[0:08] okay good evening everyone thank you for attending the

[0:12] town hall meeting today is September 18th the time now is

[0:17] 7:34 can we all please stand for the pledge of

[0:26] allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic

[0:31] for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for

[0:39] all thank you mayor student will not be in attendance today she had um a medical

[0:44] procedure so she will not be here today um Miss Russell do you mind calling the

[0:54] row

[0:57] Stewart Vice chair barnhard present council member left

[1:04] present council member St John

[1:08] pres council member Downing pres council member osar

[1:17] pres thank you Miss Russell at the time we have no meeting minutes to approve at

[1:21] the moment they will be approved for next meeting um Miss Russell have not

[1:26] sent them out just yet she will be sending them out tonight for review for

[1:28] the council um um Mee and rules um citizen participation is 3 minutes um

[1:35] the first report that will be read tonight is the police department report

[1:38] Chief

[1:49] Moore Oh C there is a QR code um right there that's posted that if anyone wants

[1:57] to speak you scan it and that way we can and call you up for you can have time to

[2:02] speak during the meeting during citizens participation um why we waiting for

[2:08] chief more Mr roomie do you mind coming up giving your report

[2:23] okay good evening um chairman wart and other council members good evening uh

[2:31] citizens and good evening to all our guests that are present um first I would

[2:37] like to say uh this is Happy Hispanic Heritage Month uh and began September

[2:42] 14th and will end October 15 2024 uh I uh would like to salute my

[2:51] Hispanic family I have three children who are Hispanic grandchildren Alexis

[2:56] clar is a chef I have an architect and engineer and my granddaughter Aurora

[3:02] shali teaches a high school here in Prince George's

[3:05] County so salute to all of our Hispanic neighbors the Hispanic population is

[3:10] about 12% of the Town Town population um okay I'm only going to

[3:16] give you an update to my last report uh to the man Council uh so uh since uh the

[3:23] August 31st meeting on 916 2024 I met with Mr David Hub he's representing the

[3:29] owner of 707 6th Place uh attending the meeting with Mr py and I there is a

[3:35] bacon house on the lot as you may recall uh that house that that beon house was

[3:40] creating a lot of havoc and so the owners had the uh occupants evicted

[3:45] there is a possibility of building a three uh three SLE family detached

[3:50] housing units there I suggested that uh I mean a suggestion that I contact uh

[3:55] Stephanie prel director of hip to discuss proposed development and I will

[4:00] also contact the Marland Department of Housing Community Development to explore

[4:04] the possibility explore possible funding uh hip will meet with Mr pinkin I early

[4:10] uh next week and uh I will send you all that information if anybody uh council

[4:16] members are interested in attending the NetZero housing update uh

[4:21] I encourage all of you please go by such a wonderful project uh currently they're

[4:27] putting in sidewalks and driveways um they're being installed uh inside work

[4:32] such as the installation the Floor Covering and Cabinet Hardware is being

[4:35] installed and the micro grid and a historic Mark a Historic Park I'm sorry

[4:40] and Markus will be the last to be installed then as of today 918

[4:47] 2024 uh I met with Reverend Holtz of the New Abundant Life Missionary Baptist

[4:52] Church forly uh known as Metropolitan it's a historic site we met with Mr

[4:57] Thomas gross and and Casey coin of Prince geordan County Department of

[5:01] planning to discuss funding and upgrading the church we all agreed that

[5:06] an engineer should come out to assist the condition of the building but we're

[5:11] not sure uh whether or not the cracks that are there uh whether they're

[5:16] foundational or are the reasons so we're going to look for funding for that

[5:20] that's a soft cost uh there are there are non- capital reimbursement grants

[5:26] that are available maybe to help with the cost for engineer here uh we will

[5:31] invite Daniel Tanner who's the grand specialist to meet our next meeting

[5:35] Revan H Thomas gross and Casey Co visit the church and will provide me with an

[5:40] update early next week also what I did not put in here is that uh during this

[5:45] period i coordinated the 90th annivers Church anniversary that was a real

[5:51] success and want to thank everybody I sent my notes on to uh council member St

[5:56] John and my uh minutes and Miss Russell is is going to send out uh the date for

[6:01] the next meeting that ends my report thank

[6:07] you any questions from the citizens no thank you Mr roomy

[6:15] okay next um up for the for their report is Police Department chief Moore

[6:22] [Music]

[6:28] [Music]

[6:38] good evening Council good evening vice mayor andma

[6:44] Heights uh I wanted to first start off by um this is going to be a brief update

[6:50] from our report I submitt for work session and get into uh the school year

[6:57] um the town of High police department has formed a very well uh working

[7:05] relationship with Robert gay Elementary in the principal of school um where a

[7:10] lot of our kids attend elementary school here in the town of Grandma Heights even

[7:14] though the school is outside of our town um we have pledged to at times help with

[7:19] the crossing guard assignments um we have also pledged to try to do patrols

[7:25] around the area where the buses are letting out from the high school school

[7:29] and the middle schools to make sure that these kids are safe getting off the bus

[7:33] can get in um last year um there were several robberies in the county not in

[7:39] the town but as I go to meetings every Thursday I go to a crme meeting every

[7:43] Thursday morning to get the updates on everything that's going on in French

[7:47] County um there were people who were um praying on kids getting off the bus and

[7:53] walking home catching them byel so um pretty much all alties and County

[8:00] Police we're trying to saturate these areas where these buses are letting out

[8:04] at different town all of our kids are getting home

[8:08] safe um we were there for the first day of school um and there are times at the

[8:14] end of school where we are um sitting out on the roadway to make sure these

[8:19] kids are um getting um in with their parents and um some who are riding the

[8:25] bus um one thing I didn't realize about the the elementary school that school is

[8:33] 90% um parent drop off or walking students it's only a small fraction of

[8:38] kids who catch the bus to go to Robert gry elementary school as you all have

[8:43] seen all the school violence that are that is going on around this country we

[8:48] have to do a better job as a community to make sure that these kids are able to

[8:53] go to school and learn in peace um we're going to do all we can do on our part

[8:57] here at the police department along with other um jurisdictions around um the

[9:01] area as well um as I move I'm sorry about

[9:06] that um move forward um earlier today um officer cogill and officer Colin um

[9:14] arrested a juvenile suspect in the town um who we had locked up prior on a prior

[9:22] robbery charge two prior robbery charges last year on Halloween the same

[9:27] individual who lived in the town is 16 years

[9:30] old we locked him up today cuz he had two outstanding warrants in Prince

[9:34] georg's County for aggravated assault and he was also wanted um in DC DC sent

[9:41] two of their officers here to the town um two days ago and I had a meeting with

[9:46] them where they left the information saying they were looking for this guy

[9:49] once we got the information then we started um patrolling the area and we

[9:54] end up catching him coming back from DC back into the town and he was arrested

[9:59] today so um his parents were notified he s in the boys Village in sheltonham

[10:04] Maryland where he is waiting to go to court

[10:07] so um uh we are asking all of our citizens

[10:13] to please be mindful that the elections are coming up um I'm getting a lot of um

[10:18] information from um the governor's office in reference to election

[10:23] interference election intimidation um and other type of

[10:28] violence doing this election cycle so we're just passing it on if you get any

[10:32] information of people trying to intimidate you as a voting citizen um

[10:38] for any election um Town local state federal whatever it is um please pass

