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Glendale City Council to consider waste rate hikes, receive update on school police officer funding in Tuesday workshop

Posted 10/20/19

In its Tuesday workshop meeting, Glendale City Council will consider city staff’s proposal to increase residents’ and businesses’ solid waste service rates and will receive an …

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Glendale City Council to consider waste rate hikes, receive update on school police officer funding in Tuesday workshop

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In its Tuesday workshop meeting, Glendale City Council will consider city staff’s proposal to increase residents’ and businesses’ solid waste service rates and will receive an update on police officers assigned to Glendale’s high schools.

Tuesday's workshop starts at 12:30 p.m. in the City Council Chambers, 5850 W. Glendale Ave. Council workshops and meetings are open to the public. They can be viewed live on Channel 11 or on the city's website.

Solid waste rates

City staff is recommending Council approve a rate increase for the city’s service to collect front-loading bins or dumpsters, which vary from two to eight cubic yards, and roll-off bins, which vary from 10 to 40 cubic yards. The proposed increases are “due to recent pricing increases for equipment and other operating expenses,” according to the agenda item.

Tuesday’s staff presentation is only for the Council’s information. The Council will vote on the increases at a future voting meeting. It is not on the agenda for Tuesday night’s voting meeting.

School resource officers

Staff is presenting an update to Council the Glendale Police Department officers assigned to nine public high schools in the city, also called school resource officers. The presentation will focus mainly on funding for the positions.

Glendale’s costs for the positions could go down as one district is applying for state grant funding and another is reapplying for the grant.

In the last fiscal year, the city paid about $950,000 for the program while its schools districts contributed $434,000.

Glendale expanded the program from four of its public high schools to all nine in March of last year, responding to the shooting the month before at a high school in Parkland, Florida that left 17 people dead, mostly students.

Cactus, Copper Canyon, Ironwood and Raymond S. Kellis high schools already had school resource officers prior to last year. Mountain Ridge, Deer Valley, Apollo, Independence, and Glendale high schools had the officers added last year.

The officers participate in various awareness training programs on campus such as vaping, alcohol and drug use, dangers of social media, and distracted driving. They also been through "Threat Liaison Officer" training and help the school administrations with security planning.

Last year, for three of four school districts in the city — Deer Valley Unified High School District, Glendale Union High School District and Peoria Unified High School District — Glendale paid for 75% of the school resource officer program and the district paid 25%. Tolleson Union High School District, which already had an officer stationed at Copper Canyon High, already has grant funding in place. The grant covers 88% of the program and Glendale covers the remaining 12%.

Tolleson Union is reapplying for the grant and Glendale Union is newly applying for the grant. If both schools were awarded the grant, it would continue to reduce the city’s costs for Copper Canyon High and considerably reduce its costs for three Glendale Union schools in the city: Apollo, Independence and Glendale highs.

5:30 p.m. voting meeting

In its voting meeting, which starts at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, City Council is scheduled to approve 15 members to city boards, commissions and committees and vote on whether to approve general plan and zoning changes for a proposed housing development.

The development, called Glendale 10 Subdivision, plans to build 47 houses on a 10-acre property at the southwest corner of 67th Avenue and Citrus Way.

Those recommended for Council approval to city boards, commissions and committees are:

Board of Adjustment
Brian Britton (Cactus District), for a term expiring 1/31/2020 

Citizen Bond Election Committee
John Crow (Mayoral), for a term expiring 9/30/2020

Lisa Baker (Barrel District), for a term expiring 9/30/2020
Gary Hirsch (Cactus District), for a term expiring 9/30/2020
Jon Froke (Cholla District), for a term expiring 9/30/2020
John Geurs (Ocotillo District), for a term expiring 9/30/2020
Michael Boule (Sahuaro District), for a term expiring 9/30/2020
Michael Socaciu (Yucca District), for a term expiring 9/30/2020

City Code Review Council Committee
Jonathan Liebman (Cholla District), for a term expiring 2/29/2020

Community Development Advisory Committee

Kirstin Flores (Yucca District), for a term expiring 6/30/2021

Human Relations Commission
Alan Dayer (Mayoral), for a term expiring 1/31/2020
Sandra Truelove as Chair for a term expiring 1/31/2020

Industrial Development Authority
Alan Berta (Mayoral), for a term expiring 1/31/2025
Lisa Maestas (Mayoral), for a term expiring 1/31/2025

Library Advisory Board
Eva Ndavu (Mayoral), for a term expiring 1/31/2021