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The City of Treasure Island offers a wonderful set of special services to its residents that add a great deal to making TI such a great place to live and enjoy life. Click on the links below a brief recap.
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| Police
Department Crime Prevention and Investigation |
In
addition to high-quality 24 x 7 crime prevention and crime investigation
services, on resident request and at no charge to TI residents, the
TIPD will videotape a resident's home or business location and its
personal property for the resident to document for insurance and record
keeping purposes.
TIPD comes to your home or business and makes the tape with you describing the premises and property. They give you the original tape for safekeeping. They will update the tape for you when you'd like. It's FREE. Just call the TIPD at 547-4595, and ask about it. |
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| Fire
Department Personal and Property Safety |
In
addition to high-quality 24 x 7 services to protect life and property
and to provide safety and emergency medical service, the TIFD provides,
on request and at no charge to TI residents, crutches and wheelchairs
for TI residents who need them for rehabilitation and recovery.
Just visit the TIFD next to City Hall with the request. There is a large selection of crutches (wood and aluminum) and wheelchairs, adult and child size. Sign-out for the item(s) you need, and just return them when you no longer need them. It's FREE. Just call the TIFD at 547-4590, and ask about it. |
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| Sanitation
Department Convenience Assistance |
In
addition to the twice-weekly service that TI's Sanitation Department
provides to manage TI's solid waste, the Department provides special
services for residents with special physical needs that make it difficult
for them to personally hoist, move and handle street-side garbage
cans. The truck pick-up employees will walk to the outside area of
the house where the qualified resident stores her or his garbage cans
and carry the cans to the truck and return them to the house.
It's FREE. Call the Sanitation Department at 547-4575, and ask about it. |
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| IT
Security Department Computer Hardware and Software Virus Investigation |
As reported in the October 18, 2001 issue of the TI Today, the City of Treasure Island has apparently introduced a new service of providing, on request and at no charge, the complete investigation of both the computer hardware and software belonging to any TI resident who has been hit by an Internet virus and which the resident does not understand, or cannot properly block, or cannot personally deal with. Similar to the funding for reclaimed water, which all TI residents pay for but which are used by a smaller group, this new IT service appears to be one of the new FREE TI IT services (along with the thrill of "e-government" coming to TI), since it can be financed by the increased tax and fee rates recently imposed on all. It appears an investigation can commence after a two-step application process. First, all you have to do is call the TIPD and make the request. Second, you then must call the Mayor's office at 547-4575, and ask for the service, since your investigation request MUST be approved personally by the Mayor. When asked why, the Mayor explained, "There's nothing to explain," as he was quoted in the article. More information about this new service is promised to appear in the October 25 issue of TI Today to clarify and expand on this matter. In the meantime, this Author hopes he didn't state anything about items in the TI Today article, or about the IT Virus info, or about the City's new service out of context. |
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