 Good evening. We'd like to call the Durham City Council meeting to order Thursday, March the 6th at 4.30 p.m. And certain want to welcome all of you here as you may or may not know We had to counsel the City Council meeting scheduled City Council meeting this past Monday And as a result we are holding it this evening. We had meetings earlier today to work session and closed session So we're here this evening to begin the meeting We take a moment of silent meditation, please Thank you. Ask Councilman Brown if he would lead us in the pledge. He's our world traveling Mayor Bell Mayor pro-temco McFadden council member Brown council member cattati Council member Davis council member Moffitt and council member shul Let me ask whether any council announcements To announce that it is leading outside and that we do need to move as quickly as we can with this meeting for the safety of our Staff and of course ourselves We don't have any ceremony items these southern high school football team will be at our March 17th council meeting for recognition What I sort of prior to this about a city manager Good afternoon, mr. Mayor and members of the city council We do have a few priority items this afternoon agenda item number 22 the Durham police departments 2013 annual summary crime report We would like to present that today and the following items are being deferred to March 17 2014 and Those would be public hearing items Agenda item number 15 public hearing on the 2014 2015 fiscal year budget and the fiscal year 2015 2020 capital improvement plan agenda item number 16 Consolidated annexation item 54 Plaza and Agenda item number 17 zoning map change Beth page village revisions Z 130 0 0 0 3 0 For the managers prior to items and can you motion? It's been proper to move the second madam clerk. We open the vote close the vote It passes 70 likewise city attorney for prior to items. Thank you, mr. Mayor. No priority items likewise city clerk No items. Mr. Mayor will move the agenda because some agenda items come first if a Item is removed from the council from the agenda discussed later in the meeting either by a council person or Someone in the public and again, I'll just read the heading of each one of the consent agenda items Item 1 is approval of city council minutes item 2 is Durham City County Appearance Commission appointments Item 3 is Durham Open Space and Trails Commission Appointment item 4 is the Durham Planning Commission Appointment Item 5 is street and infrastructure Acceptances item 6 is controls of inventory tools and safety materials performance audit I'm seven is proposed acquisition of fee simple rights away and easements for Carver Street extension project I had made his amendment number three for professional service for the Durham Parks and Recreation Operations Facility with ratio architects Inc. I Am nine is professional services contract SD 2013-03 third for treat stream restoration Item 10 is contract SD 2013-04 routine ditching and pipe replacement Item 11 is contracts SW 33 2013 Garrett Road Sidewall Construction project I'm 12 is no crown of the Department of Transportation schedule C and schedule D municipal agreements Item 13 is FY 2013 2014 second quarter financial report and items 15 through 17 items that can follow the general business agenda public hearings and Item 19 is an item that can be found on the general business agenda or entertain a motion for the approval of consent agenda It's been properly moved in second Madam clerk. We open the boat Close the boat It passes seven is zero We move to the general business agenda item 19 action, North Carolina entertain a motion on that item It's been properly moving second Madam clerk. We open the boat close the boat It passes seven is zero General business agenda public hearings item 15 public hearing on FY 2014 2015 physical year budget physical year 2015 20 cap 2020 capital improvement plan that's been deferred and Item 16 again as a public hearing item consolidate annexation item dash 54 plaza that's been deferred and I'm 17 zoning map change Beth page Beth Pades Village revision Z 13 0 0 0 3 0 has been deferred and We move to the supplemental items item 22 Durham police departments 2013 annual summary crime report Recognize chief Lopez Thank you Mr. Mayor Council city manager's office city attorney's office Tonight today. I want to discuss the Durham police departments 2013 Crime information and highlights this report covers the department six performance measures violent crime property crime Part one index crime clearance rates response to priority one calls and staffing levels The executive summary also includes additional information and significant accomplishments in 2013 2013 the Durham police department earned the procedures go standard accreditation from the Commission on accreditation from law enforcement Chicksalia at that time the Durham police department was the only desized agency law enforcement agency with more than 300 Personnel in it in North Carolina to receive the accreditation The police department which has been Kalea accredited Since 1991 also received the Kalea notorious award for maintaining continuous accreditation for more than 15 years in October 2013 our forensics division services division became officially accredited in the area forensics inspection the unit received accreditation from the International Forensics Accreditation Agency and They're the first agency in the state to receive accreditation of the International Organization for standardization standards which are specific to inspection units are now used to certify crime scene units and The forensic services unit accreditation applies to the principles of crime scene investigations latent print processing as well as firearms examination one other significant highlight for 2013 was the reported robberies were at a 23 year low Investigators made numerous arrests to solve multiple robbery cases During 2013 several during police department programs and initiatives were featured at national conferences Our residential awareness program a rap program, which is a burglary prevention initiative in our use of intelligence led policing initiatives were featured at the fall Kalea conference our Mental health outreach program and the becoming program multi-agency initiatives will highlight it at the crisis intervention team international conference in Hartford, Connecticut You will find more about these programs in your executive summary part one violent crime dropped 6% from 1721 reported in 2012 to 1625 reported in 2013 the violent crime rate per 100,000 population was down 30% from the year 2000 robberies and aggravated assaults