Agenda item

Welcome and Introductions

Including an update on the action points from the last meeting.

Welcome and Introductions

2.1 Cllr James Alexander welcomed residents to the meeting.

2.2 The minutes of the last were approved and signed.

2.3 It was agreed at this point to offer residents the opportunity to give information about their scheme proposals as some attendees had other engagements. The following  made representation.

2.31 Joe Armer, representative from York Youth Council stood to talk about the application to the ward to provide a city centre space for young people.

2.311 The Youth Council has already raised over £50,000 to fund the required space.

2.312 A board of young people will be responsible for the running of the space once up and running.

2.313 One provision will be for a young people’s café which will advertise services and activities available for young people.

2.314 Information, advice and guidance will also be available.

2.315 The facility will be self sustaining by charging rent for community use and the profits from the café.

2.32 Alex Hunt, Director of Safe and Sound Homes gave information on their application to provide accommodation for homeless young people.

            2.321 Work is done with volunteers to provide temporary accommodation for homeless young people across York.

            2.322 Young people who have entered the programme have progressed to achieve academically.

            2.323 The service is a community based project, which encourages participation from residents to improve lives of homeless young people.

2.4 At this point Inspector Phil Cain, the new inspector for the ward introduced himself.

            2.41The Safer Neighbourhood Team aim to reduce the number of incidents for the ward priorities. The priorities presently are burglaries from sheds and garages and criminal damage.

            2.42 The action day on 1^st October proved very successful and the good work carried out will continue.

            2.43 Operation Shadow is currently running. This targets known criminals by officers carrying out home visits and checks.

            2.44 Five out of seven recent warrants in the ward have been successful, recovering unpaid court fines, proceeds of crime and class A and B drugs. These are only made possible due to information passed on by members of public.

            2.45 The Safer Neighbourhood Team are looking to promote Neighbourhood Watch Schemes in the ward. Anyone wanting to get involved should get in touch.

            2.46 Inspector Cain invited questions from residents, the following were asked.

            Q – Speed cameras?

            A- The decision has to come from the Chief Constable, not install static cameras in North Yorkshire. One PC for the ward is trained in using the speed gun. 94 Alive is the system used to log complaints of speeding. Complaints are logged with the Traffic Management Unit (TMU) who then will launch an investigation, only one report is needed for an investigation to take place. TMU will set up an investigation for seven days to see if there is a speed related issue and act accordingly.

            Q – Two reports had been made to police, one took seven months to get a reply and never heard back from the other.

            A – Apologies for the lack of feedback, this is something which is recognised as been poor and is been looked into. It isn’t acceptable that nothing is fed back, as we only succeed when information is given from residents. If any occurrence like this happens contact the Safer Neighbourhood Team and it will be fully investigated.