Essentially we came up with 4 investments strategies thats park safety the first and active living keeping of our citizenry healthy and active and Customer Service. We have 25 with respect to park safety and 25 ftes. We run a high attrition rate thats a Public Safety and while the park patrol positions dont go through the rigorous training as a police theres a high attrition rate not everyone makes it through the probation period we have 18 boots on the ground and were getting a new came to cover others. We are a 247 operation we have temple to 12 which they recalled high needs or Public Safety challenged parks in particular that is two or three park patrol officers at a given time as a fundamental manner its all but impossible to provide the level of service we believe our Park Patrol Service should provide we have a close relationship with the fte but only with their something serious but the park patrol officers enforce the park rules so theyve got more serious issues to tackle from
Permit fees are important it insures a certain level of responsibility when we allow entities to user parks. So we have not i want to go back and is i think public space, Public Recreation is fundamentally important to a lot of other essential services. Were a Public Safety solution when weve got kids active were contributing to coping our city save weve got people in our recreational programming were keeping our city healthy were contributing to other essential serves that get loss in what people consider to be part of the recreation department. I think were a good investment. And more investment in recreational programming can result in fewer back end dollars from our criminal Justice System so more funds would be a good investment in terms of safety i know its been an ongoing discussion around the advantageism we know there are Public Safety challenges and the park patrol there maybe if were lucky we have three or four park officers on doubt at one time and when you look at other ci
Recommended at times by the budget analyst and other accountability recommendations addressing the overtime thats different from the police and other suggestions that were made previously but as we go forward towards the budget i want to know what youre done to address the recommendations upper given i think some for the budget analyst folks brought up issues i dont know how relevant but how to addressing the budget accountability issues that would be of interest to me as we move forward okay. Colleagues any questions or comments at this time. Okay chief and mark thanks for being here. Open this up for Public Comment on item 2 . Chief i assume you dont want to comment. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Okay. Colleagues can i have a motion to file item 2 . Well take that without objection. Mr. Clerk call item 3 item 3 ordinance appropriating 1 million plus to overcome and deappropriating 1 hundred million plus the evaluating of approximately 1 million in salaries and 1 million plus
Go through the rigorous training as a police theres a high attrition rate not everyone makes it through the probation period we have 18 boots on the ground and were getting a new came to cover others. We are a 247 operation we have temple to 12 which they recalled high needs or Public Safety challenged parks in particular that is two or three park patrol officers at a given time as a fundamental manner its all but impossible to provide the level of service we believe our Park Patrol Service should provide we have a close relationship with the fte but only with their something serious but the park patrol officers enforce the park rules so theyve got more serious issues to tackle from time to time. This is off leasing leash dog issues and park hours enforcement and something as opening and closing our facilities at night and making sure when theres evening events peop people value that and there will ambassadors in uniform and theyre the theyre the group of hardworking people in our depa