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With respect to the inspection requirements in the Grand Prairie ordinance, there may well be a correlation in the reduction of CFS and an intense inspection effort on the part of building officials for locations with higher CFS; however, this is likely, not because the inspection will call for repairs to the physical plant of the building, but because hotel personnel will want to avoid the city's scrutiny in the first place. Before we pass an ordinance, it may be best to tackle the issue by a more focused community policing effort. The department would continue to track the last 12 months CFS totals for all hotels in the city and based off those real numbers, focus on the hotels that continue to have problems. Such focus would include making our crime prevention officer available to discuss first hand with the hotels what steps they could take to lower the incidence of CFS and using our community oriented police officer to help them make decisions on what they can do to address people who cause these issues. The department already employs this approach other locations in the city that become "hot spots". This approach will take cooperation from the hotels we determine as those needing CFS reduction. Of the 13 hotels, the biggest jump in the ratio of CFS to total rooms is .56 calls per room to .85 calls per room. From .85 to 1.91 includes only 6 of the motels. Those hotels whose CFS ratio is .56 down to .10 are not the issue. If we see that we are not receiving cooperation from the hotels in need of reduction, or the efforts we attempt are not successful, we can then look to some form of ordinance to require compliance. BUDGET: No impact to the department budget. RECOMMENDATION: Allow the department to focus on decreasing calls of service with the cooperation of the hotels for a minimum of three months and report back to council.