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AGENDA
City of Modesto
SAFETY &
COMMUNITIES COMMITTEE / WORKSHOP
Second Floor, Room 2005
Tenth Street Place, 1010
10th Street
Modesto, California
Monday, May 5, 2008, 5:30 p.m.
Roll Call: Will
O’Bryant, Chair
Brad Hawn, Vice Chair
Kristin Olsen
Alternates: Janice
Keating, Dave Lopez, Garrad Marsh, Jim Ridenour
Council has not delegated directive or final
approval authority to the Committees. Committee actions are recommendations
to the full City Council, not final decisions on an issue.
PUBLIC COMMENTS
Three minute time
limit per speaker
Only interested persons
in the audience may present these matters. Under State law, Councilmembers
may respond to matters being presented under this item only as follows:
a.
Briefly
respond to statements made or questions raised.
b.
Ask a
question for clarification.
c.
Provide a
reference to staff or other resources for factual information.
d.
Request
staff to report back at a subsequent meeting.
e.
Finally, a
Councilmember or the Council itself may take action to direct staff to place
a matter of business on a future agenda.
CONSENT ITEMS – ROLL
CALL VOTE REQUIRED:
None
Information concerning
the consent items listed below has been forwarded to each Committee Member
prior to this meeting for study. Unless some member of the audience or
Committee Member has a question concerning an item and asks that it be
withdrawn from the consent list, the Committee approves the items at one
time. The action taken by the Committee in approving consent items is set
forth in the explanation of this individual item.
Any and all of the
following agenda items are subject to action by the Safety & Communities
Committee.
CONSENT
An item may be removed
from consent and discussed at the request of an audience member or Committee
Member.
UNFINISHED BUSINESS
1.
Discussion of
enforcement mechanisms available for abating drug houses and whether a new
ordinance or amended ordinance is necessary requested by Councilmember Olsen,
and verbal update and presentation on the Police Department’s Special Services
Unit. (continued from April 7, 2008)
NEW BUSINESS
2.
Consider recommendation to approve a Joint Powers Agreement with
Stanislaus Drug Enforcement Agency to provide a coordinated multi-agency
specially trained police unit to assist each of the parties to enforce drug laws
and narcotics enforcement, forward to City Council for approval and authorizing
the City Manager, or his designee, to execute the agreement, which will replace
the Joint Powers Agreement dated September 15, 1999.
(Attachment)
3.
Discussion regarding recent gang violence and methods to preserve public
safety.
MATTERS TOO LATE FOR THE
AGENDA
These may be presented by members of the Committee and
staff upon determination by a majority vote that an emergency exists, as defined
by State law, or by a 2/3 vote that (1) there is a need to take immediate
action, and (2) that the need for action came to the City’s attention after the
agenda was posted.
FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS
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Status report on contents
of administrative citations and penalties ordinance
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LaLoma Neighborhood Security Enhancement Plan
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Increase to vehicle impound fees
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Senior Programs and Services update
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Annual collision report
for 2006
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Parks and Parks Security
ADJOURNMENT
Posted pursuant to Government Code Section 54954.2
on _______________________, 2008, at _________________
by_____________________________ on the bulletin board at Tenth Street Place.
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