City Council - Regular Meeting

So everybody, I'd like to call this meeting into order. It is 5 p.m.

This is a meeting of the Public Safety Subcommittee. I am joined by another member of this committee, Councilor Brian Santonello, thank you for joining us, Councilor, as well as our council president, our fearless leader, Tracy Whitfield. I'm also joined by a former city councilor, one of the women who helped put this together, Ms. Barbara Gard. Thank you for your years of service. Thank you for helping us out. So I'll go around the room briefly, just kind of have everybody introduce themselves, say hello. But again, the main topic of discussion tonight is the party-related disturbances, speeding concerns, public safety issues that are resulted from one of the homes on Sunbrighter Road. So do you want to take us on?

Instead of killing my family. Yeah, how we came about.

If you want to introduce yourself, then say hello. I live on 28 Sunbriar Road. I'm Ray Jenkins.

I'm Lisa Jenkins, his mother.

I'm Elizabeth J. Glenn. He's my son, my daughter, and my grandson.

Wow, nice.

Wommer. Wommer.

Joe Burr, 28 Sunbury Road. Joe Pringle, 35 Sunbury Road. Winnie Pringle, 35 Sunbury Road.

Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God.

I'm Lene Brown, 85, Scarsdale. Maxie Brown, 85, Scarsdale.

We've been together for seven years. How long? How long? Stacy, do you want to? Oh, yes. I apologize. I'm just putting on. I do not just wear it on my phone. So, Stacy Pringle. The Pringle family. I'm 44 Sunbright Road. I'm Doris Fitz, and I live in either south. Tracy Black is my daughter also. Go ahead. Yeah. I'm Rose Tatro. I'm 33 Sunbright Road.

Mike Tatro. 53 Sunbriar Road.

Linda Boyer, 63 Sunbriar Road.

I'm Bill Boyer. I live at 63 Sunbriar Road, too.

Well, everyone, I'm Rick Lerouet.

I'm the lieutenant that works the Fort at midnight. I am primarily responsible for the south side of the city, which includes the Forest Park area and most of 16 acres. Thank you for being here with us.

Before we also get going into kind of what's going on here. I also like to acknowledge the council from Ward 5, Council LeVar Cook-Bruce. Thank you for joining us, Councilor. And then, yeah, so I mean, Ms. Carter or anybody else for that matter, we want to just kind of inform the officer and myself with what's going on, more like detailed explanation of some of the concerns that have been going on.

So, you know, I'll get the floor to All of you guys, I'll just sit here for a while. Mike?

I think the biggest thing is everybody has graduation parties, stuff like that. That's fine. We all understand that. But when the parties end up in everybody else's yards, and then you ask people to leave the yard, And I had one girl come at me. You know, one good thing that worked out was a guy that was with her grabbed her and pulled her away. And she was coming at me like she wanted to hit me. I mean, yeah.

But I think what you need to also say is this happened last year.

Well, it's been right back.

A year ago. And then two nights on Friday and Saturday night of this year. It was three days this year.

It was only, I think, two days last year. But it was three days this year. And then, you know, I went out three different occasions. Had people parking right in front of your driveway. I just asked politely. And I got to say, a couple gentlemen going to the party I caught him, I says, hey, could you just ask whoever to please move their car? They say, I don't want to start no trouble. You know, just move your car, please. So he looked at me, said, no problem, shook my head. He went in. Shortly thereafter, two girls came out. Gave me a little grief, but they moved their cars.

But I don't think any of them were as kind as that because what happens is we have cars parked on both sides of our street. And this was a concern that we shared with Jerry, with Council Martin, I'm sorry. If we needed an ambulance, nobody could have gotten down that street. And if there was one party goer, there had to be 200 to 300 kids. They were drinking.

It was full. When the school cleared down, asked Mr. Brown. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

The last party, before the end there, someone ended up getting hit by a car from someone at the party. Oh, you could, it was, A little more excitement than you need. People were kind of a little out of control when they were leaving the parties. A lot of them were just flooring their gas pedals and flying down the road. And now, mind you, there's cars on both sides, slightly feeling low, people walking down the street. And like I said, one of them got hit. The ambulance, the fire truck showed up and took them away.

I have a large driveway, so in my driveway, they all turn around. So for the most part, they would turn around and sit in the driveway for like 15, 20 minutes at a time.

