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1. Intro: I have commenced Neighborhood Watch Development for Max Field, Loma Verde Park
(w/public pool) and SDGE Easements parellel to Max field running West from Melrose to Hilltop and
north to Reinstrada. Took initiative after approx. 20 drug packets found behind trees across Max Field
baseball Diamonds where our Little League Champs play and Pony League (Brown packets with plastic
lining empty with foil wrappers_Kilo "Brick" shaped).
2. Police dispatch explained they do not have time to eo to site because lack of staff—
Resolve: - Police.is hiring now— budgeted, good but Dispatch could have COMMUNICATED this to Drug
Enforcement and Community Police
Resolve-After Managerof Parks, Agnes Bernardo, obtained no assistance from Police, she called
immigration who removed the packets as evidence but left the foil wrapqers behind for someone else
to pick up later (when it could have been done then and there?).
3. Trash: City Parks trash collector is asked to pick up a bag of trash or other visible litter within 20 ft
from the trash can and employee states he is not allowed to and that citizen must call into City to
request a second trip out to the site for pick up of other trash. City Parks Managers, Supervisors and
Community Police dispatch confirm that due to lack of budeet, a citizen must request from City a
second visit to pick up what could have been done initially. Common sense dictates that this is counter
productive policy when responsibilities should be expanded when budget crisis occurs.
4. Graffiti: City Graffiti Removal department comes to clean up graffiti reported to them but does not
take care of the other graffiti in clear visibility while at the site nor follows up for future visit to do so.
Graffiti Dept claims that due to budeet constreints, the citizen must call in to City for a second trip out
to address the additional graffiti. Again, this is counter productive "due to budget constraints" when
responsibilities should be expanded in such budget constraint crisis.
5. Gra�ti on residential exterior perimeter walls: At the major Drug Distribution Site mentioned in #1
above, the graffiti "OTAYs" was painted on the exterior brick wall of the neighbor facing Maxfield and
Max Ave (major thoroughfare). City could not clean the advertisement of Otay Gang to come to this
location for known drug distribution because City stopped removing graffiti a year ago due to budeet
constraints. Now City sends a letter to the property owner with no code enforcement or follow up or
deadline. City officials admit that this allows them to absolve themselves from the problem
(Community Police helped me get the graffiti removed eventually).
6. City Waterways Dept claims that they can't easily cut down or prune the palm trees in the near future
along the waste water creek through SDGE easement and Max Field because of lack of budeet, when
policy exists that they must be pruned once a year (yet there is about 9 years left unattended and
SDGE reports that thev would cut off the entire Power Grid for Citv C.V. should thev catch fire)..
Communitv Police has enacted an APP called "seeclickfix.com and "ACT.com" that is a BLESSING. With
education to citizens of this program availability, a person can take a photo of graffiti, broken glass and
tresh and it will GIS identify location and send the request for clean up to the correct department in City.
However, without budget to City departments, it can become a problem for City.
7. BOTTOM Line, I have documentation after documentation that City graffiti, trash, parks departments
are begging for staff and (admitted to me) purposefully forcing the problem on the Citizens to gain
attention to their legitimate problems. This process results in duplicating costs for the City. THE
CITIZENS SHOULD NOT SUFFER FOR THE CITY'S POLITICAL ISSUES. Keep us safe!
• PLEASE STAFF THE NOW VACANT GRAFFITI VAN
• PLEASE STAFF THE PARKS TRASH REMOVAL DEPARTMENT
• PLEASE INCREASE BUDGET FOR COMMUNITY POLICE & proven technology asst citizen reporting
o PLEASE STAFF THE WATERWAYS Dept for tree trimming and removal for our safety
o PLEASE INCENTIVE COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN DEPARTMENTS RELATED TO EACH OTHER'S
RESPONSIBILITIES