 Good evening. Good evening. We'd like to call the Durham City Council meeting to order at 7 o'clock p.m. on Monday, September 15th. I certainly want to welcome all of you that are here with us this evening. If we could just take a moment for a solid meditation, please. Thank you. This evening I'm going to turn it over to Councilman Eddie Davis to introduce young men who are going to to be presenting. Well thank you Mr. Mayor. We are honored to have several members of Troop 137 from St. Joseph's AME Church on Fayetteville Street and they will lead us into pledge. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, another God. I don't know about Councilman Brown your job might be, unless you get a uniform you might be in Japan. Well we certainly appreciate it thank you. Ask the clerk or she will call the roll please. Mayor Bell. President. Mayor Pro Tem Co. McFadden. President. Council member Brown. Council member Cattati. Council member Davis. Council member Moffitt. And Council member Shul. This evening we have three proclamations to present. The first one, recognize National Disability Employment Awareness Month and I would ask the Mr. Hogan. Manager of Durham Parks and Recreation, Esther Coleman, Employment Program Coordinator, OEDWD, Marge Walters Clemens, Chair of the Mayor's Committee for Persons with Disabilities, Deborah Jowles, Director and Jennifer Lunsford Program Assistant, Equal Opportunity Equity Assurance Department if you would join us please at the podium. Whereas the month of October has been designated by the United States Congress as National Disability Employment Awareness Month, whereas Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and Washington Law against discrimination promote independence, empowerment and quality of life, whereas workplaces welcoming the talents of all people, including people with disabilities are a critical part of our efforts to build an inclusive community and strong economy, whereas we as we consistently work to break down barriers and work together to ensure that people with disabilities can participate fully in the workplace and all aspects of community life, whereas we must continue to work for a community where all individuals are respected for who they are, celebrated for their abilities and encouraged to realize their full potential and achieve their dreams, and whereas the City of Durham celebrates National Disability Employment Awareness Month through numerous events including Disabled the Label, an event hosted by the Durham Parks and Recreation and many partner agencies, and this is done on Saturday, October the 4th from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Holton Career and Resource Center, and an employee recognition program hosted by the Mayor's Committee for Persons with Disabilities to Honor Employers who hire persons with disabilities on Thursday, October the 23rd at 6 p.m. in the City Council Chambers. Now, therefore, I, William A. Bilbell, Mayor of the City of Durham, North Carolina, do hereby proclaim October 2014 as National Disability Employment Awareness Month in Durham, and hereby urge all to take special note of this observance by joining together and reaffirming our determination to achieve a society that affords independence, justice, and dignity for all. I witness my hand in court to serve the City of Durham, North Carolina. This is the 15th day of September 2014. Now I present this to Ms. Hogan. My name is Clemens. I'm the Chair for the Mayor's Committee for Person Disabilities. I would like to give honor and respect to our Mayor, William V. Bilbell, and our City Council members. Sincerely and graciously I want to say thank you to you and our manager, city managers, and department heads for your continued support of the Mayor's Committee for Persons with Disabilities. The committee has become more involved with the city and county departments, community, agencies, and outreach advocacy, who can assist us with getting the right information and resource out into the community, who has for this assistance. Thank you so much for your strong and hand support. We really appreciate it. Each and every day and every year you always do something for us. And I want to say to the community we have the best, the best Mayor and City Council. Thank you very much. God bless you. I'm Sarah Hogan. I'm a recreation manager with the City of Durham Parks and Recreation Department. And it's my pleasure to work in a city where people are valued, where people of all abilities, races, economic conditions are part of our community and the fabric of our lives here. The Parks and Recreation Department is very busy and this year I wanted to give you a few updates, hopefully very briefly, about what we've been working on. We continue to work with general services to ensure that our facilities are accessible, working to ensure that at least one of each type of facility, the ball fields, tennis courts, dog parks and fishing and boating areas are accessible. We'll soon be working with general services on the project out at Lake Mickey to make that peer and boating area accessible. We'll continue to work on ensuring that our information is accessible both to our public and to our staff and working with our marketing and public affairs staff to ensure that the message that all are welcome is clear. This summer, the summer of 2014, we served 64 children and youth youth and teens included into our traditional programs. These were youth that had disabilities or teens that had disabilities that were included in our traditional summer camps. In addition to that number of 64, we served an additional 39 youth and teens in our special programs camps. Now that number's down slightly from last year, but what we think is that as people become accustomed to being served, they don't necessarily identify themselves as often. So we are not at all concerned. We think we we're still doing an excellent job. And as we include people, they're just becoming part of the program and we don't necessarily identify them as as having a disability. We continue to adapt our programs and increase the assistance we offer to patrons toward traditional services, adapted aquatics toward traditional swim lessons, adapted fishing toward our community opportunities, like we mentioned, like Mickey's Peer being being upgraded. And the special program summer camps and