I had one where I had to run out of my driveway, not quite so quietly. And then there was also kids up in my driveway, clear up at the end by my desk. You know, I've got to say, though, I can't totally blame the people that lived there. I mean, yeah, you have a party, but you get so many people, you know, networking, and it's a lot of the other people that come in that weren't even invited necessarily, and that's where it really turns into a disaster. One of the boys there, I don't remember his name, he actually tried to control it for a little bit, but then

And the problem is that Sunrider Road now is a lot of elderly people and single women living on the street. And they were all scared to death. It was no quality of life living there. And, you know, I was shocked, Libby, to hear that the house belonged to you. Because you were always a great neighbor. But these, the woman doesn't care. I mean, it's going on. I also understand that she has two foster children living in that house. And my God, if you could have seen the people in the yard, I thought video.

Mm-hmm.

from Rose and from what I took. And if you could have seen the people, and if those poor kids were inside of that house, they should have been reported to DSS. Because that is wrong. And I mean, this is the same house that when Billy Fitchett was commissioner filling in, We had gunshots. Someone was standing in Camden East, shooting the man that was living in that house. The man jumped out of the window in his underwear, ran and got in his car, and took off. Now, I know these are three different incidents.

This is my day in the morning, like 7 o'clock, because I was already seeing it, and I was like...

But even now, just last year, not even. The kid shot himself in the front yard.

So someone's got a gun in the house. So that was two years ago? No.

Oh, being four years ago.

That incident.

The one in the front yard.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. No one.

Yeah, the kid has shot himself just recently. Oh, hey. I ran over to treat you. Mm-hmm. I didn't know who it was from.

Huh? We'd be like, can I speak? Yeah, go ahead. My name is, again, Elizabeth Glenn, and I did live in the house 30, 40 years ago. And I'm just surprised that I heard of this, who anonymously called that this meeting was taking place. That's why I came down to find out, because I hadn't heard anything about it. And I'm just surprised. that nobody called me.

Well, Maxine, we invited Maxine to the meeting. And Maxine sat there Sunday and kept saying, well, I know the owner. And I said, well, last year, I called the city council office and found out who the owners were. William and Elizabeth Glenn, LLC. And I looked everywhere to try and call up that number and couldn't find the number. So Sunday, Maxine sat there and kept saying, well, I've got the number. Well, would you give it to me so I could call?

Well, I am on the computer because I can see it. My name, everything, you know, the business. So, I mean, I'm not that hard. There is a tenant there, a young lady there. And as far as I know, I have not had any problems with her. She did tell me that on June 12th that she was going to have a party. She said that it was somebody, one of her kids was graduating from high school and then somebody that was 15 years old and that she was having a party. I said, well, you know, I can't tell people. And, you know, we do respect the house. They're not tearing up the house. So, and I'm just so surprised though, if all this is going on, it's not reported to the police. Oh my God. Then they haven't resolved the issue because I can't resolve the issue.

I think it's going to be a good time for Lieutenant to

So, I mean, obviously, this is the, I did a little research before we came up. The last month and a half, luckily, things have hopefully been well, because I'm going based on the calls that we did. Right. But on that night, the 12th and the 13th, we did get multiple calls. I got one call all the way from Nassau Drive, which is obviously... i got a i got a i got simultaneously complaints about how you know the music was loud enough for them to hear again i'm not here to decide no and i don't think anyone is particularly at fault other than them losing control like you said of the party right but there is one common theme that it appears i don't know how long the tenants have been there or if someone was there before, I called a couple of the officers that worked there at night to say, hey, what have you guys experienced? One of the officers seems to think either years before or in the past, maybe there might have been a couple other houses rented out to college kids, maybe not your house. No, not at all. So other than that, other than this one incident that happened on the 12th and 13th, you don't have anything leading up to from this date, from a month ago, with like ongoing parties. So I'm here because I want to get more info on that. The other thing we're going to do is I would highly suggest that if you have them tell you that they're going to host that backward party or the minute you guys find out something like this is going on, the officers that do go up there, they have to do an initial assessment. And based on what they can assess and based on what they understand, like I'm reading the notes on the calls, A couple of them were asking to see, maybe they turned down some of the music when the cops got there. Another one said it seemed safe. The music wasn't that loud, but it's 11 o'clock at night. One of the other nights on the 13th, they went at eight. One of the supervisors shows up. He assesses the situation. Based on the public safety concern for the access to the street and the amount of people, we get to shut down that bar. We get to have people bleeding. I would advise that at least going forward, everyone sitting in this room, don't be afraid for, I'd love to see 10 of these in front of me rather than just two on one neck and two on the other. We do care and we do read these reports. Just so I only have two for each that we were able to find today.

