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Regular Council Meeting October 14, 2019 Page 3 CITY OF PARIS, TEXAS; FINDING A PUBLIC NECESSITY AND CONVENIENCE FOR ISSUANCE OF SAID PERMIT; MAKING OTHER FINDINGS AND PROVISIONS RELATED TO THE SUBJECT; AND DECLARING AN EFFECTIVE DATE. Council Member Pilgrim inquired if this was a renewal. City Clerk Ms. Ellis said it was not, but was a new company. She also said staff had received all proper paperwork and Mr. Boswell was at the meeting, should they have questions of him. A Motion to approve this item was made by Council Member Knox and seconded by Council Member Stone. Motion carried, 4 ayes — 0 nays. 11. Discuss and provide direction to staff on a request for creating a safe zone at local hotels in the City of Paris, Texas. Chief Hundley presented the call service of thirteen hotels over the last year, and said four of those had above average calls. He said what he would like to do is to go to those hotels and work with them about taking steps to lower the incidence of calls for service. Chief Hundley said the police department uses community policing in other hot spots and it had been successful. He said he would rather focus on the problem and not burden all of the hotels. Council Member Stone asked if he had a plan for talking with hotel managers, and he answered in the affirmative. Chief Hundley said he wanted to try to get voluntary compliance. City Attorney Stephanie Harris said putting an ordinance in place for extended stay might possibly violate fair housing. Mayor Pro -Tem Portugal recognized that the top four highest for calls were quite a bit higher than the others on the list. Chief Hundley said he would like to try this for ninety days. Ms. Nicholson said if someone was breaking a law that the City needed to have an ordinance in place. Council Member Pilgrim said he understood Ms. Nicholson's point but they did have State Laws to enforce when someone was breaking the law. He also said that the City had ordinances in place that it could not enforce. Council Member Pilgrim favored revisiting this in ninety days. Council Member Knox asked Chief Hundley what he was proposing to do that he had not done in the past. Chief Hundley said there were hot spots all over town and proposed to put resources on this hot spot. Council Member Knox wanted to know what would happen in ninety days when he pulled his resources from this hot spot, and they come back to these locations. Chief Hundley said if this did not work, he would come to them asking for an ordinance. He said he felt there were a couple of them that would not cooperate. It was a consensus of City Council to give Chief Hundley ninety days to focus on decreasing calls of service with the cooperation of the hotels. Mayor Pro -Tem Portugal asked that an item be placed on their first meeting in January to receive a report from Chief Hundley about this subject. Council Member Pilgrim asked that they be thinking about an ordinance should one be needed.