Ms. Sexton's car was vandalized Thanksgiving day by a broken window & her purse was stolen. She called BPD & filed a rpt. w/ Ofc.Skirvin & he said he would stay in touch & she'd heard nothing. Since then she has noticed two more vandalism incidents exactly like hers. She found BPD to be rude when she called regarding the other incidents. She wants more than one patrol a night & wants Ofc. Skirvin to follow up with her.
Mr. Rogers is "disgusted" with BPD. He was arrested 4/14/99 & is unhappy with excessive force used & the way he's been treated by dept. since. He's made consistent requests for his police rpt. ever since his court date. Everyone he came into contact w/ at BPD has not been helpful. He wants to know what can be done. (I offered him option of filing a "internal compliant w/ COB PD" form. He accepted and is supposed to come by office to pick up forms.) *(# above is a pager)
Mr. Kadish lives across from 9th St. Park & there are 12 bright lights for parking lot which is very bothersome & disruptive for he & his family. He feels it's wasting energy & producing light pollution. He proposed the option of a timer to shut off lights at time park closes thru to next evening (which they do in NJ where he moved from). With park being closed at certain hour no reason for lights to be on.
Mrs. John's is extremely disturbed at the idea of the D.A.R.E. program NOT being continued in the shools. She feels this is an extremely important program and doesn't want to see it come to an end. "It's unimaginable!" (Talked to Elaine Helms who explained that Chief Kennedy is the person she needs to speak to but that he's gone until 10/18. Elaine said we could put her through to his voice mail.) I told Mrs. John's the information that Elaine told me and forwarded her to his voice mail.
Bryan Park Pool: Would like to see more lanes opened up for recreational swimming and fewer lap lanes.
Complaint with the phone system and how when she called with an emergency that she could not get through to the dept. and was forwarded to utilities and then public works.
Ms. Harris called our office on 1/26 complaining that her children were almost hit by a bus (bus #4, driver Glenn). She also complained that she was called the "n" word (which is a derogatory statement for an African American) by the bus driver), after she wanted to get off and he wouldn't open the doors for her and her children to get off the bus. She had stated that she was "very upset" by the service and names she was called by this bus driver.
MISSING DUMPSTER SCREENING
Ms. Miller volunteers @ 1st United Methodist church on Wednesday's to help feed the hungry. Due to church construction there is no longer a parking lot. She has a handicap tag for her car and walks w/ a cane (also elderly, needing to park as close as possible. Arriving to vounteer at 11:30, she always has trouble finding a space, especially a handicap space. She parked on yellow space between People's Bank & church alley where she recv'd the ticket. What can she do? She has appealed w/ CC
SEE ATTACHED LETTER.