were both down in 2012 and as I mentioned earlier robberies were at 23 year low in 2013 violent crime homicide rape robbery and aggravated assault Made up just 13% of all part one index crimes Homicides and rapes combined made up approximately 1% of all part one crime This chart provides a look at part one violent crime statistics over a three-year period rapes although the number of reported rates increased by 40% That increase was due to a change in the FBI reporting standards, which went into effect January 2013 if we use the old rape definition the number of reported rapes were equal in 2012 and 2013 with 73 reported rapes in both years homicides there were 30 criminal homicides reported in 2013 in addition, there were two cases that were ruled as self-defense the 30 homicides included two officer involved cases one Murder suicide and one case that occurred in 2009 There are 12 open cases at this time Property crime was up by 6% From 2012 the increase was driven in large part by an increase in larcenies Which make up more than half percent of all the part one index crimes More than a third of the larcenies involved thefts from vehicles or thefts of vehicle parts Shoplifting accounted for approximately one quarter of all larcenies and 14% of all part one crimes This charge provides a look at the part one property crime statistics over a three-year period Property crimes were up in all three crime categories after part one property crimes were at a 24-year low in 2012 Although our burglaries rose slightly in 2013. They were below the three-year average Our residential awareness program the rap program Our burglary prevention initiative has continued to be an effective crime prevention program Part one index crimes for 100,000 were up by 3.8 percent in 2013 Largely as a result of an increase in larcenies Index crimes per 100,000 were down by 39.4 percent since the year 2000 There were decreases in robberies and aggravated assaults in 2013 This pie chart shows a breakdown of part one crimes in 2013 It clearly indicates that larcenies and burglaries account for more than 81 percent of all part one crime Violent crimes make up 13 percent of the reported part one crime The FBI clearance rates are for cities the size of Durham with populations of a hundred thousand to two hundred and fifty thousand The 2012 FBI statistics are the most current ones that are available The Durham Police Department's current rates for part one crimes were above the average clearance rates in all part one crime categories for our cities our size in 2012 the 2013 FBI clearance rates will not be available until later this summer Our sworn staffing positions were 99 percent full at the end of 2013 Currently our own sworn positions are fully staffed. We recently started a basic law enforcement training Academy be a Let we recently built with 26 recruits We have filled four additional non sworn positions in the last two months There were five thousand sixty seven priority one calls for service from January 1 2013 through December 31st 2013 Our target average response time is five point eight minutes We almost met that goal with the five point nine average response time Our goal is to respond to at least 57% of our priority one calls in under five minutes We did not meet that goal with almost 54% on summary this graph shows a significant decrease in the part one property and violent crime rates per 100,000 population in Durham since the year 2000 During 2013 holiday season our employees reached out to people in communities throughout the city and made extra efforts to enhance Safety and shopping centers and other busy areas Many employees use their money to buy and wrap gifts for the less fortunate They helped out with the annual shop with a fraternal order of police at target on Durham Chapel Hill Boulevard and The officers held the coat drives for residents of a housing community while community resource officers visited businesses Shopping centers throughout the city to share crime prevention advice One of the highlights of the season was the bicycle officers Morton and Kalia entertain in a appreciative audience During a special lunch at the hosiery mill apartments We'll end our presentation with a short video roll film They also won third place in the Raleigh's fundraiser for the police memorial Congratulations again on accreditation and to the trio that did the singing Sounds good Let me ask all the questions by the council recognized councilman Martha First I just want to comment that our agenda packet has two copies of the presentation, but not the summary So, you know, I did Someone wouldn't mind. I think it's just this you know, you know I think it was might have been the change of dates could have been we'll get that to you though We did to be great did complete it We didn't think we would be done with it by the end of this week, but we are Second, could you just quickly just say what the we've changed in the FBI reporting standards are regarding rape statistics? Oh It amounts to the definition of rapes as far as Statistics are concerned They expand they expanded the definition of rape to include additional victims of various forms of sexual assault So now where otherwise they wouldn't have been included as a rape case these other victims Now they are so it's just a change of the definition. Okay, and then I This is one that I probably shouldn't know what I need to ask if someone breaks into an Well robbery I assume is with that another individual, right? Taking the property of another by force. Okay, so if someone breaks into an occupied home That would be robbery. It'd be a burglary unless the encounter the No, that's exactly unless they encounter the Resident, okay, so depending on whether it's occupied whether they encounter the occupant right it moves from one category to another it could yes Okay, thank you Thank you I'd also let you know that I've been selected to attend the FBI's National Executive Initiative, so I'll be gone next week at the Quantico Attending the classes and that's cycle one. It's a two cycle course Thank you great Let me ask other other items that need to come before the council Okay, well, I guess I should again make the announcement that I made at the work session that on Mars the 19th we'll be following up with the Program and reducing poverty and they put by neighborhood and we have a meeting starting at 7 30 in the morning Until 10 o'clock and it will be at the Durham rescue mission And I have sent out letters to the persons and organizations that I've invited to that meeting certainly the council was welcome No further business meetings adjourn it for 49 p.m