- Well, good morning. I'm Russell Kitchener, and I would like to call this meeting of the Board of Public
- Safety to order. And so I will. First, I'd like to acknowledge we have two new members of this board,
- Chuck and Patrick. I trust that all of you have met both of these people and vice versa.
- We did not have an executive session. So what I would like to do first is ask that we have a motion
- to certify the consent agenda. Have you seen that agenda? Is there a motion to approve that consent
- agenda? So moved. Thank you. Second. Second. Any discussion? All in favor? Aye. Motion is passed. We need to.
- the minutes or is that folded into that consent agenda? I think the minutes are in the consent agenda.
- Thank you very much. So we'll just pass on those items. So next I'd like to ask if we could have a report
- from the police department on monthly statistics and training. We can't. Sir, can you pull off the little
- box there?
- So as you can see, we're trending a little bit down this year from last year. Over the month past,
- we had 6,295 calls for service as opposed to 6,833 the year before. That's a 7.9 decrease. And if I
- don't miss my guess, that's the largest decrease in call volume we've had month to month for several
- years. Until we get into a deep dive and have probably three or four months to look at it, you really
- can't tell one way or the other.
- Probably as good a guess as any, though. Sarah, we're back to not working here. It's right there. Here
- we go with our monthly crime statistics. Remember the ones where we're looking at the positive negative
- percentages, small numbers, changes sometimes equating to very large percentages.
- We're tracking about, as we would say, normal for the year to date, trending a little bit down.
- But again, let's see how that shapes up over time. Next. Is this not working for you? No, no. Traffic
- stop comparison also continues to trend just a little bit downward, but we're only talking about 21
- traffic stops. So that's not substantive. Next.
- We did have a slight increase in calls for weapons this month as compared to the month last year. Again,
- no rhyme or reason to that. We'll have to look at that over the period of time. Next. Adult arrest also
- decreased. I'm sorry, increased. I don't know that we have the data from February yet, do we? Should
- be in there. It's in this after the March slides. We have all the February slides. OK. Go from there.
- It's not yet the end of the hate crime reporting period. We'll bring that to you in April. See how long
- it lasts. And our generalized graph that I tell you the same every month, that all of these pretty much
- involve some substance or another, disturbances being one of the largest calls for services we take.
- Training, we had 157 hours this week, or this month, 36 hours completed one-armed firearms training.
- 20 officers completed a one-hour wrap training that is an immobilization device that we use for combative
- prisoners so they can't injure themselves or officers. Basically, it's a large velcro sleeve that goes
- around their upper torso and their legs to keep them from kicking, keep them from thrashing about. Seven
- officers completed a breath test recertification, three with one-hour IDACs, which is our computer system.
- A sergeant attended the first-line sergeant's training course, and 15 hours for canine.
- Many events, there were six for 12.6 hours. You can see what they were. They were DRO outreach, a tour
- for a local Cub Scout, child seed education, and we have continuing forever friends that we partnered
- with the Humane Association on. This is the March report. You'll see we're still down. Calls for service,
- and we're back into the
- Same type of percentage up and down here. Not really seeing a drastic increase or decrease in anything
- yet. Traffic stops, we're slightly up in March comparatively. We're coming back down in weapons calls
- after that month had passed. We're doing two of these here. Our adult arrests are up for both months,
- compared to the last year.
- Juvenile referrals, way up in January, decreased in February. Still not the end of the reporting period.
- Looks vastly similar to last month. And training hours for this month, a lot more training hours. We
- had 31 officers patrol rifle, 20 officers completed emotional survival training. Seven completed 20
- hours of annual in-service training. Four completed their CIT training, which is crisis intervention
- team training.
- Three officers completed a drone assessment response tactics training. Two for the Reed Interview School
- for 36 hours, two officers for 41.25 hours of the probation officer's training course training. One
- officer attended a standard field spright technique course. And you can see the very specialty units
- for canine, crisis negotiators, and civil disturbance unit. Community service remained consistent.
- And now we're into police social workers. They had 181 referrals, 320 contacts. You can see the highlights.
- They assisted an unhoused client moving into a new apartment. They worked really diligently with this
- person to make sure that they got into their new apartment. Kind of the first time in a while that they've
- had a stable home life. Assisted another who was a frequent 911 service user, both for us and Fire,
- and got in touch with family in Florida and facilitated the transfer of that person back to family.
- hosted mental health intensive training for members of BPD and other agencies. Our outreach specialist
- worked with a gentleman who was living in the woods for two and a half years, got him into an apartment,
- and they were able to get visits with his children reestablished. It was a huge win for them. They also
- were able to talk to people who had previously refused services into at least getting on the list for
- housing. Again, a big win there.
- assisted two other unhoused community members moving into housing. And then we're to general business.
