 Well, just show the inside, because that's really what, yeah, the information, we've got some to give out so they can pick the wrong one. No, you're not home. Okay. Good evening. We'd like to call the Durham City Council meeting to order. Monday, May the 5th at 7.03 p.m. and certainly want to welcome all of you that are in attendance. If we just take a moment for silent meditation, please. Thank you. We'll ask Council Member Brown if he would lead us in the pledge. Madam Clerk, will you call the roll please? Mayor Bell. Present. Mayor Pro Tem Cole McFadden. Council Member Brown. Yeah. Council Member Cotate. Yeah. Council Member Davis. Yeah. Council Member Moffitt. Yeah. And Council Member Shul. We have several proclamations that we'd like to present this evening. The first is Children's Mental Health Awareness Week. Ms. Tika Dimpton. Do you want us to please? The proclamation reads, whereas all our children, without regard to challenges they face, a valuable and a significant part of the rich and diverse resources of our present and our future, whereas all children under ages 0 to 26 deserve to be supported as a struggle of serious mental health and behavioral challenges, whereas support for our youth as they grow and develop from cradle to career is essential to the success of children, families and the community, whereas mental health is essential to overall health and well-being, whereas according to the United States Department of Health and Human Services, one in five children has a mental health disorder and one in ten adolescents aged nine through seventeen have a serious mental illness, whereas with proper treatment and support, children with mental health disorders can succeed in all life domains and reach their full potential, moving from cradle to career, whereas parents, doctors and nurses, teachers, guidance councils, neighbors, friends, concerned citizens, and faith-based communities, among the men who may reach out to children, youth and their families in our community, who are in need of support, education, information, encouragement, and mental health resources, whereas community members can help establish safe and supportive communities that encourage and engage all young people, regardless of their challenges, to reach their full potential, whereas strong youth and young adults will strive to positively change the misconceptions about youth with mental illnesses, diagnosis to a vision of strong and capable young people who can overcome challenges, whereas the city of Durham joins the Durham Center Becoming and other community organizations in recognizing the need to raise awareness among our children and mental health, committing those who work to support our youth and celebrating those children with mental health disorders, who reach their full potential. Now, therefore, I will move to Bill Bell, Mayor of the City of Durham, North Carolina, to hear by proclaiming the week of May 5 through 11, 2014, as Children's Mental Health Awareness Week in Durham, and hear by a call upon the citizens, government agencies, public and private institutions, businesses and schools in Durham County, to commit to increasing our community's awareness and understanding of this as a mental health among our children and youth, and what's in my hand, Corporate City of Durham, North Carolina, just the fifth day of May 2014. And I would like to present this, taken for any comments you might have. Thank you. On behalf of what I usually call those who may not have a voice or the ability to share their voice, I say thank you. Mental health is truly being made aware of. People are becoming extremely educated about mental health, and that's only happening because of a proclamation that the city has chosen to really endorse. So when you think of good things are happening in Durham, think about our young people who's living with mental health life challenges, who's finishing school, who's preparing themselves for jobs, becoming parents, active in their community. So the proclamation that you've endorsed is not just a piece of paper, it's an actual living document that is being utilized throughout Durham. And tonight, I'm very happy to have just a couple of our youth and a workforce coordinator. And if you just stand and say hi, and I have to say that because usually I'm by myself. So this evening is really great. So you can see people who are benefiting from the proclamation. So thank you very much. I should have recognized Tika as the lead family part in the coordinates of Alliance Behavioral Healthcare. Next, I would ask Mike Evans, President of the Durham County Fraternal Order of Police, large number two to join me please. This recognizes Police Week, whereas the Congress and President of the United States have designated May 15th as Peace Officers Memorial Day, and the week in which it falls is National Police Week, whereas the Office of the Durham's Law Enforcement Agency is planning central roles, safeguarding the rights and freedom of the citizens of Durham, whereas it's important that our citizens are aware of and understand the dangers and problems encountered and to do this in responsibilities incurred by the law enforcement officers, whereas it is equally important that our law enforcement officers recognize their duties to serve the people by safeguarding life and property, protecting them from violence or disorder, by protecting the innocent against deception and the weak against oppression or intimidation, whereas the men and women of Durham's law enforcement agencies unceasingly provide a vital public service. Now, therefore, I will be billed by all Mayor of the City of Durham, North Carolina, to help I proclaim the week of May 11th through 17th, 2014, as Police Week and May 2nd, 2014 is Peace Officers Memorial Day in Durham and called upon our citizens to join in commemorating law enforcement officers, past and present, who have rendered a dedicated service to their community. I encourage our citizens to attend, and this was held on May 2nd at Raystone Baptist Church, and I had an opportunity to go in. I had to leave, but I understand it was a great program. To honor those Peace Officers who have lost their lives, who have become disabled and in line of duty, we also extend our gratitude to Durham County Fraternal Order of Police, law is number two for coordinating and hosting this annual memorial service, observance. And what is my hand, Corporate City of Durham, North Carolina, this is the fifth day of May, 2014. I'd like to present this to you for any comments that you may have. On behalf of Lodge number two, FOP, and all law enforcement officers in Durham and the County of Durham, thank you very much. I'd like to ask Kevin Dick, the Director of Office of Economic Development, Workforce Development to join me, please. This proclamation recognizes Workforce Development Professional Month, whereas economic development of every region in our country and the ability of our businesses and industries to compete in the global economy is more than ever before dependent on the availability and quality of a skilled workforce, whereas the complexity and fast-paced change in our economy and labor markets puts new demands on individuals and employees at all levels, whereas job seekers need the assistance of knowledgeable and dedicated professionals to facilitate the process of which our workforce identifies, prepares for, attains and maintains employment and self-sufficiency, whereas employers depend on similar levels of professional services to help them recruit and retain a competitive workforce and to continually upgrade the skill sets of their incumbent employees. Now, therefore, we may build the all mayor of the city of Durham, North Carolina. I do have a claim May 20th, 2014, as Workforce Development Professionals Month in Durham and hereby urge all citizens to take special notice of this observance, honor all those individuals and all the workforce development organizations and partnerships who play such a vital role in our economy. Again, with my hand, the Corporate City of Durham, North Carolina, this is the 50th of May, 2014. I'd like to present to Kevin for an conferencing right now. Mr. Mayor, council members, administration, Durham businesses and residents, I'm very pleased this evening to have the opportunity to accept this proclamation on behalf of all of the hard-working individuals that represent the workforce development system in Durham. I'd like to ask them to stand. Those who can make it tonight and remain standing, please. These individuals work under the policy direction of the Durham Workforce Development Board, which includes individuals such as Mayor Pro Tem, Coral Cole McFadden, Councilman Shul, and we thank you all for your timeless energy and devotion to the effort. This group under the direction of the board stands poised and ready to lead a workforce development system that basically can accomplish all of the things that were articulated in the mayor's proclamation. And they intend to do that through opportunities such as the Durham Youth Work Internship Program, recruitment events, hot jobs listings, as well as on-the-job training grants that are available for Durham businesses who wish to hire qualified Durham job seekers. And so we thank you again this evening for this opportunity, and we will work hard to make sure this workforce development system can deliver the needs of business and also provide more opportunities to Durham job seekers. Thanks very much. Well, it's Councilman Don Moffitt. If he would join me, please. We have two presentations this evening. The first is National Drinking Water Week proclamation. It's Brian Anderson, laboratory analysis for the Water Supplier and Treatment Division of Department of Water Management. Is Vicki around? Okay, good. Who is this? This is Wayne. Okay, Wayne. Okay, Wayne. I got you. I mean, I shook his hand coming down. I shouldn't have known. Whereas water is a basic and essential need of mankind, and whereas our health, comfort, and standard of living depend upon an adequate supply of safe, clean water, whereas throughout the years the city of Durham has taken a lead role in source water management and protection as well as production of a consistent supply of high quality drinking water, whereas the southeast portion of the United States, the state of North Carolina, the region in Durham specifically have weathered two historic droughts in the last 12 years, whereas changing climate and global warming may impact the availability of our precious natural resources, whereas our drinking water and water resources are undervalued, whereas dedicated individuals and organizations such as city employees, industry leaders, scientists, environmentalists, and students have made significant contributions in developing, operating, and maintaining these systems, protecting and conserving this precious resource and educating the public on the value of this resource. Now therefore, I, William V. Bilbell, Mayor of the City of Durham, North Carolina, deliver our claim May 4th through May 10th, 2014 as National Drinking Water Week in the City of Durham in conjunction with National Drinking Water Month, which is May 1st through May 31st, 2014, and urge all citizens to join me as a partner in the Water Use It Wisely campaign and to pledge to embrace the water conservation ethic to extend the life of our most precious natural resource. Again, with my hand, Corporate City of Durham, North Carolina, this is the fifth day of May 2014, and I'm going to present this to Brian for any comments that he may have. Thank you, Mayor Bell. I'm honored to accept this proclamation on behalf of the Water Supply and Treatment Division and more than 300 employees of the Department of Water Management. As a lab analyst, I work with my colleagues to ensure that whenever the citizens of Durham turn on their tap, clean, safe, and high-quality water flows out. This requires teamwork among our certified water treatment plant and distribution system operators and behind-the-scenes work by lab analysts, chemists, conservation staff, engineers, and manager who are all committed to protecting and preserving this precious natural resource well into the future. We thank you for recognizing the vital role that safe drinking water plays in our lives, and we appreciate supportive city council, city administration, citizens, and the employees of other city departments. Thank you. This time we're going to be pleased to recognize our poster contest winners. This year we received 342 posters from 11 participating schools, so we definitely want to thank all the teachers and the students who participated. In our kindergarten through second grade category, the first-place winner was Sam Sloik, second grade Trinity School of Durham and Chapel Hill. Second-place winner is Parker Zubeck, Trinity School of Durham and Chapel Hill, second place. That was second place. Third place is Sam Ekstrom in McEllada Catholic School. And the third through fifth grade category. Okay, third through fifth grade category, Kaylee D. Armey, first place. And that was... Oh, she didn't guess right. Second place, Mupta Dharmapurekar, Durham Academy. In our sixth through eighth grade division, first place, Naomi Pridgen, Trinity School of Durham and Chapel Hill. Second place goes to Jasmine Castillo, Shepherd Magnet Middle School. And honorable mention, Jacqueline McVeigh, Voyager Academy. That was honorable mention. Okay, and now to recognize our state winners in the kindergarten through second grade category, Parker Zubeck, second place. Third place, Sam Sloik. In grades three through five, first place in the state was Josephine Wilson. Grades three through five, second place in the state, Mupta Dharmapurekar. And for first place in the state, Jacqueline McVeigh. That was in sixth through eighth grade category. I'd like to ask