Council awarded an $81,403 Hemlock Drive stormwater contract to Augustine Construction and sent a massage-parlor zoning change to the LDRB (Land Development Review Board).
12 items on the agenda · 7 decisions recorded
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- 1Call to Order – Roll Call▶ 0:00
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Pledge of Allegiance
The Mayor led the Pledge of Allegiance and a moment of silence in honor of servicemen and women.
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[00:00:17] Very good. [00:00:18] I'd like to ask you all to please stand and join me in the Pledge of Allegiance and remain [00:00:21] standing for a moment of silence in honor of our servicemen and women at home and abroad.
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Moment of Silence
Council observed a moment of silence in honor of servicemen and women at home and abroad, followed by the Pledge of Allegiance.
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[00:00:21] standing for a moment of silence in honor of our servicemen and women at home and abroad. [00:00:27] I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for [00:00:32] which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
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Approval of November 20, 2018 Regular Meeting Minutes
approvedCouncil approved the minutes from the November 20, 2018 Regular Meeting.
- motion:Approve the November 20, 2018 Regular Meeting Minutes. (passed)
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[00:00:43] Thank you. [00:00:44] You may be seated. [00:00:47] Next item on the agenda is the approval of the November 20th Regular Meeting Minutes. [00:00:52] To you and I, I guess, I'll move approval. [00:00:55] Second. [00:00:56] Very good. [00:00:57] I was hoping somebody would. [00:00:59] All those in favor, please signify by saying aye. [00:01:02] Aye. [00:01:03] Opposed? [00:01:04] Like sign. [00:01:05] Motion passes.
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- 5Vox Pop for Items Not Listed on the Agenda or Listed on Consent Agenda▶ 1:06
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Parks and Recreation Advisory Board Minutes - October 2018
approvedon consentThe Parks and Recreation Advisory Board minutes from October 2018 were approved as part of the consent agenda.
- motion:Approve the Parks and Recreation Advisory Board minutes for October 2018. (passed)
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[00:01:27] Move for approval. [00:01:28] Second. [00:01:31] All those in favor, please signify by saying aye. [00:01:34] Aye. [00:01:35] Opposed? [00:01:36] Like sign. [00:01:37] Motion passes.
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Library Advisory Board Minutes - October 2018
approvedon consentCouncil approved the Library Advisory Board minutes from October 2018 as part of the consent agenda.
- motion:Motion to approve the Library Advisory Board Minutes from October 2018. (passed)
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[00:01:27] Move for approval. [00:01:28] Second. [00:01:31] All those in favor, please signify by saying aye. [00:01:34] Aye. [00:01:35] Opposed? [00:01:36] Like sign. [00:01:37] Motion passes.
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Purchases/Payments for City Council Approval
approvedon consentCouncil approved purchases/payments as presented on the consent-style item.
- motion:Motion to approve purchases/payments for City Council approval. (passed)
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[00:01:27] Move for approval. [00:01:28] Second. [00:01:31] All those in favor, please signify by saying aye. [00:01:34] Aye. [00:01:35] Opposed? [00:01:36] Like sign. [00:01:37] Motion passes.
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2017 Hemlock Dr. Stormwater System Improvements - ITB No. 19-002 Bid Award
approvedCouncil approved awarding ITB No. 19-002 for the Hemlock Drive Stormwater System Improvements project to Augustine Construction Incorporated for $81,403. The project will construct a retention pond and drainage improvements on two city-owned properties to reduce repetitive flooding in the Heights neighborhood. SWFWMUD cooperative funding of $30,000 was approved toward the project.
