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THE BAYTOWN CRIME CONTROL PREVENTION DISTRICT REGULAR MEETING FOR JULY 12TH, FOUR 30, AND MOVE TO THE FIRST ITEM OF BUSINESS
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ONE.A CONSIDER APPROVING THE MINUTES OF BAYTOWN CRIME CONTROL PREVENTION SPECIAL MEETING HELD ON JUNE 14TH.
EVERYBODY HAD A CHANCE TO REVIEW YOUR MINUTES? I'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO APPROVE.
ALL IN FAVOR INDICATE BY SAYING AYE.
ITEM TWO A, THIS IS GONNA BE THE FUN PART.
BAYTOWN CRIME CONTROL PREVENTION DISTRICT FISCAL YEAR 2223.
PROPOSED BUDGET TO A IS CONDUCT THE FIRST PUBLIC HEARING REGARDING BAYTOWN CRIME CONTROL PREVENTION DISTRICT FISCAL YEAR 2223.
RIGHT? PUBLIC HEARING TODAY IS BEING HELD FOR THE PURPOSE OF GIVING RESIDENTS OF THE DISTRICT'S RIGHT TO SPEAK AND BE HEARD.
EVERYONE DESIRING TO SPEAK AT TODAY'S HEARING SHOULD HAVE EITHER SIGNED THE APPROPRIATE LIST IN THE FOYER OR EMAILED THE DISTRICT SECRETARY PRIOR TO THE POSTING OF THE MEETING.
EACH SPEAKER SHALL GIVE HIS OR HER NAME ADDRESS IN ORDER TO PROVIDE A PROPER RECORDING OF THIS HEARING.
THE RULES ALLOW EACH SPEAKER THREE MINUTES TO PRESENT INFORMATION.
HOWEVER, I ENCOURAGE EVERYONE TO BE AS BRIEF AS AND TO THE POINT AS POSSIBLE.
IF ANYONE HAS ANY QUESTIONS, PLEASE DIRECT THEM TO ME.
AND WITH THE AID OF STAFF, I SHALL ATTEMPT TO HAVE THE QUESTIONS ANSWERED.
[a. Conduct the first public hearing regarding the Baytown Crime Control and Prevention District Fiscal Year 2022-23 Proposed Budget.]
I NOW CALL TO ORDER THE FIRST PUBLIC HEARING REGARDING THE BAYTOWN CRIME CONTROL PREVENTION DISTRICT FISCAL YEAR 2223.I'M ASSUMING THERE'S NOTHING, NO ONE SIGNED UP.
THERE BEING NO ONE DESIRING TO SPEAK.
I NOW CLOSE THE FIRST PUBLIC HEARING REGARDING BAYTOWN CRIME CONTROL PREVENTION DISTRICT FISCAL YEAR 2223.
[b. Conduct the second public hearing regarding the Baytown Crime Control and Prevention District Fiscal Year 2022-23 Proposed Budget.]
BI NOW CALL TO ORDER THE SECOND PUBLIC HEARING REGARDING BAYTOWN CRIME CONTROL PREVENTION DISTRICT 2223 PROPOSED BUDGET.SINCE THERE IS NO ONE DESIRING TO SPEAK, UM, I NOW CLOSE THIS SECOND PUBLIC HEARING REGARDING BAYTOWN CRIME CONTROL PREVENTION DISTRICT FISCAL YEAR 2223, PROPOSED BUDGET.
[c. Consider a resolution adopting the Baytown Crime Control and Prevention District's Fiscal Year 2022-23 Budget.]
TWO C IS CONSIDER A RESOLUTION ADOPTING THE BAYTOWN CRIME CONTROL PREVENTION DISTRICT FISCAL YEAR 2223.ALL IN FAVOR INDICATE BY SAYING AYE.