Rhonda Parker, Director of Durham Parks and Recreation, and Bridget Robinson, Recreation Assistant Supervisor of Material Adult Programming for Durham Parks and Recreation. Will you join me? This proclamation is for Bill Bell, 73 years old. Okay. Not today in January, but I'll take that anyway. Whereas the city of Durham includes 31,000 residents, ages 60 and older. Whereas the city of Durham is committed to helping all individuals live longer, healthier lives. Whereas the old adults in the city of Durham have made countless contributions and sacrifices to ensure a better life for future generations. Whereas to recognize the value of injury prevention and safety awareness in helping old adults remain healthy and active and are working to provide safety, education, and injury and loss prevention. Whereas our community can provide opportunities to enrich the lives of individuals, young and old, by one, emphasizing the need to take action to safeguard themselves from unintentional injuries where they live, work, and socialize. Two, by providing information on avoiding leading causes of injury for older adults, falls, motor vehicles related, incidents, suffocation, medication, overdose, and fire burns. And three, helping older adults take control of their safety and well-being. Therefore, I, William V. Bilbell, Mayor of the City of Durham, North Carolina, do my part to claim the month of May as Older Americans Month. In the City of Durham, I urge all residents to take special note of this observance by recognizing the Durham Parks and Recreation Department for their commitment and dedication to the older Americans living in our community for their planning of the many events commemorating May as Older Americans Month. I witness by hand this fifth day of May, 2014, and I present this to Rhonda and for Sam. Thank you, Mayor Bell, City Council, City Manager, residents of Durham, and colleagues. I want to thank you for this recognition because May is Older Americans Month, and I'm a mature adult too, so I'm proud of that. But I would like to introduce Sarah Hogan, who is our manager over special programs, mature adults, and inclusion, and we also have Bridget Robinson here. Thank you. Thank you, Rhonda, Mayor and Council. We are glad to have our newest member of our mature adult team with me tonight, Bridget Robinson, and I promised her she wouldn't have to speak if she would just come with me, so Bridget is standing here behind me. This is a very exciting month. We've just completed our Durham Senior Games program, and it's a great time for me to brag a little bit about what we've been able to accomplish as a city. This year we had 667 athletes, which is up slightly from previous year. We've doubled the number of silver art performers we had. We had six actually performing this year in our silver arts competition and exhibits. We had over 50 pieces of artwork, and that's literary art, heritage art, fine arts, paintings, drawings, poetry, short stories, woodworking, crochet, just showing off talents of our persons 55 and better, and that exhibition was at the Arts Council, so we've tried to make sure that we're having our artists exhibited throughout our community. We also added cycling this year, and in the past we've done our Durham Senior Games cycling in collaboration with Wake County, and this year we created a relationship with the School of Creative Studies, which was the tuning middle school, and we had our cycling competition this past Saturday, and even though it was a little bit small, it was a mighty group, so we were real excited about that. Many of you may remember last January and February we got a grant from NCRPA for arthritis walking, and so we held that program, had over 50 mature adults who participated in walking, and we'll be doing that again this fall. So we're going to take the summer off and get cranked back up in the fall if you know someone who has arthritis or some type of joint disease or disease process that they need some exercise in walking, we'll have that starting again in September, and in the summer we have our pork festival trip it's on the 11th of June, we have a Spirit Norfolk trip on the 16th of July we're going to Cherokee and Asheville in August we've got fishing outings, dining around Durham, movie outings to Northgate Cinema, arthritis exercise chair exercise, open gym for a person who don't want to play with a 20 year old you can come and play with those of us who are 55 and better, gospel movement and many many more. I was at a presentation with our city's leadership group recently with the fire department and police department we're talking about doing some collaboration on mature adult safety, and so we began also speaking with those two departments about trying to offer those opportunities to the seniors at our recreation centers. This year's Old American Month emphasis is on safe today and healthy tomorrow, and so as we age and try to encourage ourselves to remain healthy the Parks and Recreation Department is eager to be part of that, driving safety today and healthy tomorrow. Thank you all very much. And there is information in the back, if you'd like to know about our mature adult trips and other programs, please pick some of that information up or be happy to call Bridget or myself we'll be glad to speak with you. Thanks so much. I ask councilman Schuall if he would take over the podium please. Thank you very much Mr. Mayor. I would like to ask the members of the Fitzgerald family and those who are here with them to please come up. I would like to see you all here. This is a proclamation honoring Robert George Fitzgerald. Whereas Robert Fitzgerald along with his father Thomas and his brothers Richard and William served as laborers in support of the union during the early years of the Civil War and was wounded in the eye during this time by Confederate sniper. Whereas Robert Fitzgerald bolstered by the Emancipation Proclamation enlisted in the Union Navy in 1863 and served aboard the William G. Anderson and then after leaving the Navy for medical reasons joined the 5th Massachusetts Calvary of the Union Army in 1864. And whereas Robert Fitzgerald fought at the Battle of Petersburg and served with approximately 200,000 other African-American soldiers and sailors whose efforts were crucial to the United States victory in 1865 and whereas Robert Fitzgerald seeing himself as a soldier in a second war this time against ignorance made it his mission to be an educator and political activist in support of newly freed African-Americans in Orange County, North Carolina in 1869 as part of the Federal Program of Reconstruction and whereas Robert Fitzgerald started a brick making business with his brother Richard while continuing to teach at the school he founded and later in the early 1870s moved to Durham to pursue both economic and educational opportunities and whereas Robert Fitzgerald and his brother Richard Fitzgerald despite harsh racial discrimination became leading brick makers in Durham where Richard was able to expand his business to real estate and banking to become one of the first wealthy black businessmen in Durham and whereas Robert Fitzgerald married his wife Cornelia Smith of Chapel Hill in 1869 and had four daughters who lived into adulthood and then retired from his brickyard business after losing his eyesight due to the injury he experienced during the war and whereas Robert Fitzgerald continued teaching in Durham's West End community despite his war injuries and built a home for his family circa 1898 and was then known as Cameron Street and is now 906 Carroll Street and whereas Robert and Cornelia Fitzgerald helped raise their granddaughter Paulie Murray and inspired her through their example to fight for human rights as an educator activist and later first African-American woman to be ordained an Episcopal priest and whereas Robert Fitzgerald died in 1919 was buried in the Fitzgerald family plot on Kent Street now a part of Maplewood Cemetery where his granddaughter Paulie Murray defiantly planted the Union Flag of Memorial Day to claim her heritage and whereas Robert Fitzgerald's family family home is now slated to become an historic site in the future home of the Paulie Murray Center for History and Social Justice now therefore I will envy Bill Bell, Mayor of the City of Durham North Carolina to hereby proclaim May 26, 2014 as Fitzgerald Family Day in Durham and hereby I urge all citizens to take special note of Robert Fitzgerald's contributions into a ten programs in his honor being planned by the Fitzgerald Family and the Paulie Murray Project witness my hand the corporate seal of the City of Durham North Carolina this fifth day of May 2014 and now I'm going to ask Barbara Lau Courtney, okay Courtney Reed Eaton is going to talk to us a little bit and introduce the people who are here with her Thank you, Councilman Shul Mr. Mayor Bell and other Council people on behalf of the Fitzgerald Family and the Paulie Murray Project we're very grateful and excited about this and I would like to introduce Stephanie Davis who's a cousin of Paulie Murray's and a member of the Fitzgerald Family and I want to introduce Barbara Lau she's the head of the Paulie Murray Project and Phil Rubio he helped us start our celebration at the Memorial Fitzgerald Family Cemetery on Memorial Day and on behalf of the Fitzgerald Family and the Paulie Murray Project we'd like to invite you to please join us at the historic Fitzgerald Family Cemetery on Memorial Day as Monday May 26th from 10 to 12 noon is free and open to everyone come and join us at Maplewood Cemetery on Kent Street and then join us at the historic Robert Fitzgerald Paulie Murray House on Carroll Street Thank you Thank you guys Steve comes back to the comments by members of the Council recognize Councilman Brown I didn't see the Mayor Pro Tem Thank you Mr. Mayor I must say in the Sunday general morning Harold there was a rare and refreshing letter to the editor written by Carolyn London and it was entitled Thanks to Government Workers Thanks to Government Workers and in that letter she reminded us that May 4th through May 10th May 10 is Public Service Recognition Week and she went on to think the members of various federal agencies including the Center for Disease Controls the Environmental Health Services EPA which is located in Research Triangle Park members workers within the Social Security Administration the U.S. Postal Service the Air Traffic Controllers and of course those serving in our Armed Forces it this letter believe it or not could be viewed by some as rather controversial citizens who go to work every day to serve their constituents and their citizens unfortunately it would be viewed as controversial because of the sad and sour atmosphere that now seems to pervade those Government Workers at both the federal or state and local levels and too often in my judgment they are condemned and maligned and criticized especially to by a group that enjoys drinking tea and enjoys partying now none of us are naive about public workers they are not perfect but again particularly here at the local level they serve us in a variety of capacity some of which we've heard about this about this evening and we'll hear further on officers from our police departments who patrol our streets those who work in general services public works maintaining our buildings and our street sanitation workers who collect our garbage our legal team who hopefully will keep us out of court the water department as we heard this evening who works to ensure that whenever we turn on our tap in our homes that that water is clean and safe and pure now I could go on and on but let me cite from again Carolyn London's letter that quote we may not fully realize all that America's public servants do for us on a daily basis and above all let us not take for granted the many services they provide thank you Mr. you Jane was very very appropriate thank you appreciate that recognized the mayor program just as a follow up of what councilman Brown has said last year I think we've reclaimed a week as city employee recognition week so I think we probably need to do that again and I'll try to find the proclamation from last year but you're absolutely right oh I wanted to just congratulate Mount Level Baptist Church on 150 years 150 years in this county many of us attended the service yesterday which was very inspirational but that is certainly a real milestone for a religious institution thank you Mr. Mayor under the leadership I'm sorry of Dr. William Turner he hasn't been there 150 years but he is holding it together now I want to remind persons about an announcement concerning the south side form that will be tomorrow night on WNCU 90.7 central radio station it's an opportunity for interested residents to learn more about living at the newly transformed south side neighborhood new residents city staff and builders will be there to answer questions about rental and home ownership in this community again formally tomorrow Tuesday, May 6 from 7 o'clock to 8 o'clock to answer any questions that persons might have about living there and the guests will include south side residents city staff police and agent and the home builders south side is a major investment by the city of Durham has been transformed with more than 130 new rental units they aren't complete yet they're in process of being completed and 48 single family homes that are affordable for many income levels and for some of you who may not recognize the name south side this is the old Roland Hill site on Lakewood and Roxburgh south side are some homes that have been built on south south street area questions should have been submitted by email to kpuris at nccu.edu and they could have been submitted at that point or either through the radio telephone number 919-530-7833 the cutoff date for that was the 2nd