CITY OF WORCESTER

Public Safety Committee Meeting

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Esther Howland (South) Chamber

Convened: 5:33 P.M.

Adjourned: 6:46 PM

Mayor
Joseph M. Petty

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Clerk of the City Council
David J. Rushford

Committee Members

Transmitting informational communication relative to the Worcester Police Department's Maintenance Garage. # 6.17B CM October 06, 2009

Transmitting informational communication relative to Crime Statistics. # 10.17A CM October 20, 2009

Transmitting informational communication relative to Downtown Patrols # 6.39A CM October 06, 2009

Transmitting informational communication relative to a change in the Office Hours of the Worcester Police Department's Record Bureau. # 8.17C CM December 15, 2009

Transmitting communication relative to a redeployment plan in the Worcester Police Department. # 8.17D CM December 15, 2009

Transmitting informational communication relative the feasibility of implementing a Citizen Online Police Reporting System. # 7.17A CM January 26, 2010

Transmitting informational communication relative to a Crime Statistics Report for the City. # 7.17B CM January 26, 2010

Transmitting informational communication relative to Crime Statistics in the City for 2009. # 8.17A CM April 13, 2010

Transmitting informational communication relative to a Crime Statistics Report for the June and Chandler Streets Area for the Past Two Years. # 12.17A CM September 21, 2010

Transmitting informational communication relative to Crime Analysis Technology and Software. # 9.17D CM November 09, 2010

Transmitting informational communication relative to Crime Statistics for 2010 and 2011 Year to Date Crime and Quality of Life Statistics. # 9.17A CM September 27, 2011

Transmitting informational communication relative to Pedestrian Accidents and Fatalities. # 9.17C CM September 27, 2011

Transmitting informational communication relative to Crime Statistics for the Calendar Year 2011 in the City of Worcester. # 11b CM February 07, 2012

Transmitting informational communication relative to Staffing Levels in the Worcester Police Department (WPD). # 8.10C CM February 14, 2012

In Committee March 7, 2012 - Held

Transmitting informational communication relative to Staffing Levels and Anticipated Training Costs in the Worcester Police Department. # 8.10B CM February 28, 2012

In Committee March 7, 2012 - Held

Transmitting informational communication relative to the WPD joining CrimeReports.com. # 10.10C CM March 13, 2012

Transmitting informational communication relative to the Relationship and Policies between the Worcester Police Department and Campus Police Officers. # 9.10A CM April 24, 2012

Transmitting informational communication relative to the Worcester Police Department's Policy on Racial Profiling. # 9.10A CM May 08, 2012

Transmitting informational communication relative to the Authority of Campus Police Officers. # 10.13A CM August 14, 2012

Transmitting informational communication relative to the New Police Recruit Class and Manpower Levels in the Worcester Police Department. # 8.10C CM October 02, 2012

Transmitting informational communication relative to Addressing the Issue of Prostitution. # 8.32A CM October 02, 2012

Transmitting informational communication relative to the Providence Street Fire Station. # 10.16A CM September 23, 2008

Transmitting informational communication relative to a Memorandum of Agreement Between the Worcester Fire Department and UMass Memorial Medical Center, Inc. for Medical Oversight of the City's First Responder Defibrillation Program. # 12.16A CM September 21, 2010

Transmitting informational communication relative to the recent Increase in fires in the Union Hill Section of the City and Worcester Fire Department Response Times. # 8.9C CM January 31, 2012

Transmitting informational communication relative to alternative access for Emergency Vehicles into Union Hill in light of the closing of Coral Street. # 8.7C CM January 31, 2012

Transmitting informational communication relative to the Worcester Fire Department's Response Times in the Union Hill Area. # 8.9B CM February 14, 2012

Transmitting informational communication relative to Worcester Fire Department Personnel. # 8.16A CM December 22, 2009

In Committee March 7, 2012 - Held

Transmitting informational communication relative to the Worcester Fire Department's Arson Watch Program. # 10.9A CM August 14, 2012

Transmitting informational communication relative to the Recent Fires in the Pleasant Street Neighborhood. # 10.9B CM August 14, 2012

Transmitting informational communication relative to Inspectional Services personnel participation in future Neighborhood Watch Meetings. # 8.20A CM June 02, 2009

Transmitting informational communication relative to the progress for regionalizing an Enhanced 911 Communications System. # 7.18A CM September 01, 2009

Transmitting informational communication relative to the receipt of the Charles E. Shannon, Jr. Community Safety Initiative Grant and the Safe and Successful Youth Initiative Grant by the Worcester Police Department and Collaborating Community Partners. # 8.10A CM February 28, 2012

Transmitting informational communication relative to the use of opiates and opiate-related overdoses in the City. # 9.28A CM July 08, 2008

Transmitting informational communication relative to a Status Report on the Abandoned Vehicle Removal Program. # 9.14A CM July 28, 2009

Transmitting informational communication relative to the procedure to revise a previous City Council vote on a Local Option Law. # 7.20A CM September 01, 2009

Transmitting informational communication relative to the implementation of the Worcester Fair CORI Practices Ordinance. # 7.39B CM September 01, 2009

Transmitting an update relative to the College Hill Neighborhood.. # 10a CM October 27, 2009

Transmitting informational communication relative to the College Hill Neighborhood. # 8.39A CM December 22, 2009

Transmitting informational communication relative to Arming Animal Control Officers. # 8.17B CM December 15, 2009

Transmitting informational communication relative to Public Safety Stimulus Funds. # 8.39B CM April 13, 2010