[10:44] the information on so we can get it to the proper authorities so they can do um

[10:48] a a proper investigation and last but not least um this Saturday we're doing

[10:55] uh Bike Rodeo here in the town of FMA Heights if you have kids uh who are

[10:58] inter in coming to the town hall to um learn how to ride a bike learn bike

[11:04] maintenance bike safeties and I believe we're probably going to give away uh a

[11:09] couple of the bikes that we had donated from um earlier this year so we were

[11:13] trying to figure out a way how to give them out but um during this bike rad I

[11:17] believe we're going to give away a couple of bicycles but we have a couple

[11:20] of other other municipalities um who are should be joining us on Saturday it's a

[11:25] lot going on Saturday because it's also Glenn arton day and one other

[11:28] municipalities St but we're all trying to work around it so we can all support

[11:31] each other and last but not least um we are

[11:38] also getting ready uh getting prepared for uh next major holiday which is

[11:43] Halloween uh which we uh know that's one of

[11:49] the on the law enforcement side this is one of the days that uh are really

[11:54] challenging for a lot of people because it gets people excuse to wear masks even

[11:58] though they wearing masks a l lot now so we are coming together with um um other

[12:03] municipalities and County officers to try to put a comprehensive plan together

[12:08] to how are we going to attack Halloween um as far as patrolling but I just

[12:13] advise um uh citizens and councel and mayor

[12:19] that if you do have kids and then we're going to try to go to a a group type

[12:23] activity I know we do trunk Retreat here I believe we're going to do that again

[12:26] this year and I believe the Masonic Lodge does something but

[12:29] I would really encourage those type of events opposed to walking up and down

[12:33] the street going door too how we used to do as kids and it was great but we're

[12:38] just in different times right now so um and that will conclude my report thank

[12:46] you Chief

[12:51] [Music] sure um including myself three okay um

[12:59] all y work the same Shi No what's the shift well I usually work majority they

[13:05] work and they they'll rotate a schedule sometimes it could be 2 to 10 it could

[13:09] be 3: to 11 uh and if there's court involved then they will have to come in

[13:13] early go to court and then whatever the remain of that ship is

[13:19] is August 14th

[13:23] someone mhm between 1 3 and mhm

[13:30] today somebody stole a package off my

[13:34] porch one day last this m was going around knocking on my door next to my

[13:40] neighbor's door across the street MH they called the police they say we don't

[13:45] have nobody on on call call 911 I'm really scared to come out my

[13:52] house now they call they you said they had call they told the person to call

[13:56] 911 who was they PG count I don't know so when he call

[14:01] 911 we assume that it will automatically come to the Fe he

[14:06] District they him on the phone have

[14:15] anybody so it's to the point now I'm afraid to come out my house because I

[14:21] don't know who's lay outside front of the house mhm we live on a corner they

[14:27] post up you got light you got two lights you go down 59 count the lights on each

[14:34] block they got two lights on each block I have nothing on

[14:40] my y I don't what I don't understand maybe it's just me cuz the alley been

[14:46] here since I was a kid we used to cut through the

[14:49] alley y'all put lights in an alley in the and we had none on our shirt on our

[14:58] street what where what your 100 block of 59 10 the th block

[15:02] 1014 mhm okay 104 1010 I don't know I got you I got you you know I don't I

[15:10] don't understand I just paid my property taxes I'm pretty sure if you look at the

[15:14] town taxes we pay out a lot of money Le I know I pay out a lot of money and I

[15:19] should feel safe in my town I should feel safe you know what

[15:24] I'm saying if it's three police officers the time should be DED out 8

[15:31] hours in the morning 8 hours in the evening 8 hours from tonight to morning

[15:36] we could never have one officer work by herself overnight that's that's nobody

[15:39] would do that at all got this dummy car sitting in the neighborhood ain't SC

[15:44] ain't deter no okay some people love to see it that's why we do it

[15:48] Ain okay that now that you say you have no lights we're going to work on your

[15:52] lights and we're going to do more patrols on 59th Avenue if if you don't

[15:56] come in and let me know that you don't have any lights so I can talk to public

[16:00] works or anybody else I just don't know y'all come down that street at night

[16:05] time y'all can see it there no there no it's not y'all can see when you coming

[16:09] down a y'all can see maybe because I'm not

[16:13] the old man that was here maybe that's why y'all put the lights in that I I

[16:17] don't know nothing about what you yeah that's what it sound like you blaming me

[16:20] I don't know nothing about I'm here to help you fix the problem what I am

[16:23] blaming is how much money I'm dishing off of taxes and I'm I feel like I'm not

[16:28] safe I understand that I don't come I don't come here every Eventing only time

[16:32] I come here is when something happen and I feel like I'm unsafe I come out the

[16:37] house I got a pack of foxes walking down the middle of my

[16:41] street you know what I'm saying so I'm not trying to get

[16:45] bit you know what I'm saying so what am I supposed to do about that if I cat

[16:49] somebody in my car if I kill him something happened to him I'm

[16:54] responsible I just want to feel safe with the money I'm dishing out I want to

[16:58] feel safe in my neighborhood you know what I'm saying I

[17:02] ain't worried I say it but I get what yall

[17:07] doing about the kids I understand Rob great but it don't take three police

[17:14] officers to post up in front of elementary school I I never said three

[17:19] post police officers post up in front of Robert elementary school but listen your

[17:23] your concerns are valid and we will address your concerns I'm not here to

[17:27] downplay them or anything else I'm want to look into everything that you're

[17:30] talking about y ride down my street y see the blind on the cor I got a lady

[17:35] that's across from me she ain't she come in the house when it's daylight and

[17:39] don't leave out of her house cuz she's afraid to come out her house I got

[17:43] Spanish people cross from me they don't want to come out the house because they

[17:47] people was banging on they door last week trying to break into their house

[17:51] they never been their cars have been stolen out driveway almost every vehicle

[17:56] we've had has been stolen from either out of our driveway or in front of our

[18:01] house and now it's getting worse I've been in Heights for 26 years and and I

[18:08] know when the seasons are and I'm coming from that Eastern Avenue side it's

[18:14] starting to get worse so we just have to the

[18:18] presence it get

[18:22] worse I understand what you're saying so let me say

[18:25] this um again my my third officer just started on Monday so myself and officer

[18:33] coill have been holding everything down as much as

[18:37] can with their assistance from County Police I hear your concerns and I'm

[18:42] going to look into your concerns personally which means that um like I

[18:47] always do and people who live in the town see me I do patrols myself I'm not

[18:52] just here sitting in this office or anything else I'm out pulling traffic

[18:55] I'm out doing making uh stops I'm out makeing arrest when I have to I had uh

[19:01] uh we had two uh arrests last week on Sheriff Road I'm all doing everything I

[19:07] can with two people we just added a third we got wait and let me finish let

[19:12] me finish we got to get him through his

[19:15] field training and then we're going to move forward with the assistance of

[19:20] Prince Jers County and DC police I've met with the 6D Commander about

[19:24] everything on E Avenue well we have a couple initiatives that we're going to

[19:27] be out doing on Eastern Avenue in reference to uh sex sex activity out

[19:32] there and the way the people are riding up and down there speeding and

[19:36] everything else it's a lot of car theft car jackings robberies that go on for