of May but if you want information you can contact the city's department and that number is 919-560-4570 or you can go to the city's website and it's being hosted by illustrious what's the title I'm going to give you Beverly Thompson director of public affairs I call her many good things but she's the director of public affairs for the city of Durham and she's hosting that event okay let's move on I recognize councilwoman Katani thank you mayor I just wanted to remind everyone to please go out and vote tomorrow polls are open from approximately 7 to 7 thank you 630 to 730 thank you alright thank you I would entertain Breyer Jones about his city manager thank you mr. mayor good evening everyone two priority items this evening agenda item number 7 is to community alternatives for supportive abodes for permanent affordable housing this item we would request you wait and approve after the public hearing which is item number 26 and then agenda item number 31 the 2014 first quarter summary public safety report has been added as a supplemental item to the agenda presentation from the chief I'll entertain a motion mighty it's been a proper move in a second may I have a question I had some additional questions about item 6 didn't want to move it just wanted to pull it just wanted to know if the manager had an opportunity to follow up on any of the questions relative to how we would assure that the young people that we serve actually a Durham County residents in this agreement so noted thank you I don't have the answer right now I'm going to pretend it is something that we've asked about but I'm not prepared to respond to that this evening any further questions not called a question madam clerk will you open the vote close the vote it passes 7 is zero I recognize the city attorney for any priority items thank you Mr. Mayor no priority items no items Mr. Mayor we're perceived with the agenda first part of the agenda is a consent agenda a consent agenda item may be approved with a single vote about a council if an item is pulled by a council member or person from the audience we discuss that item later in the program and again I'll just read the heading of each one of the consent agenda items item 1 is a pool of city council minutes item 2 is a Durham convention item 0 tourism development authority appointment item 4 is street and infrastructure acceptances item 6 is a memorandum agreement connecting youth item 7 award of home funds and we've asked that to be heard after we have the supplemental item item 8 is bid report February 2014 item 9 is bid report March 2014 item 11 is city of Durham swimming pool facilities assessment study professional services contract with sasca design ink item 12 is lee farm park design contract amendment number 4 hagosmith design PA item 14 is for the cleven street roof and envelope renovations contract with LA downing and suns ink item 15 is amendment number 2 to professional services agreement design for fire station 9 and amendment number 2 to the contract for special inspections construction materials testing services for the fire station 9 project item 16 is a resolution supporting affordable housing around transit stations and neighborhood transit centers item 17 is water line utility agreement with no county department of transportation for the main street bridge replacement item 18 is hillndale dual water replacement phase 2 reimbursement to north Carolina department of transportation item 19 is contract amendment for sidewalk repairs and curb ramps item 20 is license agreement with church and main associates LLC for balconies at east main street item 21 is amendment number 2 to the contract between the city of Durham and king management NC LLC formerly king and martin properties LLC for management of the city yard waste and compost facility item 22 is an update of comprehensive housing strategy five year funding plan and dedicated funding source item 23 is a resolution to support the upper noose river basin association for the re-examination of the falls lake stage 2 goals at the UNRBA adopted FY 2015 funding level except for the consent agenda items with exception of item 7 entertain the motion for that it's been a problem to move a second madam clerk we open the vote close the vote pass the 7 is 0 we move to the general business agenda public hearings item 25 is hearing on the draft FY 2014 2015 annual action plan for the use of community development for home investment partnerships program and emergency solutions grant funds recognize reginal johnson director of community development mayor bell members of the city council reginal johnson director of community development department this is a public hearing on the annual action plan I will share I will turn it over to miss will mccany's federal programs coordinator coordinator for the particulars I would share with the council that has been our practice with the annual action plan any items that are approved in the plan will come back before the council as appropriate at the appropriate time this is a public hearing you've heard the introduction of it and we're here from the staff on the plan itself good evening mayor bell and members of council will mccany's federal programs coordinator the purpose of this public hearing is to provide citizen comments on the draft 1415 annual action plan concerning the use of community development block grant funds home investment partnership funds and emergency solution grant funds notice of this meeting was advertised in the herald sun distributed via general lists served and posted on the department of community developments website on april 4th and advertised in the carolina on april 5th the draft annual action plan was made available for public review beginning april 4th through may 5th 2014 at the department of community development and on its website at the germ county public main library at the city and county clerk's offices at the front desk of city hall and distributed via a general lists serve as a HUD requirement the city is required to hold at least two public hearings prior to the submission of the annual action plan the first meeting was held on january 6th 2014 to receive citizen comments on needs of the community according to the final entitlement allocations published by HUD on march 18th 2014 the city expects to receive one million ninety five thousand five hundred and eight dollars in cdbg funds eight hundred thirty one thousand nine hundred and nine dollars in home funds and one hundred forty seven thousand three hundred and fifty seven dollars in esg funds comments from this public hearing and written comments received from citizens during the development of this plan will be incorporated into the annual action plan later tonight on the agenda we request council approval on the draft fyi 2014 2015 annual action plan for submission to HUD the annual action plan is required to be submitted to HUD by may 15th thank you let me first ask from the council any questions this is a public hearing we have persons that have signed up to speak I have persons that have signed up to speak let me ask is it anyone else that would like to speak on this item it's been a public hearing that has not signed up if you could go to the clerks table and get your is it anyone else that would like to speak if not as I call your name if you will see to the podium to my right each speaker has three minutes it's a time clock in front of you and state your name again and address the first is joy steppany followed by Tara glasper followed by Cynthia Harris followed by DeMar glasper followed by Selena Mack and followed by Shamika Reinhardt joy steppany 2603 Chapel Hill Road North Carolina good evening I'm assistant director of housing for New Hope today I'm here to encourage you the city council to accept the ESG and dedicated housing fund recommendations that's presented by the department of community development this evening we will hear from the program staff that work directly with our families and have the honor to hear from some of the actual individuals who participated in the rapid rehousing program this is not just about touching stories it is about a program that has had successful outcomes since 2009 since the beginning of housing for New Hope's rapid rehousing program our goals have ranged from 80 to 140 households per year because of the strong relationships and hard work of our staff and the people we serve we have met or exceeded our goals annually over the past year with your funding and from private sources we have we have provided 36 households with housing from the beginning we have served and actually house a total of 266 households since its inception this figure does not include the 42 households that we house during the Lincoln apartment crisis but realize this is not just about our agency housing for New Hope can only fund can only help individuals through collaboration our partners such as Genesis Home, Urban Ministries of Durham the Department of Social Services Durham Interface Hospitality Network and Healing with Care I say all this to say that Housing for New Hope Housing for New Hope's rapid rehousing program does need funding to continue but it's bigger than just that this is a community effort and it's not just about our agency it's about the homeless community and our fellow providers next you'll be hearing from the housing team leader Cynthia Harris good evening I'm Cynthia Harris and I live at 4659 Hope Valley Road Durham, North Carolina the purpose of the rehousing program is to assist individuals who are homeless with finding permanent housing the criteria for the program is that they must be literally homeless meaning not staying with someone maybe living in a car, a shelter abandoned building a hotel with assistance from an agency considered literally homeless and they must meet the income guidelines the process is that the clients are referred to us from our partnering agencies like the Urban Ministries Department of Social Services Durham Public Schools refer people to us mental health agencies, pastors they refer our clients to us we do the intake procedure we approve them for housing and it is our goal to house our clients within 30 days there have been times when we've been homeless within two weeks we offer them financial assistance such as security deposits two to three months of rental assistance some people may get a little bit more depending on their needs we offer assistance with utilities and ongoing case management some of the challenges that our clients face is that they have poor rental history they may have low income under employment and they may have some criminal things going on but the good thing is we have a strong network of landlords that we work with and they tend to really approve our consumers for housing we our network is so strong because we do what we say we're going to do we just don't put our clients there and leave them we continue to work with them and we're there for them if there's a problem with the landlord or if the landlord has a problem with them the other thing is we have taught our clients how to be responsible renters we do ready-to-rent classes which teach them about reading the lease what is expected of your landlord what do the landlord expect of you and we do intense budgeting with them we have bi-weekly case management meetings and the focus is to focus on maintaining housing and at that time we look at their what they're bringing in and we look at the bills that they're paying to make sure they're paying them tonight I have some of our consumers with us and I would like for you to see some of the people that we have housed over this past year we've housed nurses housekeepers cooks we've housed during public employees we've housed teachers would you guys please stand up our clients please that we have houses here give you an idea of what we've housed thank you very much and now I'd like for you to hear from one of our families the Glasper family thank you hello my name is Tara Glasper and I stay at 609 Bacon Street I was born in Durham, North Carolina and I'm an instructional assistant at Merritt Moore well I was homeless for about a year and it has been hard and if it hadn't been for housing for new hope I don't know what my family would have done because my husband had lost his job for a little over a year to two years and it had been hard on us and I think housing for new hope and basically it was hard on basically my husband he's a veteran and basically when my husband went for help for the VA he didn't get any help at the VA they sent us to all different avenues to get help other ways they didn't help us they sent us other ways and then I had a 21 year old daughter and they didn't 20 year old daughter they didn't want to they wanted to separate us so I'm going to let my son come and tell his side of his story hello my name is Demar Glasper and I go to Hillside High School and I'm a sophomore and pretty much what happened could you get the microphone for him I guess I should start from the beginning so as of like January 18th of last year I remember my parents they've always been straight forward with me and my sister and just an open book so as of January 18th of last year that's when they called us out of our rooms and they sent us down and told us that we were being evicted and me and my sister we didn't really know what to do and that's when all the different questions started coming like how did this happen and what can we do and that's when I started looking into just being me and being curious just looking into different things like different apartment complexes and stuff and that's when my parents explained to me that it's due to like past rental history and things like that and obviously we had just been evicted so they probably wouldn't have helped us or accepted us so and then that's when from there I took off