- motion:Motion to approve award of low bid of $81,403 to Augustine Construction Incorporated for the Hemlock Drive Drainage Improvement Project. (passed)
5135 Hemlock Drive5143 Hemlock DriveAugustine Construction IncorporatedFDOTSWFWMUDMr. BakerMr. RiveraMs. Mann2017 Hemlock Drive Stormwater System ImprovementsHeights neighborhoodITB No. 19-002SWFWMUD cooperative funding▶ Jump to 1:38 in the videoShow transcriptHide transcript
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[00:01:38] Next, business item, 2017 Hemlock Drive Stormwater System Improvements. [00:01:43] Ms. Mann. [00:01:44] Mr. Rivera. [00:01:45] Thank you. [00:01:46] This request to staff for City Council is to consider for approval and award the attached [00:01:52] low bid in the amount of $81,403 from Augustine Construction Incorporated for the Hemlock [00:01:59] Drive Drainage Improvement Project. [00:02:02] If you recall, in 2014, City Council approved several residential property purchases for [00:02:09] stormwater drainage retentions where we had areas of repetitive flooding. [00:02:14] These two properties are the last two properties that we've yet to construct those ponds on. [00:02:20] The two properties are located at 5135 and 5143 Hemlock Drive in the Heights neighborhood [00:02:29] just north of Marine Parkway and east of US Highway 19. [00:02:35] The drainage improvements will be the construction of a retention pond, inlet improvements, overflow [00:02:42] structure, and a tie-in point at the existing FDOT storm system that's there now. [00:02:49] Now, while this project won't alleviate the flooding, it's labeled as a betterment project, [00:02:54] which means that it should considerably reduce the flooding frequencies as well as expedite [00:03:03] the time that water drains off the street. [00:03:06] Staff did apply for SWFMUD cooperative funding. [00:03:11] We were approved in the amount of $30,000 towards this project, and we would recommend approval. [00:03:18] Thank you. [00:03:19] Open it up for public comment. [00:03:22] Seeing no one come forward, bring it back to Council. [00:03:26] Move for approval. [00:03:28] Second. [00:03:29] Mr. Baker? [00:03:30] No, anything we can do to make progress on the stormwater and flooding is a good thing. [00:03:34] To the second. [00:03:36] No. [00:03:37] In that case, all those in favor, please signify by saying aye. [00:03:40] Aye. [00:03:41] Opposed, like sign.
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Three Minute Report: Police Department
Police Chief delivered a three-minute report highlighting department performance metrics: a 45.2% increase in arrests from 2016 to 2017 (887 to 1,288), with 2018 year-to-date numbers already exceeding 2017. Reported 11,345 calls for service, 19,246 officer-initiated incidents, 489 drug arrests, 94 DUI arrests, and significant park patrol activity. Also noted recent special operations including shutting down two massage parlors and prostitution stings.
ElaineCity HallDUI arrestsDrug arrestsLibraryMassage parlor closuresProstitution stingsRecreation CenterSims Park▶ Jump to 3:43 in the videoShow transcriptHide transcript
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[00:03:43] Chief, three-minute report. [00:03:46] This is going to be the fastest Council meeting we've ever had. [00:03:49] We may set a record tonight, yes. [00:03:52] I've been told to hold this strictly to three minutes, and I am going to do my best to do that, [00:03:57] but it gives me an opportunity to brag a little bit about our police department and where we are [00:04:01] and the direction we're heading. [00:04:05] I have a couple of slides that I want to show you that have some numbers on it, [00:04:09] and I put them on slides because it's awfully hard when someone's talking, just spitting out numbers. [00:04:13] They all tend to get jumbled up. [00:04:15] But I want to start this off by talking about the difference. [00:04:18] One of the benchmarks or one of the indicators that I look at for the overall performance of the department [00:04:24] is total number of arrests, and then there's some more data that we'll be talking about in a minute. [00:04:30] But I want to first point out between 2016 and 2017, we had a 45.2% increase in number of arrests. [00:04:40] Those are pretty big numbers. [00:04:42] We were 887 for 2016, and for 2017, 1,288. [00:04:49] Now, going to my next slide, this is where I'm comparing where we are this year versus the same time last year. [00:05:00] So the numbers, like for total number of arrests for last year, it would be down a month's worth, [00:05:05] and we still have a month to go. [00:05:08] If you'll look at the total number of arrests for this year, we're already over several hundred [00:05:15] over where we were last year at this point in time. [00:05:18] So I expect that we may be almost double of what we did in 2016. [00:05:24] So I think that's tremendous on the part of the officers. [00:05:28] We responded to, for our calls for service, citizens calling the police department and asking for our service. [00:05:36] We