after school programs, moving folks who are ready and willing to more traditional type school aged care programming. During our programs, we evaluate how we're doing and one of the questions we've been asking for the last year and a half is, if you have a special need, which requires an accommodation, was an appropriate one provided. And so we've been tracking that. And I'm pleased to say that our numbers continue to improve over time. Over the past six months, we've looked at our mature adult program evaluations. We had one person out of about 126. One person say they were disappointed with what we did with accommodating their needs. We had two that said we did a pretty good job. But there were still some things we should have done. We had 24 people say that they were happy that we gave them what they needed and they were pleased. We had 126 people who said they didn't really need an accommodation and therefore they didn't really need to answer the question. For our summer programs and this includes our events or summer camps or general programming, we had one person say they were disappointed. So the inclusion efforts or accommodation efforts that we were making didn't meet their needs. We had two people who said that yeah, we did some things that were right, but there were still more we we could have or should have done. We had 40 people say that yes, we provided well for their needs. And so we're real happy with those numbers. Certainly we have not arrived, but it's a good journey and we're on our way. The last thing, of course, is to make you aware that as I stood here last year and talked about some grants we received, we've used those funds. The arthritis foundation grant we got for Walk with Ease was a $4,000 grant. We got about this time last year. We rolled out the program in January and served 56 persons who had joint or mobility issues in that program. And the funds will allow us to continue to program into the future materials, staff training and our resources to continue to provide that service. This is the fifth year we've done a Challenger Flag Football League. And again, this year we got funding from the Carolina Panthers to provide those services and that actually kicked off last weekend. Lastly, as you've seen on the monitor, we're doing the Disabled Label event this weekend. And this is a name change. It was formerly Unity in the community. We had some confusion in the community about what that meant or who that was for. So we borrowed a name from someone else who gave it to us freely. It's Disable the Label. So we're going to Dis the Label and enable it. And that event is on Saturday, October the 4th from 11 to 2 at the Holton Career Resource Center. There's information in the back. If anyone would like to take that with you. It's a free event open to the public. And we just would love for you to join us. Thank you so much. Thank you. I guess that's just another indication of how we strive very hard to be a very inclusive community in all aspects. Our next proclamation is National Hispanic Heritage Month and Delilah Nolerson, the manager of Human Relations Division, Halloma, Vargas, Chair, Mayor's Hispanic Latino Committee. See available. I know Pilar is not here. She's the director of El Centro. She's out of the country. Rosalie Vaselli, Hernandez is a committee member. Annabel Rosa, also a committee member. And Maria Padilla, a committee member. Thank you. Sorry about that. The proclamation reads, whereas National Hispanic Heritage Month is celebrated from September 15th through October 15th. And as a time of celebration and appreciation of the rich cultural tradition and numerous contributions made in our communities. Whereas the theme for Hispanic Heritage Month 2014 is Hispanics, a legacy of history, a present of action, and a future of successes. Whereas we recognize the positive impact that our Hispanic communities have on the social, cultural, and economic development, statewide and nationwide. Whereas today, many Hispanic Americans are thriving, but others are still struggling to overcome obstacles, including language and cultural barriers, as well as discrimination. Whereas the City of Durham is committed to seeking to improve existing opportunities and to open new doors for Hispanic and Latino residents in the City of Durham. Now therefore, I, William V. Bilbell, Mayor of the City of Durham, North Carolina, do have our proclaiming September 15th, 2014 through October 15th, 2014 as National Hispanic Heritage Month in Durham. And here by urge all citizens to take special note of this observance. It witness my hand in corporate seal of the City of Durham, North Carolina. This is the 15th day of September 2014. I'm going to present this to Delilah and I'm sure she will introduce others. Thank you. Okay, thank you very much, Mayor Bell. I would like to turn this over to Yalima Vargas, who will provide a few brief remarks. Good evening, everyone. Thank you all of you for being here tonight. I would like to share something very short with you. In commemoration of the Hispanic, National Hispanic Heritage Month. I would like to thank the City Council and especially Mayor Bill Bell for this proclamation. Although there is so much work to get done towards the growth and integration of the Hispanic, Latino community in Durham, it is clear that the city is working diligently to change our shortcomings and to build our strengths as a city and more importantly, as a community. Although frustrating at times, change always takes time. Patience, but most of all, a clear and strong sense of unity and purpose for the common good. I'm here tonight to celebrate with my colleagues and with each of you the contributions that the Hispanic, Latino community has provided to the great nation over the years, which is the United States. We're very proud to be part of this community and we want to continue being part of this great community. This is what diversity is really about. Tonight and with this proclamation, we must welcome integration, respect, fairness, growth, and of course, a lot of colors. And no, an easy task many times for sure, but a great challenge for a vibrant and proud city such as Durham. I thank you one one more time for your time and for opening to a great diversity and a great, great opportunity for Durham. There is a lot to be done, like I said before, but I'm very