District 3 Advisory Board

District III Advisory Board Minutes for October 5, 2016 District III Advisory Board Minutes October 5, 2016 www.wichita.gov The District III Advisory Board meeting was held at 6:30 p.m. at the WATER Center, 101 E. Pawnee, Wichita, KS 67211; Councilman James Clendenin, eleven District Advisory Board members, Seven City staff and eleven signed in members of the public were present. Members Present Elena Ingle Members Absent David Robbins Daisy Olivar Paul Davis Staff Present Bruce Gass TeiaWair, Community Services Representative Emily “Emy” Winterhalter (Youth Member) Nick Long, Wichita Police Gerald Henry Jerod Metcalf, Wichita Police Jessica Hutton Josh Hayes, Wichita Police Ron Tracy Captain Jeffery Weible, Wichita Police Marco Alcocer Bill Longnecker, Planning Department Cindy Miles Sid Newby, Fire Department Catherine Johnson Guests Councilman James Clendenin Listed on last page ORDER OF BUSINESS At 6:30 p.m. Councilman James Clendenin called the meeting to order. Minutes from the September 7, 2016 meeting were approved. The agenda for the current meeting was approved. STAFF REPORTS Fire Report Sid Newby (station 22), this week is fire prevention week. Promoted fire safety by instructing citizens to check their smoke detectors. Three out of five home fire deaths result in properties without working smoke alarms. More than one-third (38 percent) of home deaths result from fires in which no smoke alarms are present. The risk of dying in a home fire is cut in half in homes with working smoke detectors. Reminded citizens to check their floor furnace before turning them on. Elana Ingles DAB, Inquired if it was legal to conduct open burring in a residential neighborhoods? Councilman James Clendenin, Introduced Captain Jeffery Weible who took over Captain Salcido’s position at Patrol South. Captain Jeffery Weible, has been stationed at Patrol South for a few weeks. He looks forward to working at Patrol South and with the citizens again. Captain Weible worked in the Exploited and Missing Children’s unit for four years and three years in Crimes. Encouraged citizens to stop by or call Patrol South with issues or concerns. Officer Jarrod Metcalf (beat 25) introduced himself Officer Josh Hayes (beat 8 &9), thirty aggravated assaults, ten auto thefts and thirty larceny cases. Crimes were down in the month of September. Spoke about the Broadway Initiative and how it’s a good attribute 1  District III Advisory Board Minutes for October 5, 2016 which assist with removing the drug and other issues along Broadway. The Initiative begin a few weeks ago but good things are occurring already. Dave Robbins (DAB), Do all levels of police wear the body cameras? Officer Josh Hayes, Stated that all officers have the body cameras. He is uncertain as to when upper management will obtain their cameras. Richard Hill (Public), Lucky Spot is an issue. Are there plans to address this establishment? Officer Josh Hayes, stated that there are plans to tackle this establishment and its issues with the Broadway task force. Captain Jeffery Weible, If grant money is received there will be room to establish special task forces for individual assignments along Broadway. Officer Nick Long (beat 34), The main issues in beat 34 is trailer theft. All over the city this is an issue. Stressed the importance of not leaving trailers on the street. In June/July there was an increase in burglaries/larceny. One was arrested and still in jail. The suspect has twenty-five pending cases the numbers have dropped down since the suspect has be in jail. Paul Davis (DAB), Is there a certain type of trailer being stolen? Officer Nick Long, No, they are taking any trailer they can. Gerald Henry (DAB), The area around Oliver and Lincoln is becoming more aggressive. Is this area on the radar? Officer Nick Long, Yes, PD is aware of situations in this area and they are working on addressing the issues. Please contact the CP Officer James Hook. Officer Long explained that often times crimes occur behind the scenes and police are not able to observe things in progress. Encouraged citizens to call 911 or send an email to CP Officer. Officer Nick Long, The high call ordinance is in the final stages. The ordinance will hold landlords accountable for their tenant’s actions. Councilman James Clendenin, Stated that it is important to call 911 because that creates a record for data/statics. The Police Chief presented a presentation at the City Council Workshop regarding the high call ordinance. At this time policy issues are being addressed. Cindy Miles (DAB), Are there clown issues? Officer Nick Long, There have not been any creditable cases; however juveniles are joking around and taking photos in front of schools. Valley Center as well as Patrol South have had two juveniles charged with social media threats. Richard Hill (Public), How will the high call volume and holding landlords accountable affect landlords? If a landlord does a background check and everything comes back clean but the tenant has a boyfriend or family member that does illegal activities which causes for police to come out, this is out of the landlord’s control. Officer Nick Long, Encourage the neighbors to get involved. Let the tenants know their being watched and the consequence of repeat visits from the police. Marco Alcocer (DAB), What percentage of calls are received by Patrol South from South Broadway? Captain Jeffery Weible, Stated that he does not have the numbers but the calls have increased because police are getting to know people. There are two addresses on South Broadway that produce a high number of calls. One on Emporia and a lot of calls are received from Wal-Mart and QuikTrip. Marco Alcocer, Are we spending more tax dollars on Broadway? Captain Jeffery Weible, Not necessarily because only two officers are assigned. Richard Hill (Public), When officers leave Patrol South for the day can they take the back roads in an attempt to make themselves more visual in the neighborhoods? Captain Jeffery Weible, Stated that he encourages officers to spend more time in the neighborhoods and out getting to know citizens. 