- I'd like to call this January 15th, 2026 regular meeting of the Board of Public Safety to order. Are
- we having an executive session first? We already did. We already did. I missed the executive session.
- Yes. Yeah, it was. Did it go well? It went well. Nice. It went real good. Sorry about that. All right.
- Certification of the executive session. Motion to certify the executive session. So moved. Second. OK.
- Got a motion. Second. All in favor? Aye. Motion passes.
- All right. Next, approval of consent agenda. The consent agenda for this morning contains the following
- items. Approval of minutes from December 18, 2025 regular session, approval of claims from December
- 22, 2025 to January 16, 2026, approval of payroll from December 24, 2025, and January 9, 2026. Does
- any member of the board wish to have any one or more of these items removed from the consent agenda
- to be discussed separately?
- I was talking. Anybody? I'm fine with not having to do it separately. And Russell? Are you fine with?
- I'm fine. OK. Hearing none, does any member of the board have any objections to any of the items on
- the consent agenda? No. And hearing none, the items on the consent agenda are approved.
- This is how we finished out the year. Sarah, if you could kill off that bottom down there.
- We ended about, what, 5.9%, almost 6% increase in call volume over the preceding year, which had trended
- up from the year before that. End of year crime comparison totals, I'll give you a moment with this,
- because they're all comparatively with each other now, rather than increasing as we had seen.
- most of our categories. Well, I can't even say that. Some of the categories trended up. Some of them
- trended down, depending upon. I'm surprised graffiti went down. Graffiti's the last column, right? The
- last row. It is. And sometimes, I'll be honest with you, graffiti is sometimes miscoded as vandalism,
- depending upon what it is. But that's count too. Yeah. They try and break those down the best they can.
- 22% decline in the larceny is something that stands out. That's pretty significant. The operating while
- intoxicated, does the enforcement of that become a factor? In other words, do you report it when it's
- identified and cited? When it's arrested. When it's arrested. When it's a arrestable charge, yes. And
- do those numbers reflect the increase
- And monitoring that, in other words, people are watching for intoxication? Yes and no. You are always
- watching for it, but a lot of it reflects just who got stopped for what at that point in time. You may
- be behind a car that runs a automatic signal. You stop it, the person's intoxicated. Versus you might
- stop the next 10 cars going through that same intersection, same light, and none of them are intoxicated.
- I won't say it's luck of the draw, but it's also having more cars available to do traffic enforcement.
- during the time where OWI would be prevalent. I would love to tell you that's just night shift anymore,
- but it's not. We see it on all three shifts. And quite frankly, second shift is seen, which is between
- 1.30 and 10, seen a noticeable uptick. So I really can't tell you exactly what caused that. That number,
- though, is not that far out of all those 33% change. We're talking 34 cars. Yeah, right. A lot more
- after the games.
- Honestly, no, and I'll be blunt, because after the games we're running all over the place with everything
- else in the world. We may have some accidents. That's a good time to get? No. The good thing about after
- the games is there's so much traffic you're not going very far. You're going five feet, stop, five feet,
- stop. And that sounds horrible to say that's good, but it's better than a wide open freeway.
- Traffic stops declined just a little bit. Calls mobbing weapons, however, showed a noticeable decrease,
- something we're pretty proud of that the officers have been working diligently on, particularly if you
- notice the huge decrease from 2023 on. That has been a focus of the Patrol Division and the Detective
- Division with some special details and special enforcement areas that has really made a noticeable dent in this.
- assault arrest, again, month by month. As December starts to get cold, we'll start to see fewer people
- outside. So you don't see as many arrests. You'll still see the same ones that happen inside. And juvenile
- referral is likewise. Eight crimes. This was the end of the reporting period, and then we had zero.
- Our traditional new scenes call five chart.
- It remains the same. And our training hours. December training hours, 335 and a half. 42 completed an
- active shooter training course at Ivy Tech. 30 completed firearms training. Three detectives at Internet
- Crimes Against Children, the annual conference. 10 officers completed the Taser 10 virtual reality training.
- Three officers attended firearms and tactical medical course. One officer attended eight hour mastering
- proactive policing training.
- And CERT had 12 officers for eight hours each. Community engagement events, seven, 32 and a half hours,
- 16 personnel involved. And you can see what they were there. The Pacers thing was very well attended.
- That was a good time. And the Continuing Forever Friends is our upcoming one. Social workers had 91
- contacts. They spent a lot of time this month with individuals. You can see some of their achievements there.
- Participate in Home and Steadsby Santa to a senior program. Sister was wrapping and delivering gifts.
