The committee met to consider several resolutions and receive updates. Key actions included approving liquor and budget-related resolutions, advancing a crime prevention ordinance amendment, and discussing commission support allocations. The meeting also featured a presentation on summer parks and recreation safety programming.
I think I need to go. Morning. Calling uh this meeting of the committee holds order. Our first item is a resolution approving a request from Norma Gordon, owner of 1850 room for develop uh for a development liquor license to be located at 53 Monroe Center Northwest. So support. I see Mr. coming up to explain that to us. No, maybe not. Um I can take it. Um this was put before the DDA board last week, and it was approved, and all the vetting has been successful here as well. Great. Uh any conversation colleagues? Right. All those in favor say aye. Aye, aye. Those posed. Motion carries. Brings us to resolve our next resolution, which is setting June 2, 2026. Is the date to consider an ordinance amending chapter 175 crime prevention through environmental design? Uh can I have a motion? Support. Okay. Are you up here for that? Great. Okay, everybody. Uh Colin Cooper. I'm an F and analyst from the planning department. You may remember that I worked in cannabis. Is it really part of my job? Oversee the uh, thank you. You might want to Colin, can you restate that for the recognized? I'd be happy to, sir. Um I'm Colin Cooper. I'm an admin analyst for the planning department. I work primarily in cannabis oversight, but I also oversee our crime prevention through environmental design specialist. He certifies uh specific business categories throughout the year, about 120 of the businesses uh in their use of the city uh septed code to use the built environment to create uh less appealing uh places for criminal activity, essentially. Uh this program has been running for several years now, very successfully. We're primarily focused on education and partnership with the businesses around the city. Um and we will be bringing a more comprehensive update to you folks later this year, kind of talking about the successes we've seen so far, as well as what the future state is going to look like. However, today we're talking about two more priority uh elements of the code that we need to amend, setting an a date to bring that to you for hearing. Um specifically, we're talking about one change to a code reference to bring us into alignment with the city uh property maintenance code, so that in the future we don't need to update them side by side separately. This will just put us into their uh jurisdiction using the International Property Maintenance Code currently 2024. And the second element is appointing an appeals officer to handle appeals through the SEPTED program. Originally, this was set up to be used uh with a board who would oversee any appeals that came through. However, based on the experience of our SEPTED specialist and the recommendations internally, uh we've determined that keeping the program agile uh and being able to be responsive and timely and getting things resolved should be the priority using the same model as the uh backyard chickens ordinance, the beekeeping ordinance, essentially just having a third party who can help mediate these uh appeals. And we do want to point out that uh there's only been one appeal in the history of this program, and it was for extended time to be able to meet the requirements. So again, this program is mostly around education and community partnership, but we just want to bring things up to date before we move forward. So happy to take any questions uh and thank you for your support. Thanks. Yeah, I think you answered my questions, which is how many appeals do we get?