school from like the day that we had to be out which was 10 days later the 28th of January and that day I was all about me and my dad we were just all about moving everything that we could out of the house and that day we had to that day we had to leave most of our stuff behind because we had like a car and we didn't we didn't have money to get a truck or anything so and luckily Housing for New Hope helped us after like 6-12 months of us staying with someone else we have 2 seconds sorry I was thinking that was short of time so and that's when we went to go and stay with my grandmother and after staying with my grandmother for a while that was oh am I out of time go ahead and finish it so after staying with my grandmother from like February until like November it was hard because I was used to having my own space and we were all used to having our own space and then that's when me and my mother sister and my dad we had to split up and my parents they went to go stay inside the car and my sister we were split up we weren't even in the same house she went to go and stay with my and I went to go and stay with my cousin and when we were staying separately that's when my cousin she was trying to put bad things inside of my head and it was just a whole bunch of just shenanigans and they were trying to tell me that my parents weren't fit parents for me that they were trying to abandon me and then that's when like a month had gone by and my parents they sat us down and told us that we had been helped by Housing for New Hope and me and my sister we were thrilled so yeah Thank you I just want to say that Durham Community Land Trust has quite a few Housing for New Hope residents too and it's been a really good working relationship with them but I'm here on another matter actually I'm here about the DCLT's request for funding we know you but oh yes I'm sorry my name is my name is Selena Mack I'm the Executive Director of Durham Community Land Trustees 1208 West Chapel Hill Street Durham, North Carolina 27701 so tonight I'm here about DCLT's request for funding for Fiscal Year 2014 2015 our request this year is primarily focused on the implementation of existing affordable housing stock it feels like it's tagging me we are among our request is a request for $300,000 in repairs for our West Park and Morehead Glen apartment units these 30 units were developed in 1993 in 1995 as low income housing tax credit properties after its compliance period Durham Community Land Trustees over a sole ownership in 2011 to ensure their long term affordability after nearly 20 years these units are in need of major capital improvements to remain a good safe in good safe rental condition and to improve their energy efficiency planned improvements include parking lot repairs roof replacements window replacement HVAC and hot water heater replacements and when necessary the replacement of cabinets flooring doors and appliances reinvesting and preserving this housing stock at only $10,000 per apartment is by far the least expensive way the city can provide another 20 years of well managed affordable housing Durham Community Land Trustees does in fact maintain replacement reserves for these units and we have usage reserves to address the most pressing health and safety issues in these units these units are currently 100% occupied and actually some of the units have actually the original tenants from 1993 still in those units all of these units will remain permanently affordable because that's the mission of Durham Community Land Trust being able to preserve stable affordable housing in Durham's western neighborhoods is a vital importance in a community where home values are rapidly increasing however it is not enough for DCLT units to be permanently affordable they must also live up to the quality of housing that we require for our residents and your support of this request will allow this to happen thank you welcome I miss Shamika Reinhardt good evening I am Shamika Reinhardt I am a member of the citizens advisory committee I have been for probably about six months and I live at 3202 Sugar Pine Trail here in Durham 27713 it is an honor and privilege to speak as a committee member of the citizens advisory committee the citizens advisory committee concurs with the department of community development funding recommendations in the draft 2014 through 2015 annual action plan the citizens advisory committee works to enhance the quality of life for citizens of Durham by advising the Durham city council and the Durham board of county commissioners on housing and community development needs to improve housing quality and affordability and economic opportunities for low and moderate income families additionally the citizens advisory committee evaluates applications and makes annual recommendations to the city council and the board of county commissioners concerning the allocation of community development block grant funds home investment partnership program and emergency shelter grants funds to sub recipients prior to discussion and evaluation of applications the citizens advisory committee sign a conflict of interest statement to exercise reasonable care and impartial judgment when executing the duties and responsibilities of the citizens advisory committee to maintain the public trust and integrity of the citizens advisory committee the need and demand for affordable housing is growing throughout the nation including Durham our strategies to address the rising demand has centered on housing production and retention finding a decent affordable home is a challenge yet the core of the challenge is in the insufficient strategies to expand economic opportunity one strategy is to create synergy between housing, economic development and transportation by including innovative training programs for businesses relocating or spanning in Durham to prove the readiness of low and moderate income persons to meet the workforce needs of the jobs relocating to the area and reserving affordable housing near future rail lines to connect to major employment centers by equipping low and moderate income families with professional development opportunities we improve the quality of life here in Durham for those families thereby preserving the affordable housing stock for our most needy residents to best serve our citizens and maintain sustainable progress we must ensure all citizens connect with employment opportunity to allow growth and prosperity the citizens advisory committee would like to thank Reginald Johnson, director of the department of community development Larry Jarvis, assistant director and Wilma Conyers our federal programs coordinator for their assistance, availability responsiveness and accommodations which were invaluable in aiding the members of the citizens advisory committee in performing our duties the citizens advisory committee looks forward to work with the city council board of county commissioners department of community development and citizens of Durham to ensure that all Durham citizens have an active role in community development and suitable living environments thank you for the opportunity to speak have a wonderful evening Alexander Herring good evening my name is Alexander Herring I'm the program director for urban ministries of Durham located at 410 Liberty street Durham, North Carolina first Mr. Mayor and council members I would like to first say thank you for your past support and all that you have the support you've given to urban ministry over the years thank you to the city workers and the department and Durham PD who volunteers in our community CAF throughout the year I want to reiterate the importance of partnership and collaboration here in Durham County I took this position two and a half years ago and I remember when I met our mayor pro tem Ms. Cormack Fatton and I told her I was from Raleigh she said he's not a Durham County resident but my heart is in Durham I love the residents I love this area but one thing I can say about Durham that very differs from Wake County I've never seen the cap collaboration any other city I've worked in like Durham so the partnership with housing for new hope the partnership that helps reduce the time our clients spend in the shelter we've developed new programs with partners throughout the city and as I leave here tonight I plan to go home and pack my bags because I'm headed to Chicago to speak at a conference last year CAF the Empowerment Fund we came together and applied for a federal grant and we got it our program that we developed they want to try and make it a national model so this is something to the credit to your benefit to what you have helped us do so again I encourage you to approve the budget as written thank you Frank Moore good evening my name is Frank Moore I stay at 810 North Duke Street in Durham, North Carolina and I would just like to speak about housing for new hope they are a success because they make their clients a success Mr. Alexander Herring spoke on the collaboration with housing for new hope the unwavering professionalism and the integrity that both entities provide to give service to the community is impeccable thank you this is a public hearing to make sure that people have an opportunity to speak if they would like to speak is it anyone else who wants to speak on this item that has not had a chance to speak let the record reflect that no one else asked to speak at this public hearing I will close the public hearing this matter now back before the council recognize the mayor pro tem councilman moffitt, councilman catati councilman shul in that order thank you I would just like to thank everyone for their participation in the public hearing to the gentlemen from urban ministries that is an abiding question for me I just like to promote Durham and I still invite you to become a Durham citizen whenever that is convenient for you you just packed up to go to Chicago when you said that you were packing maybe you were about to say you were coming to Durham I recognize the work that housing for new hope does and I recognize what community land trustees also do we really appreciate what you do so what we want to do is make sure that our advertisements and notification to the public are done in a timely fashion so that everyone knows what we're doing thank you for coming tonight thank you councilman moffitt thank you first I want to thank everyone who came here to testify tonight especially those of you who shared difficult stories with us it helps remind all of us that it's real people behind numbers in the words it's not just programs I want to also thank staff for the supplemental I want to thank councilman moffitt and I want to thank my colleague Steve who spent quite a bit of time with me just to help me understand the landscape of all the different programs that are included in the action plan is that it? thank you mayor I also want to thank everyone who came and for our truly great service providers I really appreciate it I have some questions for staff again I want to thank you for the additional information and the shift to accommodate the habitat city second mortgages I didn't see an update on attachment 17 or are you going to be providing a new chart with that shifted funds it wasn't clear to me yes we'll be providing an updated chart with the funds so in terms of what we're approving tonight we're approving what's in the memo not exactly what's in the chart is that correct? that is correct you're approving one change is made in the memo that's communicated to you in the memo we will make the change in the chart in the draft annual action plan okay do you want to very briefly summarize those three points or do you want me to be specific about what my questions are let's address the chart because we did update the chart okay I didn't see that council person Katani we did update the chart on May 1st as it relates to lines number 9 number 10 and number 11 okay I'm having trouble opening it one sec we increase the home buyer assistance as it relates to line number 11 I got it from 120,000 to 180,000 to accommodate at least nine habitat home buyers in northeast central Durham okay apparently I didn't re-update that I have the memo but my chart still shows the original amount so that's what my confusion was we made the so you do have 180 in the chart okay thanks okay great does your share go? anyways I wanted to note one other point on item 23 the 192,000 for essentially for a million I can't have both things open at the same time I will say that I'm slightly uncomfortable with that as I mentioned at work session I'll look forward to the additional information when this item comes back individually to council I really want to see I guess more information regarding the need for that gap financing I do have some concerns about when we had both Vermillion and the Whitted school project and Vermillion got approved Whitted then got pushed back and there were significant opportunity costs to the city and again it feels like we're approving funding for them after the fact and so I just want to have a better understanding of that we'll provide that item before thank you is that it? I recognize councilman shul thank you Mr. Mayor I know that the staff probably won't be that happy to hear that I was the one educating Don about the housing because maybe I don't know quite as much about his alt too just a couple of things and one of the things I was trying to sort of think about the big picture of this and I was looking at the way in which HUD funding has changed in the last few years and just to sort of think about where our national priorities are if you take HUD funding the entire HUD funding for this country this year it would take 70 years of funding at that level to pay for the amount that was spent on the Iraq war so the Iraq war approximately so far about $2 trillion in expenses and of