Somers Resident Safety Committee
Minutes of October 28, 2002 Meeting
7:30
PM Call to order by Acting Chairman Pellissier
Members
Present: Fedorowich, O’Grady, Pellissier, Sulikowsky, Trevena, Claudio.
Members
Absent: Nieliwocki, D’Amour
Motion
by O’Grady, seconded by Fedorowich, to table an appointment to CRCOG until the
next meeting so that more information can be ascertained as to the requirements
and duties of this appointment.
Unanimously approved.
Sgt.
Claudio presented the crime statistics for the town. He noted that his figures represented the data for the town minus
those from the prison. From January,
2002 to the present these were: Assaults – 12; Burglaries (cars and homes) –
35; DWI – 56; and Accidents - 121.
Sgt.
Claudio stated that his two top priorities for filling the town’s police needs
were to move the police department to the old firehouse and to add additional
officers (especially on the midnight watch).
He stated that the old firehouse would provide a professional setting
that would allow for confidential interviews, interrogations and lineups. All of these are currently difficult in
their present office. The old firehouse
would, also, provide better visibility of the police presence as it is in the
middle of the town, easily seen from the road, and on Main Street. The old firehouse would allow for temporary
storage of evidence and unclaimed property.
He gave as an example a situation where someone finds a bicycle and
turns it in to them. They, now, have to
transport it to Troop C, in Tolland. If
someone were to come to claim the bicycle a police officer would have to go to
Tolland to collect it and bring it back to Somers. This is an obvious waste of manhours.
He
emphasized the need for additional staff and talked about his current staffing
level. He would like to assign another
officer to midnights as this is proving to be a high activity shift.
Fedorowich
made a motion, seconded by O’Grady, to
require an “Audience Comments” section at the beginning and end of each
agenda. Approved unanimously.
Travena
made a motion, seconded by Fedorowich, to appoint the following dates for the
committee’s regular meetings for 2003: 1/13/03; 4/14/03; 7/14/03; and
10/27/03. Fedorowich stated that he
would submit these dates to the town clerk.
Approved unanimously.
8:45
PM Sulikowsky made a motion, seconded by O’Grady, to adjourn. All approved.
Note: These minutes are not
official until approved at a future meeting.