proud being part of the city. I'm proud being Latina, but also I'm proud being a Durham resident. I also want to thank everyone who came tonight with us, Jose Allegria representing the Central Hispanic as well. And thank you so much. Have a great night. And at this time, I would like for each one of the participants to just give their name and the agency that they're with and also the country that they represent. I am Maria Ines Roballo from Colombia and I am a community member. I am Annabel Rosa. I am an attorney working and living in Durham and originally from Puerto Rico. Good evening, everyone. Jose Allegria from Mexico, social worker working with Central Hispanic. Rosa Lebo-Cherri, I'm from Puerto Rico. I'm working in the city of Durham in parks and recreation. Okay. And lastly, we would like to just make you aware of Hispanic Latino events that are going on in the city. The city of Durham Human Relations Division of the NIS department will celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month on Wednesday, October the 15th from 12 noon to 1 30 p.m. And the program will take place in the committee room upstairs here in City Hall. And you're all invited to attend. If you plan to attend, you will need to RSVP no later than October the 10th by calling our office at 919-560-4107 or you can email Juanita English at Juanita.English at DurhamNC.gov. And I like to call Rosa Lea. Talk about her story a bit. Yes, we would like to invite all of you for the Latino festival is going to be held in Rob Quarry Park. This upcoming this Saturday night, the next one on September 27 12 to 5 p.m. in Rob Quarry Park 701 Stadium Drive, live music and entertainment featuring Tercer Divisa, Orquesta Cache, Estrellas Calintanas, and Flamenco Vivo. We will invite all of you to be with us and dance with us. Thank you. This is a good night. Another example of the city trying to be as inclusive as possible in all aspects. Last, I'd like to present a proclamation recognizing schoolhouse of wonder. And I would ask Mike Gully, chairman of the Board of Schoolhouse of Wonder, and Wendy Tonker, the executive director they would both join me if you don't mind. Thank you. The proclamation reads, whereas October 5, 2014 marks the 25th anniversary of schoolhouse of wonder, serving families in the city of Durham, where schoolhouse of wonder leverages hands on nature based adventures to nurture children to become their most kind, curious and confident selves, where schoolhouse of wonder engages 4,000 children ages three through 17 each year through their three principal program areas. They are outdoor day camps, outdoor field trips and leadership training, where schoolhouse of wonder programs are anchored in their core values, those core values being modeling and teaching self awareness and empathy, celebrating individuality. Difference is just a different witnessing, hearing and respecting each person, appreciating nature as the best classrooms and sending every kid home dirty, tired and happy, where schoolhouse of wonder introduces thousands of children and their families each year to the beauty of the Eno River and teaches them the importance of preserving our community's natural resources, whereas the city of Durham Department of Parks and Recreation has served as a vital partner with schoolhouse of wonder since 1989, whereas anyone so desired can learn more about schoolhouse of wonder by visiting its website at www.schoolhouseofwonder.org. Now, therefore, I, William V. Billville, Mayor of the City of Durham, North Carolina do have our proclaim October 5th, 2014 as schoolhouse of wonder day in the city of Durham, and hereby urge all citizens to take a special note of schoolhouse of wonder's contributions to our community and to participate in these programs. And witness my hand, the Court of the City of Durham, North Carolina, this is the 15th day of September 2014. I'm going to present this to Mike and the comments that you might have. On behalf of the Board of Directors, I like to thank Mayor Bell, members of the City Council and citizens of Durham for supporting schoolhouse of wonder. We'd also like to encourage, acknowledge the vision and commitment of our founders, Dave Cook and Wayne Poole, and our first Executive Director, Karen Kelly, and recently retired Park Manager, Beth Highley for the sacrifices they made to establish a strong foundation upon which we are built. We feel very fortunate to have such a strong collaboration with the City of Durham, especially with the Department of Recs, Recs, Department of Rec and Parks and Recreation for our entire 25 years of service. We would especially like to thank Rhonda Parker, the Director of the Parks and Rec creation department for your effective leadership and for being such a supportive partner. We look forward to the many more years of serving the community together. Thank you, Mike. And thank you, Mayor and City Council. We are excited with this partnership because the City of Durham is all about partnerships and because we can't serve everyone by ourselves and we have here a similar mission to introduce young people to nature and especially at our beautiful West Point on the City Park, West Point on the Enos City Park. So we're excited to continue this partnership with School House of Wunder and we're excited that you're celebrating your 25 years of existence. And I like to introduce to you Wendy Tonker, who is the Executive Director and has been the Executive Director since 2011. Thank you, my name is Wendy Tonker. I'm the Executive Director at School House of Wunder. I'd like to thank Miss Parker, Mr. Ford, who's the current Park Manager at West Point on the Eno Mayor Bell and City Council members for your support of School House over the last 25 years. We love being outside with kids. There's nothing we love more and kids are spending less and less time outside today than they did when I was younger and perhaps when some of you were younger. We one of our points of emphasis over these past few years is to reach a broader spectrum of kids from also socio economic walks of life. And I'm really pleased to share that just this year so far we've been able to with the support of mostly individual donors from Durham offer more than 40 week long camp scholarships to children from Durham and the surrounding area. And with ongoing support from the city and the mayor and