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COUNCIL MINUTES FEBRUARY 24, 2003 APROVED • 1 Chief of Police Pecchia indicated they have an Active Threat Team, which is trained to effectively 2 end a threatening situation, and is much different than it was in the past. He stated that emergency 3 management has taken a significant amount of their time in the last year, and included in the report is 4 a copy of the Lino Lakes Police Department response to national alert levels, which describes what is 5 done at each level of emergency. He stated the department has received 2600 hours of training in 6 handling emergencies and national threats. 7 8 Chief of Police Pecchia indicated they have added a motorcycle fleet, with a one dollar per year lease. 9 He stated they have a yearly budget of $2,016,400, with the majority of that being salary and benefits. 10 He indicated that because of this, if there are major cuts, it will mean personnel cuts for the 11 department. He stated the 2002 Public Safety Budget was 29% of the overall City budget, and stated 12 they had a 9% increase in calls for service during the year. He indicated the report shows that by 13 month, weather can have an affect on the number of calls, with cold weather being a deterrent to 14 crime. He advised of the following statistics: 15 16 • 2000 citations 17 • 1 fatality 18 • 49 personal injury 19 • 211 property damage 20 • 115 car hit deer .21 22 He stated the increased population in the city caused the 9% increase in calls. He added the top calls 23 for service, at 15% of calls, was for suspicious activity, which tells them the program to encourage 24 people to call if they see something odd is successful. 25 26 Chief of Police Pecchia advised that Part 1 crimes, as compared to cities similar in size, show that 27 Lino Lakes remains the safest community of those checked. He added this was true for communities 28 in Anoka County for Part 1 crimes also. He stated for Part 2 crimes, they slipped to the third safest 29 community. 30 31 Councilmember O'Donnell moved to accept the 2002 Public Safety Annual Report as presented. 32 Councilmember Dahl seconded the motion 33 34 Motion carried unanimously. 35 36 Chief of Police Pecchia indicated a copy of the Annual report would be in the Citizen's Library, and a 37 second copy at the Police Department. 38 39 Focus Group Update 40 41 Chief of Police Pecchia indicated that the focus groups are continuing, and he expects they will 42 involve more citizens going forward. II 43 44 Consideration of Contract with I.M. Peterson Auction Services for Unclaimed Property — Chief 45 of Police Pecchia explained that the department has found it would be more cost effective and 3