had 11,345 from January 1st to November 30th. [00:05:42] Officer initiated, this is where the officers see something that they want to take action on, [00:05:48] or it includes area checks and other self-initiated activity. [00:05:54] We had 19,246 of those incidents. [00:05:59] That's 30,591 incidents that we are total, if you will, calls for service. [00:06:10] Obviously, officer initiated is not a call for service, but it's a service that we were doing. [00:06:16] The total number of incidents that required investigation were 5,119. [00:06:26] And through the course of doing business, we issued 3,398 traffic citation [00:06:33] and investigated 580 traffic crashes. [00:06:39] When this activity is going on, I have 30 officers total assigned to patrol. [00:06:46] Each squad, there's four squads. [00:06:48] Each squad has a sergeant, a corporal, and we try to keep it around five officers. [00:06:55] And then there's a canine officer on two shifts. [00:06:58] We have two canine officers. [00:07:00] And our reserve officers, our auxiliary officers, [00:07:03] we have two of those that come in and occasionally, several times a month, come in and put their time in. [00:07:09] So I think the numbers speak for themselves for our overall performance. [00:07:19] What we constantly hear about are drug arrests and DUI arrests. [00:07:24] What are we doing about those things? [00:07:27] In 2017, we had a drug arrest, 421. [00:07:32] This year to date, 489. [00:07:35] And I misspoke. [00:07:36] It was actually January through November, same time frame. [00:07:40] We're already ahead of the number of drug arrests we made for last year. [00:07:44] DUI arrests went from 47 to 94, which is also a pretty significant increase. [00:07:53] These increases have been going on steadily over the last five years. [00:07:58] I've watched our crime rate continue to go down. [00:08:02] And I just don't have enough time to get tangled in the weeds on the detail of that [00:08:08] because it would drag this on for a bit, and it takes a pretty good discussion of that to explain it. [00:08:17] And then the last thing I wanted to bring up was those areas are parks, which are constantly important. [00:08:26] They get discussed in here all the time, what kind of activity we've done around City Hall, the library, the rec center. [00:08:33] And so I posted, we've done a count of, and I'm just going to point out one or two of those, [00:08:40] and that is, to give you an example, Sims Park, where we did area premise checks, almost 500 of those. [00:08:49] That's where the officer driving by actually takes the time to put himself out and get out, walk through the park, check it out. [00:08:57] I can tell you that happens a lot more than those numbers show, but even those numbers are pretty strong numbers. [00:09:05] The citizen calls for service in the park, I think that's 360, so that's over 900 times we've been in the park doing our job in the park. [00:09:19] In the other parks, you can see that we also did a lot of premise checks on those, [00:09:24] and we're constantly patrolling the park areas and taking action. [00:09:28] Trespass warnings, we issue those. Oftentimes we'll threaten to trespass if someone doesn't straighten up their act, [00:09:36] but the actual official trespass warnings we've issued are posted there, [00:09:41] and the trespassing arrests show, as well as all arrests for each one of the parks. [00:09:48] I would like to point out that in the course of the 11 months, and I have to do that for Elaine's benefit, [00:09:56] we had one call that resulted in a trespass warning [00:10:01] and one call that resulted in an arrest at the rec center for the entire 11 months of this year. [00:10:08] So considering all the people that go to the rec center, I think that says a lot for that environment there. [00:10:18] So unless you have questions, that will conclude my presentation. [00:10:21] Any questions? [00:10:23] Just a quick comment. [00:10:25] My wife was telling me about someone who was trying to sell something online, [00:10:32] and the person that wanted to do business with them suggested they meet at the rec center, [00:10:39] and the person selling was astute enough to realize that the rec center was closed at that time [00:10:44] and suggested, why don't we just meet in front of the New Port Richey Police Department, [00:10:48] at which point she heard nothing more from the prospective buyer. [00:10:52] So what you're doing, even when you don't know about it, is protecting our citizens. [00:10:58] One thing I didn't mention, but I will now because it just popped into my mind, [00:11:05] is that we've also done a number of special details. [00:11:08] Most recently, we shut down two massage parlors, [00:11:12] and then we've also done several prostitution stings through the course of this year, [00:11:17] resulting in arrests in that area, which I know is important to counsel as well. [00:11:21] Thank you very much.
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- 8Communications▶ 11:23
- 9Adjournment▶ 14:35