08-26-2013 Council Work Session Packet

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MEMORANDUM TO: MAYOR AND COUNCIL MEMBERS FROM: ORONO MANAGEMENTTEAM SUBJECT: INFORMATION UPDATE DATE: AUGUST 9, 2013 Information Update—08/09/13 • The Orono Police Department held a drawing and gave away a girls and a boy's bike to a child that attended a Night to Unite (National Night Out) party. • The attached announcement letters were recently provided to Staff from the Wenksterns. The letters were given to employees of the two golf courses and sent to customers to inform about the closing of the golf courses. • Street Improvement Districts Discussion. Mayor McMlllan,Jessica, and Jesse met with Patricia Nauman and Todd Olson who represent Metro Cities to discuss street improvement districts. This topic was brought up before the City Council in April of this year due to legislation which was working its way through the Legislature and the City Council passes a letter of support (see attached). Ultimately the legislation did not pass and is still under consideration for the upcoming session. We discussed what Orono could do to promote this as a useful funding source for road maintenance for the City of Orono. I also put together a quick cost and funding analysis for two different neighborhoods (Hackberry and Casco Pt). This analysis estimated the future maintenance needs of the roadways and spread the costs out evenly amongst the homes. Due to the severe weather earlier this week, Public Works opened the tree disposal site Tuesday-Friday 8am-3:OOpm and it will be open over the weekend from 10am-6pm. • 105 total citations were issued in the Police Department for the week of July 8—July 14. Attached is the weekly summary police report. The first page is a summary of the citations issued for the week followed by the activity report, which includes the calls for service that were entered into RMS (Records Management System). Information that is not public has been redacted. Portions of some addresses have been redacted because in some instances it's acceptable to show a block range for an incident, but not the exact address. The activity report does not include all calls our officers were dispatched to, only the calls for which reports were written. Also not included are parking tickets, written warnings and assists to other agencies. Arrests will be noted by an asterisk next to the event. The arrested person's name will be filled in, along with age and city of residence.