WEBVTT 00:00:00.322 --> 00:00:07.940 - 18th 2025 regular meeting of the Board of Public Safety to order. First on the agenda is the approval 00:00:07.940 --> 00:00:15.782 - of the consent agenda. Consent agenda for this morning contains the following items. Approval of minutes 00:00:15.782 --> 00:00:23.250 - from the November 20th 2025 regular session, approval of claims December 5th 2025 and December 19th 00:00:23.250 --> 00:00:29.598 - 2025, and approval of payroll November 26 2025 and December 12 2025. Does any member 00:00:29.698 --> 00:00:36.989 - Does the board wish to have any one or more of these items removed from the consent agenda to be discussed 00:00:36.989 --> 00:00:43.939 - separately? No. Hearing none, does any member of the board have any objections to any of the items on 00:00:43.939 --> 00:00:50.822 - the consent agenda? No. Hearing none, the items on the consent agenda are approved. And now we'll go 00:00:50.822 --> 00:00:54.910 - right to the police. Well, good morning. So as you can see, 00:00:56.418 --> 00:01:03.058 - Our calls continue to increase as we've discussed all year long. We're now just a little, a little bit 00:01:03.058 --> 00:01:09.697 - above 8% for the year and that's probably where we're gonna finish out somewhere in that neighborhood. 00:01:09.697 --> 00:01:16.401 - Remember this was at the end of November, the first of December is where this was taken. I checked last 00:01:16.401 --> 00:01:22.654 - night, we're somewhere close to 80,000 right now. So we'll probably finish in that neighborhood. 00:01:24.098 --> 00:01:30.302 - Here's your crime to date. Again, caution the board, 23 and 24 complete years, 25 is obviously not yet 00:01:30.302 --> 00:01:36.626 - complete. We're seeing some rises in some categories, but nothing is, every crime is something you don't 00:01:36.626 --> 00:01:42.709 - want to happen, but there's no statistical giant rise anywhere that we're concerned about. We do see 00:01:42.709 --> 00:01:48.732 - some decreases in categories that are good to see, but we'll continue to monitor and report back at 00:01:48.732 --> 00:01:51.262 - the first of the year with how we finish. 00:01:51.426 --> 00:01:59.874 - It's just again, it's you see those swings. It's almost like four or five year cycles. No, no, there's 00:01:59.874 --> 00:02:08.157 - you can't lay your hand on this one specific area town has more or less a lot of it. Frankly, is the 00:02:08.157 --> 00:02:16.523 - renewed focus on traffic stops? You know, as we begin to have more officers and free up more officers 00:02:16.523 --> 00:02:20.542 - for traffic enforcement in a climb up, you know. 00:02:22.082 --> 00:02:27.559 - Traffic stops show a little bit down to the year. But again, remember this was first in November. We've 00:02:27.559 --> 00:02:32.878 - got a lot of people in training all year long, so that's going to decrease it just a little bit. But 00:02:32.878 --> 00:02:38.250 - we'll probably finish out the year about where we were last year. We are dramatically lower this year 00:02:38.250 --> 00:02:43.622 - in weapons reports, crimes involving weapons than what we have been. So that's a good thing. A lot of 00:02:43.622 --> 00:02:49.099 - that you can put on the increased, quite frankly, traffic enforcement and paying attention to hot spots 00:02:49.099 --> 00:02:50.942 - in the town and city being able to 00:02:51.298 --> 00:02:58.017 - towards some of those things before they actually happen. Again, this is statistics we talk about every 00:02:58.017 --> 00:03:04.995 - month. Everything remains fairly consistent year to year. No giant ebbs and flows. Same thing with juvenile 00:03:04.995 --> 00:03:11.521 - referrals. Matter of fact, they were identical to last year. Not the end of the hate crime reporting 00:03:11.521 --> 00:03:17.982 - period. You'll get that in January. And our great graphic, which remains consistent month to month. 