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Department of Neighborhoods describes neighborhood-based community safety program and new coordinator role
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Jennifer Chow, director of the Department of Neighborhoods, and Denise Colvin, the department—s newly named community capacity and safety manager, briefed the Library's Education and Neighborhoods Committee on July 24 about a city-supported, community-led portfolio of neighborhood safety projects.
Jennifer Chow, director of the Department of Neighborhoods, and Denise Colvin, the department—s newly named community capacity and safety manager, briefed the Library's Education and Neighborhoods Committee on July 24 about a city-supported, community-led portfolio of neighborhood safety projects. Chow said the department—s formal safety work began after the 2015 murder of Donnie Chin in the Chinatown-International District and the CID public-safety task force report released in February 2016; the city added funding in 2017 and 2018 and contracted the first CID public-safety coordinator in February 2019. The department described four contracted public-safety coordinator positions that are embedded in community-based organizations: the Chinatown-International District Business Improvement Area…
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