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.