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Home My WebLink About09/03/2013 16A Council General InformationITEM TITLE: SUBMITTED BY: SUMMARY EXPLANATION: BUSINESS OF THE CITY COUNCIL YAKIMA, WASHINGTON AGENDA STATEMENT Council General Information Sonya Claar Tee, City Clerk Item No. I For Meeting of: 9/3/2013 1. Weekly issue report 2. Letter from Omer Gress regarding homeless 3. Planning Commission agenda for September 4, 2013 3. Community Review Board meeting agenda for September 4, 2013 4. City meeting schedule 5. Preliminary future activities calendar 6. Draft preliminary agenda 7. Newspaper /Magazine /Internet Articles: * "Seattle's dirty little secret of downtown safety," Crosscut, August 14, 2013 Resolution: Other (Specify): Contract: Start Date: Item Budgeted: Funding Source /Fiscal Impact: Strategic Priority: Insurance Required? No Mail to: Phone: Ordinance: Contract Term: End Date: Amount: APPROVED FOR SUBMITTAL: 4AI City Manager RECOMMENDATION: ATTACHMENTS: Description Upload Date Type 0 info 812912013 Cover Memo • • 0 TO: The Honorable Mayor and City Council Members py��jl 1 11 lill Jill III I I CITY OFFICES CLOSED: In observance of Labor Day, City offices will be closed on Monday, September 2. Refuse will run a day behind with Monday pickups on Tuesday and Friday pickups on Saturday. NO EXECUTIVE SESSION: The City Council does not have an Executive Session • Tuesday, September 3. The regular business meeting will begin at 6:00 p.m. F. ., T Omcr G. Gress 101 North =18th Ave. 15A Yakima,Wa.USA 98908 Ph.(D-09) . _/Cell 919 -3901 RECEIVED CITY OF YAKIMA AUG 2 7 2013 OFFICE OF CITY COUNCIL 9 -�_ %--- / 3 A place for homeless r To the editor —Jesus said, in Matthew n 25:40, "Truly I tell you, whatever you did to one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me." The three Yakima churches that provide temporary winter shelters for the home- less have chosen to live these words in their ministries. The Yakima Herald - Republic reported on Aug. 12 that the city of r Yakima may not allow these shelters to operate this year due to safety concerns. I hope that the city manager and Yakima City Council will choose to work with these churches to provide safety and warmth for the least fortunate of these brothers and sisters during the harsh winter cold. JEREMIE DUFAULT Yakima /_51 Ci`IMM1;7;Nr111 111,' VI.I, ]'Ml,,! l° Dl,,]' 1111:�T -IE t l Planning Divisio n 129 North Second Street, 2nd Floor Yakines, Washington 9 901 Iglione (509) 575-6183 * Fax (509) 575 -6105 cask.p1annin g(q)yaklrnawa.lgov * http://Www.,yakiniawa. ovl��ervices/Plannin l City of Yakima Planning Commission PUBLIC HEARING City Hall Council Chambers Wednesday September 4, 2013 2:00 pm -5:00 pm YPC Members: Chair Ben Shoval, Co -Chair Dave Fonfara, Ron Anderson, Al Rose, Scott Clark, Paul Stelzer, Bill Cook City Planning Staff: Steve Osguthorpe, Community Development Director/Planning Manager; Jeff Peters, Associate Planner; Chris Wilson, Assistant Planner; and Rosalinda Ibarra, Administrative Assistant Agenda I. Call to Order II. Roll Call III. Staff Announcements IV. General Audience Participation (Not Associated with an Item on the Agenda) V. Zoning Code Text Amendment Pertaining to Communication Towers (TXT #002 -13) • Slideshow Presentation - Examples of Cell Towers (The draft ordinance is available online at www.yakimawa.gpy/ e ices /planning[ under Quick Links) VI. Other Business VII. Adjourn to September 25, 2013 pm in the Council Chambers r�Tk#7 AGENDA September 4, 2013 5:30 p.m. - Council Chambers - City all 1. CALL TO ORDER II. ROLL CALL fii A. None Staff Joe Caruso Tammy Gilmour D, 1213 Queen Avenue Rex D. & Pauline V. Wiley or Current Occupant/Pauline D. Wiley /DS HS Financial Services/Financial Recovery c/o Department of Social/Health Services Case # CAC -13 -0703 E Daum= V11. NEW BUSINESS VIII. OLD BUSINESS A. None IX, ADJOURNMENT For September 2, 2013 — September 9, 2013 Monday, September 2 Wednesday, September 4 2:00 p.m. Yakima Planning Commission — Council Chambers 5:30 p.m. Community Review Board — Council Chambers Thursday, September 5 9:00 a.m. County Hearing Examiner — Council Chambers 4:00 p.m. GFI Steering Committee — CWCMH Frida3:, Se tember 6 8:00 a.m. Sister City Meeting — 2„ d Floor Conference Room Monday, September 9 9:00 a.m. City Council Study Session — Yakima Convention Center 3:30 p.m. Civil Service Commission — Council Chambers Office Of Mayor/City Council Preliminary Future Activities Calendar Please Note: Meetinqs are subject to change Ensey uncil Meeti Scheduled Council Council Chambers Wed. Sept. 4 2:00 p.m. Yakima Planning Scheduled Meeting Ensey Council Chambers Thur. Sept. 5 4:00 p.m. GFI Executive Committee Scheduled Meeting Adkison, Coffey, TBD Ettl Fri. Sept. 6 8:00 a.m. Sister Ci�tMee�ti Scheduled Meetin Adkison 2nd Floor Conference Room Sat. Sept. 7 12:30 p.m. Welcome Daughters of Scheduled Event Adkison Howard Johnson American Colonists Mon. Sept. 9 9:00 a.m. City Council Study Session Scheduled Meeting Council Convention Center Room F Tue. Sept. 10 12:00 