[0:10] Not what you were

[0:11] doing.

[1:07] After a while, you just ignore it.

[1:32] We will be that long

[1:33] today. And I

[1:36] said,

[1:39] that's a good thing because I'm hungry. We are now

[1:43] live.

[2:31] Okay.

[2:33] Okay. Welcome to City staff. We're ready to get started.

[2:38] On the screen, you'll see.

[2:41] A list of the city directors. However, we have substitutes here today.

[2:47] A little more than capable of going to the meeting with us. Next

[2:50] slide.

[2:52] Here's our agenda. It hasn't changed.

[2:55] Next slide.

[2:57] Open positions. Always

[3:01] public safety telecommunicated trainees.

[3:04] Always in position that we're looking for. A new

[3:07] one, a senior planning aid. If anyone is

[3:11] interested in that position, please apply.

[3:15] City staff

[3:16] internship.

[3:19] All right. We're still waiting on that one. But there are jobs available

[3:23] in the city. Should you choose to

[3:26] apply? Next slide.

[3:29] Looks like this is healthy newness services because it looks funny.

[3:35] Director Barnes. Thank you. BA.

[3:41] So on the screen, you have a few of our flyers that

[3:44] are programs that are going on.

[3:53] So the first flyer that we want to discuss is our

[3:57] STEM program. So our STEM program is

[4:00] all these few clients that do our youth services

[4:04] division. The STEM program and partnership with

[4:07] Dayton buses here in Atlanta City. As far as second through

[4:11] fifth graders, and it starts next month, October

[4:14] 19th, it'll be for four weeks.

[4:19] And we'll just, obviously, we're talking about

[4:22] science, technology, engineering and math. By STEM program.

[4:27] Also, that's what second through fifth grade. The next one is

[4:30] our little explorers program, which is K through first

[4:33] grade, and that's just to have different programs for

[4:37] kids of that age just to get them up and active

[4:41] and, you know, learning new

[4:44] and providing with educational experiences.

[4:47] The next flyer is our

[4:50] equestrian program that we, we've been having for the past

[4:53] year, positive program

[4:56] in this four hour, six through 12th grade, and we call that

[5:00] Ocean Saddle Academy, the question program. And it's

[5:04] we go out to me, slaying it, and the kids learning about, you know,

[5:07] horseback ride.

[5:11] The next flyer is our mini mix

[5:14] Masters, and it's a baking program, and it's for third through fifth grade, and we have

[5:18] that over at all Wars Memorial building where kids

[5:21] learn how to bake.

[5:24] And bacon produce Bakery baked goods.

[5:29] The next one is for six through 12 graders, and it's a skate

[5:33] club. And that's what we're going to have out at Young Skating.

[5:37] And all of these programs are free to the public.

[5:43] Next to our senior services, and these are some of the monthly

[5:46] things that we're doing. So we have a flea market

[5:50] Columbus flea market trip, which will be on September the 10th.

[5:54] We have a cow town farmers market trip, which will be

[5:57] Tuesday, September 22nd.

[6:01] T diamond Fitness is someone that we use a

[6:04] lot, and we do our Zumba classes, and this

[6:08] is our Motown style Zumba classes, which will be

[6:11] each week, all Awards Memorial building.

[6:17] Next walking club, why the weather

[6:21] is still good? Outside. We still have our walking club, and that's

[6:24] on the boardwalk. And that's Mondays for the month

[6:28] of September. We also have our Bill's Club, which

[6:31] I'll see as a playing pool.

[6:35] And also we have our book club, which starts on Thursday,

[6:39] September 17th at all Wars Memorial.

[6:43] We have a class for.

[6:47] The gentleman. My seniors here in Lancashire

[6:51] getting this men's hat making class, which will be two

[6:54] weeks, September 21st and September 28th at the Pal building.

[6:58] We also have line dancing, which will be an all Wars

[7:01] Memorial. And then we have a Walmart

[7:05] shopping trip out to Turnersville, which.

[7:09] Will happen tomorrow. No, sorry, Friday.

[7:15] We have our bowling club as well, which occurs when

[7:18] King, King pinbowling out of Eckhart Township.