[19:42] the most part on the district side we have a small amount to the uh TR Trinkle

[19:47] over to the FMA high side or the C Pleasant side and we're all together

[19:52] trying to do the best we can with the least is possible so just be patient

[19:56] with us I'm going to look at into it and Mr SW SW look every time you got a your

[20:02] issue you and I usually able to talk it out and and come up with a plan with

[20:07] this this this ain't the first time one of my viewers sto ain't the first time

[20:12] they stole my GMC and this goes beyond you but like I said I paid my

[20:21] taxes what's this September and August I seen what I this is the first time I

[20:26] really looked at the amount that I pay for town

[20:30] taxes and if anybody look at their town taxes and see what they pay they will

[20:35] feel the same way that I do somebody stole and you know what I'm

[20:41] saying y'all get it I get what y saying but y'all ain't the ones who got to go

[20:46] through the whole process of dealing with a headache looking for a car over

[20:51] again and pray to God don't knowbody come and get that you know what I'm

[20:56] saying like I said the the trashman come what the day what's the days for the

[21:03] trashman they can pull up in front of my house and bluntly see you can't P make a

[21:08] left turn no right turn cuz it's a blind side if someone they put speed bumps

[21:15] throughout the neighborhood they put those pretty stock signs with the pretty

[21:19] lights but check y put lights in a Alle and this is where I'm not I'm not

[21:27] understanding when everybody ride down 59th Avenue I'm pretty sure she seen cuz

[21:33] she lives around the corner she got to come up 59th AV get to her house but

[21:37] that's a long way street y'all two I don't know if y'all

[21:41] ever come up through Heights I know you don't K should have to come up 9th avue

[21:46] sometimes yeah and see that there no lights it's pissed dark in front of my

[21:52] house and it shouldn't be like that when yall got a grant or whatever y'all got

[21:57] to put LED lights in an app you don't get you don't you don't

[22:04] get this in University Park College Park or nowhere you probably don't get in and

[22:10] see pleasant but I'm trying to I want to

[22:14] know where my money is going that's what I want to know where's

[22:19] my money going where is that I'm not I feel unsafe in my own

[22:22] neighborhood I really feel unsafe you know what I'm saying y'all

[22:26] talk about Rober y bust somebody on sh Road or y'all dealing with EAS Avenue I

[22:33] can give [Music]

[22:35] two two whatever about what goes on

[22:41] E the corner of has been a problem for a long time my

[22:47] daughter was a product of a hit and run on that

[22:51] corner nothing's been done nothing's been done my daughter was what like

[22:57] seven she's 24 now and it's still a blind side it's

[23:03] still no lights things that happen on my side

[23:07] people got robbed and everything on that side and nothing is

[23:14] happened should no one feel unsafe walking out their house do you

[23:19] feel unsafe when you walk out your house you sa God be you don't have your gun on

[23:24] your do you feel un safe it's plenty of places I don't feel

[23:29] safe with but I understand your point I'm not here to I I understand I

[23:34] understand give us an opportunity to work on what your problems

[23:39] are and again my question is again I reported my car stolen in August August

[23:46] the 14th do y'all get a report or anything

[23:51] saying hey this happened the night the morning of

[23:56] my that you're going yes are you getting new reports yes so no one came to our

[24:02] house and said anything about it and yall the Town Police yall should least

[24:06] came to our house and say hey we heard y'all had a situation we going to try to

[24:11] take care of it or I ain't asking y'all to go out there and look for my car but

[24:16] so what do you mean take care of it I'm just trying to do something in the town

[24:20] hey we sorry what happened you know what I'm saying anything y'all the Town

[24:26] Police I shouldn't have to depend on PG County got am I paying PG County with

[24:32] the town taxes or am I paying from Heights

[24:38] supp you know I'm dishing this money out to the town I just want to feel safe

[24:42] when I come out my house or do I got to take do I got to do

[24:47] something to somebody and then for y'all to come and lock me

[24:51] up cuz frankly I'm getting tired of this stuff happening somebody stole $300

[24:57] worth of TI off my porch today where was that at on my porch they

[25:03] were sitting on your porch the tires on my

[25:06] porch what time was that it has been like between 1 and

[25:11] 2 but they gone now a.m. you got camera footage yeah all

[25:19] right I tell you what a got camera footage I'm still in my car

[25:22] too it's no sense to open close the B doors after the system got out

[25:28] [Music] yeah I think with he say I wasn't

[25:33] say it's a problem right up in there even coming on my street on 51 K Street

[25:40] that whole strip up in there it's the three stol car one day broad daylight

[25:46] saw four young men get out of a stolen car another car in front of my door they

[25:51] jumped in there now three trib ago I didn't hear in your report officer

[25:57] Carill and Five County car cars was there over little car he said he

[26:03] couldn't leave the car because the car was under investigation you couldn't get

[26:08] up and down the street you had to turn around and go back the other way to come

[26:13] up the one way street com my street I don't know what happened is it something

[26:18] that we should look out for something more what we saying where the Swan House

[26:25] is coming on around the C Street that one it's no we we don't see police

[26:32] patrol the tree across the street where they used to do prostitution still doing

[26:38] prostitution we all got together and had the tree down so nothing hanging over

[26:43] there but that's the spot they put stolen cars in stolen things in people

[26:49] overdose it's been fre stolen cars I'm say in the last two

[26:55] mons so it's a problem there it's there very dark from Mr mrs's House coming on

[27:02] around to that corner of CAS is the problem okay need more okay Mr roomy can

[27:09] you look at his street as well for better lightning I I will okay I have I

[27:15] have a question um you talking about the what you talking

[27:28] you go down a woman you go down K Street and stop at that light stop at the stop

[27:34] sign I'm sorry stop at that stop sign they put eat real pretty

[27:39] light see that was not they but still but still they put lights up in the

[27:45] alley they clean the alley up and everything but they put lights up in the

[27:50] alley but don't nobody walk through right right yes do but I would get with

[27:54] the CH and what I I'm suggesting we do I'll stay one

[28:00] night

[28:09] [Music]

[28:22] Dove contact WSSC about when they didn't work in the front of our house and they

[28:27] didn't put SL and we got water sitting in front of our house I told the mayor

[28:31] about that when she first land for mayor okay they didn't even do the slope in

[28:35] front of the house so I got mosquitoes and everything posting laying in front

[28:40] of my house okay okay

[28:44] I excuse me 59th

[28:52] street address I 1014 59th Avenue M

[29:02] 20743 okay okay all right okay that's okay thank you

[29:10] [Music]

[29:18] Chief I I like to know why would they put a

[29:24] 100 trees right there

[29:31] inside my and I want to I can't get it

[29:42] [Music]

[29:47] because h [Music]

[29:57] [Music] okay that yes and then I can't get

[30:07] because up

[30:17] [Music] come fin to get my

[30:30] [Music]

[30:56] already and another thing the dump truck

[31:01] something I had two one in my car last we I had another one put 3

[31:11] months ago then I New Year a bullet [Music]

[31:23] with and tror trip I mean 2:00 in the

[31:30] morning used to come down colk Road and come up

[31:37] and that's talking she saying she didn't want to coming down that road I think is

[31:42] that

[31:45] that I think that's the you want

[31:51] that okay so I'm going call this meeting back to order Mr roomy thank you so much

