CITY OF WORCESTER | Public Safety Committee Meeting | Tuesday, July 1, 2008 | Council Chamber | Convened: 4:34 P.M. | Adjourned: 5:45 P.M. |
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Mayor Konstantina B. Lukes | www.ci.worcester.ma.us |
Clerk of the City Council David J. Rushford | Committee Members | Chairperson Barbara G Haller | Councilor Philip P Palmieri | Councilor Joseph M Petty | |
City Hall - 455 Main Street Worcester, Massachusetts | |
| Present Were: | Chairperson Councilor Barbara G Haller Councilor Joseph M Petty | | | | | Also: | City Solicitor David M. Moore Fire Chief Gerard A.Dio Director of Emergency Management John Ford Assistant Director of Communications Michael McCann City Clerk David J. Rushford, clerk | | | |
1. | COMMUNICATIONS OF THE CITY MANAGER | |
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| | | 1a. | Transmitting informational communication relative to an opinion of the City Solicitor regarding Level II and Level III Sex Offenders. # 8.28B CM July 17, 2007 | Attachments | | | | | | | Recommend File | |
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| | | 1b. | Transmitting informational communication relative to residency and siting restrictions upon Level II and Level III sex offenders in other communities in Massachusetts. # 8.28C CM July 17, 2007 | Attachments | | | | | | | Recommend File | |
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| | | 1c. | Relative to the accuracy of the Massachusetts Sex Offender Registry Level 3 sex offenders. #19C CM April 26, 2005
In Committee August 10, 2006 - Held
| Attachments | | | | | | | Recommend File | |
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| | | 1d. | Requesting review and adoption of an order to file a Home Rule Petition with the Great and General Court to amend to Dover Amendment in order to restrict the siting of facilities and programs that service Level II and Level III Sex Offenders. #11A CM June 20, 2006
In Committee August 10, 2006 - Held
| Attachments | | | | | | | Recommend Approval (Report to appear before the City Council at the August 12, 2008 meeting) | | | | | | | | Chairman's Orders | | | | Request City Manger provide City Council with a city-wide map revealing the residence-of-record of Level II and Level III sex offenders in programmed housing and those living independently. | | | | Request City Manager provide City Council with a narrative of the ramification that enactment of new Sex Offender Legislation will have in Worcester.
| | | | Request City Manager request the City Solicitor to provide City Council with proposed home rule legislation restricting Level II and Level III sex offenders living in the City of Worcester
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| | | 1e. | Relative to Assessment Centers. #14C CM November 10, 1998
In Committee April 5, 1999 - Held In Committee January 15, 2003 - Held In Committee October 4, 2004 - Held
| Attachments | | | | | | | Recommend File | |
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| | | 1f. | Relative to dealing with Civil Liberty issues. #19H CM August 12, 2003
In Committee October 4, 2004 - Held
| Attachments | | | | | | | Recommend File | |
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| | | 1g. | Relative to the minority statistics for the City of Worcester. #14A CM May 3, 2005 | Attachments | | | | | | | Recommend File | |
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| | | 1h. | Relative to the City of Worcester's comprehensive emergency response planning efforts.
#23C CM May 2, 2006 | Attachments | | | | | | | Recommend File | |
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| | | 1i. | Requesting City Council's approval to amend the Health and Human Services Table of Organization to create the position of Project Administrator for the Region II Public Health Emergency Planning Coalition (formerly Region II Bio-Terrorism Coalition).
In City Council May 2, 2006 #22C CM - Voted to advertise proposed ordinance on a roll call 8-0. In City Council May 23, 2006 #79 CC - Ordained on a roll call 9-0 In Committee for informational purposes only.
| Attachments | | | | | | | Recommend File | |
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| | | 1j. | Transmitting informational communication relative to a report concerning the City's overall preparedness in the event of a disaster. # 9.15A CM October 30, 2007 | Attachments | | | | | | | Recommend File | |
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| | | 1k. | Transmitting informational communication relative to HHS Emergency Preparedness Efforts and Initiatives. # 11.18A CM September 26, 2006 | Attachments | | | | | | | Recommend File | |
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| | | 1l. | Transmitting informational communication relative to September being designated as National Emergency Preparedness Month. # 9.23A CM September 04, 2007 | Attachments | | | | | | | Recommend File | |
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| | | 1m. | Transmitting informational communication relative to the Worcester County Trial Court's Community Service Program. # 8.12D CM November 20, 2007 | Attachments | | | | | | | Recommend File | |
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| | | 1n. | Recommending adoption of a resolution to file and accept a Central Region Homeland Security Council Grant. # 10.17A CM February 12, 2008 | Attachments | | | In Committee for informational purposes only | | |
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| | | 1o. | Recommending City Council accept with gratitude, a donation of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Kits from the Central Region Homeland Security Advisory Council. # 8.15A CM March 04, 2008 | Attachments | | | In Committee for informational purposes only | | |
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| | | 1p. | Transmitting informational communication relative to public safety at the Worcester Housing Authority. # 9.37A CM February 13, 2007
In Committee March 11, 2008 - Held
| Attachments | | | | | | | Recommend File | |
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| | | 1q. | Requesting adoption of a summary and resolution to file and accept a FY'06 Community Policing Grant from the Massachusetts Executive Office of Public Safety (MEOPS).