parks and recreation, we look forward to extending that reach well beyond 50 each and every year into the future. So thank you for your support. We're looking forward to the next 25 years. Mr. Mayor, while you're taking your seat, I'll say that my daughter has attended some of the camps at School House of Wonder and they do indeed send them home tired, dirty and happy. That's great. I was impressed when when they got up to speak, she had these little notes and I said she go read that because I have big letters but you did it from hard so you didn't have to use your notes. That's what I was impressed with. If you had read those things I said wow they got good eyes too. Okay, let me ask other priority items about the first body deputy city manager. Mr. Mayor, the manager has no priority items this evening. Likewise, city attorney. Thank you, Mr. Mayor, no priority items and likewise, Madam city clerk, no items. Mr. Mayor, if I can get my system working here, I guess we can get started. Are they announced by members of the council recognize Councilman Moffitt? Yes, I want to take the opportunity tonight to actually two things sort of spontaneously. The first is that we recently had a number of promotions in the police department and I want to acknowledge all the people who were promoted but in particular the former captain Sarvis who is now assistant chief Sarvis who's here and just congratulate you and it's good to see you. And also I just want to take a moment and say that one of the things I love about Durham does so many people doing so many different things and many of them doing them quietly and one of them is here tonight and has no idea that I was going to say this but he was in a peace corps, I don't know, two decades ago or longer in Africa and Sierra Leone and during the Civil War he lost contact with the village that he'd been with. He worked hard to make contact with them again and he's started a non-profit called Africa Yes. And through that non-profit mostly to his own, his own efforts and his own, you know the finances of himself and his family, he's worked to provide support for the village and even now when they're now working for, you might have seen an article in the paper about Ebola and the village itself is going out and working in the region and they're getting support on like manuals and what to do through the contacts that Steve Cameron, Steve's here and I just wanted to acknowledge him and thank him for the work that he's doing for the world. Thanks. Thank you. Recognize the mayor Projom. I just want to acknowledge again the achievement of a young woman from Durham, North Carolina. Her name is Elmira Mangum. She was reared in Waltown, is a product of the Durham City Schools, is a graduate of the great university called North Carolina Central, right here in Durham. She is going to be inaugurated on my birthday, a national holiday, October 3rd at Florida A&M University. What an honor it is and what I want to do is to somehow make October 3rd her day in Durham and I'm going to try to go to Tallahassee as a representative of her city on that special day. So we'll need to make that happen. We are just so blessed that this is happening to Elmira and other women who are heading or leading universities. Dr. Sunders White at the NCCU and the young woman who, for More House, Mayor Bill, who's at Elizabeth City State University. She's also from Howard. Howard, excuse me, excuse me, excuse me, so she's called a school student. No, I'm not aware of that. Okay, but anyway, it's just blessed to see women leading universities and they are going to be much greater than they've ever been. I can feel it. Thank you, sir. You're quite welcome. And since you've mentioned that, I'd like to recognize Councilman Davis because he has a relationship with this young lady from the Congress. You might want to tell him what your relationships are. Well, Mayor Pro Tim has known her a lot longer, but she is an inlaw. She's my wife's first cousin. If not, we proceed with the consent agenda. As usual, I'll just read each heading and if someone pulls it either on the City Council or on the public, we will discuss it later. Item one is the approval of City Council Minutes. Item two is Derm Open Space and Trails Commission Appointments. Item three is the Derm Housing Authority Board of Commissioners' Appointment. Item four is Audit Services Oversight Committee Appointment. Item seven is the award of Dedicated Housing Funds to Vermillion Homestead LLC and 60-Unit Affordable Rental Town Home Community. Item nine is the North Crown Department of Transportation Scheduled A and Scheduled B Municipal Agreements. Item 10 is Resolution Authorizing City Auction. Item 11 is Selection of Third-Part Administer for Workers' Compensation and General Liability Adjusters. Item 12 is Third Amendment to Assignment Agreement between the City of Durham and Durham Bulls Baseball Club for the operation of the Durham Athletic Park. Item 13 is FY 2015 Contract between the City of Durham and Center for Documentary Studies. Item 14 is Greater Durham Chamber of Commerce Legacy Foundation Grant Project Ordinance. Item 15 is 2014, 2016, Job-Driven National Emergency Grant Project Ordinance. Item 13 is Acceptance of a Grant from the North Carolina Course Council. Item 20 is an item that can be found on the General Business Agenda. Item 21 is an item that can be found on the General Business Agenda as a public hearing. I'll entertain a motion for the approval of Consent Agenda items as read. It's been properly moved by Mayor Pro Tem, seconded by Councilman Cattiding. Madam Clerk, will you open the vote? Close the vote. It passes 7-0. Moving to the General Business Agenda, 2014, Second Quarter Crime Summary Report. Good evening, Mr. Mayor. Mayor Pro Tem, ladies and gentlemen of the Council, City Attorney, my name is Larry Smith and I'm here to present the Second Quarter Report, which is also the first six months of the 2014 and I'm the Deputy Chief of Operations. This report covers the Department's six performance measures. This report covers the Department's six performance measures, violent crime, property crime, Part 1 index crime, clearance rates, response times, priority 1 calls, and staffing levels. The Executive Summary also includes additional information about significant accomplishments and highlights during the First Quarter. First