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ITHACA CITY COMMUNITY POLICE BOARD MEETING
M INUTES: Ithaca Community Police Board
PLACE: City Hall, 108 East Green St. third floor conference room at Council Chambers
TIME / DATE: September 27, 2001 at 3:30 p.m.
PRESENT: Commissioners Graham, Rovelstad, Killeen, Wigden, Laskowitz, McGruder
Alderperson Pryor, Chief Basile, Deputy Chief Barnes, staff Nancy Falconer.
Guests: Ron Passmore, Director of CU Police Bill Boyce,
Kurt Ostrander CU Police, and Bob Holt, I.C. Director of Campus Safety.
Excused :Commissioner Nelson
1. New Business
Commissioner Killeen organized the visit of the campus security forces from Ithaca College and
Cornell so that all could better understand the duties of each. Discussion was held about the good
working relationships between the local police force and the campus forces. It was stressed that that
there are no `turf' issues between them, and the relationships are cooperative. Further discussion
included the powers of each and the fact that most of the campus work has less violence and more
working out problems between students than our local IPD . Cu police have acquired a `bomb
sniffing' dog and the dog can be shared with IPD if needed.
Alderperson Pryor questioned whether the campus forces have a complaint procedure set up for
handling complaints against officers and was told they do. In addition, all incidents or serious events
must be recorded by the campus police.
2. Approval of minutes:
The minutes of August 24, 2001 were approved unanimously, motion made by Commissioner
Laskowitz .
3. Report From Common Council
The budget will be reviewed at Common Council on October 18, 2001.
4. Report From Police Department
The IPD is losing one dispatcher and two others are on leave for various reasons, leaving the Dept.
very short again.
The budget for IPD is looking bleak, and the Chief is looking for ways to raise money for the Dept.
The video recorder will be set up to be used in about two weeks.
Pud's Run was not well organized this year, and ways to be of more use were discussed. Helping with
the meal appears more useful than water dispensing.
The meeting was adjourned to Executive Session, moved by Commissioner Killeen.
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Minutes: Community Police Board
Date: September 27, 2001
•Place: City Hall, Common Council Chambers
Present: Commissioners Graham, Laskowitz,Killeen, Nelson, McGruder, Rovelstad, Wigden,
Chief Basile, Deputy Chief Barnes; Staff-.N. Falconer; Guest: R. Passmore. Excused:
Alderperson Pryor
L. Approval of Minutes of August 23,2#U
The minutes were approved unanimously, motion made by S. Killeen.
2. Comments from the Public
No one from the public was present.
3. Report from Common Council
No report from Common Council.
4. Report from Police Department
a) Three Dispatcher positions are opening. The Department is interviewing for these now.
b) The Chief has requested that the positions for training and a Deputy Chief be put back into the budget,
but since there are not funds to cover these, this will not occur. Others would have to be laid off to
accomplish the request and this is not acceptable.
c.) Sexual harassment awareness training is currently underway and should be finished soon.
d.) The budget hearing before Common Council went smoothly.
5. Old Business
a) The video taping equipment has not yet been installed. Originally scheduled for two weeks ago, Deputy
Chief Barnes called the installers was told that it cannot be done just now, and he will be notified when it
a0c an.
b) The amount of $500.00 has been transferred to the Police Department from the CPB budget to help
cover the cost of installing the video equipment.
c) There is still a position to be filled, aside from the youth member, because the one occupied by D.
Robinson has not yet been cleared. Ron Passmore cannot move into a Board position until February 2002
because of residency requirements.
e) Discussion of the meeting with Cornell and I.C. police and security was held. The suggestion was made
that this might occur once a year.
6. New Business
a) The smaller number of complaints to CPB this year was discussed. Staff mentioned that the lack of
tabling events that CPB participated in has contributed.to insufficient outreach. One suggestion adopted was
to revitalize the list of contacts that members have with community groups and use the November meeting
to set up a schedule for outreach events that will be followed .
Commissioner Nelson brought up the fact that the officers at IPD do not really know anything about Board
members: ie who they are or what they do in the community, and it would be helpful to find ways to
overcome this. Commissioner Killeen suggested a paper format with short biographies of members and
small pictures. Board approved going ahead with this; these will be sent email to staff before the November
meeting to be compiled by staff. Deputy Chief Barnes suggested using a web site for the CPB; information
re members, organization, and the complaint forms could be on the site (mainly as a way of reaching CU
and IC students.) Staff was asked to look into these possibilities. Commissioner McGruder suggested a
schedule for each Board member doing a ride along with officers. Schedules will be set in Nov. meeting.
b) Meeting times for November and December were changed due to upcoming holidays. November 15
*and December 13 were adopted by Board.
7. Meeting was adjourned to Executive session