[a. Presentation of the Baytown Crime Control and Prevention District Street Crime Unit, Traffic Management Team, and Commercial Vehicle Enforcement (CVE) statistical reports. ]
REPORTS, A PRESENTATION, BAYTOWN CRIME CONTROL PREVENTION, DISTRICT STREET CRIME UNIT, TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT TEAM, AND COMMERCIAL VEHICLE ENFORCEMENT STATISTIC REPORTS.UM, AND THANK YOU FOR THAT ON THE BUDGET,
UM, YOUR FAVORITE PUBLIC HEARING IN THE WORLD, ISN'T IT? YES, INDEED.
UM, SO I KNOW THAT YOU HAVE THE NUMBERS BEFORE YOU, AND I'M NOT GOING TO INSULT YOUR INTELLIGENCE BY READING THEM VERBATIM TO YOU.
UH, WHAT I WILL CALL TO ATTENTION IS THAT, UM, UH, AT THE FIRST OF THE YEAR, WE REORGANIZED THE DEPARTMENT, AS YOU MAY KNOW, TO INCLUDE A SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS DIVISION SO THAT WE COULD BEGIN FOCUSING OUR EFFORTS ON MAKING THE STREETS OF BAYTOWN SAFER BY, UH, FOCUSING ON ORGANIZED CRIMINAL ACTIVITY.
AND THOSE ACTORS AND, UM, UH, COORDINATORS THAT ARE, ARE FACILITATING THE ORGANIZATION AND FURTHERANCE OF BASICALLY ORGANIZED CRIME, UH, GROUPS AS WELL AS, UH, STREET GANGS.
SO THE STREET CRIMES UNIT HAS BEEN REASSIGNED TO THE SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS DIVISION, AND AS YOU CAN SEE, UM, ESPECIALLY IN THE MONTH OF JUNE, THEIR NUMBERS HAVE BEGUN TO GO UP.
HOWEVER, WE HAVE HAD A FEW THAT HAVE BEEN OUT DUE TO SOME INJURIES AS WELL AS, UH, UH, DEATH IN THE FAMILY.
OFFICER INGER JUST LOST HIS MOTHER OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF WEEKS, AND, UH, HE'S BEEN TAKING CARE OF THE FAMILY AND PROVIDING LEADERSHIP FOR THEM.
SO IN ADDITION TO, UH, UH, RECOVERING FROM SOME INJURY AND STUFF.
SO, UH, BUT THEY HAVE BEEN INCREDIBLY EFFECTIVE.
AND I WOULD SAY THAT, UM, IF YOU, UH, IF YOU LOOK AND YOU, YOU, YOU SEE THEIR ACTIVITY, IT'S QUALITY STATISTICS.
AND WHAT THESE REPORTS DON'T SHOW IS THAT THESE STATISTICS ARE OCCURRING IN OUR NEIGHBORHOODS.
UM, OUR UNIFORMED OFFICERS WITH THE SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS DIVISION ARE FOCUSING ON NEIGHBORHOOD ENFORCEMENT.
UH, THESE AREAS WHERE PEOPLE ARE BASICALLY BEING HELD CAPTIVES IN THEIR HOME TO SOME DEGREE.
WE ARE FOCUSING ON, UH, VIOLENT CRIMES, NARCOTICS TRANSACTIONS.
UH, MOST RECENTLY WE HAD A, A SEARCH WARRANT THAT WE DID ON STO STREET WHERE WE HAD PREVIOUSLY DOCUMENTED A SHOOTOUT BETWEEN RIVAL GANGS, UH, ONE BEING OUTTA NORTH HOUSTON.
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AND, UH, STREET CRIMES UNIT PLAYED A BIG PART IN THE SERVICE OF THAT SEARCH WARRANT.AND WE HAD RESIDENTS FROM THAT AREA REACH OUT TO US AND LET US KNOW HOW MUCH THEY APPRECIATED IT AND US SHUTTING THAT ACTIVITY DOWN.
SO THAT'S THE TYPE OF QUALITY, UH, STATISTICS YOU'LL START SEEING FOR THE STREET CRIMES UNIT.
UH, ANY QUESTIONS ON THAT? MM.
