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Meeting Date: 10/27/93 Agenda Item: P 4 CITY OF FALCON HEIGHTS REQUEST FOR COUNCIL CONSIDERATION ITEM DESCRIPTION: Request for two councilmembers to work with the administrator to plan community participation and to review information for the request for proposal for police services SUBMITTED BY: Susan Hoyt, City Administrator EXPLANATION /SUMMARY: As the city proceeds with developing its request for proposals for police services for January, 1995, the first step is to plan broad based community involvement. Perhaps more than any other public service, public safety services affect everyone including elderly and single residents living in single family dwellings, families with children, business owners and their employees and multi family housing dwellers. Given this, it is important to give all residents and business people an equal opportunity to provide their thoughts on the city's policing needs. This information will be used to develop a request for proposals that reflects Falcon Heights' police needs. To provide opportunities for everyone to comment on his /her public safety concerns, staff suggests two approaches. First, a short survey on public safety may be mailed to community residents and businesses or to a random sampling of community residents and businesses. Second, community meetings, perhaps focused on individual neighborhoods and business groupings, may be arranged. Since police service has very important service delivery and financial implications for the city, the administrator would like two councilmembers to work closely with her to plan community outreach and prepare the RFP. The results of this work will be presented to the council for its approval at each stage of the process. ACTION REQUESTED: Ask two councilmembers to work with the administrator to develop the process for broad based community involvement and to gather information to prepare the RFP. (Y42(//