Town of Franklin North Carolina - Monthly Departmental Reports

Town of Franklin - Monthly Departmental Reports -December 2011

Police Department The Police Department responded to 625 calls for service during the month of December 2011.
REPORTS FILED
Accident	44
Arrest	22
Incident / Investigation	49
ENFORCEMENT ACTIONS
Arrest	22
Citations	70
Criminal Papers Obtained	11
Warning Citations	27
Chief Terry Bradley

Notable Activity
None

Fire Department
Fire Calls
2	Structure Fire
15	Vehicle Accidents
16	False Alarm
4	Hazardous Condition
50	Medical First Responder
2	Electrical Fire
2	Chimney Fire
4	Mutual Aid
95	Total Calls

Department Activities
Training

The department conducted in-house training this month on equipment operations and record-keeping/documentation.
Members have completed a multi-week class to obtain their NC DMV Commercial Driver’s Licenses and eight members have obtained their Learner’s Permits or added a tank endorsement to their current CDL license.

Other Activities

A new applicant approval process was introduced to the members.
Standard Operating Guidelines were completed and introduced to the members.
A concise set of rules and regulations for members was compiled from various departmental documents and introduced to the members.
The department successfully passed a NC Association of Rescue and EMS inspection on December 6, 2011.
The Annual Christmas Awards dinner was held on December 19th. Firefighter Bo Garrison was chosen by the general membership as Firefighter of the Year.
A new service truck has arrived and will be placed into full service in the next few weeks after installation of communications and warning equipment.
Equipment has arrived for the new Ladder truck.
Two staff vehicles have been replaced with surplus cars from the Police Department.
The department has surplused over $20,000 of equipment and vehicles through GovDeals.com.
The department has responded to 1308 calls so far this year compared to a total of 1272 last year

Chief Warren Cabe

Planning Department

Since my last report, we have issued three land development permits and one sign permit.

I attended a settlement meeting on a law suit against the TVA initiated by several States including North Carolina for pollution from their coal fired generation plants in Tennessee. The results of the suit are that all of the states impacted by this pollution will receive amounts from a fund set up for the purpose: Tennessee will receive $26.4 Million, Kentucky, North Carolina, and Alabama will each receive $11.2 million. Payments will be made to each over five years in equal payments. TVA will also expend between $3-5billion to clean up its coal-fired plants in three states. I provided a memorandum on the meeting to the board on December 8, 2011. There was a recommendation that the Town request that the NC Department of Commerce direct that funding to provide energy efficiency retrofitting and that the funds be spent in the most impacted areas being the western seven counties or at least limit expenditure of those funds to the TVA Watershed area.

Our grant request to the USEPA for a Community-wide Petroleum Assessment Grant for the 2012 grant cycle has been acknowledged as being received by the deadline. We should receive notice of the results around April 2012.

I have been gearing up to adjust the mapping for the town and the US Census Bureau on our recent annexations the largest which will become effective January 1, 2012. I mailed reminder notices out to the affected property owners indicating the tax bills will be mailed in June and the payments can be arranged. The Census Bureau has an annual program of a Boundary and Annexation Survey which allows the local update of the towns boundaries. I have been keeping the mapping up to date,

The Appalachian Trail Community Committee met on December 13, 2011 and is starting work on the 2012 April Fools Trail Days.

Mike Grubermann

Main Street Program

All of the holiday events went very well in November and December. We answered 236 letters to Santa; this number grows each year as does the participation in all of our holiday events.

An overview of some of the accomplishments for 2011.

Signage throughout Franklin provided by NC STEP grant funds
Shopping and Dining map
New event “Airing of the Quilts”
New Red Carpet events for businesses opening with the district.
New holiday decorations
Classes for small business owners.
Additional new aspects for Pumpkinfest and the Holiday Events.
Festival guidelines for all festivals and an application for festival funding.

We will continually work on helping our small business owners in 2012. A survey will be done to help us accomplish this goal.

A volunteer program will be set up this year to help us with the many activities that the Franklin Main Street Program works on during the year. We have some great volunteers now and need more for 2012. We will organize a more formal program with descriptions of opportunities available and a volunteer event during national volunteer week which is held in April each year.

Linda Schlott

Police Department

Fire Department

Planning Department

Main Street Program