Transmitting informational communication relative to issues concerning pedestrian safety and crosswalk issues in Webster Square. # 11.14B CM August 12, 2008

Transmitting informational communication relative to the City's Animal Shelter Services. # 9.39D CM October 19, 2010

Transmitting information communication relative to an Agreement between City of Worcester and the College of the Holy Cross. # 19a CM November 23, 2010

Transmitting informational communication relative to the City's Three Year Plan to End Homelessness. # 9.39D CM November 30, 2010

Transmitting informational communication relative to the City's Three Year Plan to End Homelessness. # 9.39D CM December 14, 2010

Transmitting informational communication relative to the Identification and Inspection of the City's Vacant Buildings. # 9.39E CM December 14, 2010

Recommend Adoption of a Resolution to File and Accept a FY2012 Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) and Regional Emergency Communication Center Support and Incentive Grant. # 9.18A CM September 27, 2011

Resolution Adopted - In Committee for Information Purposes Only

Recommend Adoption of a Resolution to File and Accept a FFY 2009 Emergency Management Performance Grant (EMPG) "Supplemental" Through the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency (MEMA). # 8.11B CM January 17, 2012

Resolution adopted - In Committee for Informational Purposes Only

Recommend Adoption of a Resolution to File and Accept a FFY11 Metropolitan Medical Response System (MMRS) Grant from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security through the MA Executive Office of Public Safety and Security (MEOPSS). # 8.11A CM January 17, 2012

Resolution adopted - In Committee for Informational Purposes Only

Recommend Adoption of a Resolution to File and Accept a FFY 2012 U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) Hazardous Materials Emergency Preparedness (HMEP) Planning Grant from the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency (MEMA). # 8.11C CM January 17, 2012

Resolution adopted - In Committee for Informational Purposes Only

Recommend City Council adoption of Three (3) Resolutions to File and Accept Grant Applications for the Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grant, the FY12 Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant - Local Solicitation, and a Solving Cold Cases with DNA Grant. (Three resolutions adopted) # 9.10B CM April 24, 2012

(Three) Resolutions adopted - In Committee for Informational Purposes Only

Transmitting informational communication relative to Youth Violence Prevention Programs and Initiatives. # 8.10A CM February 14, 2012

Transmitting informational communication relative to the Pit Bull Ordinance. # 10.13E CM August 14, 2012

Transmitting informational communication relative to a Regional Emergency Communications Center. # 9.18A CM October 19, 2010

Dr. Roberta Schaefer, President & CEO of Worcester Regional Research Bureau, transmitting communication relative to Benchmarking Public Safety in Worcester: 2010. # 14a CC August 10, 2010

Dr. Roberta Schaefer, President and CEO of the Worcester Regional Research Bureau transmitting Benchmarking Public Safety in Worcester: 2009 # 10a CC May 05, 2009

Dr. Roberta Schaefer, President & CEO of the Worcester Regional Research Bureau, transmitting communication relative to Benchmarking Public Safety in Worcester: 2012 # 11a CC June 12, 2012

Petition of Ernesto Vasquez request the City Council consider implementing the law for jaywalking in the downtown area of Worcester that was passed in Boston. # 8c CC March 13, 2007

Petition of Eileen Flannery, Secretary of Webster Square West Tenant Association with Julia Senkowski request City Council to individually and collectively work with the City Manager to find the resources to make the City of Worcester especially in the area of 1050 and 1060 Main St. pedestrian friendly and safe via consistent and effective crosswalk access. Further, request these resources be identified and implemented in calendar year 2008. # 15a CC May 27, 2008

In Committee May 29, 2008 - Held

Petition of Councilor William J. Eddy on behalf of the Webster Square Neighborhood Crime Watch Association requests two neighborhood crime watch signs be installed at Monticello Drive and Utica Dr. # 9h CC August 12, 2008

Petition of Ronal Madnick on behalf of the Worcester County Chapter of American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts request to establish a Civilian Review Board. # 6f CC December 23, 2008

Petition of William Breault on behalf of the Main South Alliance for Public Safety, request the City Council request the City Manager work with the Police Chief and the Fire Chief to amend their departmental protocols to include the use of intra-nasal Narcan (Naloxone) when first responders treat individuals in a heroin overdose condition, a protocol currently being followed by UMass EMS Medical Services professionals. # 9f CC August 14, 2012

Petition of Ronal Madnick, President of the Committee for Progressive Legislation, request the City Council or a committee of the council hold a public hearing on the plan of the Worcester Police Department to build a comprehensive video surveillance system of the Real Time Crime Center, before the plan is carried out. # 7d CC October 02, 2012

Order of Councilor Kathleen Toomey - Request the City Manager to ensure that jaywalking laws be closely monitored and enforced in the downtown area in the interest of pedestrian safety. # 10g CC November 10, 2008

Order Mayor Konstantina B. 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

In Committee July 1, 2008 - Held

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

In Committee July 1, 2008 - Held

Order Councilor Konstantina B. Lukes - Request the City Council Standing Committee on Public Safety consider holding a public hearing to learn from the Administration the city's local response plans in the event of natural catastrophe such as a tornado. # 15f CC June 07, 2011

Order of Councilor Konstantina B. Lukes - Request City Manager report on whether fingerprints of those arrested for a crime committed in Worcester are sent to the FBI for criminal background checks. # 16c CC June 21, 2011

Order of Councilor Konstantina B. Lukes - Request City Manager report on the feasibility of implementing a pilot program similar to the program started in Boston whereby fingerprints of arrested criminal suspects are checked out against federal immigration data basses. # 16b CC June 21, 2011