[7:22] And we also have, we partner with

[7:26] North Beach mini golf and bike rims, where our

[7:29] seniors are able to go out on the boardwalk and ride bikes.

[7:34] And all of these services are free to the public.

[7:40] Next slide is for my environmental health division.

[7:44] And these are all of the programs that, that we

[7:48] have within our environmental health. So food

[7:52] protection, when we go out and we do our food

[7:54] inspections, we actually go out and we inspect

[7:58] public and public

[8:00] recipients, which are the pools in the

[8:04] ocean. We also do inspections for our, the

[8:07] youth camps that occur here in Lang City.

[8:11] In partnership with the police department. We respond to

[8:15] noise complaints. Dubai art inspection is.

[8:19] Massage inspections that, you know, we're working with.

[8:23] Cold. We have a rabies clinic, which will be coming out. We

[8:26] have our flyer coming out for our rabies Clinic.

[8:33] That should be coming out very soon. We also do childhood

[8:37] led, and we also do inspections for

[8:41] pet shops.

[8:43] Along with a lot of other things. On the flyer. We have

[8:46] Christopher Merkel, who is our new health officer.

[8:50] And Crystal Brown, who is our chief register in Robin Hill specialist.

[8:57] Okay, I think we're gonna have to

[9:00] skip fire for now. Oh, he's ready.

[9:04] Wait a second. Do we have our Superior Court

[9:08] Municipal Court Administrator gene homes? Yes, you

[9:11] can.

[9:14] Good afternoon. On September, Wednesday, September

[9:18] 16th, anti violence and the municipal court

[9:21] will be hosting an outreach event at the soldiers home.

[9:26] The event will

[9:29] be for anyone who has an active bench warrant

[9:32] in Atlantic City. And if you have any bench

[9:36] warrants throughout Atlantic County, we will send

[9:39] your information over to those courts to see if we can get your case

[9:43] rescheduled. So if you know anyone with any active bench

[9:47] warrants or if you have any active bench warrants, please come over to the

[9:51] all Wars Memorial building on September 16th.

[9:54] The time is to be determined. We are still working on a couple of things.

[9:59] But if you look on the Atlantic City, City of Atlantic City

[10:02] website or any other various social media

[10:05] platforms, the flyer should be coming out very

[10:09] shortly. So that is September, Wednesday,

[10:12] September 16. Th. Thank you,

[10:15] Jina. Now fire. Okay. These

[10:18] are, there's a report for calls of service for the month

[10:22] of August

[10:24] for fires. They had 24 fires. As it

[10:28] is situations 44. Medical calls,

[10:31] 336. Calls for service

[10:34] 78. Rescues. We had 32.

[10:38] False alarms, 94. Law enforcement

[10:42] support three for a total of 611 calls.

[10:46] And then for inspections, fire inspection, there was 196

[10:49] inspections.

[10:51] 181 reinspections. And 107

[10:55] permits given out.

[10:57] And that's a report.

[11:01] Next slide.

[11:05] Yeah. All right, so we have

[11:08] to hit the mic. Recognition on a job

[11:11] well done. I just want to highlight this case. This was on

[11:15] August 25th. Our officers responded

[11:19] early in the morning to local apartment building where the

[11:22] security guard had reported that a mail had threatened him with knife.

[11:26] Prior to our officer's arrival. The, the suspect had fled into

[11:30] one of the apartments there.

[11:32] Our officers arrived on scene. They attempted to make contact with the suspect. He was

[11:36] uncooperative. This was. Turned into

[11:39] a barricade situation. Our emergency response team was called

[11:43] in emergency response team is compromised of our SWAT team

[11:47] and crisis negotiators.

[11:49] After several hours, they were able to make contact with the suspect. They were able to

[11:53] convince him to come out and surrender. They were able to take him into

[11:56] custody. Weapon was recovered. He was charged with numerous

[12:00] offenses. We also brought out the new

[12:03] mobile command post Megatron for this event, which helped to

[12:07] maintain command and control the siege. This was a great team

[12:10] effort. Incent was resolved without anybody getting hurt.

