Chief Yamashita met with both sides of the “aggressive and dangerous dog” issue.  We worked on a rough outline and had a good discussion on where the policy should go.  Chief Yamashita will put together a draft and send it out to the workshop group for a final review.  Then it will go off to the City Attorney before coming to council for review and approval.

Chief Yamashita and Officer Wetherbee provided a helping hand to the Estacada HS booster club by taking our turn in the dunk tank.

Some of the staff was able to take an on line webinar  called “Law Enforcement Free Speech and Filming of Police.

Chief Yamashita assisted the Oja’s in getting rid of a squatter on their property by using the Nuisance ordinance.  This was made possible by the recent annex of the property.

Chief Steve Bartol with the Milwaukie PD and Chief Yamashita met to discuss the pros and cons of photo radar as speeding complaints are often a concern at the top of everyone’s list.  We did learn that the current ORS does not allow for Sandy to have photo radar so our first step would be to approach a legislator to see if we could get the law changed.  We learned from Milwaukie PD that it is not always a positive program and there is a lot to consider.

We did some more work with the Oregon Trail School District on emergency planning and updated our own COOP plan for the city.

August was a busy month for us as one might expect, there were still a lot of events in town, and employees on vacation. Even so, we did manage a little fun by putting together teams for several charity golf tournaments.

Nancy Enabnit and I met with a county representative to talk about smoke free parks. I am sure there will be more on that in the future.

We started our Read to the Kids program in conjunction with the Sandy Library. One Wednesday a month, one of us will be going, in uniform, to the library to read to the pre-school kids.

We hosted another blood drive, exceeding our goal of 30 units collected.

Lastly, we had an uneventful Hood to Coast.