- Really don't have anything for you guys other than you'll start seeing bills on your replacement. Just
- the same as always. It's just a routine thing. As things are replaced, you'll get the bills from them.
- So. Personnel.
- We currently have 93 sworn out of the 105 that we are authorized. One of the individuals on this list
- decided not to. Dylan Irwin just told me two days ago that he was no longer interested in employment
- and didn't complete the testing as he needed to do. So he will not be in this list of those as far as
- an official offer of employment.
- This would, if all six of these are approved by the board, local pension and state pension, that would
- bring us to 99 and we currently have another ongoing process with certified officers. We have six interviews
- scheduled, five tomorrow and then one probably next Tuesday. So I'm still waiting to confirm that one
- and that could get us close to that if all of those were to make it through the
- the entire process that get us close to full staffing. Always have the potential retirements or things
- like that, but that would get us hopefully over that, at least over that 100 number, which we haven't
- been in years. So I'm just asking for the board's approval to move these. It's actually.
- I only need approval from the board for five, because one is already in the 1977 police pension fund.
- So therefore, that is just a transfer. That person's already been accepted in. So there's no signature
- page for that individual, but then the other five seeking the board's approval to move them forward
- one step closer to employment. So I would entertain a motion to approve
- the employment of those five? That's my understanding. To extended conditional. I'd generally like to
- have you do that individually. Individually? Which five of that? Here's all their packets if it's easiest.
- Okay. So I would entertain a motion to approve for employment. Tyler McLaughlin? Move to approve. Second.
- Second. All in favor? Aye.
- Motion to approve Cade Lindsay. Is that Cade or Katie? Cade. Cade. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Moved to approve.
- Second. All in favor? Aye. I have a motion to approve Harrison Fleetwood. Moved to approve. Second.
- All in favor? Aye. Motion to approve Zachary Brock. Moved to approve. Second. Thank you. All in favor? Aye.
- And finally, Dustin Carpenter? Move to approve. Second. Thank you. All in favor? Aye. It may be best
- to go ahead since the, just to get board's approval to offer employment to Stephen Hatton, but he, I
- won't need a signature page for him because he is already in the 77. All right. Is there someone that
- we'd undertake a motion to approve Mr. Hatton? Move to approve. Second. All in favor? Aye.
- Thank you very much. Thank you. Purchasers, purchases and expenditures? Again, we kind of went a little
- before the horse there. That's all right. You'll see the regular routine purchases, again, so that the
- new board members are aware. Everything that we own is on a cyclical replacement cycle. Some have a
- two year, five year, 10 year, seven year cycles. And a certain percentage of the department will be
- cycled out every year on those pieces of equipment.
- That way, we're not having huge expenditures for one piece of equipment or another. And we have different
- generations of models in our fleet, for want of a better word. That way, we don't get stuck with a bad
- batch of anything. It's also easier to budget for, which is why we do it. Moving on, any questions there?
- Moving on, cert ARB deployments. Don't think we had any with the ARB involved this month. Well, thank
- you very much.
- I have one question. Sure. Can you say what the current status is with the flock cameras? I think that's
- something better addressed with the administration and the chief. That is something that I know that
- both the mayor's office and also the chief of police have been coordinating with Council on. And I prefer
- that we probably see their comment rather than us talking. I understand. I was just curious. Thank you.
- Thank you very much. Thank you. Moving on to the fire department statistics. So for our year to date,
- We've had 1,050 calls for service of those. February is 512, so half. And then break down the numbers
- of what is the most popular call with medical. And we've changed the new nationally. Fire is classifying
- their calls differently.
- with a new system called Nearest. So our false alarms are now categorized under the no-emergency. I
- wondered about that. Yeah, so that's, yeah. There was no choice in that. It was a national thing. Again,
- like I said, IU, we had 62 runs to campus this month. And when you break down to IU,
- what the calls are, medical, and then public service. A lot of times, public services also, there's
- an odd situation, and so they don't know who to call. But then no emergency also. All right, for fire
- inspections, so we are at 6% of our goal so far. We have set the goal for 2,000.
- I said we're just at 127. For community engagement so far, again, with the inspectors, when they're
- doing education, they're on the left there. So for the year, we're looking, what do I have there? 565
- for the year. We could see that last year, we only did partial year.
