On September 7th, we tested several candidates for addition to our Fire Arms Program.  I am happy to report that the program will see the addition of Officer Steffanson, Officer Sytsma and Officer Olmos as instructors.

Also on the 7th, we met with the Chamber of Commerce regarding “Travelers” and how we can best calculate the cost of homelessness on our business.  The event wen’t well.   Next steps to is to try to formulate some sort of way to quantify the costs of time loss, clean up, buisness loss etc.  Chief Yamashita and Seth Atkinson will continue to participate in the statewide workshop regarding this topic.

On September 14th, Chief Yamashita and Seth Atkinson attended a shelter planning meeting at Sandy HS.  In addition to school district representatives, members of the county emergency manage and red cross were on had to discuss the ways to designate, stock and prepare shelter space in our local area.

On September 28th Chief Yamashita and Mayor King attended and spoke at the Citizens Forum on Marijuana Education.  We heard several stories from local area residents about the problems they face living near marijuana production sites.

Council Person Olga Gerberg and Chief Yamashita spoke about creating “Healthy Communities” by improving out relationships with diverse cultures in our community.

Property Room Monthly Report – (Juli Smith)

August – September 2016

Items Received:            163                                              Year To Date:              651

Items Purged:                 109                                              Year To Date:              556    

Total EOQ Items Since Inception 2012:                                                                        3,863

Total EOQ Purged:                                                                                                  1,908

Total EOQ Items In Inventory                                                                               2,116

Property still in CLASSWeb as of January 2015 = 1,420     End of Month =  1,335

Trips to Crime Lab:                                       4

Number of Items Submitted:                    16                          Year To Date:                        101

Sales:   The Property Room had sales of $155.00 this month.  Yearly sales total $608.00

• Working on Cleaning the Shops and selling items stored there.

• Transferred $423.52 to City from sales and unclaimed money.

• Pick up firearm from CCSO; recovered stolen from Lundry case.

• Sent Drug Take Back information to newspapers for publication of  Event scheduled for October 22^nd at the Senior Center.

• Submitted 10 month old Sytsma drug case to the District Attorney after repackaging evidence.

• Covanta incineration trip planned for late October, early November.

We worked with Estacada this month and got Code Enforcement up and running.  We have good support for city staff and citizens alike.

If you haven’t yet seen it, take a look at the new Sandy Police Department Web Page. David Sneider worked on updating our page and did an outstanding job.  http://www.ci.sandy.or.us/Sandy-Police-Department/

The Sandy Police Department “represented” in two charity golf tournaments this month.  One, “Officer Mulligan” benefits Shop with a Cop through the Clackamas County Peace Officer Benevolent Foundation.  The other benefited Oregon Impact, an organization to improving safety on our roadways be reducing DUII and Distracted driving.

We provided EarthQuake and Emergency Preparedness training to the Mt. Hood Hospice group.

We also hosted a blood drive this month with the Oregon Red Cross, meeting and exceeding our goal of 35 units of blood.