[31:55] for taking care of that Forest I'm going to meet um I

[32:03] town code enforcement report for Mr Pinkney he is not here

[32:08] today um he had a family emergency um code enforcement citations for this

[32:14] period we issue 16 Civic civil cation totaling $166,000 and we have collected

[32:21] $7,000 $7500 in fines building permits for this period we have issued 12

[32:27] building permits totaling $2,432 building um business licensing

[32:33] for this period we have reissued three business licing licensing totaling

[32:39] $2,145 rental license for this period we have issued two rental license totaling

[32:45] $300 vacant building registration fees for this period we have not received any

[32:51] vacant building registration fees um lab registration fees for this period we

[32:56] have not received any V lap registration fees stop work order on 59028 Street

[33:03] Building permier required 7065 9th Avenue replace windows that was removed

[33:08] notice of corre corrective action during this period we have issued 54 corrective

[33:13] notices for various code violations um stated before on August

[33:19] 20th 2024 when our res residents called to complain about the holding um crossw

[33:24] in the corner of Sher Ro E Avenue he stayed when he was was crossing the

[33:28] wheelchair um went into the hole and flipped over into incoming traffic um he

[33:35] did get assistance from a bystander when he Mr Pinkley visited this site he

[33:41] investigated the situation it was determined that the hole was left open

[33:45] by WSSC on September 4th 2024 WSSC came out on the site to install a new

[33:53] cover in the last Rec report um council member Downey had about asked about the

[33:58] court date for Mr Hamilton of 5333 Sheriff wrote I stated that we have gone

[34:04] to court on September 4th 2024 and the Court ruled in the favor in our favor

[34:10] since that the time I have received a affidavit from The District Court of

[34:14] Maryland stating that the court had granted a motion to request continue

[34:19] postpone the case it was filed 8292 24 the new court dat is October 3rd 2024

[34:25] 8:45 a.m. courtroom room 4 the address is 4990 RH Island Avenue has Maryland

[34:33] 20781 also council member Downey also asked for the meeting for Chief Moore Mr

[34:37] Hamilton and Timber Lake the tenant and myself after speaking with council

[34:41] member Downing she wanted to have a zoom meeting with the above mentioned persons

[34:45] I gave her the phone number of Mr Hamilton and Mr timl Lake to set up the

[34:49] zoom meeting a few months ago I mentioned in my report um the need for

[34:53] residential parking in the town recently I received several complaints concerning

[34:58] the out ofate Vehicles being parked for a long period of time in front of

[35:02] property it is unfair to our residents in the report I also mentioned

[35:08] that on my street there is a household of seven

[35:11] vehicles and five are parked on the street two in the driveway which is

[35:16] unfair to the homeowners I think we should look

[35:20] seriously into establishing some type of residential parking for our residents

[35:24] that concludes Mr pinkin report um any questions please contact him or send him

[35:30] an email um next report that will be read

[35:34] is the town treasury report good evening thank you vice mayor bonart good evening

[35:39] to the um Council citizens and staff my name is Susan walk I serve as a treasure

[35:43] for the town of font Heights going to give you the year end report as of the

[35:47] end of our fiscal year which ended June 30th

[35:50] 2024 our General Revenue we budgeted $783 48 we received $750 $

[35:59] 7,264 intergo transfers we budgeted for

[36:06] $246,600 other Revenue we budgeted for

[36:12] $78,400

[36:15] 799 the police department we budgeted for 56,000 I'm sorry

[36:20] 96,2 we received 14,850 our total revenue as at the end

[36:25] of um June was 1 92,84546

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[36:37] 31,510 we we spent

[36:46] $226,200 we spent $184 legislative we budgeted

[36:52] 67,0 762 we spent 51,1 161

[36:58] Municipal we budgeted 41,021 we spent 45,3

[37:04] 62 Public Safety we budget

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[37:26] 347,000 net income at the end of the year was $1

[37:31] 13,930 um for 20 for fiscal year 2024 we did have several projects that we

[37:37] planned and that we did complete we have additional projects that we have planned

[37:43] for 20125 and we have we will be meeting to start those projects for 2025 we did

[37:49] receive a bond in 2024 to make renovations to the building and we did

[37:53] start the renovations the renovation started in

[37:56] the basement and we have completed the renovations for the bathroom bathrooms

[38:00] in the basement next will be the front door um ADA Compliant door and then if

[38:05] we have available funds we will look at um upgrading the bathrooms and on the

[38:09] upper level if we don't have enough funds for that we'll have to apply for

[38:12] another Bond we also have three loans cuz we have three vehicles so the dump

[38:18] truck the balance on that is $8,885 it will be paid off in February

[38:24] 2025 we have the trash truck we have a balance of $326 51 it'll be paid off in

[38:31] July of 2025 and the newest vehicle is a pickup

[38:35] truck for Public Works the balance is $64,800

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[38:50] [Music]

[38:57] okay I'll go and make a copy C you guys have any

[39:04] questions yes I can give you a copy of it okay no problem so what happens to

[39:12] the it's just like your bank account it just stays in the account and you just

[39:16] use whatever you still have for the for the next fiscal year it doesn't it's not

[39:20] that it's just sitting there it just gets used for the next fiscal year so

[39:23] whatever whatever you end with is what you begin with for the next year

[39:27] [Applause] yes

[39:34] ma'am house and the Spanish people two down they car

[39:43] on the they don't say nothing to them they B their car on the p and they got

[39:49] all that driveway on side

[39:53] out okay can I get your information and I can at least or the chief is here we

[39:59] can

[40:04] getu so it's where it's Park is not a driveway you're saying it's a it's a

[40:10] porch okay all right right from

[40:16] the may

[40:20] know we call him man but he passed away and they so out the Spanish people and

[40:27] they po a truck on the porch and all that D is it is it the one across from

[40:35] the dunkyard yes not that little old man next to that man and a black

[40:50] truck we'll take a look at to the

[40:57] next

[41:00] [Music] okay okay thank you me Susan you're

[41:06] welcome um next new business New Abundant Life Ministry church building

[41:11] renovation and parking lot um conversion Pastor Milton halt he's not here today

[41:18] um so we're going to go to new business number two celebration of Hispanic

[41:22] Heritage Month September 15th through October 15th Town manager Seri we don't

[41:27] have anything new updated yet in terms of of what the celebration going to be

[41:34] like so we're trying to uh uh meet with some of the Hispanic leaders to come up

[41:39] with some home celebration but I asked Mrs Russell to please put that

[41:44] information concerning celebration of Hispanic month on the website the county

[41:49] has a lot of information that we can also post on

[41:55] Ouran Okay so line item number three for you cap request meeting for f he

[42:01] Elementary School Historic Site she right she U I sent her an email again

[42:06] today reminding her and asking if she was lend I get no response it was at at

[42:11] UK's request that they wanted to be with the mayor and councel to give you

[42:16] updated report as far as the development of the school um which is also a

[42:22] historic site okay so now we're going to go down to mayor's report um the mayor

[42:28] is not here today we gonna go down to the council members report we gonna

[42:31] start with council member St

[42:36] [Music]

[42:40] John um Mr work I can just talk right you can I don't need to un

[42:45] right I don't need

[42:49] to the there we [Music]

[42:55] go all right good evening everyone citizens um in the building and online

[43:01] um this is my report um pretty much for the month of July and August as we were