we'll talk about Part 1 violent crime, which includes homicide, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault. Part 1 violent crime is up 30% from this time in 2013. However, homicides are at a three year low. Part 1 violent crime accounted for approximately 15% of all Part 1 crime during the first six months of 2014. The numbers that go along with that are as follows. Homicide is down 23%, rapes up 11%, robberies up 7%, and aggravated assault up 50%, for a total increase of violent crime over the first six months of 2013 of 30%. The rise in violent crime has been driven by a 50% increase in the number of reported aggravated assaults. There have been an upsurge in the number of shootings into occupied homes and vehicles this year. In many cases, there were multiple potential victims. Our aggravated assault statistics are calculated by the number of victims, not the number of incidents. The number of incidents has actually risen 32% while the number of victims is up 50%. Our violent incident response team investigates all instances involving shooting into residences and vehicles. They gather intelligence to help investigators learn more about motives and possible suspects, and to assist district commanders in targeting patrol areas. We also work closely with our federal ATF task force to file federal gun charges when appropriate. Next is Part One Property Crime, which includes burglary, larceny and motor vehicle theft. Property crime is up 8% over the first six months of 2013. However, motor vehicle theft is at a three-year low. Part One Property Crime made up approximately 85% of all Part One crimes during the first half of 2014. Larceny is accounted for more than half or 52% of all Part One crime. And the numbers that go along with that are as follows. Burglary is up 16%, larceny is 6%, motor vehicle theft down 15% for an increase in property crime of 8% over the first six months of 2013. For a total index crime increase in the first six months of 11%. We are continuing to do our residential awareness program to focus on residential burglaries. Excuse me, shoplifting accounted for 29% of our larceny during the first six months of the year. We have one investigator who focuses on shoplifting who works closely with other investigators across the Toronto area. Recently, many of our commanders also met with the management of some of the locations where many of our shoplifting are occurring. Larceny is from vehicles and vehicle parts and accessories make up approximately 37% of our larceny. We continue to encourage people not to leave items such as purses and electronics in plain view in their vehicles. Next is clearance rates. Our clearance rates for the first six months of 2014 are above the FBI national average for cities in all categories except aggravated assault and overall violent crime. The lower than average aggravated assault clearance rate calls to drop in the violence crime clearance rate. We recently met with our investigators to focus on what may be causing this drop in clearance of especially aggravated assault. We're looking at issues such as repeat offenders, lack of cooperation by victims and investigators case load. Next is response to priority one calls. There were 5,375 priority one calls from July 1st, 2013 through June 30th, 2014. We did not meet our target of responding to 57% of priority one calls in under five minutes. Rather, we responded to 52.4% in under five minutes. We did not meet our target of 5.8 minute average response time. Rather, our average response time was 5.95 minutes. Next is staffing levels. Our sworn ranks are fully staffed at this time. However, there are 24 operational vacancies. There are 14 non-sworn vacancies at the end of the second quarter. And there are currently 17 non-sworn vacancies. Finally, we'll move into some of the second quarter community events. I'd like to share photos from some of the many community events in which the Durham Police Department participated in the second quarter. On April 25th, also from the Durham Police Department attended the Durham County Special Olympics games at the Durham Academy Upper School. Officers cheered on and encouraged the athletes. Also on May 29th, also from the Durham Police Department in North Carolina Central University, participated in the law enforcement torch run to raise money for the North Carolina Special Olympics. The route covered 11 miles from Durham Police Headquarters to Glenwood Avenue to Briar Creek Parkway. This year, the Police Department raised more than $5,800 for the North Carolina Special Olympics through the torch run and the April 11th cops on top event at Chick-fil-A Restaurants at Hillsborough Road and Rocksborough Road. Also, our District 3 officers held a mental health awareness and child safety, celebrate life, celebrate community event on May 31st at Forest Hills Park. Several agencies provided mental health and safety information, and there were food and games for everyone. The event was a successful partnership between the Police Department and the community and also for Michael Antonides, Neighborhood Port Folio Exercise Project. Officers from District 4D and members of our Citizens Observer Patrol met with residents at Common Grounds Meeting at Coinenia Coffee House on South Miami Boulevard. This provided a relaxed setting for officers and residents to get to know each other better. Also, in the second quarter we began what we call our conversations with congregations. In June, several members of the Police Department spoke with more than 100 members of the River Church about the Durham Police Department's many community outreach programs and initiatives. And finally, Project Safe Neighborhood started to launch its Citizen's Strong Durham Campaign at the end of the second quarter. The campaign highlights the critical role of community members in reducing violent crime in our city. We hope that through a variety of easy to implement strategies, citizens can decrease property crime and even more importantly violent crime. Some of these crime prevention tips have included reporting graffiti to the Durham Impact Team, talking with parents and friends about crime safety. We encourage you to engage with your children, call 911 to report suspicious activity and to get them to know your neighbors. And this concludes the report and also you have an executive