Meeting Information
Date
February 11, 2020
Location
Charming At The Market
Time
6:00 PM
Directors In Attendance
- Lawrence Sweeney
- Ivy Sweeney
- Mark Ruibal
Minutes
- Crime Stats -Officer Daniel Nevarez
- Daniel went over the recent stats, robberies/thefts are up
- Guest Speaker – Martin Cramer, Downtown Dallas Inc.
- Albert Santos is managing homeless outreach, Daniel Nevarez is on DDl’s homeless outreach too, along with preacher Dr. Woody (who’s on DDl’s payroll)
- Martin went over how his group works with the Dallas Police Dept.; DDI is funded by property owners and members
- Lt. Brian Cruz was introduced, he’s making contacts with businesses, they do security escorts
- Encouraged to use the See Say Now app – send photo and they’ll check it out, they’ll call DPD if cannot handle the situation, an off-duty officer works for them -first safety patrol responds, then second other officers are called for assistance, there’s about a 7 minute response time
- Re: panhandling/quality of life/etc. 911 calls – part of the burden is being taken on by Lt. Brian Cruz’s group
- A new elementary school is opening in the old UNT center across from the Main Street Garden (K-3 through 6th or 7th/8th grades) -this was an effort with Courtney Garrett that took 6-7 years to develop
- Code Compliance -Officer Johnny Garcia
- They are continuing to combat the graffiti/tagging problem – they have a graffiti consent form for property owners that’s required for abatement-we are encouraged to fill it out asap after the graffiti
- They are working on the homeless issues, networking with the Office of Homeless Solutions regarding encampment issues, etc. – Mr. Ninfi works this area
- Becky with DDl’s Clean Team – their area is inside the freeway loop, center of downtown -graffiti removed, sticker abatement, gallons of bags of trash removed, dog mess/feces piles and dead animals removed, clean up homeless messes left-they have 16 crew members working 2 shifts 6:00 am-3:00 pm weekdays, 8:00 am-7:00 pm weekends (poop and trash, homeless sleeping on property most common calls); there are 176 dog stations through the parks, they service all the parks and their bathrooms, trashes and plants
- Can reach the Clean Team via See Say Now app
- Daniel Nevarez emphasized that if we don’t contact them through the app, they won’t know about it
- Re: the parking and new bike lanes issues, the person in charge was not at the meeting
- Daniel said it would be the Traffic department that would be the engineers that put the confusing lanes there
- Upcoming Events –
- Julie Dee with the American Lung Assoc. – Saturday May 16 they’ll be at the Market doing the Lung Force Walk, 3 miles starting at 8:00 am; they want to get 300-400 people; sponsors/participants needed
- David and Charles with Noble Rey Brewery – they have a tailgate and some other events coming, to be announced
- Meeting adjourned at 6:42 pm