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HomeMy WebLinkAbout03Vol. 8 Issue 3 City Hall 5160 Yellowstone / PO Box 5604 237-2400 March 2013 Message from the Mayor: This is the time of year when winter weather can be a little hard to tolerate. Even though there are few signs that bet- ter weather is on the way, we remind you that on Sunday, March 10th, daylight saving time starts. We will be having an- other hour of sunshine (?) each day. Remember as we wait for the weather to brighten our day that life is good, there is much to be thankful for and spring is just around the corner. Our regular baseball, girls softball, tiger and tee ball registrations are underway. Besides the schedule in this newslet- ter, there are informational signs around the City. The Chubbuck/Pocatello Hockey Association is concluding another season with the anticipation of having a compressor and consistent ice for next ice hockey season. Watch for their roller hockey program this summer. Contact Jim Desanza at 244-1367 if you have an interest in participating in their activities. The 35th Annual Simplot Games has just concluded. I hope you were involved in some way. What a great opportu- nity it is for our community to host this event. Please put it on your calendar for next year and again be supportive. They had over 2200 student high school athletes from all over the country and Canada that participated this year. This is such a unique and dynamic event for our area and I would encourage you if you have never been or haven't been for a while make it a point to attend in 2014. The Pocatello/Chubbuck School District is having a Supplemental Levy Election on Tuesday, March 12th. Asa re- minder the county now runs all elections so the polling places will be the same as they were last November. Absentee voting in already underway and can be done at the Bannock County Courthouse. Information from the School District's perspective is available at the district offices on Pole Line Road. We encourage you to become informed about this vital issue and then be sure to vote. We have a great economic development team working on our behalf in the community. I believe that we can and will see more positive and progressive accomplishments this year. We are working and remaining engaged in every way we can as a City to participate in these efforts. I believe this will make Chubbuck even a better place to live and do business. Mayor England Bannock County Landfill Hazardous Waste Collection Days April 6 May 4 June 1 July 6 August 3 September 7 October 5 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. For more information call 236-0607. BASEBALL REGISTRATION FINAL SATURDAYS: MARCH 2ND & MARCH 9TH At CITY HALL (5160 Yellowstone) from 9 AM to 3 PM TIGER/TEE BALL ("T -Ball") $30.00 Boys & Girls Ages 4-8 (must be age before Sept. I st) T -Ball will start in June and run for six weeks. BOYS BASEBALL $85.00 Ages 9-15 (must be age before May 1st) Boys baseball runs from April to the end of June. GIRLS SOFTBALL $45.00 Ages 8-14 (must be age before January 1st) Girls softball runs from late April to the end of June. IMPORTANT: For questions call: T -ball Kimberly Nalley 479-6666 Boys Baseball AJ Watson 251-1605 Girls Softball Ralph Daniels 406-3699 Registration will be SATURDAYS ONLY. Parents can no longer register at the City offices during regu- lar business days. Commissioners will be in attendance to answer questions. If the child is new to the pro- gram, you will need to supply a copy of a birth certificate. Tiger/Tee Ball needs volunteer coaches - please help out if you can! ` 150th Kickoff Celebration will be held at Shoshone -Bannock Hotel & Events 3 471 Center at Fort Hall, Idaho, on Monday, March 4, 2013. Doors open at 6:00 pm. Call Karen Winegar at (208)241-8003 to check on ticket availability. A Note from our Police Department regarding DARE For the first time since the early 90s the Chubbuck Police Department is not presenting the D.A.R.E. program in Chubbuck schools this year. In the last 12 months the police department has seen an unprecedented turnover in personnel which has caused some adjustments in the allocation of manpower resources in order to provide quality priority services to those who live in and visit our city from day to day. The police depart- ment's first priority is the safety of those people and businesses within the bounda- ries of our city and ensuring sufficient staffing to provide effective and timely response to calls for service. Five offi- cers have left our agency in the last sev- eral months. These were experienced officers with an average of 9 years of service at CPD. Three of the five have been replaced and efforts are in progress to replace a fourth. From the time an officer leaves our agency until a replace- ment officer is hired and trained suffi- ciently to provide the level of service expected of officers at CPD is nearly one year, about the same as with other police agencies in Idaho. The knowledge and experience that leaves with each officer cannot be replaced as readily. In order to maintain the integrity of their program, D.A.R.E. International requires that the officers presenting their material receive specific, approved train- ing initially and then attend required up- date training as well. They guard those requirements with legal copyrights on their materials and methods of instruc- tion. After careful consideration of all the implications of the current manpower situation facing our agency together with the demands for training competent offi- cers to respond to daily call loads, it be- came apparent that we would not be able to present the traditional D.A.R.E. pro- gram in the 2013 school year. It also became apparent that it might be a few years before we would be able to effec- tively resume that effort in our schools. Early on, consideration was given to sac- rificing a previously trained D.A.R.E. officer from a new assignment in another division for a sufficient amount of time to present a revised, abbreviated program to our elementary school students but it became obvious that option would not be successful when the last of the five offi- cers made department administration aware of his intentions to leave. Our department webmaster has put a link to D.A.R.E. America on the depart - m e n t' s w e b s i t e a t www.cityofchubbuck.us/police/patrol/ dare. There parents and students can access valuable information regarding illegal drugs and participate in other ac- tivities designed to be fun and informa- tive for kids. We recognize the addi- tional value of our officers interacting with the local children in the positive educational setting of the standard D.A.R.E. program at school and are com- mitted to working toward reestablishing that connection as soon as we can with the resources available to us. We are grateful for the unparalleled cooperation from the teachers, principals, and the school district administration has always demonstrated toward our efforts with the D.A.R.E. program over these last 20 years.