Your neighbor next door called three times. Yes. I called four, and everybody else here called.

So what ends up happening, and I'll find out, because we don't go directly to dispatch. I'm going based on the system that we have. The system that we have, I don't know if they merged them, or if they got the multiple calls, and they didn't create more calls. But I'll do my research on that.

That might be it. I know dispatcher would say, oh, I've had multiple calls about this.

Right. Yeah. So if it's just My other question would be, as you guys said, it's happening every year. Did I get a little background on that?

It was last year.

Is it the same family? Yes. Two years in a row? Yes. Congratulations. Yeah.

Yeah, it seemed to me one was in April. I mean, one was in June this year, correct? Yeah. Last year. Last year.

Last year. Last year. Last year. Last year. Last year. Last year.

Last year. Last year.

Last year. Last year. Last year.

And I said, I'm right. This one, I saw the sermon.

And I noticed them.

And then I came back with more people. One second. Came back with more people, which I was like, praise God. I'll tell you, I was so happy. I said, thank you, Jesus. My grandson was there. And he was terrified. Five years old, didn't even want to go to sleep because he thought something was going to happen. This is not a neighborhood that I would say that my grandson or anybody else should be. Oh, okay. They got me. They know. They still live there. They know. And I know times are changing and things happen. And that's the thing. But my problem was, is when he came back, came back again, he came back with either four or five, maybe six. And then people started leaving. And I was like, thank you, God. Hey, this is over. As soon as they left, all those people who came or another batch, came right back again, and here we go again. And then when it was called again, nobody came. It should have been shut down. There's no excuse. It should have been shut down.

I agree. That's why I've said to other situations that we've gone to, once the party, you show up to a house party, and those stipulations are there. It's always a public safety issue. That many people blocking the street We have every right to shut it down and have people leave. So I can't speak for what happened that night, but I can speak to that. Nights. Going. All four.

All four nights.

Yeah, that's not. Maybe five, because you guys said that it lasted, one of them, the party's lasted three nights, right? Yes, three nights. So that's five nights.

The biggest. Yeah, five. The bad part about it, and the biggest problem I think everybody has, is the party doesn't go to that house. It's down the whole street. I had a kid behind my boat in my yard taking a leak. My wife and this lady walking down the street and they come down Scarsdale around the curve to Sunbriar. Car stops. Four guys jump out. They don't hide in the bushes. They run up to the bushes and they just start being in the bushes.

Yeah. Right in front of us like we didn't know what was going on.

At least I had a bunch. I mean, come on.

There was a toddler songwriter. That one incident at five in the afternoon was correlated to the party about it.

At St. Stream. Yeah. Bottles in her hands.

Oh, yeah. And I'll tell you, a couple of them I looked at, I don't know if they were even old, but whatever.

They get out of their car with an open container.

They're coming back out. They have one girl walked into my yard. And if the two people with her weren't holding her up right, every step she took, she went this way, that way. She would have never made it. She would have had to call the guards.

When I did hear what was going on, I did have a young lady. And I told her about this need. Actually, I thought about meeting and that they were very concerned about what was going on. I know she's very happy to have a single family home, but I told her she was jeopardizing her tenants. But I will also say this to people. You victim people, it's not easy.

I know, I'm not saying that's not what you're saying. I know that's not what you're saying.

You just want some peace over this. You want things to quiet down. I did speak to her about it. I told her that she has to. She's jeopardizing her tendency. I told her I would let her know the outcome of this meeting here. And I can, believe me, I feel your pain here. You know, because it's a nice neighborhood. I live in a nice neighborhood right now myself, and I would not want that anybody to be suffering. And I can see, look around, I may be even older than you folks. When you get the aid that you want peace, and if you got grandchildren, you want your grandchildren to have peace, and I do too, and I want you to have it too. I feel very bad about what you're going through. I hear you, and I believe you. You know, I don't see it myself, but I know that you're not sitting here making these stories up.

Libby, she's such a nice girl. When the party is over, she goes and she has a bag and she's going on everybody's lawn, taking all the beer, all the receptacles, everything, because it's It's all over the place. It's all over the place. It's all over the place. I will speak to her again. And I will tell her that she's probably going to have to keep the parties down.

