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Minutes of the Regular Meeting of Council <br />January 23, 2023 <br />Page 5 <br />Prior to 2022, just about every month had a percentage increase. This past year, we have <br />seen a 22% reduction in speeds of 85+. <br />Splitting the year in half, the average citations we wrote per month went down 38% from <br />1,300 a month to 820 a month. The 80+ we would average 353. Now it's down to 205 per <br />month. The number of cites per hour went down from 38 to 26. <br />Our officers are still up there doing normal traffic stops, DUI arrests, DUS arrests, <br />warrants, regular speeding tickets. We still had 772 traditional traffic stops, issuing over <br />500 citations. 162 citations were 90 miles an hour plus, 35 citations over 100 plus. <br />The combination of the traditional traffic enforcement and the photo enforcement has <br />shown a pretty good reduction in the number of high speeds. <br />When you compare it to 2019, we still have issues on the freeway that we need to deal <br />with, so we are not out of the woods, but again, I think we made quite a bit of progress. <br />Chief Matias asked, any questions? <br />Mrs. Jurcisek stated, I have a couple. The 772 citations, were those just all speeding citations or a <br />combination? <br />Chief Matias stated, most of them are speed, but there's a lot of times where there's other cites <br />mixed in. <br />Mrs. Jurcisek asked, how does that compare to the previous year? <br />Chief Matias replied, it's about normal what we do. But I think some of the concern when we <br />started the photo enforcement program was that we kind of let the traditional go to the side and <br />not continue to do that. It's probably pretty close to what it was. Traffic citations increased this <br />year a little bit. <br />Council President Schutt asked, any other questions for Chief Matias? <br />Mr. Meyers asked, any word on the cars, Chief? <br />Chief Matias replied, the last word I had two weeks ago, Statewide told me the 2022 Charger, they <br />should have it by the end of the month is what they told me and then we will start putting the <br />equipment in. <br />Mr. Meyers asked, so we should be in good shape? <br />Chief Matias replied, I hope so. <br />