[12:15] Now into the statistical overview, this first slide shows

[12:20] calls for service year to date. Right now we're at

[12:23] 75 394

[12:27] calls for service slightly down 5.2%

[12:30] compared to where we were in 25. And then the next slide

[12:34] shows the arrest for the year. Right now we're at

[12:37] 3642 arrest for the year. And that is

[12:41] slightly up 1.4% from where we were last year.

[12:45] And that is all I have to report from the police department. Thank

[12:48] you.

[12:52] Good afternoon, everyone. We received a total of

[12:56] 408 reported concern cases. During the time frame of

[13:00] August 5th and September 1st. 138

[13:03] of those cases have been closed.

[13:06] 93.14% of those cases were responded to within

[13:10] 24 hours.

[13:12] And an additional 203 cases from

[13:16] prior periods were also closed for a total of 341

[13:19] cases closed during this period.

[13:22] This slide represents the top concern types for the licensing and

[13:26] inspections. Department. High grass and weeds

[13:30] at 211 followed by 38 exterior

[13:33] violations on houses followed by 30 debris

[13:37] on properties. Here's the chart for public

[13:40] works. Where our number one is recycle bin and

[13:43] total requests at four followed by street light issues at four.

[13:48] You know, bringing to our website, which is

[13:50] www.acmj.gov and I'm going to show you how to

[13:53] report a concern. So here's the icon which can be found

[13:57] on our home page. When you click that, it's going to fire up the

[14:00] report of concern application. The first thing you're going to do is identify

[14:04] the address of the concern. You're going to select

[14:07] a concern type from the drop down list and you're

[14:11] also going to fill out the description field. To tell us what the problem that

[14:14] you're reporting is about. You're going to fill out your contact

[14:17] information. There's also a place for you to put a

[14:20] picture to help us respond more quickly.

[14:24] Going to bring you back to our homepage and I want to show you that we have phone apps that you

[14:28] can download for your respective Android or Apple device.

[14:32] This is what the app looks like once you download it onto your phone.

[14:36] What I like about the app is it uses your GPS coordinates to alleviate

[14:40] you typing in the address. You're going to have

[14:43] a drop down list which is exactly like the other application where you're going to select

[14:47] the concern type. The other thing I like about the phone is

[14:50] you can use the voice to text to elaborate on your concern. And you can

[14:54] also use the camera on your phone to take a picture.

[15:04] What we got?

[15:09] Okay, so our first speaker is Stephen Kenny.

[15:13] Stephen, if I could ask you to please step up to the podium, state your full name

[15:17] and resident city of residence. Before you tune in at all at time for

[15:21] your question or comment. So my name is Steve Kenny. I work online

[15:25] succeeding in Jersey. Thank you for

[15:28] calling. Just key things to run over

[15:31] consideration. I cover the suggestions, but one major concern.

[15:36] I'm a few bit user for the system. I believe in it. I think it's a civic uni. I believe

[15:40] it's been in our liability. We're a primary concern that business administrator

[15:43] improves safety cleanliness along the line. At the same

[15:46] time, I think we're assessing it from outside any side

[15:50] in perspective and not from an outside in perspective. When

[15:53] you look at it from an outside where I am and you look at what's coming back to

[15:56] me, it doesn't appear to be very good. And I give some

[15:59] examples, a nice complaint.

[16:03] A live outdoor concert within 50th of the residents.

[16:07] With a constructed stage. Industrial power

[16:11] 005 on a Sunday to 2 30th Sunday morning.

[16:16] Police called and I said, and the official

[16:19] response from the city is on private property, not thinking they don. T

[16:23] want a first year of my student tell you that that's nonsense straight away.

[16:27] New townhomes are built there. But in through the feet, you couldn't look at

[16:31] it. There's going to be buyer's remarks if you allow these concerts

[16:35] midnight to two o'clock on a Sunday morning to go home in that area.

[16:39] Other issues that do pop up.

[16:44] The, in particular, I think.

[16:48] This issue has been closed no further to be addressed. What does that mean?