And that if it happens again, she's putting herself in jeopardy. I know she wants to continue to live here. I know. And if you want to, i'll be what i'll give you my address my telephone number and you can call me you know i don't have problems about you know i wish i had heard it before it got to this you know to this point but you know i mean i i'm happy to see everybody and you know everybody is how many how many people live in the house including her oh that's a good one she she has three boys i believe and she has foster kids, true foster, yeah, they're her relatives. Somebody, her friend, and she has taken them.

Are they all younger than 18?

Yeah.

Her kids are older.

No, they're, I think one is 20.

Okay. And then. So eight people. How many? Eight might be.

Thank you. No. Now, my son,

This son here, he's my manager. He's been out there quite often. So you haven't seen him? Yeah.

The manager.

I mean, Woodtown's not managing the party.

You know, he pairs. She don't call, really. She's one of the good senators. I hear from her. She pays the rent.

So the parties, like I said, the parties, we just now hear about the parties being out of control like this. They're lying around. And it's dark.

You're going to have to work. Yeah. She don't call me for it.

If you wouldn't make it to her, everybody pulls out of that driveway, takes off like a rocket down the street, including her, the living girlfriend, drives a flat car, and some other cars that are in there. And just, vroom! They're like a rocket right down the street.

But you do understand there's a lot of things I can't control. I can manage the tour, but I can't control.

Because I mean, I knew Todd and Willie, and I've helped them out in the past.

We've been there.

Todd walking down the road. He had his thing.

Oh, yeah.

I'll tell you what. It was 4 a.m. I sent Todd to jump in and give him a ride home. And I took care of the guys. Not hard to get along with.

No, no.

But when you're bringing in my yard.

Oh, yeah.

And then the worst part is this girl's ready to slap me in my yard. Because I asked her.

It's not the tenant, though. No, no, no. What she said to me and Bill, that you're a tenant. She come over and talk to us.

And she goes, Mr. Daytrip. I'm trying to keep them from parking in front of your house. I said, no, I'm not worried about them parking in front of my house. Everybody has a right to. I said, what bothers me is when they park in front of my driveway. Nobody can get in. I said, you know, that's not really cool. And then she looked at me and she goes, well, don't worry about the music. She goes, it's a little loud right now, but she goes, 11 o'clock, we'll turn it down. I had to get up at four in the morning and at two in the morning, that music was still flying. That's when the four officers showed up, maybe five. And one of them ended up chasing a kid down the street, grabbed him. And shortly just before that is when they were taking away the person with the ambulance. They got whacked by the car or one of the cars leaving the party.

and that's what he's saying they they just take off and i mean you've got all kinds of people there you know if that was a kid or something if that was your kid but i want to say last year i got up and i called the city council office because no longer can you look anywhere and find out the numbers for the city councilors. And even, we're in Ward 5. We have a man, LaVar Cliff-Bruce. Susan? Oh, he's here. Yeah, we don't hear from him. But anyway.

That's unrespectful to Councilor Cliff-Bruce.

Yeah. Anyway, Susan contacted our Ward 5 city councilor. She contacted the police commissioner, Larry Abers, and the commissioner sent a police officer to my house, asked for a report. I gave him the report. Never heard from our city councilor. And in her notes from the council office, there was a report of one officer Now, I don't know if it's a Vietnamese name, and he had stopped by at 11 o'clock, went to the house, and in his comment, everything was under control. Now, that was last April. Was everything under control? No, no, no.

