seventh paragraph, first
sentence of the section “Who may complain and how” that the Administration also
consider incorporating the recommendations of the Human Rights Commission.
#8ii CC February 29, 2000
In
Committee – September 20, 2000 – Held
Recommend:
File
Chairman’s
Order: Request the Worcester Police Department to provide an updated report on
the Policy and Procedure Manual for the Internal Affairs Division, and to
provide copies of the Manual upon its completion.
30. Councillor
Luster – If the deletion of the fourth paragraph, second sentence up to and
including the seventh paragraph, first sentence of the section “Who may
complain and how” of the Policy and Procedure Manual for the Internal Affairs
Division of the Worcester Police Department and inclusion of the recommendations
of the Human Rights Commission are not incorporated in the final recommended
policy, that City Council receive a report from Administration explaining why
they choose not to take those recommendations.
#8jj CC February 29, 2000
In Committee – September 20, 2000 – Held
Recommend: File
31. Councillor Murray Request Administration or the Public
Safety Committee to come up with criteria for the remainder of the year and set
a process in place where Crime Watch groups are notified of money available
through the Challenge Grant Program with Law Enforcement Block Grant funds.
#7r CC December 19, 2000
Recommend: File
Communications
32. James
DelSignore, City Auditor transmitting report prepared by KPMG concerning
certain activities of the office that oversees Police off-duty details.
#134 CC August
22, 2000
In Committee – September 20, 2000 – Held
Recommend: Hold
FIRE DEPARTMENT
Communications of the City Manager
33. Relative
to a report on abandoned/vacant properties.
#4E
CM November 14, 2000
Recommend: File
Chairman’s Order: Request the City Administration to provide a
comprehensive quarterly report on number of abandoned properties versus vacant
properties, including property owned by the City of Worcester and the City Council
District in which they are located.
34. Relative
to the implementation status of the recommendations made by the Community Task
Force on vacant and abandoned buildings.
#30A
CM February 27, 2001
Recommend: File
35. Relative
to insurance requirements of the Abandoned Building Ordinance.
#16B
CM May 15, 2001
Recommend: File
MISCELLANEOUS
36. Chairman's Order from Finance Committee - That the
Committees on Public Works, Traffic & Parking, Education, Youth, Parks
& Recreation, Housing & Neighborhood Revitalization and Public Safety
bring back to City Council, in increments of $100,000, not to exceed $250,000,
recommendations for capital projects.
In City Council June 19, 2001
Recommend: Hold
37. Mayor Mariano - Request Standing Committees on Public Works, Traffic & Parking, Education, Youth, Parks & Recreation, Housing & Neighborhood Revitalization and Public Safety to submit to City Council by October 1st their recommendations for capital projects in increments of $100,000 not to exceed $250,000 as voted by City Council at the June 19, 2001 City Council meeting.
In City Council August 21, 2001
Recommend: Hold