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RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS
Public Safety Committee
February 15, 1996
Committee:
Chairman
Marshall
Attending: All
Gillette, Trustees Dekker and
Also Attending: Town Administrator Klaphake, Police Chief
Repola, Deputy Clerk Kuehl
Absent: None
Chairman Gillette called the meeting to order at 8:00 A.M.
POLICE DEPARTMENT
Personnel - Dispatch: Chief Repola reported that interviews for
two dispatch personnel will continue for at least another month.
Parking Management: Trustee Pauley presented the proposed 1996
Downtown Parking Management Program. This program was developed
through workshops with EPURA Staff and Commissioners, which
included a mail survey to downtown merchants and Chamber members.
EPURA and the Police Department are developing:
1. A directional/identification sign package (including street
name signs) to direct visitors to parking areas.
2. A parking map handout available to visitors in all shops,
accommodations, and Chamber of Commerce, and from on -street
officers.
3. A timed parking management philosophy to ensure parking
turnover and maximum usage of current parking facilities.
The basis
follows:
of the program is the use of timed parking areas as
1. On -Street Parking, Three -Hour Limit
-- West Elkhorn Avenue
Cleave Street - South Side
East Elkhorn (Bond Park)
Park Lane
MacGregor Avenue - West Side (adjacent to Bond Park)
East Elkhorn Avenue (along Ed's Cantina)
Moraine Avenue
MacGregor Avenue - West Side (along First National
Bank and Bank parking lot)
Weist Drive
West Riverside - West Riverside Park area including
small lot
2. Parking Lots, Three -Hour Limit:
- Football Field lot
Coffee Bar lot
Dark Horse lot
-- North end Post Office lot
-- Upper and lower Weist lot
-- Big Horn lot
-- Childrens Park lot
3. On -street, 30 minute parking:
-- MacGregor (east side) in front of Municipal
Building)
-- West Riverside (Baldwin Park)
4. Parking lots, 30-minute parking:
South end - Post Office lot
5. On -street, untimed parking:
-- Virginia Drive (north of Park Lane)
-- MacGregor Avenue - West Side (north of First
National Bank parking lot and east side north of
Municipal Building)
-- Cleave Street - North Side
6. Parking Lots, untimed parking:
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- - Moraine Avenue lot
-- Ice House lot
- - Tregent Parking lot
-- Brownfield's lot
- - Old Lumber Yard lot
-- Chamber of Commerce
- - Police/Municipal Building
employees/Customer
There are a total of 1,196 public parking spaces in the downtown
area; 955 public off-street and 241 on -street, with an additional
81 spaces at the Chamber of Commerce. Timed parking spaces total
788, 639 in lots and 149 on -street. Untimed parking spaces total
408, 316 in lots and 92 on -street. Handicapped license plates/
placards are exempt from timed parking. The "Clancy" system will
be used to track all vehicles by license number. The Committee
recommends adoption of the Parking Management Program as presented;
effective the weekend prior to Memorial Day through Labor Day, 9:00
a.m. to 5:00 p.m. daily; with a graduated fee schedule (1st ticket,
warning; 2nd ticket, $10; 3rd ticket, $20; 4th ticket, $40; 5th
ticket and thereafter, $80); with an evaluation to be conducted in
October. The Committee commended EPURA Director Anderson for his
efforts in developing this program.
Bike Patrol: Officer Schumaker, appointed supervisor of seasonal
officers, presented one of the two bicycles which will be used for
bike patrol of the downtown and the bike trail located inside Town
limits, beginning this summer. One unit will be used by Officer
Schumaker and the other will be used by parking enforcement
personnel. Todd Jirsa, Colorado Wilderness Sports, donated one of
the bicycles, and Larry Wexler, Colorado Bicycling provided
equipment. Chairman Gillette requested Officer Schumaker present
this program to the next Town Board meeting, and a thank you letter
be issued to Messrs. Jirsa and Wexler for their contributions.
Activity Plan: Chief Repola reported on the proposed 1996
activities:
1. Police Department: Parking, furniture purchase, Youth
Crime Prevention and Intervention Grant, bike patrol,
patrol and animal control vehicle purchase.
2. Communication Center: Second supervisor position and the
purchase of radios and a computer.
3. Victim Assistance Department: Establish policy and
procedures.
YCPI Grant Update: Chief Repola explained that a grant has been
received to implement a teen baseline program for substance abuse
education. Instructors have been trained and two classes are
scheduled, one each at the high school and middle school. Judge
Brown is sentencing those involved in offenses to this program.
There is a cost to the participants. The establishment of a teen
jury is being studied.
FIRE DEPARTMENT
No report
REPORTS
No report.
There being no further business, Chairman Gillette adjourned the
meeting at 8:56 a.m.
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