So the biggest thing I would say is, again, I want to thank everyone for being here. And obviously it's my first time meeting you all. I've been on the job 30 years. I've been working for the midnight for two. And I'm responsible for part of the area that you're speaking. I actually live right around the corner. I've lived there for 20 years. So I've lived in the city my whole life and I plan on living here till the Lord allows me to. So that being said, I can hear everything you're saying and I can reassure you I'm going to have some follow-ups, not only with the guys that work up there on a regular, but as you guys have seen, we have a lot of new officers coming on the job. So we do have officers rotating on every ship that are brand, brand new and don't necessarily work up in that area on a regular. What I do is when I leave this meeting, I follow up with the supervisors that work in that area. Because most of these supervisors are assigned to these areas. And they can follow up no matter if it's a newer guy or a guy that's tenured and working in that area. That's the person. The other thing that I'm going to ask is every single time, because you guys have seen the pattern for the last two years, every single time you guys notice the same thing happen again, you're saying, this looks like it's going to end up being something that we do not want to happen. There are specific things. that I'd like for you guys to tell the dispatchers when you're calling. One, it appears to be that they're going to have another party. The last couple of times they've had 300 plus people. They block the streets where ambulance and public safety apparatus can't get down the street. And based on the information I just got today, there's no one that's over 21 years old that lives on that house other than the woman that is currently leasing the home. So That is a huge indicator for me, unless you obviously can see, and the law allows us to do that. If you can obviously see that everyone is of an adult age based on everyone's adult experience here, then we might not wanna judge and say, hey, this person shouldn't be drinking. But if you guys see a good amount of young individuals that appear that they may look like they're under 21, That's another important piece of information that when you put over to the dispatchers, it goes over the air. You may not request a supervisor initially, but please, please, please, after you make your initial calls, I hope these things never happen again. But if she tries to throw another party this year or soon thereafter, we want you to give that specific information because it sets off certain things for us to be able to take action. Not that we're not going to take action if you don't give us the info, but it helps drive sending more than just one officer initially. And it also helps drive the supervisors that are hearing the call to say, hey, anyone that looks like they're underage, you have every right to check their age. And then what happens is we start taking action against the person that's responsible. So the adult is responsible for the house could get fined to get charged. They could potentially get arrested. I don't want that to happen to anyone, but at least we want to set the tone going forward that this can't happen anymore. She said she's having a party for her 12-year-old in the near future. Understood, but you need to explain to her, and I'll let the counselor take over, that if any minors are in possession of alcohol in her home... or related to the party that they're at, she's going to be charged just like they were. And it's just what we should be doing.

So if I just could have the floor for a quick minute, everybody. At first, I do want to thank Ms. Glenn for being here. I mean, I've known you for a few years now. I've known you to be an extremely responsible and attentive person. So Thank you for agreeing to be here, and I'm sorry about the miscommunication. I think the best plan going forward is it seems that you have pretty open communication with the tenants, unless you know when this goes on. Right away, you call myself, Lieutenant Birouette, or one of our neighborhood point people over here, whether it's Ms. Gard or Stacey, Ms. Brown, whoever you may know in the neighborhood. Call us right away so we can put it on their radar so they know, because now they have a point in it. They've made a point to be aware of the situation. They know about the property. So now we can be all hands on deck in case it is to ever get out of here.

I gave my number and my son's number that if something, you know, even before it gets to the police and we see something building up, just give me a call and we'll run out there and check it. I know, well, you know, there's a couple of people here who know how to get in touch with me. And I'm, you know, I'm hoping to hear that, you know.

Yes.

Before it gets too, you know, too far out of hand.

And just get in touch with us when you know parties come.

Right.

Right.

That's a big thing.

Okay. The one thing, the biggest thing, everybody has parties. Yeah. Right. Right.

Oh, yeah.

You know, we don't mind having a birdie, but a good show. Right. You know, not in my yard. Not in my yard.

Yeah, we all, you know, we don't have parties like a juice. Right.

I used to be a model. Yeah.

Just showing a video of some of the parties that were on those. Oh, I'd like to see that. Yeah.

Yeah. So that was at 1 a.m. I couldn't, you know, I didn't do it at 10, 11. It was worse.

I've got pictures and videos from earlier.

And then I didn't see it last year because I was outside trying to keep up. I had to stop. And I took a couple.

And the guys shut their doors so I could get out of my shirt.

They couldn't even get down. Is there, other than the parties, you guys are another concern that I have to bring with the traffic here. So it's the power to bring anything comes up.

It's like when it's an all party.

So any chance of a party going on in school?

Call me over to school.

That's an entrance to the school? Yeah. So it's a combination of both. I watch two Two vehicles. It's not just a deal with the one house, but it's a combination of that and a school.

I watched two vehicles storm the school and have someone on our side of the street literally pass them. One guy had a regimental, which is real stupid. It's real easy to find. He passed a car right in front of my house to get down this street.

in the King Ward's big huge bus station at 12 o'clock, one o'clock in the morning? Yes. 12 a.m. I don't know why. But yes, there's two entrances to go there, right? Glen Oak and Sunbrighter School. It seems like everybody's coming down Sunbrighter. Everybody.

You know, I've been an issue since when President Tracy has been on because she sat down You sat down with all of us neighbors back years ago, Tracy, when we met about the horrific traffic and all the problems that we have.