UH, THE, UH, THE TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT TEAM AND, UH, UH, COMMERCIAL VEHICLE ENFORCEMENT UNIT, AGAIN, THOSE STATS, UH, I, I KNOW THAT YOU'RE PERFECTLY CAPABLE OF READING THOSE.
WE HAVE HAD SOME THAT HAVE BEEN OUT FOR TRAINING.
WE'VE HAD A FEW THAT HAVE BEEN OUT, UH, DURING THE SUMMER MONTHS VACATION AND TRYING TO GET IN SOME FAMILY TIME.
SO YOU WILL SEE SOME, UH, SOME VARIATION IN THE NUMBERS THERE.
BUT THEY TOO HAVE HAD A SIGNIFICANT IMPACT ON CRIMINAL ACTIVITY SIMPLY BECAUSE THE VEHICLES THAT THEY ARE STOPPING, WE'RE CONTINUING TO SEE, UH, HIGHER INCIDENTS OF, UH, DISCOVERING INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE FELONY WARRANTS, NARCOTICS AND FIREARMS IN THEIR VEHICLES.
SO, UH, IT BECOMES A FORCE MULTIPLIER IN GENERAL, NOT JUST TRYING TO MAKE SURE THAT OUR ROADWAYS ARE SAFER FOR TRAFFIC AND PEDESTRIANS, BUT WE'RE ALSO SEEING SOME OF THE EXTRA, UH, ANCILLARY CRIMES THAT OFTEN GO ALONG WITH A VEHICLE STOP.
SO, SO WE ONLY HAVE TWO ASSIGNED TO TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT RIGHT NOW.
UM, WE HAVE, SO WE HAD MORE, WE HAVE THREE ASSIGNED TO TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT, BUT WHAT WE'VE DONE IS WE'VE COMBINED THEM INTO, UH, UH, THE TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT AND COMMERCIAL VEHICLES.
SO THEY'RE ALL UNDER, UH, THE SAME SERGEANT.
AND AS SOON AS WE CAN INCREASE OUR NUMBERS THROUGH RECRUITING, UH, WE'VE GOT SOME REALLY GOOD THINGS GOING ON WITH RECRUITING, WHICH I KNOW DOESN'T REALLY IMPACT CCPD, BUT OUR GOAL IS TO BE ABLE TO EXPAND THESE UNITS.
UM, I WOULD LOVE US TO BE ABLE TO PUT A, UH, A DUI TASK FORCE EVENTUALLY UP UNDER, UH, THE TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT TEAM AS WELL, SO THAT WE COULD FOCUS ON, UH, UH, DRIVING UNDER THE INFL, SORRY, IN TEXAS THAT'S DRIVING WHILE INTOXICATED.
UH, ALABAMA'S DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE.
WE ALL UNDERSTAND, YOU KNOW, WHETHER IT'S ALCOHOL OR, UH, NARCOTICS, IT'S STILL A DANGER.
AND, UH, YOU KNOW, TWO OF THE, THE PRIME REASONS FOR ME WANTING TO DO THAT IN OUR FUTURE, WHICH IS PROBABLY A GOOD TWO TO THREE YEARS DOWN THE ROAD, UH, ARE SITTING IN THE BACK OF THIS ROOM.
MY, MY CHILDREN ARE OUT ON THESE STREETS WITH, UH, WITH ME OR MY WIFE AND, YOU KNOW, IN THE BACK OF OUR VEHICLES, AND I WANT THEM TO BE SAFE.
AND I REALIZE THAT, UH, I WON'T LONG UNTIL THEY'RE DRIVING.
I REALIZE I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE, UH, WHO HAS CHILDREN AND ONE WILL BE DRIVING HERE IN A COUPLE YEARS.
SO, WELL, WHILE WE'RE ON THAT, SORRY.
UM, CONSIDER LOOKING AT YOUR CVE AS WELL MM-HMM
SINCE WE HAVE SO MUCH DEVELOPMENT OF ALL THE INDUSTRIAL PARK AREAS YES.