In City Council October 25, 2005 #17A CM - Resolution adopted
In Committee March 11, 2008 - Held
| Attachments | | | In Committee for informational purposes only | | |
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| | | 1r. | Requesting adoption of a summary and resolution to file and accept a FY 06 Massachusetts Executive Office of Public Safety, Governor's Highway Safety Bureau (GHSB) grant.
In City Council October 25, 2005 #17B CM - Resolution adopted
In Committee March 11, 2008 - Held
| Attachments | | | In Committee for informational purposes only | | |
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| | | 1s. | Transmitting informational communication relative to the number of traffic fatalities in the City for the past five years. # 9.17B CM March 18, 2008 | Attachments | | | | | | | Recommend File | |
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| | | 2a. | Communication of the City Manager transmitting informational communication relative to a list of City addresses where more than five (5) arrests have taken place within the past twelve (12) months. # 8.17B CM December 03, 2007
In Committee March 11, 2008 - Held
| Attachments | | | | | | | Recommend File | |
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| | | 2b. | Communication of the City Manager transmitting informational communication relative to Impact Area VIII. # 7.38E CM May 20, 2008 | Attachments | | | | | | | Recommend File | |
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| | | 3a. | Communication of the City Manager relative to the FFY03 Massachusetts Decontamination System Exercise Grant. #15A CM September 6, 2005
In Committee March 12, 2007 - Held
| Attachments | | | | | | | Recommend File | |
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| | | 3b. | Communication of the City Manager transmitting informational communication relative to the Fire at Plumley Village. # 8.37A CM January 02, 2007
In Committee March 12, 2007 - Held
| Attachments | | | | | | | Recommend File | |
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| | | 3c. | Communication of James A. DelSignore, City Auditor, transmitting communication relative to drafting home rule legislation that would grant Worcester firefighter Mark Stomski pension benefits under M.G.L. c. 32 s. 100.
# 13b CC February 26, 2008 | Attachments | | | | | | | Recommend File | |
4. | COMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENT | |
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| | | 4a. | Communication of the City Manager transmitting informational communication relative to the City's Severe Weather Preparedness Plan. # 8.23A CM December 03, 2007 | Attachments | | | | | | | Recommend File | |
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| | | 4b. | Communication of the City Manager relative to a status report on the Communication Department's organizational staffing needs. #5B CM June 13, 2006 | Attachments | | | | | | | Recommend File | |
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| | | 4c. | Communication of the City Manager recommending the adoption of the salary ordinance amendment that creates the position of Assistant Director and eliminates the position of Head Dispatcher.
In City Council February 14, 2006 #14A CM -Voted to advertise proposed ordinance 11-0
| Attachments | | | In Committee for informational purposes only | | |
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| | | 4d. | Communication of the City Manager transmitting informational communication relative to an agreement between the City of Worcester and Sprint/Nextel for rebanding. # 8.14A CM December 18, 2007
In Committee March 11, 2008 - Held
| Attachments | | | | | | | Recommend File | |
5. | COMMUNICATION OF JAMES DELSIGNORE, CITY AUDITOR | |
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| | | 5a. | Transmitting police salary account projection.
#40 CC January 20 , 2004
In Committee March 11, 2008 - Held
| Attachments | | | | | | | Recommend File | |
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| | | 6a. | Order of Councilor Paul P. Clancy, Jr. - Request all the City Council Standing Committees review and establish their top two or three priorities and report back to City Council by mid April. # 20c CC March 11, 2008 | Attachments | | | | | | | Recommend Hold | |
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| | | 6b. | Order of Mayor Lukes - Request all City Council Standing Committees report to City Council for the December 9, 2008 City Council meeting a status report of each committees goals and objectives as established for Fiscal Year 2009. # 19d CC May 13, 2008 | Attachments | | | | | | | Recommend Hold | | | | | | | | Chairman's Orders | | | | That the Fiscal Year 2009 Goals of the Standing Committee on Public Safety be as follows: a) To commit and be supportive of stabilizing the number of police officers and firefighters in the City of Worcester, b) To support a plan to decentralize the Worcester Police Department into precincts c) To support a plan to establish optimal locations for fire station facilities, and d) To support funding for the expansion of the Summer Impact Division of the Worcester Police Department so that the program life runs yearly from mid-May through mid-September.
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