course there will be more as veteran services are needed in the future that's about 70 years worth of HUD funding we could build a lot of housing and subsidize a lot of housing with that so I just that's only relevant to this in the sense that we're trying to think about our nation and what kind of policies that we ought to have so I have a couple of questions and one is I'm constantly trying to figure out I know that CDBG and home funds overlap a great deal on how they can be used but I'm never completely sure even when I read the specificity about sort of what the what is the general difference between the two of them so I'm going to turn it over to Larry Jarvis assistant director to elaborate but I would also want to make one clarification while there may be overlap in organizations there's a he'll elaborate that we need to be clear about the distinction between the two different types of funds right thank you good evening Larry Jarvis assistant director one of the primary differences between home funds and CDBG funds is that CDBG funds cannot be used to finance new construction home funds can with CDBG you can do things like acquisition you can do site prep and infrastructure but you can't finance the development of housing that's why home was created basically to fill that gap to have a mechanism for financing affordable housing that's very helpful thank you very much it looks to me like during the math that the AMI is now around for family four is now around $66,000 is that about the figure that we're using now I was using that 80% number and doing some math does that sound about right probably the new 2014 income limits just came out and they did drop slightly but not significantly one more just handed this to me the 80% for family of four is $52,550 okay alright I see so yeah so that would be okay close thanks and then the you got about 50% of our housing units here in Durham rental units I guess that's our total housing units about 100,000 face a housing burden does that mean that more than 30% of the income of that household goes in rent is that how you define the housing burden for renters the housing burden most often is that they're paying more than 30% of their income towards rent and of course when you look at it in detail you can be severely burdened which means more than 50% of the income is going towards housing expenses and how about how do we define burden for homeowner burden for homeowner is in some cases you could actually have that homeowner paying more than 30% of their income for principal and interest payment and utilities and housing burden is a kind of a national concept isn't it it's something that HUD defines so if I read you right then 50% of the housing units in Durham are either homeowners or renters are face housing burdens paying more than 30% of their income in either rent or right now I don't have the numbers that you're looking at in front of me that sounds about right that's a lot and I want to reiterate what my colleagues have said it was good to see that thank you for making the change to include the habitat seconds I think that's a great change and appreciate that and Diane has raised the question about Vermillion but we'll go back on that when the time comes and I share her concerns and would be anxious to hear when the time comes about how important it is to make sure that we're able to build those units and how critical that ends up being the so just again I want to reiterate something I said at work session which basically is that looking at the five year housing chart which included the dedicated funding sources as well as these sources and there's a lot of good news in there and the success of Southside that we're seeing so far and I know we'll continue to see the great results in the rapid rehousing which we've heard from Joey and Cynthia and the Glasper family and which it was really good to see the numbers on that which were great the fact that we're feeling a lot better about the trend of HUD funding and I was particularly glad to see sort of in the out years of this five year plan that we're planning to be a partner with Durham Housing Authority in the redevelopment of McDougal Terrace area and the Choice Neighborhoods initiative and what we're identifying here is a large area of South East Central Durham so I like that that planning was in there and that we're that is going to be really really critical for our community going forward I was really glad to see the emphasis in not creating a recreating a concentration of poverty glad to see the mention of the possible work around the Austin Avenue rail station and so all those things I thought were very forward looking in the plan and are reflected in what we're approving tonight and I know that this reflects a really prodigious effort and I'm really appreciative of Larry and Reginald and Wilma and the whole staff of what you all have done. My concerns are my general concerns are that that we continue to work with or that we as the planning department develops the housing slash transit plan that we're in close touch with them with community development. I know you will be but I think that's really important and then you've partially addressed this with Habitat but I do want to say when I think about what you've done you've done a great job in identifying how we're done in sort of continuing to do what we need to do in Southwest Central Durham. Now you've identified the kind of out year work in Southeast Central Durham in the Doogal Terrace area and of course we have Southside as a huge point of emphasis which doesn't receive much emphasis in here is Northeast Central Durham and I just want to reiterate again what I said the other day that given the mayor's poverty initiative which I think is a great thing and the census tracker we're focusing on particularly I think it would be good to think ahead in future years about a more explicit plan for Northeast Central Durham and the Habitat seconds are a great step in that direction but I did want to mention that as I think something important for the future and and then again continuing to work with the Housing Authority I think is going to be critical and I appreciate that you've got that in there. So in general I think it's a really good plan and I think that the change with the Habitat seconds is very good and I really appreciate the work you've done and look forward to voting for it. Can I say one more thing? I wanted to note that Terry Aliboss here and I believe Terry is retiring from his job in a couple weeks Terry and I just wanted to note that for many many years Terry has done a wonderful job leading Housing for New Hope and he's surrounded by staff and clients and thank you Terry. It's fabulous work. Well Steve if you hadn't planned you can plan to get up at 7.30 tomorrow morning and be at the breakfast be there at 7.30. I don't know time you have to get up. I know time I got to get up but it's a 7.30 tomorrow at the American Abacca day 7. I just have a one or two questions and I want to follow up with the Habitat for Humanity seconds and do you have any incidences to what that would do in terms of increasing the number of units they will be able to provide with that? I would have to ask Blake what the net increase would be but again given that the effect of the 20,000 that we provide to the home buyer is 20,000 less that Habitat has to finance to reduce the amount of paper they would have to hold. One would think that additional 180,000 probably would result in four additional units net they would be able to do than if they didn't have the seconds. Alright if you could find a little bit more about that and the reason I raise it aside from the fact it's already been raised here I've been impressed with what they've been able to do in terms of not just new houses but rehabilitation and since they decided to focus their attention over in the Northeast Central Durham area and of course with the anti-reducing poverty place we aren't talking about new dollars as such but it seems to me it allows them an opportunity to have a greater impact in that area if in fact they are going to focus as they said and if they have more dollars to build more units I think that even goes along further so I'd like a little bit crisp understanding as to what those dollars would do for them over in that area. One other point I was struck by the comment that was made by the Durham community land trust in terms of rehabilitation of units and how many more units I noticed was $103,000 in this budget was that presented to you guys when you were putting together the plan? Selina was speaking to the $300,000 that we're recommending and that she had requested for the preservation of rental units in addition to that she had requested and is being recommended for $103,000 that would be used for repairs to owner occupied units that DCLT had produced in their early history. Okay thank you for that clarification let me ask you other comments questions on this item just being a public hearing. If not I entertain a motion on item 4 that we receive comments. It's been properly moved in second. Madam clerk will you open the vote? Close the vote. It passes 7 to 0. Thank you. Next public hearing item is 26. Let's move to back to number 7. The council does need to adopt the annual action plan. We voted to receive the comments. Second. It's been properly moved in second. Madam clerk will you open the vote? Close the vote. It passes 7 to 0. Item 7 was a consent agenda item 6. It's been properly moved in second. Madam clerk will you open the vote? We need to do item to hold the public hearing on number 26. Didn't go to 7. I'm sorry my mistake I was on 25. Public hearing on the proposed amendments to the FY 2011-2012 2012-2013 2014 annual action plan against the public hearing. Open public hearing. Comments from the staff. Wilmer Conyers federal programs coordinator. The purpose of this public hearing is to receive citizen comments on the proposed amendments for the FY 2011-2012, 2012-2013 and the 2013-2014 annual action plans. Citizen participation plan contained in the adopted 2010-2015 consolidated plan requires that a public hearing be conducted for formal amendments that add, delete or substantially change the consolidated plan or the annual action plan. Notice of this meeting was advertised in the Herald Sun distributed via general listserv and posted on the department of community development website on April 4th and advertised in the Carolina Times on April 5th. The proposed amendments represent a reconciliation of the grant funds to the city's general ledger and assists with the timely expenditure and administration of community development block grant funds, home investment partnership and emergency solution grant funds. These amendments are needed to meet the respective federal deadlines as it relates to each grant. These proposed amendments represent a reconciliation of two million $44,750 in home funds, $74,000 in CDBG funds and $11,082 in ESG funds. Proposed amendments were made available for the public review beginning April 4th through May 6th, 2014 at the department of community development on its website at the Durham County Main Library, the city and county clerk's offices, the front desk of city hall and were distributed via a general listserv. Comments from this public hearing and a summary of written comments received from citizens will be incorporated to the end the final amendments for the submission to HUD. Later tonight on the agenda we request council to approve the proposed amendments to the FY 2011-2012 2012-2013 and the 2013-2014 annual action plans. Okay, the public hearing is open. You've heard a staff report. I recognize comments by the council first for their comments. I don't have anyone that has signed up to speak on this item. I would ask the audience that would like to speak on this item is to be on public hearing. Let the record reflect that no one has to speak on this item or close the public hearing as a matter of fact before the council. It's been properly moved and seconded. Madam Clerk, we open the vote. We close the vote. It passes 7-0. Okay, can we move now to item 7 on the consent agenda on this particular item? It's been properly moved and seconded. Madam Clerk, we open the vote. We close the vote. It passes 7-0. Thank you. We'll go to the next public hearing item which is item 27. Amendment to the City County Inspections permit fee ordinance. Good evening, Mayor. Mayor Pro Tem, City Council members, Jean Bradham, Director of City County Inspections. First of all, I'd like to acknowledge that the proper notifications regarding this particular public hearing have been met and had was placed in the newspaper. A notice was placed on the city's website and a notice was placed in the lobby of City Hall. In addition to that, we reached out to the Home Builders Association, to the General Contractors Association and sent out email notifications to all of our mechanical and our plumbing contractors that we had email addresses for in our database. Agenda item number 27 is to conduct a public hearing and receive comments on the City County Inspections permit fee ordinance. This is where the Inspections Department strives to keep up and maintain a fee schedule that is basically designed to recover the costs that is associated with performing the required inspections that are state mandated. The department performs thorough evaluations to determine the specific trade permit fees that are not covering the costs that are associated with the required work to perform those inspections. The last comprehensive fee increase that we have is back in July of 2011. The price increase prior to that prior to the 2011 increase was all the way back in 2000, so 11 years prior to that date. The proposed fee changes that we have before each night are not a comprehensive increase and they do