- smoke detectors and whatnot that are on the right hand side. So we've not done any school visits this
- year. And that will pick up shortly when the weather gets nicer. And then we've actually had 13 smoke
- detector installations. I'd say intercity training or public education officer
- He went down to utilities and they did some live fire with some fire extinguisher training there. And
- they insisted on having live fire. And then they put it in there. We also have a digital one, but somehow
- it's more realistic to practice the fire extinguisher with the actual, you know, one that's going out
- than a laser beam. Training hours for the
- A year so far, we're at 20% of our goal. So pretty consistent from January to February. So we had actually
- hosted the NIMS classes, which is the incident command system. 300 and 400 are higher level ones, despite
- the numbers. I mean, it looks like 300 or 400 would be basic, but these are bigger incidents, and we
- want our upper staff
- Accessibility training, Chief Litwin and Chief Drescher went to the ISO, which is the Insurance Service
- Office, one that does our rating for our classes. And then EMS training with the mega code, that's what
- that is, cardiac arrest. And we got some new radios that are very neat. And then we had Chief Drescher,
- who was our Battalion Chief of Training, he went to the
- Fire Chief Training Academy in Lanefield there. That's a week. MIH for Mobile Integrated Healthcare,
- we've done 13 car seats this year. They worked with a senior living facility, and like I said, they
- got three people, at least three that were determined to have high blood pressure and high blood sugar,
- so they're following
- being taken care of or addressed by their medical providers. We had the domestic violence incident,
- and so they got the police involved with there. I guess it's not sure how they got the call first, but
- police were involved with that, because that's as well as it should be. And then mall, which is the...
- mobility aids lending library. They got a patient what they needed through there so they could get out
- and about. And then we had a medical issue and got them to the hospital. And then we taught the teachers
- at Harmony School of CPR. Any questions on any of that? Thank you. General business and personnel, we
- can kind of
- So we have three new recruits starting April 27th. That fills our three operational vacancies and brings
- us up to full staff operationally. So that's maintaining that. Yeah. So we had three, two retirements.
- One was a voluntary resignation and we put lists ready and we're filling them rather quickly. So that'll
- be good to be back to a hundred percent. Our fire marshal is leaving here in the next couple of months.
- So we have a hiring process underway to replace him.
- And then we also have two new mobile integrated health care employees that started recently, bringing
- that division up to fully staff. So cycling well with the personnel. Who's the fighter, Marshall?
- Tim Platt. He's been with us for a while. This is an uncommon one to see. Other personnel issues, we
- have one on light duty, one on FMLA, and currently have eight with intermittent baby bonding time available.
- As far as purchases, we have a few items that were previously declared that have come in and are now
- complete. The first is the radios that Chief Deferment mentioned, and they are really, really neat.
- They have taken care of some issues we've had in the past. The prior radios relied on towers to communicate,
- so we commonly would encounter issues at some of the IU buildings where we couldn't get out to talk
- to one another. So the new radios utilize radio towers
- cell signal and Wi-Fi, of which we coordinated with IU to have access. So there's really no, we're gonna
- find a channel to communicate through one way or another. So that's really good. They also even have
- GPS. So you can see the location of the radios. Detailed enough, you can actually track individuals
- within a fire and a structure and where they are based on where the radio is. There's a screen on them.
- You can look up hydrant locations. They are a great upgrade for us. We had two
- engines come in. One is from a new vendor, HME, and it had about a three-month turnaround. It was a
- stock unit, and it arrived at a better price. The other one was from our previous vendor, and it took
- about two to three years to get it. So hopefully we're navigating this issue of an extended lead time
- on some of these engines by maybe switching up vendors or going with stock units as an advantage
- pricing as of now appears to be better. So they both came in at the same time, even though they were
- ordered on a very different timeline. So it's good to have those in. And lastly, I'd mentioned in the
- past, we had a few projects at the stations making the restrooms go from communal to individual. And
- those are all complete now. Station two, four, and five are subject to those. And those are all done.
- They look great. Any questions on any of that?
- Sure, I can update our training logistics building on South Walnut. There's ongoing expenses to that.
- It's scheduled to be completed September 11th. So moving along, coordinated some of that with PD and
- worked well together on it. So it actually looks like a building now. It's not just a mud pit down there.
- Yeah, pretty impressive. Yeah, it's coming along. Can't wait to show you guys the final product. It's
- going to be really, really nice. And we should have a churro, definitely. We should have a churro. Yeah,
- I'd love to. Absolutely.
- Any other questions from either the fire or police departments? Then moving on, old business.
- Hearing none, new business. Are we done? I think so. Any petitions or questions from guests?
- I'd like to thank the fire department police department for the quick response to the tornado that hit
- up there and we take care of the animal shelter and getting things put back together. That was great.
- I was hoping for some money from the bank flying around. I heard there was money flying around. Was
- that not true? I didn't get there in time. The only thing I have is I went through and I typed out
- Our meetings, everyone can kind of post on a refrigerator so everybody knows when they're coming up.
- I went through the year, and so I just put the dates everywhere when they are, because I'm a more visual
- person. So if anybody wants one, I've got several. I think it's all on my calendar. OK. Any other comments
- or questions? If not, I'll entertain a motion to adjourn. So moved. Second. Second. All in favor? Aye.
- We are adjourned.