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