Membership Enrollment Week 2
We’re a third of our way to the goal!
We’re at the end of our 2-week Schreiber Expanded Neighborhood Patrol enrollment campaign and we wanted to give you an update. We began enrollment on Nov. 2 and in the last two weeks we’ve received 219 enrollments which break out as follows:
Area 1-87 members & 39.73% of total
Area 2-30 members & 13.70% of total
Area 3-102 members & 46.57% of total.
Total members 219.
Our goal from the start was to obtain 50% of homes in each area so that we can afford 20 hours per week/52 days per year in each area. This breaks out as follows: Area#1-200 homes (out of 400 homes) Area#2-209 homes (out of 418 homes) Area#3-244 homes (out of 488 homes) Total 653 homes=33.53% of the 50% goal with 219 total homes enrolled. As you can see, we have a way to go to reach our goal.
What we may do is keep enrollment open through November and December but start patrols for those who have paid in December as soon as we possibly can. However, before we can commit to patrols beginning in December our DPD ENP coordinator is trying to find enough DPD officers to patrol and tells us that there is a shortage of officers to fill off duty assignments such as events and ENPs. So far, we only have two officers who have committed to patrolling our area and for 20 hours per week we need at least four or five officers to accomplish this, especially in light of the new City of Dallas off-duty policy which will regulate the amount of overtime police officers can work.
If we are able to start patrols in December, we will ask the officers to patrol the areas based on the membership percentage that have signed up so far in each area. For instance: Area 1: 87/219 = 39.73% of the 20 patrol hours per week Area 2: 30/219 =13.70% of the 20 patrol hours per week Area 3: 102/219 =46.57% of the 20 patrol hours per week We feel this may be the only equitable way to divide the patrol hours until we can get closer to the 50% of each area for which we had originally hoped.
To get to our original household goals, we are asking all residents who have signed on so far to try and encourage at least three (3) of your neighbors to join. Our street coordinators have done a great job of rallying neighbors early on to get verbal commitments but it’s now time to get everyone who committed in the last year to actually join. This is going to be the only way we will be successful and meet our goals. Thanks for your continued support. Should you have any questions, comments or concerns, please email [email protected] and one of our board members will reply to you.