[43:07] currently on recess um just want to always remind everybody that um we do

[43:13] have all information going out on all social media platforms um you guys can

[43:19] stream uh the meetings now we have made an update so you're able to watch any

[43:24] work sessions as well as any Town meetings um via Facebook Twitter or

[43:29] Instagram as well as our YouTube channel um and then we'll be working on being

[43:34] able to post the link directly from the website as well so you guys can catch

[43:38] that if you're not able to make any live meetings um past events uh there were

[43:44] several events that I attended um the tri Municipal meetings uh for our 20743

[43:50] Coalition has started um if anyone is unfamiliar with that we are working um

[43:55] with the town of capital Heights and the City of SE Pleasant to um basically come

[44:01] together as one um to have better resources to be able to um have a better

[44:07] united front because most of us all struggle with some of the same things so

[44:10] as us all being one um we're able to kind of be in unison ask for more things

[44:15] be able to get more resources um also National Night Out we did that August

[44:19] the 6th at the North FMA heights park that was a great turnout um I also

[44:24] attended alongside with Miss Seri um our housing Symposium um we had people in

[44:30] attendance like um Governor Moore who spoke um basically trying to tackle the

[44:35] housing uh market right now and looking for solutions for us to be able to have

[44:40] more affordable housing um as well as property dwellings uh food giveaway just

[44:46] want to remind everybody about the food giveaway we're doing food giveaways

[44:49] every 1 and 2 Sunday um we are also looking for volunteers for those um so

[44:55] typically those hours are in between about 11: to 4:00 p.m. um any regular

[45:00] volunteers any daily volunteers you can do half the day the full day um but we

[45:05] would like for you guys to not only help um but also come and take part in

[45:09] getting some of the food that we're giving away um we also did a back to

[45:14] school drive um that was in August we did that again with the town SE Pleasant

[45:19] and Capitol Heights and that was hosted um in goodwi park so our first annual it

[45:24] was a great turnout we expect to be able to keep doing that going forward um and

[45:29] probably changing different locations um also attended a meeting

[45:33] with Civic plus um being able to make updates and go through some trainings

[45:38] just to make sure our websites our social media um is up to par and get

[45:42] refreshed training um aside from that wanted to just kind of talk about

[45:47] upcoming events and things that we are looking towards planning I won't steal y

[45:52] thund up for the harvest party but I'll mention obviously we want to do a

[45:55] harvest party um um Missi kind of mentioned already as well but we have

[46:00] had our first meeting in regards to the town's 90th anniversary that'll be

[46:04] kicked off next year um so be on the lookout for mailers information coming

[46:09] out um for good things coming up we want to be able to celebrate all year long um

[46:14] so look out for your mailers your flyers and we'd like as many volunteers as

[46:18] possible um and just want to do something special for the town um and

[46:23] also coming up um for October um what we'd like to be able to see is us to be

[46:29] able to do something for breast cancer awareness as well as we're going to do

[46:32] bulk trash um we just need to get a debt a date set for that um alongside with

[46:38] the harvest party coming up um moving along to things on the list so just want

[46:45] to announce some of the things that we have accomplished and still kind of

[46:49] working on for um the communications committee so um we did roll out a

[46:54] communication survey we have been kind of having issues

[46:57] um with getting more full participation so I kind of mentioned in the work

[47:00] session that um I started off um with 58th and 59th um going out to resident

[47:06] so it was kind of a little bit back and forth I did have people who did come out

[47:09] and engage and kind of share their concerns um but a lot of people probably

[47:14] not still aware I did have my shirt on but not really aware of what was going

[47:17] on the reason for trying to reach out to the community um so what we have decided

[47:22] is we're going to try a different route and be able to just send mailers out to

[47:25] everyone um um with a prepost stamp so that they can fill out the survey form

[47:30] mail it back into us and again the reasoning for doing this um is to get

[47:34] more engagement to be able to make sure that people are being informed we have

[47:37] lots of complaints of people not getting flyers in the mail um or not being aware

[47:42] of certain things so we want to be able to reach out get input um get lots of

[47:46] feedback so that we're not making decisions and you know you guys have to

[47:50] come to meetings to to ask questions about those things we want to be able to

[47:53] try to get you guys engaged in advance um to be able to do that um and then

[48:00] lastly um we want to be able to start working on uh the newsletter project and

[48:07] uh I'm sorry I said lastly but really lastly um I was able to make contact

[48:11] with the liaison at the Fairmont Heights High School so we have been talking

[48:15] about being able to find some way that we can partner back up with the school

[48:19] so that we can start either figuring out how we're going to be able to offer the

[48:22] scholarship fund or be able to do some type of partnership um so I was able to

[48:27] make contact with Mr McBride um so conversations are starting so that we

[48:31] can start being able to get back to the school and as well as find opportunities

[48:36] for them to um help us here get community service hours or whatever we

[48:41] may have um and that will conclude my report thank you council member St John

[48:47] um council member

[48:53] lewit that's okay all right good evening everyone um

[48:59] I just have a couple of things one was um I also attended National Night Out um

[49:05] it was a great event I do like to have it um actually up at the um up at the

[49:11] park it it just gave us more room and I really really um I just want to say

[49:17] thank you to Public Works and all the staff because it was just amazing um

[49:21] each year just seems like it's growing so I'm very very uh thankful to everyone

[49:25] for their help and um I'm glad I could could be a part of that um as far as

[49:29] economic development there are just a couple of things I want to touch on um

[49:33] it seems like in the fall which I am actually going through um I've been

[49:37] doing that for the past couple weeks going through to find all of the

[49:41] deadlines to see how they would coincide with um our next upcoming uh economic

[49:47] development meeting um so they're uh from the sustainability action Grant uh

[49:53] they're due November 8th um the next uh cdbg Grant that's actually due November

[50:00] 1st um and then there is one other grant that

[50:06] um I did not mention

[50:11] um oh sustainable Maryland that's the other I said that one uh cdbg there

[50:17] there are a few of them that we possibly could qualify for and um get some uh

[50:22] projects uh get the ball rolling for those um so some of the things that um I

[50:29] want to just just mention for the next meeting we will be planning that um I

[50:35] have to just get with everyone's schedule to see uh what will work best

[50:38] but I would like to have that in um probably October to get give everyone a

[50:43] chance to attend um so I know that one of the things that we were talking about

[50:50] was the um strategic plan I would like to go over that as well as um just

[50:56] project updates as well as um get stakeholder input so that's input from

[51:02] all of the um uh from the staff to the uh to the um

[51:11] to our community see what their their needs are how we can meet those needs

[51:16] and again like I mentioned addressing the funding and resources and um also in

[51:22] uh my role of capital impr Improvement project planning um I'm seeking a

[51:27] property to um acquire for our Public Works and um I'll be working with Mr

[51:33] roomy probably to identify one of the grants that have a deadline coming up or

[51:38] any other uh funding sources for rehabilitation so those are the major

[51:43] things that I'm working on and that concludes my report at this time thank

[51:47] you council member left wi council member Oscar yes good night everyone

[51:53] um i' like to say that now that school is open and um want to keep the kids of

[51:58] the streets even after school keep them busy with certain activities and some of

[52:04] the activities I would like to recommend or highlight that goes on in the

[52:07] community is those that um particularly goes on at the

[52:11] library um they have this after school program called The tetin Zone where

