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INDIALANTIC RECORD August 2007 |
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Summer is here and it’s time to get out and enjoy those beautiful central Florida summer days. You may have plans to spend the day at a park, catch a movie or leave town for a few days. Whatever your plans, please remember a few simple steps that will help protect your personal property. When leaving your house – Be sure to lock your doors and windows. Indialantic enjoys the luxury of having a lower crime rate than some of her sister cities, but crime and criminals do exist. More often than not, burglars are opportunistic criminals. They look for easy targets, such as houses with unlocked doors and windows, or garage doors that are left open over night. Whether leaving the house for an hour or for the evening, take the extra minute to make sure your house is secure. If you have an alarm on your house, don’t forget to arm it before leaving. When leaving town for a while – The Police Department has a house check program. If you will be leaving town and your house will be unattended, please stop by the police department and request a house check form. It will only take you a few minutes to fill out and it will provide us important information, such as lights that may be left on, telephone numbers to contact in case of an emergency, or people who may be on the property (lawn maintenance, friends, family members, etc.). Officers will periodically check your house (as manpower permits) while you are away. Don’t forget to call the police department upon your return and let us know that you are back. When parking your car at the beach – Vehicle burglaries at the beach (Indialantic Ocean Beach, Nance, Sunrise, Tampa Beach) usually increase during the summer. If you will be parking at the beach, make sure that your vehicle is secure before you leave it. Roll your windows up and lock your doors. Do not leave valuable items such as purses, wallets or cell phones in open view. Conceal those items under seats or in trunks. Take only as much money as needed for lunch or drinks and leave the rest at home. We have taken burglary reports where several hundred dollars at a time have been stolen from wallets inside vehicles. Do not hide keys in wheel wells or under bumpers. Burglars prowl the beaches and watch people who do this. In less than a minute they can retrieve your key, enter your vehicle, take what they want and walk away. Taking a few minutes to ensure that your property is safe can save you hours or days of misery and the frustration of having to deal with police and insurance reports. Don’t forget to lock up and have a safe summer! Detective Michael Connor Cliff Notes: The appearance of Fifth Avenue continues to improve. In the 100 block on the south side of Fifth one strip center has completed some major repairs and painted the building. Plans have also been received from the owner of 225 Fifth Avenue for a new build-out in one of the suites and a facelift on the building. |
PUBLIC WORKS NEWS It’s time to trim your trees again. With summer growth and our latest rains, trees and bushes are growing rapidly. If you have branches extending over the road pavement or sidewalks, you will need to prune them. Overhanging branches cause hazardous conditions for motorists and pedestrians. Trees and bushes should be trimmed back to at least the edge of the road pavement or curb line and sidewalks so as to not restrict pedestrians or cyclists. Residents with corner lots need to ensure that motorists have clear sight at intersections and that stop signs are not obscured. Ron Cassedy, Public Works Director
INDIALANTIC FIRE RESCUE Seventy three percent of all firefighters are volunteers. Most of these volunteers are located in rural communities where the call load is low and taxes non-existent to support a paid fire department. Most people in this country would not have fire protection if it weren’t for the dedication of the volunteer firefighter. Florida has strict training requirements for volunteers, making it difficult to find people willing to give up their personal time to become trained. Indialantic Fire Rescue is a combination fire department, meaning we have volunteers and paid personnel. Our staff consists of six paid personnel who work 24-hour shifts with 48 hours off. This is a 56-hour workweek. There is also a fire chief who is paid and works 40 hours per week. This allows for two on duty people to provide fire protection and advanced life support for our community. We also support a volunteer organization of about 10-20 volunteer firefighters. Most times the number closely hovers around 10. There is always an ongoing need for new volunteers in the department. Many of our existing volunteers go on to receive additional training and hire on as professional firefighters with other departments. Our volunteers do a lot of public service events and always make themselves available for other agency’s events within the town. A dinner auction in September will help support such events as Halloween, the Tree Lighting Ceremony and the Easter Egg Hunt. The volunteers offer smoke detectors, community license plates and provide fire safety programs for the youngsters. Our only requirement to become a volunteer is that you give us 24 hours of stand-by time per month to respond on calls. If you have an interest in becoming a volunteer firefighter, have a clean background and can provide us with 24 hours per month, please consider becoming a member of the Indialantic Volunteer Fire Rescue Association. We could really use your assistance. Jon Macdonald, Fire Chief |
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ü Town Hall will be closed Monday, September 3rd, for Labor Day ü Qualifying dates for the November 6, 2007 election will be August 19 through September 2, 2007. Seats to be filled are Seat 1, currently held by Councilman Bogert, and Seat 3, currently held by Deputy Mayor Benevente. Packets will be available by August 15th in the Town Clerk’s office ü Volunteers are needed to help with the Halloween Party scheduled for Saturday, October 20th – anyone interested should contact Gabrielle Strand, 956-3113, or Jan Acker, 723-7788
Don Bo, Inc. installs a concrete pad for a park bench in Orlando Park. The Parks, Recreation and Beautification Committee requested to have two additional park bench pads installed in the park |
UPCOMING MEETINGS AUGUST 7 5:30 PM Board of Adjustment 8 6:00 PM Code Enforcement 21 8:00 AM Heritage Committee 21 6:00 PM Budget Workshop 21 7:00 PM Town Council 28 5:30 PM Zoning and Planning SEPTEMBER 5 7:00 PM Council budget hearing 18 8:00 AM Heritage Committee 19 7:00 PM Council budget hearing 24 9:00 AM Parks/Recreation 25 5:30 PM Zoning and Planning
NATIONAL NIGHT OUT Indialantic and other municipalities throughout the country will again participate in this year’s “National Night Out.” From 6:00 P.M. to 9:00 P.M. on Tuesday, August 7, 2007 the Police Department is asking the residents of Indialantic to turn on their front porch lights and spend the evening outside with their neighbors and members of the police and fire departments. “National Night Out” is designed to heighten crime awareness and drug prevention along with strengthening police and fire community partnerships. For more information, please contact Community Policing Officer Terry Tenpenny at ttenpenny@indialantic.com The Indialantic Record is published every other month by the Town of Indialantic, 216 Fifth Avenue, Indialantic, FL 32903 at an outside cost of $.22 per resident. Robert L. Cochran, Jr., Mayor; Vince Benevente, Deputy Mayor; Councilmembers Dave Berkman, Bruce Bogert and Loren Goldfarb; Christopher W. Chinault, Town Manager; Laura Eaton, Town Clerk –www.indialantic.com - 321-723-2242 |
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