not change any of the permit fees for new single family permits or for new commercial permits. The fees that are change and reflect new categories for fees for items that are not included in the fee schedule. Some for the removal of certain fees that aren't necessary any longer. Some for the changing of wording of certain categories that are for clarity purposes only and then for the increases of a few specific categories. One of the new items in the proposed that we have before each proposal tonight is a re-review fee for plans review. This would be similar to the reinspection fee that we have had in place for a long time in the field inspection process. When an applicant does not correct all of the items that we have pointed out in the plan review process the purpose of this proposal there would be a progressive fee charged if we have to go back in and they didn't correct all the items and we have to go back and correct it until I know you didn't get three of those come back and do that again. So that's the purpose of that. And obviously the purpose is to encourage accurate and complete information when the plan is resubmitted just to make the whole process more efficient. And then a second new item is charging a reinspection fee for the first reinspection on heating and ventilation to encourage contractors to perform the work completely and accurately the first time which would improve the efficiency of that field inspections process related to those. It would also eliminate the need for homeowners to have to get off work a second time for a reinspection that really wasn't necessary. The few items that have an actual fee increase for the permit that's associated with them are necessary to recover the costs associated with the work involved in doing those inspections. With the proposed fee increases Durham would still be in line with the policies that have been on the list that you've included for Peer Cities as well as the fees charged by the surrounding jurisdictions. I'll be glad to try and answer any questions that you might have and I have Roy Brockwell our assistant director with me tonight that worked on the fee study. Thank you. This is a public hearing. You've heard a staff report. Let me ask you comments, questions, my members of the council. Is there anyone in the public that wants to speak on this item? I'll move the items to second. It's been properly moved to second. Madam clerk, will you open the vote? Close the vote. Passes seven to zero. Item 28 is a conference plan amendment UDI farm and I'm going to have to be excused from this item. Item 28 as well as item 29 because I'm an employee of UDI farm and I'm going to have to be excused from this item. Item 28 as well as item 29 because I'm an employee of UDI CDC. It says UDI farm. That's the mayor pro tem as you take over, please. Do you have any? The next item before us, as Amir said, is public hearing item on comprehensive plan amendment UDI farm A14 00001. Is there a report from staff on this item? Thank you, Madam mayor pro tem and members of council, Pat Young with the planning department. I can first certify that the public hearing items before you tonight have been advertised in accordance with the requirements of law and their affidavits to that effect on file with the planning department. The case before you is A14 00001. It's an application by UDI Community Development Corporation which is requesting a change to the future land use designation of 2.6 acres of an approximately 5.9 acre parcel located at 4601 industry lane from its current future land use map designation of office to the future land use designation of low density residential which would allow agricultural operations which you'll hear more about in the forthcoming action. Based on staff's review of the four criteria for comprehensive land use plan amendments staff recommends approval of this request and the planning commission considered and recommended approval of this item by a vote of 12-1 at its March 11, 2014 meeting. I'll be happy to take any questions. Thank you. Are there questions? Comments from council members? If not, I declare the public hearing open. I have one person who has signed up to speak on this item and that is Patrick Biker. I will give you three minutes sir if that's adequate. It should be less than that Mayor Pro Tem. Good evening Mayor Pro Tem, members of the city council. My name is Patrick Biker. I live at Stewart Drive. I'm an attorney with Morningstar law group in Durham and I'm here tonight representing UDI CDC for this comprehensive plan amendment. With me tonight from UDI is the Executive Director Ed Stewart along with our very own Durham expert on aquaponics Kevin Hammack. We greatly appreciate the support of the planning department for this plan amendment application. We do not have much to add to the staff report in your agenda package which documents several valid reasons for changing this parcel from office to low density residential. However we do wish to highlight that UDI has marketed this site for office development over many years and there simply is not demand for office at this location. Given the extent of the floodplain conditions on this parcel it is not really a viable office location on account of the limited buildable area suitable for an office building. Accordingly the agricultural use allowed in low density residential which allows for the aquaponics portion of our vegetable growing endeavor is the most appropriate designation for this property. And so for all those reasons we respectfully ask for your approval and I'll be happy to try to answer any questions. Thank you. Are there others who would like to speak on this item? If not I will declare the public hearing closed and the matter is back before the body. And Madam Clerk would you open the vote? It passes 6 to 0 and Mayor Bell will be abstaining. The next matter then public hearing matter is zoning map change UDI farm case 014 0001 entertain a staff report now. Thank you sir. Good evening again I'm Madam Mayor Pro Tem and members of Council Pat Young with the Planning Department. Case Z14 00001 is a member of the UDI farm UDI Community Development Corporation is requesting a change to the zoning designation of an approximately 5.9 acre parcel at a 4601 industry lane. From its current zoning designation of office institutional or OI to residential suburban 20 or RS 20 to accommodate a proposed agricultural use. The proposed RS 20 zoning is consistent with residential uses in zoning to the north and east and is consistent with the future land use designation of low density residential and recreation and open space. Staff has also determined that this request is consistent with other adoptive policies and ordinances of City Council. If the requested RS 20 zoning designation is approved the applicant has indicated their intent to develop the site for agricultural purposes including aquaponics. Planning Commission recommended approval at their March 11th, 2014 meeting with the City Council. Thank you very much. Are there comments or questions from council members? If not, I would declare the public hearing open. Mr. Biker, you have how many minutes do you want? Two or three? Thank you. Good evening again Mayor Pro Tem, Cole McFadden and members of the council. My name is Patrick Biker. I still live at 2614 Stuart Drive. I'm here representing UDI CDC. We are requesting your approval of the zoning map change for a relatively small section of UDI's property along the south side of East Corn Wallis Road at the intersection with industry lane. We're requesting this rezoning to RS 20 so that UDI can develop these six acres as an agricultural use that will create an exciting urban farming opportunity for Durham since RS 20 is one of the two zoning districts that allows for aquaponics. We had about a 45 minute presentation on aquaponics, but given the time constraints we won't go into that. UDI has secured a grant from the Federal Economic Development Administration to develop these six acres as a commercial vegetable garden and an aquaponics facility that can grow fish, fruit and vegetables. The aquaponics component is necessary to make our endeavor financially sustainable. Long story short, aquaponics allows for an increased yield of vegetables without the use of fertilizers along with the added benefit of providing several kinds of fish for sale. Accordingly, this is a project that will exemplify community supported agriculture and further enhance Durham's reputation as a leader in the farm to table movement. As I am sure many of you on the City Council will recall from last year, Southern Living Magazine named Durham the tastiest town of the south. That was a fantastic award for our city, but Durham should not rest on its laurels. This rezoning will allow Durham to move forward with sustainable new jobs and efficient urban agricultural practices that will increase the production of locally grown food and solidify Durham's leadership position as the food mecca of the south. We appreciate the support of the Plain Department of the Planning Commission in recommending approval of this item, and we respectfully ask for your approval and our team will be happy to answer any questions. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Byker. This is a public hearing, so if there are others who would like not, I will close the public hearing and the matters back before the Council. Yes, sir. What kind of fish? Ms. Cattati and this. I believe we're focusing on tilapia perch, anything else? Probably tilapia and perch, Councilman Shrewill. Okay. And do you have any requests? I don't, but that sounds fine. Thank you. I think it's, you know, I was, when I first heard about this, my first thought was Kevin Hammack involved because he's been before us when we talked about the the changes in the UDO to accommodate more urban agriculture, and so I was glad when I found that out that he was indeed, and I know that he'll bring some real expertise and commitment to it, so good luck to you. Thank you. Appreciate it. Councilwoman Cattati. Thank you Mayor Pro Tem. I also think the project is exciting. I do have a question though, perhaps to staff, perhaps to the applicant. In terms of water supply impacts, it was evaluated on nine single family residential units. Can anyone talk about the water impact? Or what you're proposing to do in terms of recapturing, use of rainwater, other, well we all know farming is water intensive. Thanks. Yes, thank you Councilmember Cattati. Once the tanks are full, it really should just be a fairly closed loop system, so other than occasional re-topping off of the tanks, once the tanks are full it should be pretty pretty subtle, and are, you know, the sisters to make sure that the fish are preserved you know, until they're ready to be sold, but we're optimistic that it'll be, you know, a one time, sort of like filling a swimming pool, one time expenditure, but then after that, we think it'll be a pretty closed, pretty tight closed loop system. As a matter of fact, if you look at the pizza place next door, you can sort of see it in a you know, interior small scale. You did raise an issue in the past, and I don't honestly remember, and I know we're getting a presentation on water rates this coming Thursday, will they pay a premium to fill the tanks, just like people that fill swimming pools get mm-hmm, thanks, okay, and the one thing I didn't hear you address was the farming aspect and water use there, thanks. Kevin Hammack 219 West Trinidad Avenue in Durham as far as the farming, we will be incorporating cisterns for water capture, so there will be when, say, in a very extreme drought we will use some city water, but the goal is to save as much rainwater capture as we can or use it. Did you say it was Tier 3? I'm sorry, I didn't hear the answer. Okay, thank you. Thank you. Would you just briefly just walk us through, so that I have a clear sense of the operations that you're planning to do here, can you just what's included, I understand aquaponics included in something under the rubric farming, but I just want to know what that means. Right, so we'll have kind of a mix of the aquaponics which is a recirculating system, you've got fish and, you know, there's fish water. We take that water and we recirculate it through the plant beds, and the plant beds suck out through your nitrates. That's basically your fertilizer, but it's a natural fertilizer. In addition to that, we'll have kind of more traditional gardening farming, whatever you want to call it. We'll be doing it year-round in hoop houses, greenhouses, the little hoop tunnels or some of our row vegetables, but basically we plan on growing a variety of vegetables year-round. Outside of the fish, any animals? No animals. Okay, thank you. Let's count worms. Excuse me? Let's count worms. Okay, thank you. And the water, if I understand a closed-loop system you're talking about, the water from the fish tanks is going into the plant beds. Right, and returns cleaned back to the fish. Okay. So the plants suck out your nitrates. And are the fish tanks covered? Depending on the fish, very often we do cover them. Okay, so like a swimming pool there will be some evaporation. There will be some. But it does help with evaporation to keep them covered and we've looked at several systems that I'm probably leaning towards having most of them covered. Okay, good. But they like to jump so keep them covered and keep them under control. Thank you. Then I have a question for staff. It's an unusual use for RS-20 and I'm just verifying that all of the RS-20 setbacks and other requirements, whether it's a house or a farm or whatever, are all in place. I'm verifying that, please. Right. So Councilman Moffitt, Pat Young with the Planning Department. All structural setbacks that apply to residential properties would be in place. It's actually