[52:16] schools um the kids can go to the library and be

[52:20] productive um meet other kids uh there are several different activities that

[52:26] they can do do there's video games uh crafts and a variety of other fun

[52:31] activities that they could engage in instead of really frequenting on the

[52:35] streets and being Nuance in the communities um there's also Legos if the

[52:40] kids are um very artistic and they enjoy building

[52:44] things um in addition to that uh there's also

[52:49] computer basic open Labs that they have at the library where the librarian take

[52:54] the responsibility to educate the the children of the basic and fundamental

[52:59] skills in computer literacy um we have programs that

[53:05] involves Microsoft Words internet and definitely things that can help them

[53:10] while they at school and um in addition to that I just want to Echo what um

[53:18] council member uh St John said about the harvest party the Harvest Festival that

[53:22] we trying to have on October 26th where

[53:27] we trying to have that AC have this party for the kids um like the

[53:32] um the uh the chief said that we prefer to have the kids doing indoor activities

[53:40] so this is one of the indoor activities that we'll be hosting um they could have

[53:44] candy music movies and it's just would just be a fun time for them and they

[53:49] wouldn't have to be on the streets um in addition to that we have or lastly uh

[53:55] Veterans Day is coming up and I think we will also be having a a ceremony at the

[54:00] plaza so we'll be planning for that also that's all I have thank you council

[54:04] member Oscar yeah council member Downing um good evening everybody I think

[54:13] m in the the

[54:19] we and we have the OU

[54:50] but they've been here many times

[55:03] yeah for kids in the summer like when we was kids

[55:09] they haded Library downstairs like C pleas they had a summer program for kids

[55:16] do they have anything for the kids ENT time I think the library does have a lot

[55:24] of activities for the kids in the summertime

[55:48] yes all basketball swiming pool in

[55:54] there remember this stuff you I did all my activities down silver

[55:59] Vista Baptist Church that's where I was at they do

[56:04] activities can we participate can we just hold back for

[56:09] um participation the what you call

[56:14] it citizen participation I think the librarian is trying to say something

[56:19] let's just continue she is

[56:28] M you have

[56:32] theor can you hear me we can um this is just in reference to um I guess the

[56:38] stuff that goes on in the summertime during the summer the major initiative

[56:43] is the summer reading program and we do have a lot of paid programmers who come

[56:49] um we Supply lunches for the children we do movies crafts all kinds of things all

[56:57] of that information is on our website if you all know somebody who you would like

[57:03] to um have come to the library all you have to do is let me know and I'll send

[57:08] that information to our Administration and they'll have the

[57:13] budget for that they'll pay for the um individual and then you all can use the

[57:18] space for free that is also if you all are planning any other thing as well

[57:24] because you all are municipality so you all are able to use our meeting room

[57:29] spaces and things like that for other

[57:33] programs thank you so much all right council member

[57:42] Downey they don't when my children would come up

[57:47] they had books when on the phone

[57:56] but you got M thank you so much good afternoon

[58:02] everybody good afternoon is it

[58:06] on

[58:10] S all right I think that's it good afternoon everyone um I am councilwoman

[58:15] Sher Downing and um I have um been collecting it's a a

[58:21] very important election season right now and um I've managed to get the training

[58:26] so I can sign anybody up to register to vote and to check their voting status

[58:31] cuz we vote because at one point in time none of us could and I think it's very

[58:38] important um one of the things that um councilwoman St John tapped on is a

[58:44] beautiful um event or opportunity that the town of feema heights Capitol

[58:50] Heights and SE Pleasant are embarking on and when we met they did not know that

[58:57] we were all 20743 even Chapel Oaks and um Cedar

[59:05] Heights uh Saturday I attended a meeting with the president of the Chapel Oaks

[59:13] Association because I'm about neighbors making friends with my

[59:18] neighbors because we have the same problems and listening to their

[59:23] policing uh one of the things that we talked about was was the shortage in

[59:29] policing and how everybody's struggling and the only thing that we can do are

[59:36] cameras cameras and uh the type of cameras that are

[59:41] reliable there is something ring has a neighborhood ring neighborhood where we

[59:47] all can communicate on the same network um we

[59:51] can dialogue with one another about what is going on in our community Community

[59:57] um Mr Swan if I'm not mistaken you too have had the chief will tell you in one

[1:00:04] month the police have asked for my footage three times

[1:00:12] so footage don't stop people from taking your stuff no it doesn't but what it

[1:00:17] does your items are what it does though is it gives data it gives numbers it

[1:00:25] lets people know that we have a problem here and what I'm letting my neighbors

[1:00:30] know is that when somebody breaks your window and break in your car you know

[1:00:33] what they don't do they don't report it and that doesn't help us so what I'm

[1:00:39] asking our neighbors to do is whatever you do make sure you report it and the

[1:00:44] next time you two have a problem put it in

[1:00:48] writing email the town of fah Heights Representatives so that and and email

[1:00:55] all of us so we're all on the same page um I'm not going to take up a lot of

[1:01:00] time today I just wanted everyone to know that I will be going to court on

[1:01:03] the fourth for Mr Hamilton because Mr Hamilton does not live in fah Heights he

[1:01:10] has a business that he has wrapped in black tarp and created a

[1:01:15] junkyard on our face on the on the face of font Heights used to be Hamilton's

[1:01:22] bail bond right next to Hip Hop Chicken it does not bring jobs into our

[1:01:27] community and it certainly does not bring about visual

[1:01:32] appeal lastly um I'm sorry to say I don't know if you all have heard but a

[1:01:38] very longstanding 19-year Council woman Jacqueline wood doson resigned so she's

[1:01:45] no longer on the council but I know that life has got some good things for her

[1:01:49] cuz she has a heart to serve with that said I will be taking over her committee

[1:01:55] for seniors because AARP Prince George's

[1:02:00] County Department of Aging um have so many programs and with the 20743

[1:02:08] Coalition hopefully we'll be able to have a bus that Services all of us what

[1:02:13] I'm asking for we can't do this without you all we can't do it so we ask for

[1:02:22] your support we ask you to come and say okay what can I do to help and with that

[1:02:29] said I'm going to let you all have the rest of your evening and I want to thank

[1:02:33] you another question NE you know what I'm talking about

[1:02:40] absolutely right there on right across from the fire station they have people

[1:02:44] stop signs to stop the traffic fire department come out there while they out

[1:02:50] there bringing that trash car truck

[1:02:56] black p pictures and emails and they knock send it to us they knock my mail

[1:03:03] box off and I was looking for my mailbox and it was up in the tree mhm pictures

[1:03:10] send it to us and then say we teach people how to treat US based on what we

[1:03:16] accept if we don't accept it and we let him know that your business is impacting

[1:03:22] our homes so thank you I'm sorry

[1:03:28] pictures and email us thank you thank y'all so much um I'm going to give my

[1:03:35] report um Park Renovations at the F he Park they did um come pass cuz we had

[1:03:40] our nationalite out at that event up there uh it was a lot of damages done to

[1:03:45] the playground I reached out to Sally Dorman and um the park and planning

[1:03:50] committee they did REM they did fix the part the playground for the kids

[1:03:56] the um play on I'm also reaching out to coordinate with Park planning to redo

[1:04:02] the F Heights Park um that's still in process um as council member St John