- Sister noted a client that had really no services to her house whatsoever. And they were able to get
- electricity and gas back in her home before the weather set in. I think she was even without water,
- wasn't she? I don't think she had anything. Yeah, I think she had no services whatsoever.
- They facilitated some psychological evaluations for a client that was struggling and he definitely had
- some issues that they were able to help with. The new dispatcher, sorry, the new social worker in dispatch
- was able to successfully assist an elderly client who was a domestic battery victim. They were able
- to reunite him with family out of state. Same dispatch, social worker assisted.
- individual to find housing and some mental health support. The awards continued downtown, really making
- life easier for some folks they can encounter. Supported a recently housed client adjusting during new
- life with stable housing. Got the family to come visit her for Christmas, something that hadn't happened
- for quite a bit. You want to add on that? No, I just thought that was something they were very proud
- of. And as was the client, that they were able to get into housing, having the family come and actually
- have a place for them to gather for Christmas.
- I think was something that was pretty special for them. And general business. All right. Question. Yes.
- Can we lump all of them together or do one individually? I would want you to do them individually just
- so there's no confusion. OK. Make sure that everybody sees a clean record that we actually improved
- for each and every one of them. OK. That sounds good.
- All right. Can I get a motion for conditional offer of employment for Zachary Brock, contingent upon
- the applicant successfully completing the remaining steps in the hiring process? So moved. Second. All
- in favor? Aye. That motion passes. And can I get a motion for conditional offer of employment for Kate
- Lindsay, contingent upon the applicant successfully completing the remaining steps in the hiring process?
- So moved. Second.
- Got a second? All in favor? Aye. Motion passes. Can I get a motion for conditional offer of employment
- for Dustin Carpenter, contingent upon the applicant successfully completing the remaining steps in the
- hiring process? So moved. I second it. OK. I have a motion and a second. All in favor? Aye. Motion passes.
- Can I get a motion for conditional offer of employment for Stephen Hatton Jr.
- Contingent upon the applicant successfully completing the remaining steps in the hiring process.
- So moved. Second. Got a motion and a second. All in favor? Aye. Can I get a motion for conditional offer
- of employment for Andrew Wheats? Contingent upon the applicant successfully completing the remaining
- steps in the hiring process. So moved. I second that. OK. We have a motion and a second. All in favor? Aye. OK.
- Can I get a motion for conditional offer of employment for Harrison Fleetwood contingent upon the applicant
- successfully completing the remaining steps in the hiring process? So moved. Second. OK, motion and
- second. All in favor? Aye. Motion passes. Can I get a motion for conditional offer of employment for
- Dylan Erwin contingent upon the applicant successfully completing the remaining steps in the hiring
- process? So moved. Second.
- Got a motion and a second. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Motion passes. Can I get a motion for conditional
- offer of employment for Tyler McLaughlin contingent upon the applicant successfully completing the remaining
- steps in the hiring process? So moved. Second. Got a motion and a second. All in favor? Aye.
- Motion passes. And that's all of them. Thank you. I hope they all accept. Yeah.
- As far as expenditures, procurements, we had some end of the year items come up. None of them were hugely
- expensive. Just some equipment needs that were being addressed at the end of the year. As far as the
- cert ARV report, there was one ARV deployment this month. And that was for a barricaded individual up
- on North Smith Pike as an assistant sheriff's department. Any other department?
- She definitely was in the lobby. Let me see if I can go find her. She was sitting at the table. How
- much does it pay?
- 15,000 a year. Then you get a personal bodyguard from the police department and a driver. I'm here to
- do whatever you want me to do. What's that? Have you been chaired before? Of this group? No. I think,
- Tim, you're on your second step. So the first one? Okay. So, yeah.
- That'll be easy. There you are. You don't know what you missed. You don't know what you missed. Oh,
- I missed all the bits. Well, fantastic. I think that's what I was looking at. All right, well, great.
- OK, that is our year-end total for the year, 6,745 runs, and then the breakdown on which ones we have.
- So the EMS is one of our largest. It's about 30% to 40% of our overall runs rescuing EMS. The month
- total for December was 475.
- Five years ago in 2020, December was 319 runs. So we've gone up about 33% in five years after December.
- Year to date, though, 40% increase in five years. In 2020, we were at 4,066 runs. Just giving you some
- year end statistics there. And then, of course, we're more in the city than we are in
- Anywhere else? And then IU, I said, off the chart on both for false alarms and rescue EMS. And that
- does include a lot of elevators, just saying. But IU, like I said, their highest category is the false
- alarms, and they had 487 for the year.
- So we're getting two fire scenes on time. So this is when we talk about first do. We want the first
- engine on scene in under 240 seconds. Hot spots. So you can see where the red dots are where we go quite a bit.