p.m. Miscellaneous Issues Scheduled Meeting Cawley, Adkison, ' Ettl Wed. Sept. 11 1:30 p.m. EMS Board Meeting Board Meeting Lover Yakima Regional 5:30 p.m. Parks & Recreation Scheduled Meeting Adkison Council Chambers Commission Thur. Sept. 12 1:00 P.M. Harman Center Board Board Meeting Cawley Harman Center 5:3 0 p.m. YCDA Board Board Meeting Adkison New Vision Office 7:20 PM Welcome Fire Mechanics Scheduled Event Cawley Convention Center Convention Mon. Sept. 16 8:3 0 a.m. Pension Boards Board Meeting Coffey 1 st Floor Conference Room 10:00 a.m. City Council Media Briefing Scheduled Meeting Coffey Council Chambers Tur. Sept. 17 12:00 p.m. Miscellaneous Issues Scheduled Meeting Cawley, Adkison, Lover 5:00 p.m. (T) City Council Executive Scheduled Meeting Council Council Chambers Session 6:00 D.M Cit Council Meetin Scheduled Meetin Council Council Chambers Wed. Sept. 18 12:00 P.M. PAL Board Board Meeting Coffey 3:30 �M Arts Commis ion �.Schedu�led M�eeti .. Adkison 's Thur. Sept. 1 2:00 p.m. Council Built Environment Scheduled Meeting Coffey, Lover Committee Meeting 99 2nd Floor Conference Room ME Set Date of October 1, 2013 re Public hearing and ordinance to consider amending YMC Chapter 15 relating to billboards. A Resolution authorizing the City Manager's execution of an agreement between the City • Yakima and Yakima School District No. 7 — YV TECH to allow the use of the Yakima Fire Departments training facility to provide educational services for Fire Fighter Cadet training. Resolution authorizing interlocal agreement with Selah for Information Technology services Ll Seattle's dirty little secret of domtown safety AW- aiM 4 nUt News of the Great Nearby S dirty little secret of downtown eaA safety Throwing more and more money into public services wont solve our crime problems. Here's what will. The shooting of a Metro bus driver during the morning commute Monday shocked us all. Luckily, the driver is OK. The shooter is not. While this crime is an isolated event, it caps several months — indeed decades — of chron street disorder in downtown Seattle. The Downtown Seattle Association, the Mayors Office SPD and concerned citizens and service prw4ders have been working for months to addres public safety issues downtown, particularly • 3rd Avenue (where this latest shooting *ccurred). I have written about these effbrts in Crosscut before. In frustration, the DSA sent a letter to the mayor recently, citing eight incidents of public violence since June — including several perpetrated toward downtown office workers. Things are getting worse, they wrote, and everyone needs to step up. iiaw -mm mom"e Our reputation as "Free-attle" makes us a draw for people genuinely in search of assistance, bui also for those who want to take advantage and party through the summer. On August 5th, West Precinct SPD Captain Jim Dermody illustrated the point in an email detailing a recent incident downtown: "On Friday moming, while assisting Parks Department Rangers moving sleepers along from Waterfront Park, one particular individual, an adult male 25 years old would not leave. Rangers called SPD. At T-30 AM, my officers arrived and found the person to be belligerent Wth them, as viell. After using the "F" voord numerous times at, about and to my officers and attempting to bite one of them, he was arrested for trespass and crosscuts onMl3(08/14/crime-safeWI 15964/downtomi--crime-seatUeJprintI 113 EAR ". Tuwg rM r-T r-r-, r. Ylywi PKWMT�17-1 this was a homeless friendly city. "The city of Seattle invests more than $30 million annually in services for the homeless, and wf; increase every year," he stated. "We are so well known for our compassionate approach that more than half • those who are in shelters do not list a Seattle address as their last previous home." The cops we have are reticent to practice proactive policing around public nuisance crimes fo fear they will be the next cop on the front page of the newspaper. The Justice Department is looking ovI one shoulder, and a suspension is lurking behind the nearest smart phone. And why would they? The city has largely failed to prosecute these smaller cases, lea\Ang police wonder why they'd bother. When is it that we will arrive at our tipping point, when people decide they'd rather not live in, shop in, or e\en \isit downtown or Belltown or Pioneer Square? While the candidates in this election cycle talk about the need for density, very little is said about public safety. And, whether running 1br mayor, city council or city attorney, questions about public safety are most often met with a detailed list of all the reasons we can't solve these problems. Politicians are smart: They\,e learned that the downtown law and order candidate who talks about ci\41ity on the streets and in the parks most often ends up losing. As voters, let's give them a way to talk productively and openly about our public safety problems. They won't solve themselves. You can reach him in care of editor@crosscut.com. X '11 crosscuLcorri(2013/08114/crime-safet)#1 15964/damtowri--crime-seaWelprirTV 213