[1:04:08] mentioned um we attended National Night Out the food drive is still the first

[1:04:13] and second Sunday of the month I think we had the PG CMA meeting which is

[1:04:17] tomorrow at 6 o'clock at 6 o'clock here at the Town f Heights 7 7 we'll be

[1:04:24] sponsoring it um Jeff Garner from the um Department of

[1:04:31] Public Works of L pla had plenty of salt to give us we couldn't accept it well I

[1:04:36] rece I didn't respond back to the email cuz we have no place to put the salt in

[1:04:40] our um at our location so we're pass that by until we get the proper

[1:04:45] materials for us to keep the salt um that concludes my

[1:04:57] paint yellow and the blue because it has worn off are they going to repaint we

[1:05:02] can we can repaint yeah have they considered the type of paint that

[1:05:07] they're using because it it does not appear to yeah okay we look into that we

[1:05:13] look into that but yes we do plan to and the poop

[1:05:21] station poop station okay okay um so we had citizen participation

[1:05:30] umine we starting online starting in is Con online right we we do have two

[1:05:38] residents that signed up who at there or Miss

[1:05:46] Russell Lawrence Swan uhuh and barnhard uhuh were the two that signed up online

[1:05:54] to speak okay lawen okay come on this

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[1:06:09] [Music] B good evening everyone evening marz

[1:06:15] Bart president of the citizen

[1:06:19] Association uh I want to be the dead horse but I do want to uh Express this

[1:06:26] to the citizens that Public Safety is number one in our

[1:06:31] community um helping our citizens with resources such as the town has been

[1:06:37] doing with the food giveaways and um Public Works doing a good job of

[1:06:42] cleaning up but Public Safety is number one um I know the chief when he came on

[1:06:49] he took on a responsibility that was great cuz it was nobody here um before

[1:06:55] he got here Chief Avy was here and he roam

[1:07:00] these streets by himself for a long time am I am I am I

[1:07:06] right you're right I I want somebody to to to hear what what was here by

[1:07:12] himself um and unfortunately he's not here no more and chief MO is here and

[1:07:17] that's a good thing and we're getting new cops and we getting folks to come on

[1:07:22] this is the issue that I have when we call

[1:07:26] 911 and they're saying that Fe Heist is not on duty which we've heard the chief

[1:07:32] say before they're call 911 so Prince Jordans County can respond but then I

[1:07:37] got citizens sending me pictures of our our only cops doing part-time

[1:07:44] work in other places now I don't know what the mayor and Council or the chief

[1:07:50] have a range but I have pictures of our other officer doing parttime work other

[1:07:58] places so that's what I have a problem with now that's a difference when you're

[1:08:02] going to a meeting or you going to a conference or you going to some training

[1:08:07] but if our officers are doing part-time work at a club at a liquor store at a

[1:08:13] Best Buy at a church and we don't have no patroling in our community that's a

[1:08:19] problem and that's and that's not poking the bed that's just being transparent

[1:08:24] that's being honest because when you got somebody calling you saying hey look the

[1:08:28] guy just roll down the street rob somebody on a bike and then we call 911

[1:08:34] at Prince Georgia County show up then we got here Prince Georgia County say hey

[1:08:37] look where's y' offices at cuz that's what they tell us when they come on the

[1:08:41] scene where's your officers at okay and then we get a picture or we get somebody

[1:08:45] saying hey look I I seen our cop up at Best Buy oh I seen them doing security

[1:08:51] at the church so I'm just I'm just I'm just

[1:08:55] being honest I'm going to be honest with you too done done so so now we know that

[1:09:02] schedules timelines and things like that supposed to be very confidential because

[1:09:06] of the safety of the officers so we'll never know their schedule because of

[1:09:10] their safety and we don't know if they off or we don't know if they on but my

[1:09:14] thing is this if you don't have no patroling at all but you got them in

[1:09:18] other places National Harbor going down to you know 495 going the opposite way

[1:09:24] from FMA Heights I think that's a problem so Chief not to be personal no

[1:09:31] you personal let me let it's not it's not being personal resp it's not being

[1:09:35] personal but my thing is this like Mr Swan said we pay our taxes my wife

[1:09:41] almost got carjacked in our own driveway and she's the vice chair okay yeah she

[1:09:47] almost got carjack in our own driveway okay then I'm not a personal

[1:09:51] person I'm I'm just not going to just so so and and then right in front of New

[1:09:57] Abundant Life the neighbor C the street that has a catering business her husband

[1:10:01] got his van stolen right in front of the church it's on the ring camera the

[1:10:05] church 2:00 in the morning so my thing is this I've been out here in these

[1:10:10] streets before I roam the town of fil Heist see the heist see Pleasant you

[1:10:15] know if you don't see presents if I'm if I'm in that line of work guess what it's

[1:10:22] open season I'm coming through I'm taking whatever I want I'm selling

[1:10:25] whatever I want I'm doing whatever I want if I don't see no

[1:10:30] presence so I'm just saying when this Administration came on it was promised

[1:10:35] that we was going to have police presence that was the promise to get

[1:10:39] people in these seats now I don't care what y'all do

[1:10:44] with nothing else y'all ain't got to pick up no trash y'all ain't got to

[1:10:47] throw no food giveaways y'all ain't got to do none of that take all the money

[1:10:51] and put in the police department and give us 10 cops give us eight cops

[1:10:56] I rather see somebody on the street with a gun and a badge picking a trash off my

[1:11:01] streets cuz my life is more precious than

[1:11:05] trash I'm just being honest me wait

[1:11:11] to I'm

[1:11:16] F I'm F I need to

[1:11:21] okay thank you mhm okay okay so let me let me address

[1:11:27] the elephant in the room as far as for whatever reason

[1:11:32] um Mr barart and maybe I guess citizens who spoke with him don't see a police

[1:11:37] presence because I know a lot of You See Me Myself riding around this town I ride

[1:11:42] out of your house and I blow the horn and speak to you on multiple

[1:11:46] occasions myself and one other officer now you telling me he he works A8 to a

[1:11:51] 10 hour Chef he doesn't have the right to go

[1:11:55] possibly Works in secondary employment we are the lowest paid Police Department

[1:11:59] in Prince George's County oh let me finish and he's trying to supplement his

[1:12:04] income so he can get some insurance to take care of his

[1:12:09] family and along with other officers so he can help eat cost a rent $3,000 for

[1:12:15] an apartment um for him to live in he's struggling to get by but guess

[1:12:20] what he's dedicated to this town he's to work every day some weekends so if he

[1:12:25] gets off is able to go to Best Buy and make $50 an hour to guard that for 4

[1:12:31] hours it's a 4 hour minimum 4 hours to put some food on his

[1:12:36] plate I authorize it the chief authorize it

[1:12:39] absolutely he work this8 hours for the day oh wait a minute so now he's not

[1:12:44] entitled to go home and get some rest and have the rest of his day to himself

[1:12:48] it's two people he using aight police car oh

[1:12:56] so we he you don't do that you don't take Police Every County every

[1:13:02] Department in this in this in this county in the state has a take-home car

[1:13:06] policy program and they do that's part of the

[1:13:10] incentive along with when they hire you they give you $5 to $20,000 signing

[1:13:15] bonuses to come work for them take your car to his car it's to and from home and

