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Minutes of the Regular Meeting of Council <br />Monday, December 18, 2017 ' <br />Page 5 <br />CPA Lunch and Movie on January 17', the movie has, not been announced at this <br />particular point. <br />. Commission on Aging = The next meeting will be held on January 18`b. <br />. Parks and Recreation - We had about 50-60 people show up for our Christmas movie at <br />Reserve Hall. The kids in pajamas enjoyed the evening. They all walked away with a <br />candy cane and a bell as they went out the door. This was my first experience with Santa <br />through the Village. That was wonderful. Special thanks to the Fire and Police <br />Deparhnents for their assistance in guiding me through the Village. I could not have done <br />it without them. Thank you gentleman. It was a great day and afternoon; getting your <br />picture taken with Santa. <br />I hope everyone has a wonderful wonderful Holiday season. <br />Mrs. Mills asked, Shane, do you want to address the Tree Lighting and Menorah Lighting? <br />Mr. McAvinew stated, yes. We had the Tree Lighting. Danielle handled that. She did a <br />wonderful job taking care of that. She had a great turnout. The people had positive feedback. <br />The Menorah Lighting last Tuesday was very very cold, but we still had a nice turnout. The <br />group still went outside while Patsy and I handled the inside activities. The rest went outside and <br />enjoyed the lighting of the Menorah. Then they came in and socialized for about an hour. It was <br />a good event. Once again, without the help of Parks and Rec Board members and Activities <br />Committee, these events would not be possible so a special thanks go out to those individuals <br />too. <br />Chief Edelman (Police) - First of all, I would like to thank our departing Councilmen for their <br />service. It was a pleasure working with both of you over the couple years, Mr. Jerome, that I <br />have known you, and Mr. Marrie, over the many years I have known you. On your retirement, <br />Mr. Marrie, I would just like to say, congratulations from the bottom of my heart. It has been a <br />pleasure having your support of the Police Department all these years. You are a true gentleman. <br />I am going to miss you. Congratulations. On another note, as far as my report to Council, I <br />would like to talk about Safe Passages if I could. We will be beginning this program tomorrow. <br />For those in the audience, I would like to explain what Safe Passages is. It is a program that the <br />SPAN Police Departments have put together as a Community Outreach Initiative to help combat <br />drug addiction. We have realized that we can't just go out and keep rescuing people over and <br />over again. This just isn't the answer that is going to work. What we have done is to mirror <br />what other cities across the country have done. This will allow people who recognize that they <br />have an addiction problem and they need help to come to the police and ask for help without fear <br />of being arrested. They can come to our department, tell us that they need help. We have <br />resources through the Drug Enforcement Unit and SPAN departments that will actually help <br />them with finding a place 'to receive detox help as well as treatment. We have been working on <br />this for some time now. It's in place. We have sent out a media release over the weekend and <br />we are ready to kick this off tomorrow morning. Hopefully, this will be successful. <br />Council President Saponaro stated, thank you. We are proud to be participating in this and <br />being in a community that is taking this so seriously. We appreciate your efforts.