- inspection so our goal was 2250 and we got to 1168 so 52% in the inspections. It will still be 2250
- and this is a number that we have chosen
- basically because City doesn't know how many businesses actually there are. And our documentation from
- our record management system has about 3,800. So we thought our goal would be to get to two-thirds of
- that roughly. And we can see that we're not quite making that. It's a high goal, yeah. Yes,
- it is a high goal. So something to strive for. And I said, and we, anyway.
- Some of it's a staffing issue, right? So we need more inspectors. Our inspectors are tasked with a lot
- of different things. But you can see community engagement. The inspectors started tracking that this
- year, so in May. And it seemed that generally it trends upward every month, which is good. We had 80
- smoke detectors installed. Our goal is 100. So we got to 80% of that.
- And then we, like I said, we've got our education numbers are the dark blues. So there's a 2025 stuff.
- So training. So this year, we exceeded our goal, which is we average 30. Our goal is 30 to 35 hours
- per month per individual. And so we got 100.
- 16% of the goal. December is a catch-up month and a lot, and that is where we catch anyone who reported
- their hours after we'd already run the monthly statistics. But you can see that the vendor came and
- did training for the new ladder four, which is good. So anyone who is
- even remotely expected to drive that, got some time with the rep to get some. Every engine has its quirks,
- right? So they like to share that in advance. Wildland refresher. And that is forest fires and grass
- fires and the, what do they call it? The wildland urban interface. So anytime you have forestry and
- urban areas that meet up together, they call it the interface.
- And then, like I said, in Roe Fire, they used our facility down the tower to do their aerial course.
- And then, like I said, we were completing all our stuff, our requirements, so it was busy. MIH, so we
- looked at, they got their 515th referral to the program.
- The referrals, we were looking at our year and stuff, about 90% to 95% of the referrals actually make
- use of the offered services. So it's a pretty good number there. So we have installed five car seats,
- 62 for the year, average
- visits per patient, 13.4, and different services that were engaged this month, hospital, shelter, community
- center, housing, utilities, mental health, case management, and primary medical were the services that
- were engaged, and the different agencies have that. So we can see we helped get some MIH families Christmas
- dinner stuff, and then we got
- helped somebody negotiate to keep their house. So kept them in their own. It was good. Any questions
- on anything so far? No? OK. We did not have any general business. And personnel, we have two off on
- light duty, one off on FMLA. Six are off on parental leave, and it is intermittent.
- we get for having a young department. It's OK. It's hard to schedule. Yeah, it is. And they get to do
- that. And we have this by April. We anticipate three retirements. And we've had three resignations.
- And we're scheduling our hiring with HR.
- This would be someone else's. Get that back just there. Any old business? No? New business. We do have
- new business. And that is the election of the new chair for 2026. Are there any nominations for the
- chair of the Board of Public Safety for 2026? I nominate Russell.
- All in favor? Aye. Congratulations. Thrill. Russell, did you say yes or no to that nomination? Aye.
- Did you say aye? Aye. Okay. There's a lot going on. I couldn't hear what you said. It's still going
- to be two to one anyway. I know, but I wanted the record to be reflected in the minutes.
- okay are there any nominations for vice chair of the board of public safety for 2026 i nominate him
- okay and second that nomination all right we got a second all in favor aye okay and that's very good
- and so that's all the new business oh but one thing i did here um i was
- down on Kirkwood and talking to one of the bar managers down there. Great idea that you guys went by
- and said, hey, only serve plastic cups and things like that. And apparently, it really, really helped
- out. Remove trash cans from. If it's not burzing down, it's getting moved. Yeah, that hasn't happened
- yet, but those are the plans, right? Yeah. That's good. It's got removing things that can get tossed
- and hide things in.
- We're hoping that four degrees will cut both ways, yes. Yeah, hopefully next year they'll keep Kirkwood
- closed until Signetti and his boys are done trashing everyone in the country. It's hard getting there.
- Hopefully. All right, petitions, communications, anybody? Anybody on the internet? Hello? I forgot one.
- With our financial stuff, we have the ongoing bond projects, the training logistics down south on land.
- So we're supposed to be under roof next month. We're not already. And then they are moving forward with
- the purchase of a fire engine bumper, $678,272. So they're able to secure it before a significant price
- increase. And it's available for immediate delivery, which is not something they've ever really encountered
- Usually we're building them with our own specifications from the ground up. It takes a year. Plus now,
- they're easily two to three years out now. Oh, gosh. So when you're looking at it, and because of the
- potential change in our funding, this is available now. And that may not be the case when the spec engine
- would be ready. So we're getting that.
- And that's all. That's it. No communications or petitions. So I call this January 15, 2026 meeting adjourned.