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City Council Study Session
.9anuary 22, 2007
I. MEETING CALLED TO ORDER
Mayor Williams called the meeting to order at 6:00 p.m.
II. ATTENDEES Mayor: Hank Williams
Council Members: Dick Halley, Kay Harrison, Bruce Dingier,
Mike Quilty, Becca Croft, and Matt Stephenson were present.
City Administrator Phil Messina; Community Development
Director Tom Humphrey; Planning Manager Don Burt; Public
Works Director Bob Pierce; Deputy Public Works Director
Chris Clayton; and City Recorder Deanna Gregory were also
present.
BUSINESS
A. RPS Update and Alternatives
Community Development Director Tom Humphrey presented a map of areas that
are being- endorsed by the RPS Policy Committee. That committee is trying to
protect agricultural land around Jackson County and is not in favor of expansion into
those lands. He presented a map with the areas that are approved and areas that
the Ci#y could propose to the committee in exchange for those they are not in favor
of.
1) The City could propose the Scenic and Hwy 99~area. This would allow the city to
realign Scenic to be at a right angle to the rail crossing.
2) The Council was in agreement that the City does not wish to expand the UGB
into the Gibbon Acres area North East of the current UGB.
3) the Council was in agreement regarding area South of Beal Lane near the ball
park. There is approximately 100 acres in that area.
4) The City could add more acreage to CP-1 area around, I-5 exit 34.
Conclusion: The Council agrees to these areas of adjustment according to the
RPS Committee recommendations. We would like to keep the small town feel and
not spread out is different areas too far. We would like to keep the Downtown areas
as the center point of Central Point.
B. High Tech Crimes Unit/In$ormation Technology Presentation and
Discussion
Officer Josh Moulin updated the Council on the High Tech Crime Unit (HTCU)
activities over the last few years. He highlighted a few of the cases that this
department has helped solve and convict the perpetrators.
He explained that the Police Department and the High Tech Crimes Unit has taken
over the running of the City Information Technology department after being asked
by the Administration to investigate the current IT personnel who ultimately resigned
their positions. The HTCU evaluated the City's network in several areas and found
issues in security, equipment, configuration and software management. Currently
the HTCU has provided IT services for four months and has updated and secured
equipment to help the City run smoother.
The Police Department will be proposing the creation of the Technical Services
Bureau which will manage the HTCU and the IT Coordinator position.
The Information Technology Coordinator will be responsible for:
• City Wide IT support and network administration
• A background check will be able to work within the HTCU.
• All CPPD Employees assigned to the HTCU will have a collateral duty of
providing support Citywide.
• The TSB Supervisor will continue to assist in City network and system
support, although providing primarily a management role.
• Having the IT Coordinator under the Police Department and a sworn police
supervisor will assure compliance with CJIS Requirements.
There are several government agencies who are moving in this direction and having
a police department oversee the functions of an IT Department. If the City has an
IT Coordinator that is a sworn officer we will be able to share servers and share
access to several software applications which is currently not acceptable because
of security reasons.
By merging the Police IT Services, HTCU and the City IT department it will reduce
the redundancy in hardware, software, part and licensing. It will also allow the
creation of a centralized budget, tracking system, and storage areas.
This proposal would save the City approximately $68,000 annually in wage and
benefits .alone.
There is concern about paying a specialized criminal investigator to do city IT when
he has been trained to do criminal investigations. With the IT department under the
police department there would be less chance of illegal activity by an IT staff
person. The HTCU could do audits on IT departments for businesses for a fee to
help cover the cost of the IT Department.
Conclusion: Council agreed that this could be a good option for the. City. They
would like to see it come before the Budget Committee. There were some concerns
that we would be burdening Officer Moulin with items that he is not specialized in
working on and it might hurt the police department side of his job. There was
concern about Officer Moulin burning the candle at both ends.
IV. ADJOURNIwENT
The Study Session for January 22, 2007, was adjourned at 7:50 p.m.
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