somewhat more stringent because there's a 50-foot setback for any livestock operations or other agricultural operations. Thank you. Thank you. I had another question you raised it when you talked about covering the pools. What is your experience with odor and fish in aquaponics? Thank you. I visited several around the country and there's no odor. The best example I can say is the Walk Cross Street to the new pizza place and there's no odor. And I went to a fish production facility this weekend just to verify my experience. It was probably a three-acre, probably larger than what UDI is proposing. My sense of smell isn't as good as the next guys, but I couldn't smell anything and I was standing right next to it. A good example is I actually just met with him yesterday, Will Allen up in Milwaukee. He's got a three-acre farm with 20,000 or 30,000 gallons of aquaponics and there's a neighborhood right behind him and there's absolutely no smell. The neighbors love him. This is really taking off in the high really high density urban areas like New York City, Hong Kong, places like that. So we haven't experienced anything of that sort. Are there other questions? Yes, sir. The grant comes with some requirements about job creation. Is that right? Can you talk about that a little bit? We propose to create 40 jobs over a three-year period of time. Mrs. Sir, would you tell us who you are? My name is Ed Stewart. I serve as president of UDI Community Development Corporation over the last 44 years. You didn't need that. That was my question. Thank you very much. We'll entertain a motion on this item. Please. Move the item. Madam Clerk, would you please open the vote? It passes 6-0 and Mayor Bell is abstaining. Let's move to item 30. Thank you, Mr. Mayor, members of council, Pat Young again with the planning department. Item 30's case, SC 13-0-0-0-6 as a requested street closing of 127 linear foot segment of Vessin Avenue, which is just west of Chapel Hill Road. The request is by B. Wallace, design and construction. This right-of-way is at the terminal point of currently Vessin Avenue. Property is bordered by property owned by the applicant and by Lakewood Elementary School on the north side. The right-of-way would be closed and be recombined with the adjacent properties 50% to the applicant, 50% to the Durham Public Schools. Thank you. I'll be happy to take any questions. This is public hearing. You've heard a staff report. I would ask other questions by members of the council. If not, we have one person that has signed up to speak, Mr. John Blakely. Mr. Blakely present. Mr. Berkley have three minutes. John Blackley of Eastland Corps 2314 South Miami Boulevard Suite 151 Durham 27703 and I'm here representing the B. Wallace design and construction and having nothing further to add but here to answer any questions you may have. Thank you. Let me ask other questions Mr. Blakely. If not, thank you. All the persons that want to speak on this item let the reflect no one else has to speak. The public hearing is closed. It's been probably moved in a second. Madam Clerk, will you open the vote? Close the vote. It passes 70. Thank you. The last item is a supplemental item Police Department 2014 first quarter summary report by Mr. Blakely. No pass. Mr. Mayor, Council, manager, city attorney. I'm here tonight to present the Police Department's 2014 first quarter report. The quarterly report covers the department's six performing measures, violent crime, property crime, part one index crime, clearance rates, response time to priority one calls during the first quarter. There are several highlights during the first quarter. The Durham Police Department sees more than 33 pounds of synthetic marijuana in February during a traffic stop on Interstate 85. An Alabama man was arrested on drug trafficking charges and there was the largest seizure of synthetic marijuana, which is also known as spice in K2 in the department's history. Funded by a grant from the Fox Family Foundation, investigators from the victim's unit outfitted existing office space to serve as a soft interview room for child victims and witnesses of sexual assault crimes. The soft interview room provides a more comfortable and relaxed environment to conduct necessary interviews with young interviewees. During the first quarter, the Police Department started training to participate in the new Durham County Misdemeanor Diversion Program focusing on 16 and 17 year olds. This program allows officers to refer first-time Misdemeanor offenders to a diversion program instead of filing criminal charges which could have a long-time negative effect. This program does not include sexual offense charges, firearms charges or traffic offenses. The first-time offenders are referred to specific diversion programs and attend a session in diversion court. If they did not complete their program within 90 days, they can be charged with the original criminal charges. We're encouraging our officers to be engaged in this program. More than 500 youths in Durham would have been eligible for this program in 2012 and this is based on court statistics. Part one violent crime was up by 36 percent in the first quarter compared to 2013. The rise in violent crime was driven by an increase in a number of aggravated assaults. We quickly recognize early in the first quarter that multi-victim incidents such as shootings into crowds or occupied residences were pushing up these numbers. This particular type of crime is a very cowardly act because the shooters have no idea who might be in the line of fire. We organized a multi-agency violent incident response to target locations where these incidents were occurring and the people believed to be involved. We gathered intelligence information to determine why these incidents were occurring and we have plans to use all the resources to focus on this issue. This is a high priority for the department and we've seen the number of shootings into occupied dwellings go down in recent weeks. At this point it appears that our efforts are having an impact. We had 149 victims. There were 176 incidents with 254 victims during the first quarter of 2014. We have investigated seven homicides year to date compared to eight on this date last year. Arrests have been made in five of the seven cases and there's a known suspect in the sixth case. There's one open case and we have two cases that involve domestic violence. Robberies were up in the first quarter where investigators made several arrests which cleared multiple cases. Several of these arrests are mentioned in your executive summary. The number of reported rapes dropped during the first quarter. I also wanted to mention that crime public schools to give them information about social media safety for students and how to spot potential issues such as those in the recent cases in the area involving photos on Instagram. Poppity crime was up by 10 percent during the first quarter of 2014. The rise was caused by an increase in burglaries and larcenies. Larcenies made up half of all part one index crimes during the first quarter. Investigators made several arrests that cleared multiple burglaries in many cases. There were several people working together to commit these burglaries. Investigators also arrested three persons and cleared dozens of cases involving the thefts of catalytic converters from vehicles. Motor vehicle thefts were the three year load during the first quarter. We made an effort to remind people not to leave their cars unattended while running to warm them up during the cold winter months. We continue to urge people to dial 911 to report suspicious activities. These call often help officers make arrests especially for property crime and I have to state that we've had quite a few instances where the citizens of Durham have called the police department about suspicious individuals of vehicles which resulted in arrest and also recovery of property along with clearing multiple cases. Part one index crime was up 13 percent from the first quarter of 2013 which was a 14 year load for part one index crime. Crime was down in two parts part one categories which were rapes and motor vehicle thefts. The police department's first quarter clearance rates were above the 2012 FBI national average clearing rates for cities our size in all categories with the exception of aggravated assaults. We expect that clearance rate to increase as the year goes on. The average response time to priority one calls during the first quarter was 6.1 minute which did not meet our target average of 5.8 minutes. 51.7 percent of priority one calls were answered in under five minutes during the first quarter. This also did not meet the target of 57 percent. Our sworn positions are fully staffed at this time. We currently have a basic law enforcement training academy in session with 20 Durham police department recruits and two recruits for other agencies. We are in the process of hiring people to fill several of the vacancies of the non sworn positions. As we end this presentation I have to share with you a few recent community events. On Friday April 25th police employees attended the Durham county Special Olympics event at the Durham academy. It was a beautiful day and we enjoyed spending time with these athletes. Our employees also participated in the Chick-fil-A cops on top event on April 18 to raise money for the North Carolina Special Olympics organization. Also on Friday this past Friday we celebrated successful police reads program this year at the global scholars academy on Dow street and the Y.E. Smith museum elementary school on East Main Street. Volunteers from the police department and other law enforcement agencies read with the students and act as mentors and this is a very successful program. Right now we are participating in the program welcoming Central American leaders and law enforcement officials to Durham so that they can learn the terms organized gang suppression strategies and established community partnerships. This program is part of a 2014 Central American community impact exchange. A program sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, the White House national security staff and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The KC visitors also include participants from El Salvador, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, Costa Rica and Panama. This weekend they rode with officers from our violent incident response team and our high enforcement abatement team. Tonight they attended a project safe neighborhoods juvenile call in where three juveniles and their parents will be hearing messages of guidance support from the agency representatives and the youth service providers. There also will be attending several presentations of various gang and community programs and it's an honor for Durham to have been chosen as a site for this program and this morning it was also noted how this strategy that we have with our gang suppression involves not only law enforcement but the community and also the political structure of the city working together in order to make a difference in gang suppression. And this concludes my presentation. All right. Thank you Chief. We certainly want to give the police department applause when we are going in the right way and I can just tell you we aren't up to a good start this first quarter. I mean with the exception of the reductions in rapes and reductions in motor vehicles thefts we just aren't up to a good start. And I say that to you but I say that to the community also. We just got to find a way to do better. We really do. This is a bad start as far as I'm concerned. Comments. Recognize Councilman Davis and the Mayor Pro Tem. Thank you Mr. Mayor. I just wanted to ask about the program at Greystone on Friday and I think those recruits that you mentioned may have come in as a unit. Yes. I was concerned about the what appeared to me to be the lack of diversity among that particular group. Would that be typical of the groupings that we've had recently? It's normally not typical. We work very hard to make the academy as diverse as possible. We go to great lengths in order to do so. Our department is extremely diverse considering the departments in North Carolina. It's not representative of what we want it to be but sometimes we have to deal with the cards that are put forth and these recruits will be extremely good officers that we're going to strive to serve all the members of the organization. My concern is not the quality of that group. I believe that all of them are good recruits. I just want to make sure that perhaps in the future there can be a little more diversity in those recruits. We're very hopeful that individuals, diverse individuals in the community push to join our ranks. We are still hiring and we really are looking for them to come to our door and at the same point in time we're going to their door and we're going to be able to do that. That's exactly what I was going to mention as well. Do you keep information regarding demographics and those who fail to make it through the academy and the reasons why they don't and do we look at our process to see if there are parts of it or requirements that would not well I don't know how to put this. Do you look at how at the demographics and the reasons that Yes we do look at the reasons why many of them just don't meet our standards for a variety of reasons that include the physical right off the bat. One of the first things that I tell anyone that I see that I am trying to list in the Durham Police Department is run home, start running get into shape possibly hurts us and many of our situations where individuals just cannot meet the physical challenge and then after that we have to go through the background challenge which is both credit ratings criminal records things of that nature psychological so they have to meet the