[1:13:20] work he's not out at a club partying he's not at a baby shower he's going to

[1:13:25] work and back that's it same with my vehicle I drive it to home and back and

[1:13:31] you know why in case we do have to respond back or we do have to come back

[1:13:34] to open up something or we got an alarm or something we got to respond to

[1:13:38] absolutely you guys want the best you want me to recruit the best and have the

[1:13:42] best I got to be able to offer them something and $53,000 is at the bottom

[1:13:48] of the barrel but they come because of me because of what I'm I'm I'm telling

[1:13:53] them what we can do here how we can build it up so he comes in and works his

[1:13:59] whole shift he's we we don't have overtime he can't come in work overtime

[1:14:03] that'll exceed the budget you'll being here complaining about the police

[1:14:06] department using overtime no not you Mr bonard he know

[1:14:11] I'm talking about I'm talking to him don't Department I'm not well that you

[1:14:15] have a right as Citizens to do what you want to do call one County show I guess

[1:14:20] we just need County do our police if that's how you feel Mr B you do that

[1:14:26] Police Department that do our work which is if that's what you feel we have two

[1:14:30] officers right now we just started the third possibly another part-time officer

[1:14:34] so here's the thing so you can pay new officers to come on but you can't pay

[1:14:38] the other officer to be here overtime you can pay these other two

[1:14:41] officers you about to hire to come on but our other officer have to go do

[1:14:45] overtime somewhere else instead been out town but you going bring in two more not

[1:14:49] just I can't make him stay over for a 10 to 12 hour shift it's no type of

[1:14:55] emergency or stuff like that after absolutely he can instead of being in

[1:14:59] our absolutely he can absolutely he can it's in our policy and to send out

[1:15:03] general

[1:15:11] orders uh Morris Dela Cruz Morris and Dela Cruz and cocko

[1:15:18] three okay so the new officers have been those new those officers didn't make it

[1:15:24] through everything didn't hire them so we had put somebody else through

[1:15:28] a full background through the police training commission that individual has

[1:15:32] been cleared and has has has started on Monday so even with with that when when

[1:15:39] when Morris was said which was everybody's friend he worked secondary

[1:15:42] employment nobody had a problem with it the problem is well I I'll I'll be quiet

[1:15:47] with that I'll leave that alone I'll leave that alone I'll leave that alone

[1:15:50] I'll leave that alone I'll leave that alone I I'll leave that alone we are

[1:15:54] here are doing so much with less doing everything we can do to make sure we are

[1:16:01] working hard in this town every time you come in here to complaint nothing ever

[1:16:05] positive and I have a problem with that not you Mr Swan I'm talking to you I'm

[1:16:10] talking to you and we are in in the process of of fixing it get somebody

[1:16:14] ride around our town constantly so Mr Swan don't get his car broken into m m

[1:16:18] Mr Bon Her driver Mr bonart we have two people we have a third one getting ready

[1:16:24] to start now if you want us to work 24 hours shift and never go home is that

[1:16:27] what you telling me I'd rather have y'all come in service out Town than

[1:16:31] working part any more questions

[1:16:40] I'm Avenue the busy streets it's going to help all of y'all put some Jersey

[1:16:45] walls up here if you can block us from DC cuz that's where they come in that

[1:16:50] what help you guys Comm in okay we can talk to the council about doing Jersey

[1:16:53] wall I can't make that putey but we can have a conversation if

[1:16:58] it's going help that's fine

[1:17:03] say [Music]

[1:17:06] decision okay any more questions no any more questions

[1:17:15] online no question how many people live in this to you have a th registered

[1:17:19] voters

[1:17:29] people2 househ so so if I pay what I'm paying for

[1:17:34] taxes and they paying they shouldn't be complaining about money funds because I

[1:17:41] know what I pay off the town it's hard to find good police I get the county is

[1:17:47] struggling understand understand wait minute I understand

[1:17:53] but when I ask what happens to the money after everything is paid off it's still

[1:18:00] got it's still a kit that's going to roll over to the following

[1:18:04] year so that kitty should be spent on things that they

[1:18:11] need like bonuses or whatever over over time you know what I'm saying because

[1:18:18] that'll help them out then they wouldn't complain about

[1:18:22] overtime so ask him why is struggling to find credible officers struggling to

[1:18:28] find people getting people to pass the drug

[1:18:32] test and the criminal background if I if I if I if I have 20

[1:18:37] candidates I may get one or two out of that then one or two maybe one may

[1:18:44] pass okay so if you up the salary would that help abolutely so if you up the

[1:18:50] salary that would help it it would it would give us an opportunity to compete

[1:18:54] with extended their jurisdiction

[1:18:59] too they pick and choose so just give you

[1:19:04] give you give you an example we had a candidate who came in and we thought

[1:19:08] that we were going to hire him and it starting s was

[1:19:12] 53,000 to come to the police Upon A fulltime police officer well we thought

[1:19:17] we had him we thought we had an agreement we thought that he was going

[1:19:19] to be the one to start chevolet Al offered him

[1:19:22] $66,000 and the $1 15,000 sign upus and a take home car like everybody else does

[1:19:28] in this County so what's the incentive for me to go come and work at my Heights

[1:19:33] if if there if that's outside of well CH I really want to work but I mean we got

[1:19:38] to get we got to we got to I got to get a little more more money to live my rent

[1:19:41] is 2500 2600 and I'm in a one bedroom apartment um so so then you understand

[1:19:48] you understand when you came on that being here 33 years going through all

[1:19:53] the Chiefs that I've G G through and what I asked Chief Watkins when he was

[1:19:58] here I say do us a favor and help us transition so that we have Prince

[1:20:05] George's County coverage help us because you all go home you all don't have mass

[1:20:12] men walking in front of your homes I had an armed robbery last month I you can't

[1:20:17] we we we all everybody if you live in this County everybody is equal with the

[1:20:21] crime F he has one of the lowest the low crime R because they don't report it

[1:20:26] well that that's that's that's your opinion yeah but everybody Buy has a 50

[1:20:31] man Police Department law city has a 88 man police department and the crime is

[1:20:35] Sky High they got 88 people 10 people patroling on each sh 24 hours a day the

[1:20:41] crime rate is is very low but one crime is too many I I get it I I I I I live in

[1:20:47] the woods I had somebody come in and threw my long driveway and break in and

[1:20:51] stole my son's car I'm not a a shielding from the crime I'm a police officer I'm

[1:20:57] not shielding from the crime I saw somebody get robbed in front of me in

[1:21:00] Clinton um two blocks not two corners down from me Chief it happens Chief I'm

[1:21:07] going to go ahead and close out this meeting you're fine nobody for it's

[1:21:11] happening everywhere so don't feel like it's Just Happening Here we just got to

[1:21:14] get a grip of and get the right Personnel in here and more personnel and

[1:21:17] then make it better for everybody that's all I'm saying we can't afford it though

[1:21:22] we don't have I'm going call this meeting back into

[1:21:26] oh real quick can I just say real quick can you guys pick up with the important

[1:21:30] dates for if you want to change your party affiliation if you want to

[1:21:36] register and the last day to register I'll put them over outside thank

[1:21:43] you I would like to journ this meeting motion let wej

[1:21:50] this a second all in favor I thank you all right

FAIRMOUNT HEIGHTS TOWN MEETING | SEPTEMBER 2024

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