Oh, yes. I remember that. And it's never changed.

No, it's never changed. And they don't close the gate. Never. My husband has lost three side view mirrors in the past year. They knock this side view mirror off and just keep on going.

Well, they killed one of the neighbor's dogs then. The last set of neighbors at their house. They killed the dog. A car went by from the school.

Yeah.

And the dog kept going. The dog died. The kid was out there crying in the front yard, his kids. Yeah, and Owen had a car destroyed. And they ran the thing right over it, kept that going.

Yeah. Now, when you give these type of parties, I noticed on your video how the kids were hanging in the front. If there's more control to the backyard to where they're not hanging out in the front yard, I'm just saying in the future.

So for any kind of event on your private property, obviously, we're limited on what we can and can't do, but for public safety purposes, the time isn't very specific on how long, because people think I can play music at any time of the day. It does not go that way it's more about how loud the music is no matter what time of the day if it's disturbing the peace of other individuals that live within within range of home uh the capacity of the home in other words if we walk in and even in the yard it looks like this is pretty dangerous we it doesn't matter if they keep it in the backyard if for some reason they organized everything and they parked everyone on other side streets and they made it safe to go in there if we show up And everyone's in the backyard and we're like, hey, this is very unsafe because you can't move. And if something were to happen there, we'd be in serious trouble. We could also shut the party down. So it's a combination of many variables. You just got to make sure that when we show up, that it's safe, not only for the people that are at the party, that there's no underage drinking, that the music isn't disturbing anyone else. And that obviously on the public road, that it's safe to go to and from. So it just depends. All those things have to come into play when we respond to the house.

Okay. All of those things were in play. I'm just saying all those things were in play. Yep.

I can't answer that question for you. And I'm sorry, I can't, I can tell you that I'm going to be talking to some people when I, when I get back in the next couple of days. I'm going to reach out to traffic. I'll reach out to ordinance. I'll talk to the supervisors that work in that area. I'll author shifts. And obviously, I am going to personally follow up with the guys that work for me. I'll make sure, at least for 4 to midnight, that you guys have some people coming through to see what's going on.

When we get that information, would you kindly share it with myself and counsel? Absolutely. Absolutely. Thank you.

And, you know, also, please check with dispatch. Because the first day, the Friday night that they started with the party, at 6 o'clock, bright as ever out, they were lining up on both sides of the street, and I called the police department and told them, now, I know we don't have the right to say to the dispatcher, what's your name? Because, I mean, we need some to be validated that somebody's listening to us down there. That's what's happened the past all those times.

So every time you call 911 or even if you call the 9-1-1, everything's recorded. And everything's recorded not only voice-wise as far as your conversation with the dispatcher, but every time someone calls, there's a number and a documentation that at least the call was given. Now, in this instance, like I said, I only went back a month. And I said, hey, give me June, when it happened, and then give me something between the end of June and August. So obviously, I got the four calls, particularly that. And it shows, after you mentioned that multiple people called, it shows that some of the calls were merged. But everything is done. So if something were to happen and you're worried that there was no response, we're going to be able to follow up. immediately and find out if someone did do their job.

But the hurtful thing too is, you know, talking with everyone. When we, I worked at AMR and I knew what all our dispatchers were doing and the responses that they would make. When I called, oh yes, we have multiple calls. Well, are you sending someone? Oh yes. One said, I'll send a police officer over to your house. And I said, no, don't do that. A cop car pulls in my driveway and everybody in their room knows who called the cops. I said, I just want cruisers down our street to take care of what is going on. Yes.

Okay. And again, we know for my parties, but that was all that doesn't look that.

So you had no idea this was happening in the house, right? No, not to this extent. So I didn't know. Okay, just want to make sure that so you weren't able. That's why you weren't able to assist anything. I didn't know anything. I mean, I was surprised that nobody

I live on Scarsdale and I didn't even know about it. So I just found out.

I just see that Council President Tracy Whitfield has her hand up. Would you like to comment, Madam President?