summary and I'll entertain any questions that you may have. Thank you, Chief. I recognize first the Mayor Pro Tem. Thank you for that report. Yes, ma'am. Throughout the city I am receiving reports from citizens about gunshots. What can be done to lessen the occurrence? As far as... What are we doing? What are you doing? Well, education is the most important key to lessen gunshots. We deal with celebratory gunfire in particular when it comes around the holidays. But our concern is those gunshots that result in somebody being shot or something being shot. And that's where it's important in our investigations when we make a rest and also for our citizens to call out. Unfortunately, I think it's gotten all too commonplace in some places that some neighborhoods hear gunshots and they don't call. And so we encourage everyone, if you hear what you think is gunshots in your neighborhood to call. Because we don't know what that will be until we get down there. I noticed an increase in my own neighborhood because my neighbors were sharing that information. And Larry, excuse me, Chief, can I have... let me have the non-emergency to make sure my people get that. Five, six, zero. Right. Four, six, zero, zero. Four, six, zero, zero. Yes, ma'am. Yeah. It's becoming a real problem. Yeah. And oftentimes when we do one, I think sometimes people reluctant to call, especially in certain neighborhoods, they think it might be fireworks. But it could be gunshots. And so it was so called. Yeah, well, they saw some shells. Well, then that was definitely firearms. Okay. Thank you. Chief, can I have one more time again on the violent crime? I mean, obviously it's not moving in a direction at least that I'd like to see. I don't think anyone else would. And I understand this is a six month report. It is. So in terms of trending, we're almost into third quarter and our fourth quarter, I guess. Close to it. Close to it. What is it looking like? Well, we're trending in the right direction. I mean, obviously we're concerned about these numbers as well, but as of September 6, our violent crime statistics was rather than 30%, it's up to 2.98. So under 23. Property up 5.63 and so forth. Index crime increase of 7.9 rather than 11. So we're moving in the right direction as it relates to this report. We have made a couple of significant arrests. We've seen and after one of those arrests in particular that I won't share here because we're still following up on some information. We've seen a drastic decrease in the number of victims. We're hoping to get some more information from that particular arrest. It can help us possibly clear some others. Could you go back again and just repeat how aggravated assaults have counted when you say victims? I mean, well, you can go and tell what that means. Yes, sir. So how an aggravated assault is counted if somebody fired a shot through that window right there and anyone in this room who could have been hit by that round, that's that many number of victims. So maybe not you all, but everybody sitting here including myself so that would be 35 aggravated assaults. That's not happening that often, but what is happening is someone fires a round into a house or shoots at a house. There's four or five people in there. That's five aggravated assaults. So it's counted by the potential victim, not by the incident. And it's potential victims. That's not necessarily someone who's gotten hit. That's right. Potential victims. If no one got hit in the house, if the round comes through and no one got hit and five people got hit, that's helpful to clarify when you see a number like. Well, it's not just we've got a little bit of a troubling trend going on in North Carolina and I don't know about around the country with it just seems that's the way to deal with conflict today is to go shoot a house up and you've probably seen some of the stories recently in Wilson and some of the other areas that has experienced the same thing. Unfortunately, where a child was hit. But we're concerned about it. The moment that happens we send our violence and response team out to that residents that got shot and found out who's there, who lives there, what may have caused it and more importantly where might there be some retaliatory violence as a result of it. Let's go back to the community involvement. I know we consistently say that a deal with a crime is not going to be solved by law enforcement alone. You've got to have the community involved. Do you have any indication as to how many neighborhoods are signing up for a project safe neighborhood? Do we have any goals or just where I don't have that with me? Mr. Mayor, I could get that from Jennifer Schneider and she could provide that information for us. But I'm not sure. I do know that we're doing go out making many outreaches to neighborhoods and we're also starting to engage a lot of the churches. The conversation with congregations I spoke about came directly from the churches. We were setting up many things and asking them to come to us. But at a luncheon that myself said, how about you all come to us rather than we're coming to you? And so we did that and we're just trying to get that information out about the partnership what we need from the community as it relates to cooperating mainly in conversations with the district attorney and some of the ADAs. The biggest challenge we're having in solving some of our violent crime is victim and witness cooperation. And so we're just really trying to encourage folks to call 9-1-1 and work with us if you see something or hear something. We encourage victims and sometimes that's a real challenge. You know maybe we need to have a campaign. Is your neighborhood involved in projects except neighborhood? You know maybe we ought to have some goals in terms of how many neighborhoods we want to sign up. I just give that some thought. It's one thing to go out and as you said but I think if you've got some targets that you know you want to shoot for then you as well as get involved. I mean I just got an invitation to a neighborhood I think sometime in October they want me to come up because they're getting ready to organize some neighborhoods. I just think maybe we need a strong campaign encouraging neighborhoods to get involved in projects safe neighborhood and maybe we ought to set some goals. This is what we'd like to do. I think that's the