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0 • • <br />Implementation Plan: Level Two <br />Rankings within Preferred Overall Strategies <br />As noted previously, Northside citizens wish to address broad categories of strategies according to the following ranked preferences. <br />First Preferenve[ Action 1'Prnmmnn[tntin.,o F.,.•., !).,,.la.. „l'T:l'.. !'.,_.[. AT, -.. --, <br />Action Recommendations <br />Better Quality of <br />Priority <br />Possible <br />Comments/Activities <br />Life for Northside <br />for <br />source(s) of <br />Action <br />funding, <br />responsibility, <br />authority, or <br />collaboration <br />11.1.1 <br />Encourage property owners to <br />No known activity <br />remove debris and underbrush on <br />vacant lots to rninirnize illegal <br />Decrease places <br />1 <br />Civic Club, <br />activities and dumping. (Clean up <br />where crime can <br />service <br />vacant lots-, remove hiding places.) <br />occur. <br />organizations <br />11.1.2 <br />The leaders of both the civic club and <br />No known activity except 1.1 <br />business association for Main Street <br />should consider working <br />collaboratively and cooperatively on <br />Strengthen <br />projects and programs that benefit <br />community assets <br />2 <br />Civic Club, Main <br />both residents and the business <br />and shared vision. <br />Street <br />community alike. (Encourage the <br />Association <br />Civic Club and Main Street <br />Association to worts on projects <br />to ether. <br />11.1.3 <br />Involve the apartment residents in the <br />Involve <br />1 City: Related Item: Green Oaks Apts. have hired 2 off -duly officers <br />civic life of the community. (Help the <br />owner/manager and <br />3 <br />Civic Club <br />to work within the apartment complex to assist in addressing the <br />drug issue in the complex. We have favorable reports from citizens <br />apartment dwellers to become more <br />residents of <br />that there is a marked decrease in narcotic trafficking. <br />active in the neighborhood.) <br />Apartments. <br />City: looking at presenting an ordinance before Council that will <br />make it a violation to solicit for narcotics <br />City: through water billing and the news we have asked for those <br />who wish to desire a Neighborhood Watch Program to contact us. <br />11.1.4 <br />Invite grassroots leaders from the <br />We did not receive any responses from the Northside area. <br />Houston area to address how they <br />No known activity <br />succeeded in lowering crime and <br />drug trafficking in their <br />Fight street crimes <br />4 <br />Civic Club <br />neighborhoods. <br />(Learn from citizens who have fought <br />the drug war successfully.) <br />11.1.5 <br />The Police Department should <br />One copy of Winnable War will be provided to P. D. and one will be <br />continue beefing up their patrols of <br />the Northside area and making a <br />Increase <br />5 <br />City <br />forwarded to the civic club. This may help facilitate further <br />strong effort to gain the confidence of <br />police <br />presence in <br />(Police <br />Department) <br />discussions between P.D. and the community, <br />City: Related Item: P.D. stepped narcotic trafficking enforcement by <br />the law-abiding citizens of the <br />Northside. (Increase police patrols <br />Northside. <br />utilizing officers from Baytown, the Harris County Organized Crime <br />on Northside.) <br />& Narcotic Task Force, & Galveston County Sheriffs Office <br />P.D. is working to further establish relationships with other <br />surrounding agencies to develop a "pool" of undercover officers. <br />--- <br />See attached report from Chief Richard Reff dated 8/26/2001. <br />