standard that we provide and we go to great lengths to try to get a diverse amount of individuals who apply to come in we bend over backwards trying to help individuals to the extent that a lot of individuals who don't make it the first time around we don't just cast them off we ask that they continue in order to meet the standards for the second time. Are we talking about the state standards or our standards are above state standards the requirements that you need in order to become a police officer on the state level or the state level at a minimum but I thought that we require we require more in the police academy they go through 300 more hours at the police academy 300 more hours on the juvenile diversion program tell me how that works well an officer will encounter a juvenile involved in a misdemeanor offense age 16-17 and that officer would make a recommendation either to put them into the diversion program and not cite them of course he'll write the report reference to what occurred and put them through the program and the individual goes through the program and successfully completes it then an arrest was not made because the officer won't be actually making an arrest at that point in time so the individual will not have an arrest record of course that's a one time deal and if the individual does come in front of the officer in front of that diversion court the charges will be brought forth also if the individual doesn't complete the program then the charges that initiated the event will be brought forth against them okay remind me of the numbers that we have involved in that program how many how many young people have we encountered well the program is just starting it's just getting underway now we don't have a number you don't have any number we're still going through a training phase and putting the program together let me ask you this about the procedure who else is involved in making the decision about whether or not that young person would be the police officer who encounters only the police officer the decision has to make the officer has to make a decision at the point in time he encounters the individual he's got probable cause to make a custodial arrest or to write out a summons and at that point that officer decides either by checking the record to see if this is a first time offense as to whether or not the individual might benefit from the program and we are encouraging officers to take full advantage of that program this is councilman Brown and then councilman Shul thanks for excuse me the report I guess I want to go back to what the mayor articulated and that is concerning the fact that in almost every category the crime rate is moving in the wrong direction do you have any further insight into why this is happening or do you say this is an aberration first of all crime isn't it's not linear it goes up and down and we're matching this just a quarter off of a 14 year low that we had last time so we're the numbers that we have today for this year competing with a 14 year low that we had last year and also I think the important fact is that the organization has identified what the problems are and are addressing and putting the resources that are necessary and it looks like we're moving in the right direction as far as that's concerned could you expand on that last statement what we're doing we've identified the fact that we've had a bunch of cowards shooting into cowards shooting into occupied dwellings and shooting into crowds and our rate for assault victims is not victim base it's not incident base it's victim base so if you shoot into a house that's got maybe 10 persons inside that's 10 victims for one incident and you don't know who you're shooting at anyway so you could wind up injuring someone inside that house a child an innocent person we've had that happen not only statewide but also here in the city of Durham we put together our violent incident response team we've identified individuals who we believe were involved who are connected to both the victim side and the silent side we've been addressing him and we've been bringing down the numbers of actual incidents since then to the extent that we've minimized the incidents at this point thank you councilman shul thank you mr. mayor chief thank you very much I think this is really the since I've been on council I think this is the first report that that that we've seen where we had a significant jump in any of the categories really and so just to especially I'm looking at the aggravated assault when you look at the part 1 violent crime that's what really really jumps out and I know you've talked about people shooting into crowds so when you how do you all approach this what is your strategy or what are your tactics what do you do now to try to get a handle on this I know that you'll be thinking about this and the way you do in comp stat and that kind of thing but can you can you talk more about how you are going to try to take on this problem well first of all we're looking at the retiretory effect of the shootings they're concerned when they involve themselves one who shoots at a house will probably have someone from that house shooting at them or their house and we're trying to identify who the players are who are involved what the argument may be the group the gang the family and then address them going out to them using our data that we have through our data let policing to identify the individuals who they're connected to to talk to them to get information from them also make a rest I work with probation work with the DA's office and any other law enforcement agencies to include federal agencies to come in here and address the issues in order to bring the the violence down and send the message that it's not going to be tolerated and I think that the the message that this community needs to send to these individuals is to let them know that they are cowards by doing this do you have some sense that is this a small group of people or do you have any sense about that at all you may not as far as a group we've got quite a few individuals that we've identified we've reached out to them we visit them on a regular basis we have a lot of the family members who are aware that we're in touch we've made a rest in quite a few of the cases and some of the individuals have been arrested that we know that we're involved for other charges the VIRT as you'll see in your report executive summary made quite a few arrests one of which also what involved an individual wanted for murder so and then also we've identified individuals who had a retaliatory nature or we had information about that and they've been arrested for other crimes that they've been committing thank you so yeah I just want to reiterate the concern that our colleagues have expressed I know you share and I hope we can get a handle on this and I know you all will be working hard to do so and we appreciate that a lot on the on the misdemeanor diversion program I was really glad to see this highlighted and I wanted to thank you and the members of the police force for your embrace of this program and for your public support of the chief I think that's very meaningful thank you I think that one of the issues in a program like this in terms of the 516 and 17 year olds who would have been eligible is the issue of getting them referred and you mentioned training I guess is the key to this and do you feel like you all have the resources you need to implement this positively so we can help our young people out to do the training and to implement this into the future well the police department we do have the resources all our officers will be trained and the other ones are going to be making these connections I'm hoping the resources are in the programs that are available to them I think that's really where the important part comes that these individuals that we refer have the resources necessary to make the positive changes in their lives and I think that's where we really need to focus as far as resources are concerned so you mean after the after the person has been referred to the misdemeanor court that they will have the resources available there correct because the arrest is the easy part everything else is where the nuts and bolts of the whole program sure a pastor fail right and I know that's important but just thinking about it from you all standpoint you do how how long would it take do you think to train your officers to the point where they're ready to do this I don't have an exact date but we've been doing it for quite a few months now yeah at this point in time but the important part is the staff that I have with me here who was endured the entire council meeting and they're still sticking it out with me these individuals are very much dedicated to the program it's that leadership that's going to make it work well if they stayed here this long I'm sure they are dedicated totally dedicated and and I and I believe that for program like this to work we're really it involves a change in policy a change of way of thinking that having that leadership from the and the support of the people at the top and I know that you all do is a great and very important and I really appreciate that and I know you'll do your best to make it work so thank you very much for that I appreciate it thank you chief let me come back to one other short that you had in here I just looked at it I'm struck by the number of responses that have been created in the first quarter by young people 16 to 17 and less than 16 years of age 304 but what what it doesn't tell me is I do know how many of these young people were involved in this this is your charter says 2014 first quarter executive summary youth arrests 16 to 17 and juvenile petitions less than 16 for January to March 2014 304 offenses which ranges from aggravated assault to weapons violation etc 304 but what it doesn't tell me is how many of these young people were involved certainly not three and four young people but I would have to get to those numbers that would be very very important because we're on this path of trying to do disconnected youth and etc and we constantly hear about a lot of the crimes are committed by a certain percentage of the population so I really like to know how many young people were involved in these 304 offenses that were created from January to 2014 we'll take a look at how many different individuals that's correct I mean one person could have done four or five of these different things so how many different individuals were involved we'll take a look at it get you the numbers thank you and I like that to be a part of your regular report as we go forward any other comments I recognize Councilman Moffitt yes I just had a question chief I appreciate everyone hanging in as we are through this council meeting and my question is on aggravated assault you indicated that it's due to shots being fired into crowds in the homes can you estimate the percentage of those aggravated assault victims that number I think the total I'm not looking at but I think it was about 255 the percentage of those that were due to those I would have to get back to you in reference to the percentage we were talking here about 176 incidents with 254 victims I don't want you to believe that these were all shots fired into dwellings but a large amount were and we noticed that especially when you're shooting into a dwelling and you could wind up with five plus victims the assault the aggravated assault numbers were really driven by the amount of victims you could have from an incident and when you're shooting into a house or into a crowd the incident just multiplies the amount of victims is there anything else do you think there might be is there anything else besides shots being fired into crowded areas individuals who assault each other individuals who assault people on the street who have fights those other assaults come into play domestics assaults and you think all of those are up I mean I'm asking you just all of them are up I know you don't have numbers in front of you but asking what you I think the totality of it to see exactly what is up I'd have to sit back and research it okay one of the other points that I have to make is the fact that our larcenies also really amount to a good amount of these numbers that make it high the percentage and a lot of that we're working with the communities we're still using our rap program to address the burglaries we've made a lot of substantial arrests involving burglaries involving larcenies of course when somebody hits a parking lot and starts doing cars now you're talking about quite a few multiple incidents and then we're still going after the community to start watching what they leave in their vehicles securing their property even when they park their cars and what may appear to be the safest of neighborhoods to just lock their cars because you never know who's going to come by even a neighborhood youth might take things out of the car same thing with the homes securing them to avoid the larcenies where do these simple assaults fall I know you've got a category that says aggravated assaults but you also have a category of simple assaults I believe it's not a part one crime it's a part two it's a part two and you mentioned the fact that we had a lot of larcenies again that's why I really want to understand this juvenile piece you got 80 larcenies committed by juveniles in that range that we're talking about well that's also shoplifting breaking into cars but it still goes in your told it goes into the told it brings the numbers up okay any other comments if not entertain the motion on item to receive the report of comments it's been a proper move in a second Madam Clerk will you open the vote close the vote it passes 7-0 any other items that come before the council this time if not council adjourned at 9.24 p.m. thank you