Yes, I just wanted to say thank everybody for coming all the way downtown to have this meeting and being able to communicate with each other the way that you are, especially the homeowner who is renting and um you being here and listening to the concerns and everybody understanding that it's not the young lady we don't want anybody to be displaced but there's also concerns about um you all's quality of life which we all understand as well so i really appreciate that and then i heard something about traffic that was so long ago i was like me and then I was like, oh yeah, I remember that conversation. But something did happen because I remember them putting up the signs to measure the traffic and things like that. So things don't always happen as soon as we want them to, but they do happen. And then the final thing that I really wanted to say is sometimes we get overwhelmed because we have... a bunch of people reaching out to us. So if we don't return your call, um, like immediately or in the amount of time that you think we should just, um, I always say, give me a gentle nudge because, um, sometimes I forget or sometimes it just doesn't get to me. Um, because the number that is on the website, because the number I had before got turned off, And so the number on the website is the city council staff and they will email it us what the what was said. And we don't sometimes get to those right away. So just a gentle nudge for us will be welcome for me anyway, because there's just a lot on all of our plates. And that's not an excuse. We still should be getting back to our constituency. But We are here to listen. We can only do what we can. Some things are out of our purview. So we don't have the administrative side. We're not over the police department. We're not over dispatch or 911, but we are the closest folks to the constituency. And so we take your concerns and bring them back to the departments. But the departments, just to be transparent, do fall under the mayor's administration. And so if you really want some action done, sometimes you can call the mayor's staff. What's their titles of our, the mayor constituent services. And they, they, they,

Mero AIDS.

Yeah. Mero AIDS. They get better responses than us because they work directly for him. So do both like contact us and contact them because then we'll have a better chance of getting the work done together. But like none of these departments report to us, we do what we can, but we can't make anybody do anything. And it's all going to come from, um, the mayor's directive or the department has directive at the end of the day, but we will communicate it with them. But I just wanted to thank you all for coming out and taking the time in this evening to work this out together. Like I don't normally see that, but It was very, like, I was very happy to be in this room where you all are discussing the problems as neighbors together and working it out. So I just wanted to say that, and I commend you all for doing this. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you, Chair. First of all, I want to thank you for having this meeting. I did hear my name mentioned that I didn't get back to a constituent. Rather than going back and forth with that and agreeing with Council Whitfield's mention, I just want to simply say I apologize. I'm human. I did reach out to the police department to have a resolution. If I didn't get back to you in a convenient time, I'm truly humbled and I'm truly apologetic to that. So to the homeowners, I want to thank you for coming down and listening and making sure that we have your numbers, just in case something does pop up, that we can call you directly to try to curb the situation that's happened on September. So again, I want to thank you all for coming down and hearing your concerns, looking to work with you all to make sure the quality of life is being addressed. Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you both for joining us today, Madam President and Councilor Clipper. I know you both to be hardworking public servants and always, you know, always doing your best and worked with me on a number of issues and have been extremely helpful. So thank you for coming and representing the people. Is there anybody else? Anybody else have any final? I think we have a good plan in place. We let a lot out in the air. Ms. Glenn is going to be extremely helpful as well as Mr. Jenkins. And we'll all do our best to, you know, be in contact with the police department and and our neighbors, so.

Will she be receptive if I went to visit her, talk to her?

I think so.

Yeah, because I think she's friendly. I want to at least be able to talk to her and hit her. I'll let her know.

I'll let her know that you'll be in touch with her. Yes, I think so.

The next couple days? Right. That way she knows in advance.

That's a good idea.

Okay. We're not trying to throw her under the bus. No, no. I want to help her up here. Yeah. It just sounds like she's got that many kids there, and it sounds like they like to party, which is... We all like to party. She wants to. I just want to help her.

Can you deliver the supper? That I know. Okay.

If anybody has anything else, we'll adjourn the meeting formally.

As far as the party part, so you kind of comprehend the situation. At the end of the first party, her and her friend went outside and there was an officer sitting down at the end of the street. He just turned his blue light on. And they were yelling and shooing everybody out of there, yelling at him. This ain't the ghetto. Get out of here. Get going. And then yelled at repeatedly. So it kind of gives you an atmosphere of what kind of party it was. So, yeah, there's some out of control.

So they were getting Uber and all these other things that were going on. Yeah.

Sorry to hear about this sooner.

I wish I had told you ahead of time. Yeah, I've been involved in trying to get right.

Well, that's why all of this happened right now. Because I'm sure you would have done something.

I will at least try to address. Yeah, yeah.

I don't need to call you.

You should have kept an eye on what was going on in your business.

I can't be out there at night.

All right. All right. All right. So I think I think we have a good time now and every time.

This is nice.

But without further ado, everybody, I think, you know, we'll adjourn the meeting formally. Thank you all for coming and the public safety meeting about 555 and have a good night. Okay.