AND THE TRUCK TRAFFIC INCREASING DAILY AND IT GOES ON AND ON INDEED.
AND, UH, ANOTHER, THAT'S A SAFETY PRECAUTION AS WELL.
AND ANOTHER REASON, UH, TO, UH, TO CONTINUE TO EXPAND OUR CVE CAPABILITIES IS WE KNOW THAT WITH I 10 AND 1 46, BUT ESPECIALLY I 10, THAT NARCOTICS ARE BEING, UH, TRAFFICKED THROUGH BAYTOWN INTO BAYTOWN.
AND THAT DIRECTLY IMPACTS THE QUALITY OF LIFE OF OUR CITIZENS.
SO, UH, AGAIN, IT'S, UH, YOU KNOW, IT'S A TWO FOR ONE.
BASICALLY, IF YOU KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING AND YOU'RE DOING IT LEGALLY AND YOU'RE DOING IT RESPONSIBLY, ETHICALLY, AND MORALLY, UH, WE STAND A BETTER CHANCE OF GETTING LARGE QUANTITIES AND NARCOTICS OFF THE STREETS WITH A WELL-TRAINED AND EFFICIENT, UH, CVE UNIT.
ANY OTHER QUESTIONS, GENTLEMEN? ANYTHING? NOT AT THIS TIME.
I APPRECIATE YOUR SUPPORT AND ALL THAT YOU DO, AND THANK YOU YOU FOR THE TIME THAT YOU VOLUNTEER FOR US.
UH, THE LAST ITEM FOR CONSIDERATION MANAGER'S
[a. The next Baytown Crime Control and Prevention District meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, October 11, 2022, at 4:30 P.M., in the Council Chamber located at City Hall, 2401 Market Street, Baytown, Texas 77520. ]
REPORT.SO MADAM PRESIDENT AND DIRECTORS, AGAIN, IF, IF YOU ALLOW ME JUST THE OPPORTUNITY IN MY LAST MEETING, JUST TO SAY THANKS TO ALL OF YOU, UH, FOR VOLUNTEERING, WE CAN'T DO THE WORK WE DO IN THE CITY WITHOUT THE BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS, PEOPLE LIKE Y'ALL THAT TAKE YOUR TIME AND EFFORT.
I APPRECIATE THE WORK THAT GOES INTO THE BUDGET.
WHILE THAT WAS QUICK TONIGHT, I, I'M SURE YOU CAN UNDERSTAND THE MAGNITUDE OF THE WORK THAT OUR FINANCE DEPARTMENT DOES.
GINA AND THERESA AND MONICA, THANK Y'ALL FOR THE WORK THAT YOU DO ON THE BUDGETS.
UH, WE HEARD YOU, IT'S NOT IN PERSONNEL ANYMORE.
IT'S ALL IN THE THINGS THAT YOU APPROVED TONIGHT.
SO WE APPRECIATE THE WORK THAT YOU DO.
CHIEF, THANKS FOR GOING INTO MORE THAN JUST THE NUMBERS.
I THINK THE DISCUSSION THAT WE GET INTO HERE IS REALLY, REALLY IMPORTANT.
AND SO I APPRECIATE WHAT YOU DO.
THANK TO OUR CLERK AND TO LEGAL.
SO HAVING SAID THAT, I'LL NOT BE WITH YOU AT YOUR NEXT MEETING ON TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11TH, 4:30 PM HERE IN THE COUNCIL CHAMBER.
THANK YOU, KEVIN, FOR THANK YOU STEPPING UP AND
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ALWAYS WANTING TO BE PART OF THE CCPD MEETINGS.AND I KNOW ANYBODY COULD HAVE BEEN THE GENERAL MANAGER FOR THE MEETINGS, AND WE APPRECIATE WHAT YOU'VE DONE FOR US.
THERE ANY OTHER BUSINESS TO COME BEFORE THE BOARD? I'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO ADJOURN.
THANK YOU ALL FOR BEING HERE AND HELPING US GET THIS BUDGET PASSED.