00:03:20.994 --> 00:03:27.649 - First training hours, 306 this month. As you can see, we had 70 officers complete their low life firearms 00:03:27.649 --> 00:03:33.989 - qualifications, 20 attended training regarding towing regulations, six spent time doing the remotely 00:03:33.989 --> 00:03:39.828 - piloted aerial vehicles, four were defensive tactics, 14 hours a piece, four did 20 hours of 00:03:39.828 --> 00:03:46.231 - civil disturbance training, and one officer attended seven hours of understanding police use of force 00:03:46.231 --> 00:03:49.182 - training. Then we had our specialty unit cert, 00:03:49.506 --> 00:03:56.039 - 13 officers with 10 hours of peace. Community engagement, there were 14 events this month for 51 and 00:03:56.039 --> 00:04:02.508 - a half hours, 23 personnel involved. You can see some of the things that happened. The Pacers event 00:04:02.508 --> 00:04:09.171 - is this Friday in the city hall with the officer in combination with the office of the mayor from four 00:04:09.171 --> 00:04:16.286 - to six. That's an open event, correct? Okay. And then our continuing forever friends with the animal shelter. 00:04:18.594 --> 00:04:24.407 - Social worker contacts, again, as we see every month, they've got 135 referrals, 445 contacts. Some 00:04:24.407 --> 00:04:30.278 - of the highlights there, they assisted a client recovery for securing new housing. That was quite an 00:04:30.278 --> 00:04:36.208 - effort for them to make that happen. Assisted two other elderly clients reconnecting with some family 00:04:36.208 --> 00:04:42.254 - members. Assisted a teen client learning to budget after getting his first job so they could save. He's 00:04:42.254 --> 00:04:43.358 - looking for a car. 00:04:44.098 --> 00:04:49.616 - Dispatch is beginning to bring more of their calls to the dispatch social worker, so that's a program 00:04:49.616 --> 00:04:55.081 - that's continuing to expand, continuing to see where that could be of best assistance to us. Our ORS 00:04:55.081 --> 00:05:00.707 - assists the client getting in contact with their mother. They had not spoken for years and established, 00:05:00.707 --> 00:05:06.117 - I'm sorry, helped an established client get in some long-term medical services. They also assist in 00:05:06.117 --> 00:05:11.906 - getting some vital documents, and they've helped several people getting with health screenings and getting 00:05:11.906 --> 00:05:13.854 - with Health Net to get health care. 00:05:17.442 --> 00:05:26.432 - And Sarah, we're stuck. Sorry, I can't go anywhere. Sorry, I haven't seen this one before. It was just 00:05:26.432 --> 00:05:35.858 - a letter to the department. Thinking somebody had a friend with a passport issue, and the police department 00:05:35.858 --> 00:05:44.760 - was able to locate the son. Again, forgive me, I haven't seen this yet, so you're seeing it the first 00:05:44.760 --> 00:05:45.982 - time as I am. 00:05:51.938 --> 00:06:00.529 - Still stuck there. Turn it on, turn it off. There we go. As far as general business, really nothing 00:06:00.529 --> 00:06:09.291 - to report to you guys. We've had consistency of everything that normally happens at this time of year 00:06:09.291 --> 00:06:18.226 - happen this time of year, so we're continuing forward as always. Personnel issues, you want to do this, 00:06:18.226 --> 00:06:21.662 - man? Yep. Current staffing, we have 93. 00:06:21.826 --> 00:06:30.324 - officers out of 105 budgeted. Two lateral hires are expected to start January 5th. We have 10 laterals 00:06:30.324 --> 00:06:38.988 - or officers from other agencies currently in backgrounds from an interview process. And just last night, 00:06:38.988 --> 00:06:47.486 - five of those, they're part of that 93, but five officers graduated the academy last night. They're on 00:06:47.842 --> 00:06:54.866 - vacation time until January they have to burn off their vacation because they've been in the Academy 00:06:54.866 --> 00:07:02.169 - the entire time but they'll begin FTO in January. Of note of our Academy graduates we had the only honor 00:07:02.169 --> 00:07:09.262 - graduate in the Academy class and one of our officers was a squad leader one was the officer that was 00:07:09.262 --> 00:07:12.670 - the honor graduate was also the class guidon and 00:07:12.770 --> 00:07:19.375 - One of our officers won the Herman Freeman Award, which is like an integrity dedication award, and was 00:07:19.375 --> 00:07:26.173 - selected by his peers for that. So pretty impressive young group of young people coming to us in January. 00:07:26.173 --> 00:07:32.843 - So that's where we sit with staffing. As far as purchase expenditures, again, are normal. Just continue 00:07:32.843 --> 00:07:39.705 - our replacement cycle. You will see a lot of money being expended for some of the new officers' equipment. 