goal of the citizens strong and I can check with Jim. That's fine. I might be asking a question to recognize Councilman Davis and Councilman Cotati. Thank you Mr. Mayor. I'd like to ask you Smith who is coordinating the conversations with congregations? Well it's coming through Jennifer Schneider again a project safe neighborhood and she's had several partner churches that have been very involved with her over the last several years. Some aren't but some are and so those ones that have said look we're willing to cooperate and have shown that by their action what they've done other than us going to them with the topic they pick the place which is generally their church and they say this is can you come this date and we say yes of course they feed us which is always good but we ask them what do you want to know about and it's an open discussion you can ask us anything you want to ask us and it's going real well we did the river we've done Christian assembly and I think we're going to be doing every other month what's going on and everything's on the table talk about anything they want to talk about that's councilwoman Katani thank you mayor thank you chief for this report and especially for the clarification I think that's really helpful I wanted to raise an issue I saw in the executive summary report it was on the car seat safety check and the note was that 89% of the car seats that were checked were incorrectly installed it's an alarming figure are we partnering with anyone to do some educational outreach what we do our traffic accident control team have officers that are specifically trained because the reality is most people's car seats are not installed properly and at least a couple times a year we do a big education campaign and let them know where those officers are and you can come by and the officer will put your car seat in for you and show you how it's supposed to be put in so it's put in for you question chief your department participates in the neighborhood college right yes ma'am do you talk about project safe neighborhoods or neighborhood watch just getting them involved and using that as a tool we do I do that presentation to the city college and to neighborhood college and yes but we don't have a lot of time we do and we enforce that as far as how do you get involved you talk about that yes ma'am well I'm willing to yield a minute of my time I think that's really important and you're referring to the city college correct yeah recognize councilman shul thank you Mr. Mayor and thank you for explaining about the aggravated assaults because I know I'm sure it's troubling to you all of it is to us and it does seem like it's something very hard to get a handle on and I can also see why it's hard to clear if you don't know who's doing it and somebody's kind of anonymously shooting into a house I can see why that's very hard to clear and I appreciate what you said about trying to think about how to clear them I think this is something I accept that aggravated assault category at least in terms of the numbers this is new in the past couple reports and so I appreciate you all trying to get a handle on it I know it's difficult I wanted to mention one thing that's not in your report but I've heard some very complimentary things from several people about how you all handle the recent situation with the protesters both appropriate firmness and appropriate patience and so I just wanted to pass that on thank you how are you keeping the medical vehicle theft down I mean what is it that you all are doing that's improving that situation well quite frankly I'd have to say I think in that particular category we're just fortunate this year but having said that let me say this we did also find out our crime analysis in Virginia and we found that moped are a pretty large percentage of our motor vehicle theft because we have a lot of colleges here and a lot of people ride moped and so what they did they went in and looked at the density of moped theft and they picked out a couple areas we've let the district commanders know about that done some things so we could have a crime analysis and they're always looking for ways that we can deal with issues and so they recognize that if we can keep our motor vehicle our moped theft down we affect our motor vehicle theft as a whole but that is a new program I can't say it's what's called this but that reminds me and I just had this in my notes present to the public one of your comp stat sessions without the the names of people I just think that the kind of thing you just mentioned is the kind of thing that our public would be very impressed by and the work that you are doing in comp stat and the kind of crime analysis that you are doing and the specificity of the actions that you're taking district by district and the way very specific situations I think is I know it would be difficult but there might be a way in which you all could present that and if you can I just think it would be great for our public to see the level of your the level of kind of brain power that's applied to this so just want to mention it thank you we have mentioned that to try to do a sanitized comp stat I think we can and that is something we're talking about doing have another question which category would include misdemeanor drug arrests of the type we've been hearing about and discussing lately at city council I was thinking would that be under all other offenses I don't know if you've got that in front of you there chief on the executive summary there's a chart I do have in front of me is it page 4 of the executive summary is what I've written down in my notes mine's not numbered I'm sorry is it a blue chart does it look like this okay yeah that's it so it would be part 2 of offenses January to June 2014 and I'm sorry your question was what again the question is where would we find the misdemeanor drug arrests of the type that we've been hearing about and discussing lately at city council I was thinking it was probably under all other offenses it would be under all of it of course you got drug violations there and they could include that and then the just wanted to say that reading the executive summary is as always is sobering and you all do very difficult work to keep us safe and it's very much appreciated and again I think if people could read this they would realize that the