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City council rep outlines $1.1M mitigation plan, mobile cameras and several ordinances; community meeting set after officer-involved shooting
Summary
Council Member Matias told the Measure P Oversight Committee on Sept. 8 that the city’s public-safety subcommittee is advancing a $1.1 million mitigation plan, mobile security towers and a security-guard contract, and that several ordinances will be discussed at the next council meeting.
Council Member Matias briefed the Measure P Oversight Committee on the city council’s public-safety activity and several items headed to council.
Matias said the council met once in August to approve operational gap funding for the Broadway project and that the council resumes regular meetings the following day. He said the council’s public-safety subcommittee — which he identified as council members Lehi Ju and Palmares and himself — had its initial meeting recently. The subcommittee discussed what Matias described as a "prime mitigation plan" for $1,100,000 that was put in place in early July.
Matias said the city received 19 applications for the summer block party program and that staff will present outstanding questions about the council’s gun-violence-prevention program for consideration in October. He also said the city will sign off on more mobile security camera towers for deployment across the city and that two towers already are in the Crest area.
On labor and contract issues, Matias said city staff reported they had completed the meet-and-confer process with labor unions on a proposed security-guard program and that staff expects to bring the contract to council for approval in the coming weeks.
Matias listed several ordinances slated for council discussion — items elevated by Council Member Palmares and others — including: consideration of a prostitution ordinance; a red-light abatement ordinance; an ordinance to change speed limits in business districts and near schools (described in the meeting as lowering a 25 mph limit to 15 mph); and an ordinance to create gun-violence restraining-order procedures modeled on a program Matias said had been implemented in San Diego.
When commissioners asked whether the Felton Group participated in subcommittee work, Matias said they did not attend this initial meeting but that he would follow up with staff about inviting them to future meetings.
Matias also announced a community meeting to discuss an officer-involved shooting at Blue Rock Village a few Fridays earlier. "We will be having a community meeting, at Jesse Bethel this Thursday, at 06:00," Matias said, and urged residents to attend to the extent police and staff can share information.
Matias said he would follow up with staff about a package of resolutions the committee had previously approved and report back on when those items will appear on the council agenda.
The committee did not take formal action on the council-reported items during this meeting; Matias presented the updates and fielded questions from commissioners.