00:07:39.705 --> 00:07:42.270 - It's going to come through to you guys. 00:07:42.530 --> 00:07:49.093 - There's also some radios that have been purchased. And again, just a general replacement of everything 00:07:49.093 --> 00:07:55.719 - we own, which is on that cycle. So nothing big that you'll see just yet for those. Sir, ARV deployment. 00:07:55.719 --> 00:08:02.345 - I think we have one. What was that? Search warrant service out for the Sheriff's Department on Woodyard 00:08:02.345 --> 00:08:09.035 - Road. Right. And that was for a gentleman who was manufacturing machine guns. There's a market for that, 00:08:09.035 --> 00:08:12.030 - I understand. There is. Well, it is Christmas. 00:08:12.418 --> 00:08:22.544 - It is. It's a busy season. All right. Fires portion here. Calls are trending with what we typically 00:08:22.544 --> 00:08:33.378 - see between false alarms, fires, EMS, and rescue. IU, same deal. Mostly EMS. There's a handful of elevator 00:08:33.378 --> 00:08:39.454 - rescues mixed in there with that EMS rescue category there. 00:08:39.810 --> 00:08:50.157 - had some of those seem like maybe they've increased a little bit lately, but nothing, nothing concerning 00:08:50.157 --> 00:09:00.404 - of the increase. And I believe the monthly increase for November reflected a 39% increase over the last 00:09:00.404 --> 00:09:09.470 - five years, just for reference. Turn this off and then back on. Advanced, please. Heat map. 00:09:10.210 --> 00:09:18.614 - Those hot spots are pretty common ones for us. Wheeler Mission is there to the west. Crawford is to 00:09:18.614 --> 00:09:27.185 - the south. Redbud's to the east. So those have been following the same patterns that we typically see 00:09:27.185 --> 00:09:35.757 - in there. Advance, please, Mikey. Coles following same trend. Nothing much changed here. Nothing much 00:09:35.757 --> 00:09:37.438 - changed here. Next. 00:09:39.458 --> 00:09:45.818 - Activity goal for prevention. I think we've expressed this before a lot of this decreases due to I use 00:09:45.818 --> 00:09:51.993 - demand on us for inspection of Greek houses. So we've been able to accomplish that. We don't have a 00:09:51.993 --> 00:09:58.477 - graphic to reflect those numbers. So we'll probably alter this graphic here in the near future to either 00:09:58.477 --> 00:10:04.775 - adjust our goals to be what would be realistic with I use demand or make a separate chart. Thank you. 00:10:04.775 --> 00:10:09.406 - To reflect the separate I guess city versus I use prevention requirements. 00:10:12.706 --> 00:10:19.315 - And then if interested, here's the breakdown of by month outreach by our inspectors. Training hours, 00:10:19.315 --> 00:10:26.054 - everything has gone really, really well this year. Everyone's hit all of the benchmarks we need to see 00:10:26.054 --> 00:10:32.597 - as far as requirements and hours that we're looking for. One of the nice things we kind of added in 00:10:32.597 --> 00:10:39.337 - this year is as we are looking at purchasing new pumpers and aerial apparatus, demos have been brought 00:10:39.337 --> 00:10:40.318 - on site to us. 00:10:40.514 --> 00:10:45.967 - and we've been able to bring crews out to help us review and train on them and be basically a stakeholder 00:10:45.967 --> 00:10:51.266 - in the decision-making process of what direction to go. So we're always looking at ways to improve the 00:10:51.266 --> 00:10:56.514 - speed of delivery and the price on these, because both are outrageous a lot of the time. So if we can 00:10:56.514 --> 00:11:01.710 - have more input from people that use them, it's helpful and they get training hours out of it at the 00:11:01.710 --> 00:11:07.678 - same time. As far as highlighting other items on here, we've had a lot of engineers and sergeants appointed lately. 00:11:08.002 --> 00:11:13.360 - So that's really good for a couple of reasons. One is just people are motivated to try to step up and 00:11:13.360 --> 00:11:18.719 - help the department. And it also shows people are going through the training they need to get through 00:11:18.719 --> 00:11:23.972 - it. And it helps us with overtime. So if we have positions that need filled like an officer, and we 00:11:23.972 --> 00:11:29.225 - have adequate amount of firefighters but not adequate amount of officers, we still end up having to 00:11:29.225 --> 00:11:34.531 - call overtime. The more sergeants we have, the less that we have to do that because someone that was 00:11:34.531 --> 00:11:37.630 - already on the roll, the rig can just step up and fill it. 00:11:37.954 --> 00:11:43.922 - It helps us with payroll as well. MIH is doing good things like they always do. You'll see a slight 00:11:43.922 --> 00:11:49.949 - decrease here just because of the holidays and people burning some PTO time, but they're still being 00:11:49.949 --> 00:11:56.037 - very active with all the patients they have. Some of their wins here are one of their patients needed 00:11:56.037 --> 00:12:02.183 - some life-saving surgery and they were able to convince them to self-admit to a program. It seems like 00:12:02.183 --> 00:12:05.406 - a lot of times the patients they deal with are really 00:12:06.530 --> 00:12:12.437 - not interested in seeking the help that they need and that's where this program's been great is they're 00:12:12.437 --> 00:12:18.345 - able to convince these folks when others have not been able to to go get some of the measures that they 00:12:18.345 --> 00:12:24.309 - need. As another example that the next bullet down there helping a patient transition to a care facility 00:12:24.309 --> 00:12:30.387 - this was someone that was calling 911 frequently and this was ultimately kind of what started this program 00:12:30.387 --> 00:12:34.590 - in the first place was folks that are calling 911 when that really wasn't 00:12:35.106 --> 00:12:42.134 - the answer for them. They need something more long-term and in depth and they just help someone else 00:12:42.134 --> 00:12:49.232 - can convert to the health care facilities that they needed. It is batteries. It is. Yeah. We have, as 00:12:49.232 --> 00:12:56.261 - far as general business, I think we have a slide that's for general business. Nothing particular for 00:12:56.261 --> 00:13:01.758 - general business. As far as personnel, we have two on light duty, one on FMLA, 00:13:02.754 --> 00:13:08.440 - And we have currently three out on parental leave and a few others with time pending. We have a pretty 00:13:08.440 --> 00:13:14.182 - young department, so I expect that to continue regularly to see a lot of the parental leave being used. 00:13:14.182 --> 00:13:19.758 - Then lastly, finances, as far as a couple of big items coming up, we've been trying to slowly make a 00:13:19.758 --> 00:13:25.720 - move. All of our natural gas-fed generators were converting to diesel. So in the event of a large disaster, 00:13:25.720 --> 00:13:30.910 - the diesel can be trucked in and they continue to run, whereas if infrastructure was damaged, 00:13:31.426 --> 00:13:37.169 - the generator would get knocked out as well. So we have three stations left to do this with. This one's 00:13:37.169 --> 00:13:42.745 - going to station two on the west side. We are also purchasing some radios next year. We started that 00:13:42.745 --> 00:13:48.488 - process this month. They will all be obsolete next year. Basically, they're not supported anymore. They 00:13:48.488 --> 00:13:54.396 - will work. But when they break or something goes wrong, there's no more fixing them. So we'll be replacing 00:13:54.396 --> 00:13:59.973 - all of our portable and mobile radios with, I guess, the next generation that will be supported with 00:13:59.973 --> 00:14:01.022 - the radio systems. 00:14:01.954 --> 00:14:11.478 - And then lastly, you'll see ongoing costs for the bond projects that we're working on. Those are moving 00:14:11.478 --> 00:14:20.820 - along. And that's all for fire. Any old business? No. New business, the approval of the 2026 Board of 00:14:20.820 --> 00:14:29.886 - Public Safety meeting calendar. I looked it over. It works for me. Anybody got any discussion? No. 00:14:30.370 --> 00:14:37.616 - Very similar to the past. No change is good. Police and fire, is it working good for you guys? Yeah. 00:14:37.616 --> 00:14:45.006 - Business hours? Yeah. I like that during the morning and I'm sure they do too. Then can I get a motion 00:14:45.006 --> 00:14:52.181 - to approve the 2026 Board of Public Safety meeting calendar? So moved. Having a motion, can I get a 00:14:52.181 --> 00:14:56.414 - second? I'll second. All in favor? Aye. And motion passes. 00:14:57.698 --> 00:15:05.413 - And do we have any petitions, communications, anybody out there in the internet world? I guess not. 00:15:05.413 --> 00:15:13.822 - Nobody there? All right. If there's nothing else, then this meeting is adjourned. Thank you. Happy holidays.