[16:52] To me? So I perceive that there's wise dangling from the telephone pole. It's still

[16:56] wet. The issue has been closed. No further taken. So that

[17:00] just puts the public up reporting. It's, it's a

[17:03] dermotivating function. When you get back nothing,

[17:06] deem to be close. So from an outside in

[17:09] perspective, I have to say. See you start is not

[17:13] working like it should do. From an inside out perspective, where you do some of the

[17:16] statistics, but you're not doing trend analysis, you're not doing comparative analysis. You're

[17:20] not doing causal collateral analysis, which is available on module.

[17:25] This appears to be just a paper exercise. And getting

[17:29] citizens to report to the city is a good thing.

[17:33] But demotivating them into so doing is not a good

[17:36] thing. I take the app, I use it all the time, but oftentimes

[17:40] I put pictures in there in the address and they're not included in the database.

[17:44] So no action is taken closed out. It's not coming through the app.

[17:47] Okay, your time is in. I'll stop back.

[17:53] Any response? Anyone have a response

[17:57] immediately to some of the issues raised?

[18:01] If not, we can have a response later as I.

[18:05] Recall what I just heard was there's an issue with

[18:09] concerts being within a certain distance from a residence

[18:14] and the noise issue.

[18:16] The other issue, which I think probably meets in a little bit more time

[18:19] to look at, is tickets being closed. But

[18:23] the complained upon the complaint

[18:27] not actually being addressed. We will definitely talk about that.

[18:31] Internally because that is definitely not supposed to

[18:35] happen.

[18:37] So, Mike, any response to the.

[18:41] Comment, I wasn't familiar.

[18:43] With concert was being referenced.

[18:47] But maybe you know or maybe the chiefness. I was

[18:51] going to say, sir. I would be happy to talk to this gentleman after

[18:54] the meeting and find out when and where that happened. We could look into it and figure out what the

[18:58] issue was there. I'm not sure which concert he's

[19:01] representing. But we'll talk.

[19:05] Mike, any comment? Yeah, I think the

[19:08] general question was, does it noise ordinate supply to private

[19:12] property? Of course it does. But that's the general question you were asking.

[19:17] And he might have been

[19:19] referring to the concert at Stanley Holmes. I'm not sure.

[19:26] Outside of the cattle restaurant on the outside. It was

[19:29] the event managed to stay with event staff controlling access

[19:33] private. But the city of all response was nothing we can do on private

[19:36] property, but that's not true. Yeah, we'll

[19:39] have a further response to that once we look at the noise ordinance, but it does apply

[19:45] to every establishment really that boys. And we'll

[19:48] get a better response for that next meeting.

[19:54] Next. Our next speaker is Joyce.

[20:06] Do you want to reserve your time or do you want to do?

[20:10] Okay. Good afternoon, everyone. I thought you

[20:13] used to put. The.

[20:17] Questions that were asked and the last meeting.

[20:21] I thought the answers would be up there for this

[20:24] meeting. Then you used to do that at stopping.

[20:28] Something is missing.

[20:30] Go ahead, Patrick. Yeah, I can answer that question. So normally we

[20:34] do that for questions that aren't fielded at

[20:37] the meetings. So if we feel the questions at the

[20:40] meetings, which I believe Director Finch and the chief

[20:44] answered the questions at the last meeting. So we do have the responses

[20:48] in on our website. We have a city stat section where you could

[20:52] go in and you will see the agenda presentations

[20:56] and the answers for all the meetings that were held since the inception

[20:59] of the program. Yes, I know that. Okay. I do view

[21:02] that. Okay. But I'm back to where I

[21:05] was. I thought you used to

[21:08] put it up there. What happened at the last meeting?

[21:12] That's where I'm at.

[21:15] I can answer that one for you. We put

[21:19] what you saw on the screen was questions that we did not have

[21:22] answers to at that meeting.

[21:25] So if we can answer it. Then we didn't need to put the

[21:29] question. Up.

[21:31] So like on this one, you will see at the next meeting the

[21:35] gentleman's question that he had with the responses from the

[21:38] appropriate departments.

[21:41] So that's why you see that.

[21:44] Anyone else?

[21:48] Did you raise your hand? Back? Are you good? Okay.

[21:52] All right. With that, we are done. Thank you.

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