detective work the drug interdiction and the kind of good old fashioned police work I was in addition to those proactive work on things like getting the apartment security codes together I mean there was just so much in here and I appreciated it and I think those are all my comments so thank you very much thank you Steve I'll just take a break you fool Mayor said he wanted me to talk a little bit longer Chief Smith alright thank you Chief I'm sorry I didn't recognize councilman I just wanted to follow up on the comment about the crime analysis unit the as my colleagues know and a lot of other people know the Department of Justice had a team here recently working on gun crime violent crime and interviewed many of us but the first thing that the interviewer said Chief said I've been over I've seen that crime analysis unit that you have here and I just need to tell you that it's one of the things that we need to work that they're doing I can tell you from the office of the chief we recognize that they do a fabulous job and they give us information that sometimes we don't even think about asking for but that's that's what you want in the crime analysis unit they do a great job so thank you okay thank you next is the general business agenda public hearings I am 21 as evening steve medlin with the Durham city county planning department I'd like to first certify for the council that all notifications have been carried out in accordance with law and affidavits to that in fact are a part of the case file this item is three separate actions by city council related to the annexation of the stone gate reserve site the subject 3.79 acre site is located on the south side of stone gate drive east of Randolph road adjacent to the existing city limits the site is located on the south side of Randolph road adjacent to the site the public works department has performed utility impact analysis and determined adequate water and sewer services are available secondly a voluntary petition for contiguous annexation has been submitted by the property owner for the site the budget management services department has performed a fiscal impact analysis based on recommendation and then finally pursuant to the state law the city council is required to apply an initial zoning to the newly annexed area staff is recommending an initial zoning of rs 20 which is a direct translational zoning from the current county zoning but also consistent with the city council's policy designating the least intensive zoning district based on the tier regulations LLC and to adopt an ordinance to annex the 3.79 acres of Stonegate reserve and establish the rs 20 zoning designation the second motion is to adopt a consistency statement as required by NC general statute 160 a 383 staff is recommending that the council approve the extension agreement voluntary annexation initial zoning for Stonegate reserve and the associated consistency may have. Thank you. You've heard the staff report. This is a public hearing declared public hearing to be open. I would ask first order questions by members of the council of the staff report. Hearing none is anyone in the audience that wants to speak on this item. This has been a public hearing item. No one has signed up to speak about them. Is anyone in the audience that would like to speak on this item. I thought you said items. I know what you said, but you said item item. We'll have to do the separate. Just for clarity sake, because it's a new statute, I think you can do two separate motions. I know it's a little cumbersome, but we're just not quite sure what the statute, the way the statute reads, you need to do two completely separate motions. You help me with the wording, and I will be happy to do the first one. I move that we adopt an ordinance annexing Stonegate Reserve case BDG 14-0-0-6 into the city of Durham Effective September 30th, 2014. It needs to be all three component pieces. Utilities, extension, annexation, and initials. To authorize the city manager to make a one-time debt service, paying for the new volunteer fire department to adopt the ordinance of many of the United Development, the unified development ordinance established by the regional suburb in our S-20s owning of the property and to adopt a consistency statement to just the first rate. He stopped it. He stopped it the third one. Yes. Yes, I stopped it the third one as you move. Thank you. Is that it? Second. I was motion made by Councilman Schultz, seconded by the Mayor Pro Tem. Any further questions? If not, Madam Clerk, will you open the vote? Close the vote. It passes 7-0. Recognize Councilman Cattardi. Yeah, I move that we adopt a consistency statement as required by NCGS 160A-383. It's been properly moved by Councilman Cattardi, seconded by the Mayor Pro Tem. Any further questions? Hearing none, call the question. Madam Clerk, will you open the vote? Close the vote. It passes 7-0. Can you hold that screen there just for a minute? Yes. A lot of times I get a question from when I get home, out in the street, whatever. They don't always see all green votes. Can you explain, Madam Clerk, what happens? Yes, if a Council member is present and they do not actually push their button to vote, their vote is counted as a yes. Thank you. We've got time, so I figure I'll fill it a little bit. If it's no further. I'm going to close the public hearing. If it's, you don't have anything else. The public hearing has been closed again. I recognize Councilman Shul. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I just had a question for the Deputy City Manager. For the, several people have asked me, and it was my understanding that we will be discussing the Manager's Human Relations Commission recommendations on Thursday. I hadn't seen it on the work session agenda, but I just want to make sure that was going to, that's going to come up for us on Thursday. Yes, sir. It will be scheduled, Mr. Shul, and I'll check to see about the distribution and why that's not been sent to you yet. It certainly should have been. It may be that it just hadn't been sent yet, but it just was checking in. Yes, sir. Okay, thank you very much. We'll be prepared. Yes, sir. Yes, ma'am. We'll see you to it. Who for adjournment? We're straight. Any further business coming forward to Council? If not, the Council is adjourned at 8.01 p.m. Thank you. You know, excuse the absent.