Two committees of the South Bend Common Council heard from several city leaders and the public about the high number of 911 calls to the Courtyard Place Apartments since 2008.

Police Chief Daryl Boykins told the council they've responded to more than 2,340 calls since 2008, including 117 in the first six weeks of 2012.

"Over 2,340 police calls and fire during from 2008 to present. During that time the dispatches ran the gamut of homicides, sex offenses, shootings, robberies, theft and everything that we basically track," said Boykins.

The large amount of calls was the reason the Residential Neighborhoods Committee and Health and Public Safety Committee held a joint meeting Wednesday to discuss the issue however some city leaders cautioned reading too much into the statistics.

"The number of calls themselves doesn't necessarily help us to determine whether a place is a nuisance," said Asst. City Attorney Ann-Carol Nash.

Council members had hoped to speak to Courtyard Place's Property Manager Carla White and the property owners at DMH Holdings, LLC, but neither showed up at the meeting. Instead, attorney Sean Kenyon represented the complex and said the owners were unaware of the number of calls to police. Kenyon told the committee the complex has hired an off-duty St. Joseph County deputy to patrol the complex for an average of three hours a few days a week. Kenyon later declined an on camera interview with NewsCenter 16.

"That's disconcerting because everybody knows about it. There's a reputation with Courtyard Place Apartments and it's nothing that I haven't heard before from nuisance property issues that they're not aware of what's going on, so we're here to make them aware," said District 1 Councilman Tim Scott

Scott and Nash met with Kenyon after the meeting to discuss how the city can help turn the complex around. Scott hopes to schedule another meeting in a few weeks to continue the dialogue and speak with DMH Holdings.