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• 20 units of blood were collected at the January blood drive. • VIPS members assisted with a recycling day that was held at New Brighton Ford. • VIPS have continued to distribute flyers at LA Fitness to deter thefts from auto. • There will be a new CERT class starting March 1. Contact Officer Trevor Hamdorf if interested in attending. • CPR/AED training for the VIPS will be done next month. • VIPS are preparing to sell bike helmets again this year when the weather gets nicer. • VIPS continue to fingerprint people every Thursday morning. D. Public Safety/Homeland Security Update The December police statistics have been completed and we continue to experience a significant drop in Part One Crimes including an 18% drop in Part One Crimes from 2010 to 2011 and a nearly 60% drop since 1995 when we started doing National Night Out and Neighborhood Policing. Public Safety finished 2nd in the nation for National Night Out for 2011. This is the 17th consecutive year in the Top 25; the 12th consecutive year in the Top 5 in the nation; and the 12th consecutive year as first place in our category in Minnesota. We have had two first place finishes in the Nation(2005 and 2009). Community Emergency Response Training(CERT) is scheduled for every Thursday starting on March 1st and continuing for eight weeks. The training is from 6 to 9 pm at the Public Safety Center. Applications and information are on the City web site. Flywheel Hockey will be playing in a tournament on March 3rd and 4th at the Super Rink in Blaine. The team is coached and managed by Officer/Firefighter Tom Griffin. We need to collect$1500 in donations to participate. Director Jacobson will send out an e-mail with the tournament information and how you can donate; flyers were also distributed. On January 20th, Irondale High School hosted a Town Hall meeting which was attended by numerous dignitaries to include U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, Governor Mark Dayton, Senator Amy Klobuchar and Commissioner of Education Brenda Cassellius as well as numerous other local and state elected officials and Supreme Court Justice Alan Page. The meeting was held to discuss and celebrate Irondale's distinction of becoming the first"early college high school" due to an agreement with Anoka Ramsey Community College. Neighborhood Meetings will be each Thursday night in February at the Neighborhood Centers. Topics will include updates on New Brighton Exchange, the flooding from last summer and a public safety update. The next meeting is Thursday, February 2nd at Totem Pole Park. Officer Scott Kingslien and Officer Tom Nerison have both completed their field training program and are now on their own. Detective/Officer Mitch Singer was formally promoted to Sergeant and began his new duties as of January 1st Council Liaison A. Council Report No report.