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Berryville Police Chief Robert Bartos presented monthly and annual activity reports for his department at the Berryville City Council’s regular meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 7.
For the month of December 2024, Berryville police wrote 90 citations, up from 76 in December 2023. Forty-seven offenses reported, a decrease of more than 40 percent from the 80 offenses reported a year earlier.
Accidents also saw a major decrease, dropping from 25 in December 2023 to 13 in December 2024.
For the month, Berryville police had a clearance rate of 96 percent and took in $480 in fines and bonds.
For 2024, Berryville officers wrote a total of 1,111 citations. There were 805 offenses reported, with a clearance rate of 83 percent. A total of 168 accidents were reported, 74 warrants were served and 38 sets of fingerprints were taken. There was a total of 196.5 hours worked by reserve officers and 60 hours and 11 minutes of community policing. The department took in a total of $9,370 in fines and bonds.
March was the busiest month for citations, with 131. April had the most offenses reported with 93 and May saw the most accidents reported with 20.
With no old or new business on the agenda, Mayor Tim McKinney told the council that he is still interested in the possibility of hiring out city equipment and employees for developers installing water and sewer infrastructure.
McKinney said city crews likely will be occupied for the next several months after the city received a $400,000 state grant for infrastructure improvements in the Berryville Business Park. But he said he’d like council members to consider the possibility of using city resources to help small developers in the future.
“We have a lot of small developers around here,” the mayor said. “We couldn’t go do it for them, but we could do it at our cost. I’m ready to do anything to get some houses built, whatever it takes. We can’t take away from the city and what we’re doing, but we hope to hire at least one or maybe two people to have pretty much a full-time construction crew. In the future, I think it’s something we might want to consider and look at and see if we could help people out.”
The Berryville City Council’s next regular meeting is scheduled for 6 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 21, at City Hall.
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