2  District III Advisory Board Minutes for October 5, 2016 George Theoharis (Public), MABCD has bundled in on ticketing illegally parked trailers. It is illegal to park trailers in the driveway or on the street. Trailers must be parked back behind the front of the house or in the back yard. Councilman James Clendenin, Encouraged citizens to contact beat officers, email call Teia Wair at 303-8030 or Councilman at 268-4311 to report neighborhood nuisance. Welcomed Catherine Johnson and Ron Tracy to DAB III. Catherine is from South Central and Ron is from Southwest neighborhood. Thanked everyone for serving on the DAB. PUBLIC AGENDA Scheduled Items Jacqueline Cook-Green with Family Promise of Greater Wichita provided an overview of their organization. The organization is designed to assist homeless families with children. The target start date is October 24, 2016. During the 2015-2016 school year USD 259 reported two-thousand homeless children. The organization will work in collaboration with other agencies to obtain referrals. Four families at a time with a total of fourteen people total can participate at a time. During the day families can utilize the day center and at night families will be transported to a host church. In District III we have 2 pastors participating with a total of thirteen churches across the city. Family Promise has been active for eight years in Lawrence, Kansas. The program helps bring congregations together while keeping families together and assisting families to become self-sufficient. If you know a family that can benefit from the program please refer them? Bruce Gass (DAB), How do you define a family? Jacqueline Cook-Green, A family would be a pregnant women/mom/dad/children. The focus is a child/children and getting them back to sustainable living. In Texas this program had an eighty-five percent housing success. Bruce Gass (DAB), do you verify if they are legal guardians of the child/children. Jacqueline Cook-Green, Extensive background checks are performed as well as drug testing. The organization is unable to take families fleeing domestic violence situations but will refer those families to other agencies. Emily “Emy” Winterhalter (Youth Member DAB), How much information is required to complete a referral? Jacqueline Cook-Green, It would be best to have the family contact Family Promises. Jessica Hutton (DAB), Are none traditional families (Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual, Transgender) allowed to participate in the program? Jacqueline Cook-Green, Family Promise will take the families that pass the intake process. Families are screened in and out for a variety of reasons. Cindy miles (DAB), Can you please explain your process? Jacqueline Cook-Green, Family Promise is not a shelter we have a day center which has a showers, laundry, and computers. The families will sleep at churches. Arrangements will be made with the school to have the children picked up and dropped off at the day center. The family will stay at a host church from Sunday to Sunday. This is a thirty year program. Paul Davis (DAB), How are homeless children identified? Jacqueline Cook-Green, They usually self- identify to the school. Usually it is a family without permanent housing. Bruce Gass (DAB), Is your organization connected or aware of the H.O.T team? Jacqueline Cook-Green, Yes, Officer Nate sits on our board. 3  District III Advisory Board Minutes for October 5, 2016 Jessica Hutton (DAB), What services does your organization offer? Jacqueline Cook-Green, Assist with building relationships and partnerships with other organizations, provide job training, GED, as well as minimum help with deposit saving. Ron Tracy (DAB), Provided a testimony regarding a homeless family he knew that had one obstacle and was obtaining the deposit to move. The family received help with the deposit and now they own their farm home. Off-agenda items Councilman James Clendenin requested a motion to move the remainder of the off agenda items to the back of the agenda. Motion Carried 11-0 NEW BUSINESS Scheduled Items CON2016-00041 Bill Longnecker, Senior Planner, presented a City Conditional Use for night club in the city within 300 feet of residential zoning district; generally located west of Hillside and south of 31st (3201 E. 31st St S.) to correct a non-conforming use. Current zoning codes MF-29 multi-family property to the south, MF-18 to the East of the site. This establishment has been utilized as a night club since the late1960’s. It has remained unchanged along with it non-conforming use status. The current owner could continue to operate as it has in the past but he wishes to bring the use of lot 1 into conformance with the current zone code. There is a LC-Limited Commercial zoned nightclub or GC-General Commercial portion outside venue serving alcohol which is fenced but within 300 feet of a church or place of worship, Public Park, public or parochial school or residential zoning district, approval of conditional use is required. There is a total of 4,360 feet inside, occupy 299 people with 150 parking spaces. Code requires 1 parking space per 2 occupancy. The property has 92 parking spaces that are striped 31 unstripped spaces which is a total of 123 parking spaces. The current parking spaces allow for a total occupancy of 240. Property to the north is a retail commercial strip mall, gas station/retail service center, to the south is vacant lot owned by the applicant, to the east is a vacant retail commercial building, further down is Residential (Starkey facilities) and Southern Hills-Senior Living facility, to the west is nightclub parking and a mobile home park. Planning has received no complaint calls. This is scheduled for planning tomorrow at 1:30 pm. Paul Davis (DAB), what does changing the zoning allow? Bill Longnecker, Changing the zoning would allow the facility to be any type of a night club. Such as the establishment on 48th and Arkansas it operates as an Exotic Night Club. Elena Ingle (DAB), How long has the current owner operated the facility? Greg Farris (Farris Consulting Agent), stated about six or seven months. He was out of town for a while. He actually owns a lot of property and just wants to be in conformance. The owner has no plans to change the way the establishment is operating currently. 4  District III Advisory Board Minutes for October 5, 2016 BOARD AGENDA Meeting was adjourned. The next District Advisory Board III meeting will be held at 6:30 p.m., November 2, 2016, at the WATER Center, 101 E. Pawnee, Wichita, KS 67211. Respectfully submitted, Teia Wair, Community Service Representative – District III Guests Melody Stucky Carole Campbell Jim Underwood Ronald Tracy Molly Rainey Ron Howard Bill Stofer Steve Joseph Judy Cassube Jack Cassube Lonnie Wright Trisha Epps 5