Safe and Clean
Monthly safety sector meetings are conducted by OTR Chamber and attended by Cincinnati Police for OTR residents, businesses, and stakeholders to provide a channel of communication about safety and cleanliness issues.
Regularly scheduled Over-the-Rhine Safety Sector meeting times:
Second Thursday of the month at 2 p.m. at OTR Chamber Offices, 111 East Thirteenth Street
Third Wednesday of the month at 5:30 p.m. at Corporation for Findlay Market office, 19 West Elder Street
Regularly scheduled Community Council meeting times:
Pendleton Neighborhood Council: first Monday of the month at 6 p.m. at St. Mary's Baptist Church, 417 East 13th Street. Please enter the basement off Spring Street
Over-the-Rhine Community Council: last Monday of the month (except December) at 5:30 p.m. at OTR Rec Center, 1715 Republic Street
Several diversified initiatives of the Over-the-Rhine Chamber Clean and Safe Program encourage a Safe and Clean Over-the-Rhine Community:
Over-the-Rhine Community Safety Sector Meetings
- Monthly Safety Sector Meetings
- Mini Seminars such as Court Watch Program, Litter Prevention, Terrorist Awareness, Blight Index, Community Police Partnering, and projects within Sectors
- An active partnership with the Cincinnati Police Department (law enforcement)
- Partnership with business, residents, property owners
- Partnership with Keep Cincinnati Beautiful/City Services
- A channel of communications among stakeholders
- Builds trust between community and law enforcement
- Community working together
- Community Court Watch
- Civic Involvement
- City of Cincinnati Clean and Safe Grant Implementation
- Supports Great American Clean Up
- Support Community Problem-Oriented Policing (CPOP)
- Support Citizens on Patrol (COP)
- Enhances and coordinates clean-up efforts
- Raise the level of citizen and community involvement in crime prevention
- Increase level of citizen and community involvement in intervention activities
- Enhance the level of community security.
Communities that are empowered to solve their own problems function more effectively than communities that depend on services provided by “outsiders”.
