Councillor Hawkins: Notice of Motion - Back Alley Lighting

WHEREAS the City of Regina’s Official Community Plan (OCP) speaks to health and safety as key elements in ensuring that Regina remains a city of choice in which to live, work, and raise a family; and

WHEREAS the OCP also states that the overall health and safety of the city is managed in a way that ensures residents and workers can safely live in their homes and work at their places of employment; and

WHEREAS one of the OCP goals regarding safety in the community is as follows:

Goal 3 - Community Security

Ensure that Regina is a safe community where everyone feels secure in their homes and neighbourhoods.

13.11 Recognize that prevention is a crucial component to health and safety.

13.12 Promote health and safety by embracing the principles of Crime Prevention through Environmental Design (CPTED).

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that:

1.              City Administration to research and report back to this Committee on the cost to add back alley lighting to Regina’s highest crime rate areas, which are identified in the Regina Police Service scatter/crime severity charts.

2.              Alternative methods to fund this initiative be investigated, which would include, but not be limited to funding from other levels of government.

3.              Should alternate funding options not be available at this time, that this item be forwarded to future budget deliberations.

4.              Administration provide a report back one year after the implementation of the program, to determine the effectiveness of the initiative.

Respectfully submitted,

Bob Hawkins

Councillor Ward 2