HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution 93-30RESOLUTION NO. 93-30
A RESOLUTION PERTAINING TO THE SHEFFIELD NEIGHBORHOOD
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Columbia Heights
recognizes the concerns expressed by many of its citizens with
regards to problems being experienced in the Sheffield
Neighborhood because of a high concentration of low income
rental housing, and
WHEREAS, the City Manager has prepared a report recognizing those
problems and proposing several alternatives to deal with those
problems, and the City Council is in the process of reviewing
that report and its recommendations, and
WHEREAS, Councilmember Ruettimann has put together a group of
knowledgeable persons in the housing rehabilitation field who
have reviewed the problems being experienced and have been
asked to make recommendations to help resolve the problems,
and
WHEREAS, the Sheffield Neighborhood is responsible for a
disproportionately high incidence of c~iminal activity which
has worsened in the past one and one-half years, and
WHEREAS, a high percentage of that criminal activity and of housing
code violations has occured on properties under the control of
one landlord, and
WHEREAS, the City Council feels that in addition to actions already
taken to help resolve problems in the Sheffield Neighborhood,
that there are additional steps that can be taken while work
continues on the City Manager's report and the work of
Councilmember Ruettimann's committee.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
COLUMBIA HEIGHTS, that the following actions be taken:
1) Staff develop recommendations for strengthening the City
Housing Code as it relates to rental housing.
2) Staff develop an ordinance amendment that would levy a
service charge on property experiencing excessive calls for
police servce.
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3) Staff to prepare an application for federal funding for
additional police staffing under legislation just passed by
Congress.
4) Staff is authorized to recruit off duty police officers
from other jurisdictions to supplement existing police
staffing in the Sheffield Neighborhood, with an amount not to
exceed $40,000.00 to be appropriated from the general fund
unallocated fund balance to pay for same through the end of
1993.
5) Staff to explore alternatives with other jurisdictions,
including the County Sheriff, for the transporting of persons
to the County Jail and/or detox facilities so as to minimize
the amount of time that duty officers are out of the City.
6) Command staff of the police department to spend at least
one shift per week on patrol duty, with an emphasis on time to
be spent in the Sheffield Neighborhood.
Offered by:
Segonded by:
Roll call:
Nawrocki
Murzyn
All ayes
Passed this 12th day of July, 1993.
-Anne Student, Council
Secretary