HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes - Minutes - City Council - Meeting Date: 6/19/1990MINUTES OF THE WORKSHOP SESSION OF THECITYCOUNCILOFTHECITYOFGLENDALE, MARICOPA COUNTY, ARIZONA HELD TUESDAY, JUNE 19, 1990 AT 3:05 P.M. Vice Mayor Hugh called the Workshop Session of theGlendaleCityCounciltoorderintheWorkshopRoom, B-3, intheGlendaleCouncilChambers. Council members presentwere: Bellah, McAllister, Scruggs and Tolby. MembersAbsent: Huffman and Renner. Also present were Tim Ernster, Deputy City Manager; Peter Van Haren, City Attorney and Linda Ginn, Deputy City
Clerk.
WORKSHOP SESSION
1. COMMUNITY PROGRAM IN CONJUNCTION WITH FORD MOTOR COMPANY
Chief Forry prefaced the explanation of the program by
stating he was very excited about this program in that it
promotes one of the aspects he supports; community policing.
He said he also supports this program because it promotes a
partnership between the police department and the business
community, namely Sanderson Ford. He stated that the third
reason he supports this program is because it was brought to
him by a line level employee and helps promote police morale.
John Singleton, Accident Investigator and originator of
the program, stated that he had been in law enforcement about
12 years and two of the inherent characteristics of young
drivers are their love of fast, colorful, glamourous cars and
an unceasing resistance to authority. He said that staff had
designed a program that hopefully would bridge that gap.
Operation Safe Streets" is a program designed to
educate the motoring public about traffic safety issues and
encourage safe driving behavior. The program is targeted at
the 16-24 year old age group. The program will consist of
drag race" equipped vehicles donated by the Ford Motor
Company and Sanderson Ford. These vehicles will be used
primarily as visual aids to the program, but will also be
used in actual drag races held at the Firebird Raceway on
Friday nights. The theme of the program will be "Drag racing
at a properly authorized drag strip is legal. Illegal street
racing on the roadways is lethal!" The motto for the program
will be "Be legal, not lethal". The program will also
incorporate other traffic safety issues such as Seat Belt
Safety; Driving While Impaired; and Bicycle Safety. The Ford
Motor Company has agreed to participate in this program and
will provide vehicles and equipment as support to the
program.
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Police Department employees, volunteering their time, will develop a team to promote, race and maintain thevehicles. The Ford Motor Company has agreed to donate thevehiclesalongwithreplacementparts, maintenance materials, assistance from their mechanics and the use of theirfacilitiestomaintainthevehicles. All participants inthisprogramwillberequiredtocompleteadrivertrainingprogram. Vice Mayor Hugh asked Mr. Singleton how they happened togetaffiliatedwithSandersonFord. Mr. Singleton repliedthatthroughcontactsatFirebirdRaceway, Mr. Kimmerle ofSandersonFordwasrecommendedbecauseheisverycommunity
minded.
Mr. David Kimmerle of Sanderson Ford stated that he was
very excited and supportive of the program because it is so
positive. He said he also felt it might be a way of breaking
through to the young people and opening the lines of
communication.
Councilmember Tolby stated that he, too, was very
excited about the program and said that the best way to get a
message across to young people is to get their attention
first. He feels that these cars will be an excellent way to
do that. He also complimented Mr. Kimmerle for getting
involved and supporting the program.
Chief Forry stated that they had checked with the City
Attorney's office and the Risk Management department and were
informed the program is fine liability wise.
This item will be placed on a future Council agenda for
formal consideration.
2. FOURTH OF JULY CELEBRATION
Recreation staff briefed Council by stating that the
City of Glendale's family style Fourth of July Celebration
will take place on Wednesday, July 4, 1990. The event
location is the stadium at Glendale Community College, 6000
West Olive Avenue.
This year's event will begin at 6:30 p.m. and continue
until approximately 9:30 p.m. Igor's Cowboy Jazz Band will
provide musical entertainment. Other groups performing will
be The Sundance Cloggers, Arizona Aerials, and The Skylight
Drill Team. Staff also stated that a group of four, F -16's
will perform a fly -over at 7:15 p.m. A variety of
refreshments will be available from the eight non-profit
vendors. Staff stated that they had cut down on the ground
display fireworks and put money toward more aerial fireworks.
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The former item is for information only. 3. THUNDERBIRD PASEO PROJECT UPDATEValleyCrestLandscapingbegan construction on February20, 1990. The U.S. Corps of Engineers, project managers forthePaseo, has informed the city that the contractor hascompleted17percentoftheproject. There have been someminordelays, because of water in the channel, but none thattheCorpsbelieveswillimpactontheestimatedcompletiondateofNovember15. Staff showed Council a brief, four -minute video
portraying the construction in progress in the Paseo.
Work completed or in progress includes repairing the eroded
areas, rough grading of parking areas and bicycle path,
installing of the concrete low flow channel, laying the main
irrigation lines, etc.
This item is for information only.
COUNCIL COMMENTS AND SUGGESTIONS
None.
ADJOURNMENT
There being no further items to come before the Council,
the meeting adjourned at 3:45 p.m.
Deputy City Clerk
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