WSCPA - EDR062602

Nextel Phone Patrol:
On Friday, June 21^st, the 60 Nextel phones still at the officer were sent
back to NEXTEL. Angela Randall the Marketing Director that has taken over the program has been working with me to make things right and we have decided on the following procedure. The phones at the office will be sent back for complete reprogramming and evaluations with sufficient batteries, covers, and chargers sent to the programs that have the 40 phones in the field. These phones will be sent into the NEXTEL office at their cost to be reprogrammed so that those phones can be sent out to the rest of the crime prevention programs waiting for them.

Angela and I will send out a letter to the entire program giving them the time frame for the complete reprogramming and replacement of the phones. Angela expects this process to last about 1-2 months. She is very committed to this program and only has been on the job for two weeks. I will keep very close track on the program.

Training:

San Diego Regional Training
Doug and Shelby asked me to check on the status of the San Diego
Regional Crime Prevention Conference. I talked to Colleen today and she says it is scheduled to go on in the middle of August and will send me the details to put in our calendar.

Seattle – WASPC Crime Prevention Regional CP Training:
I was contacted by Jim Copple of NCPC who was in Seattle for a Meth
Amphetamine Summit for King County and a meeting with Sheriff Reichert about a Crime Prevention Regional Conference with WASPC for next Spring. The training was to include crime prevention and ethnicity. No set dates were made at this time.

ISCPP Partnership with WSCPA:
Robin Heslop sent an email to the office asking if we would be interested
in partnering with ISCPP for our training in 2002. An email was sent back saying that I would send it on to Shelby and that we would discuss it at the Wednesday Board meeting.

Elections:
The office received 73 ballots out of 388 ballots sent out. The ballots were
unanimous for the stated slate of officers. It bothers me that we are receiving a low return of our ballots.

Web Site:
I’ve held a number of meetings with Highspeed Communications. They
were instrumental with the original design of the web site and then their stock went down the tube and were unable to continue to support us like before. We then went to Doyle Electric who designed the search engine and power point search engine for the members only part of the Web Site. This has been very helpful and at this time WSCPA is receiving around 38,000 hits a year.

I have good news. Highspeed’s stock and market share are going back up and President Sawatzki is allowing his staff to maintain the web site. During the past two weeks we have reset the page headers, made the search engine quicker and are still working on that part. Upgraded a membership page with Sponsor and Agency Membership and also worked on a Newsletter page that will keep the newsletters with access to anyone that views the web site. The Board Members page will be posted June 30^th, and manuals and pamphlets have been reprogrammed to make sure the edges show up on the printed documents. A new Operation ID pamphlet page will be added to the site this next week. Highspeed has fixed the Regional map and added Kitsap and Island Counties and moved Benton County to Region 8. We will add the new crime prevention manual to the members only web site. My question on this is should we charge money for it or not? All this has been provided again by Highspeed and I think you will be happy with the results.

Email Notification of WSCPA Members:
I have some news. The notification test of the WSCPA members by email happened at two different times since our last board meeting. Once when I told the members about the elections glitch and this past week when we sent out the WSCPA Board meeting notification asking them for any input or agenda items. The email was sent to 270 people with 32 emails being returned. In checking this we found that these people either changed their emails without telling WSCPA or that several were mis-entered. We have made as many changes as possible and hope that the board members will help us in acquiring the rest of the emails that we don’t have.

A Special Request of All Board Members:
I need your help with information for both the Newsletter and for the Web site. I was supposed to receive articles from each of you for the newsletter and received none. I need dates and training topics for your Regional trainings a couple of weeks before they happen to be placed in the Web Site. I really need any survey forms, power point presentations or reproducible reports that we can add to the member’s only web site. This will continue to make the web site grow and become a resource for our membership.

Special Meetings:
Jim Copple reports that the Crime Free Communities Act is currently in
committee with a good chance that action will be taken on it soon. Hopefully, it will pass.

I have received an invitation from Paul Allen Charities to have a grant proposal sent into their board for a September application review.

I met with the Walla Walla Charter Communications Manager in looking at the possibilities of making an introductory video for WSCPA, placing crime prevention material on their local channels and building a working relationship with them throughout Washington State . The Walla Walla Manager was interested and would like to start with her territory which includes most of Southeastern Washington and Wenatchee . She is willing to take this to her regional area which then includes Oregon and Washington states.

The Walla Walla Meth Coalition met with the Eastern Washington Representative of Senator Cantwell. I asked him for crime prevention material in the different languages that we are faced with and he said that he didn’t know of any place to find the material. I asked him if DOJ would be interested in a Crime Prevention Grant where someone would hire a production company to produce crime prevention materials in the different languages we are faced with. Mr. Thomas was very interested and would return a call before July 1^st.