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Home My WebLink AboutIR 7763 A6% INFORMAL REPORT TO CITY COIINCIL MEMBERS No. 7763 Cf� TERFO r To the Mayor and Members of the City Council October 5, 1993 • PARK SECURITY LIGHTING GUIDELINES Subject: During the development process of the Park and Recreation Department's Strategic Plan - 1992, a central theme regarding security and safety in public parks was identified In addition, within the Needs Assessment/Marketing Survey conducted in 1991 the issue of security was one of three major concerns expressed through the customer polling study. The following statement was contained within the recommendation section of the survey: "Security is an important issue, now and in the future as evidenced in responses in all phases of the data-gathering process. People throughout the city share the concern that negative elements have taken control of their parks and that they are generally unsafe. In every phase of the study, respondents emphasized their desire that the park system be made safer for use by their families and by individuals." Within the Strategic Plan, the issue of"what services should be provided" begins to address the concerns of security within parks. The following are excerpts from the plan which deals with this concern. Goal * To ensure the safety of our customers. Objective * Create a proactive rather than a reactive posture toward customer safety; develop better internal risk assessment and risk management procedures to enhance public safety. Strategy * Develop a systematic process to determine and address conditions in our facilities and programs which may pose safety hazards to our customers. Tactics * Finalize recommendation regarding establishing standards for security lighting in parks. Through staff research of park lighting guidelines, no national, state or local standards on placement of park security lighting facilities were found to exist. Research on this topic could not prove that the placement of lights in parks made them safer, but it was noted that people feel safer in lighted areas. The Park and Recreation Department receives numerous requests annually for additional lighting throughout the park system. The issue of "how will resources be identified, achieved and allocated" provides the guidance of distributing available resources in the most effective manner. As capital and operational resources are allocated,the Park and Recreation Department proposes to use Council endorsed guidelines to determine placement of future lightin .im=rm=ents in the listed order of priority. OFRCK RECORD CITY SECRETARY FT. WORTH, TEL ISSUED BY THE CITY MANAGER , INFORMAL REPORT TO CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS No. 7763 To the Mayor and Members of the City Council October 5, IM Page 2 of 3 Subject: PARK SECURITY LIGHTING GUIDELINES Park and Recreation Department staff drafted a set of Park Security Lighting Guidelines. This draft was sent to 147 neighborhood groups, park users and organizations for their review. A work session was conducted by the Park and Recreation Advisory Board on July 20, 1993 to receive comments from these groups. The overall concept of placing lighting systems in the proposed priority order was accepted. Following the work session, the Park Board approved staff's recommendation to adopt the guidelines as an administrative policy and use this criteria for the future placement of lighting improvements. These guidelines are now being presented to City Council for any modification and endorsement. Once Council endorsed guidelines are in place, they will be used to evaluate requests for additional lighting. It is very likely that some requests will not be funded based on the proposed guidelines. This will ensure that placement of lighting and the related expenditure of scarce resources will be done on a priority basis. Concurrent with the development of the lighting guidelines, the Park Department evaluated its inventory of lights and additional needs. By applying the proposed criteria of priorities to the categories of buildings, community parks, neighborhood parks and park drives and parking lots, deficiencies were identified. The following table illustrates the forecasted capital cost for each category and priority classification. PRIORITIES A B C D TOTAL Buildings 1,800 18,860 NA NA $20,660 Community 127,865 NA 984,920 452,140 $1,564,925 Park Amenities Neighbor NA 128,995 184,275 570,635 $883,905 Park Ame 'ties Park Drives. 94.905 124,380 336,105 21,105 $576,495 and Parking Lots TOTALS $224,570 $272,235 $1,505,300 $1,043,880 $3,C 45,985 Note: Amounts reflect capital cost only; annual operation and maintenance OFRICK RECORD estimated at a level of 10% or greater of initial capital cost. IVIECRETARY L FT- WORTH, M. ISSUED BY THE CITY MANAGER FORT WORTH,TEXAS AN INFORMAL REPORT TO CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS No. 7763 To the Mayor and Members of the City Council October S, 1993 Page 3 of 3 Subject: PARK SECURITY LIGIMNG GUIDELINES In many instances installation of TU Electric lighting can be requested to address deficiencies and/or requests for additional lighting. TU's policy is to install lights at no up front installation cow dependent upon available and accessible electrical service. Once installed, TU will maintain the lights, however, the City is responsible for a lease fee ranging from $89.40 to $152.40 per year per light. While utilization of this service will allow for more expeditious installation, funds to address the annual lease fee must be appropriated. Also,the Street Lighting Division of the Department of Transportation and Public Works can install lighting within park boundaries. 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