WEBVTT 00:00:00.258 --> 00:00:09.880 - Well, good morning. I'm Russell Kitchener, and I would like to call this meeting of the Board of Public 00:00:09.880 --> 00:00:19.316 - Safety to order. And so I will. First, I'd like to acknowledge we have two new members of this board, 00:00:19.316 --> 00:00:27.550 - Chuck and Patrick. I trust that all of you have met both of these people and vice versa. 00:00:28.578 --> 00:00:38.032 - We did not have an executive session. So what I would like to do first is ask that we have a motion 00:00:38.032 --> 00:00:47.486 - to certify the consent agenda. Have you seen that agenda? Is there a motion to approve that consent 00:00:47.486 --> 00:00:57.886 - agenda? So moved. Thank you. Second. Second. Any discussion? All in favor? Aye. Motion is passed. We need to. 00:00:58.146 --> 00:01:06.193 - the minutes or is that folded into that consent agenda? I think the minutes are in the consent agenda. 00:01:06.193 --> 00:01:14.474 - 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 00:01:14.474 --> 00:01:22.755 - from the police department on monthly statistics and training. We can't. Sir, can you pull off the little 00:01:22.755 --> 00:01:23.614 - box there? 00:01:30.434 --> 00:01:37.155 - So as you can see, we're trending a little bit down this year from last year. Over the month past, 00:01:37.155 --> 00:01:43.944 - we had 6,295 calls for service as opposed to 6,833 the year before. That's a 7.9 decrease. And if I 00:01:43.944 --> 00:01:50.801 - don't miss my guess, that's the largest decrease in call volume we've had month to month for several 00:01:50.801 --> 00:01:57.726 - years. Until we get into a deep dive and have probably three or four months to look at it, you really 00:01:57.726 --> 00:01:59.966 - can't tell one way or the other. 00:02:00.290 --> 00:02:10.724 - Probably as good a guess as any, though. Sarah, we're back to not working here. It's right there. Here 00:02:10.724 --> 00:02:21.259 - we go with our monthly crime statistics. Remember the ones where we're looking at the positive negative 00:02:21.259 --> 00:02:29.566 - percentages, small numbers, changes sometimes equating to very large percentages. 00:02:30.114 --> 00:02:37.012 - We're tracking about, as we would say, normal for the year to date, trending a little bit down. 00:02:37.012 --> 00:02:44.340 - But again, let's see how that shapes up over time. Next. Is this not working for you? No, no. Traffic 00:02:44.340 --> 00:02:51.525 - stop comparison also continues to trend just a little bit downward, but we're only talking about 21 00:02:51.525 --> 00:02:54.974 - traffic stops. So that's not substantive. Next. 00:02:59.522 --> 00:03:06.918 - We did have a slight increase in calls for weapons this month as compared to the month last year. Again, 00:03:06.918 --> 00:03:14.243 - no rhyme or reason to that. We'll have to look at that over the period of time. Next. Adult arrest also 00:03:14.243 --> 00:03:21.357 - decreased. I'm sorry, increased. I don't know that we have the data from February yet, do we? Should 00:03:21.357 --> 00:03:28.542 - be in there. It's in this after the March slides. We have all the February slides. OK. Go from there. 00:03:35.234 --> 00:03:42.822 - It's not yet the end of the hate crime reporting period. We'll bring that to you in April. See how long 00:03:42.822 --> 00:03:50.411 - it lasts. And our generalized graph that I tell you the same every month, that all of these pretty much 00:03:50.411 --> 00:03:57.780 - involve some substance or another, disturbances being one of the largest calls for services we take. 00:03:57.780 --> 00:04:05.150 - Training, we had 157 hours this week, or this month, 36 hours completed one-armed firearms training. 00:04:05.666 --> 00:04:11.470 - 20 officers completed a one-hour wrap training that is an immobilization device that we use for combative 00:04:11.470 --> 00:04:17.109 - prisoners so they can't injure themselves or officers. Basically, it's a large velcro sleeve that goes 00:04:17.109 --> 00:04:22.858 - around their upper torso and their legs to keep them from kicking, keep them from thrashing about. Seven 00:04:22.858 --> 00:04:28.716 - officers completed a breath test recertification, three with one-hour IDACs, which is our computer system. 00:04:28.716 --> 00:04:33.534 - A sergeant attended the first-line sergeant's training course, and 15 hours for canine. 00:04:35.394 --> 00:04:43.992 - Many events, there were six for 12.6 hours. You can see what they were. They were DRO outreach, a tour 00:04:43.992 --> 00:04:52.506 - for a local Cub Scout, child seed education, and we have continuing forever friends that we partnered 00:04:52.506 --> 00:05:01.355 - with the Humane Association on. This is the March report. You'll see we're still down. Calls for service, 00:05:01.355 --> 00:05:03.358 - and we're back into the 00:05:04.066 --> 00:05:12.581 - Same type of percentage up and down here. Not really seeing a drastic increase or decrease in anything 00:05:12.581 --> 00:05:21.013 - yet. Traffic stops, we're slightly up in March comparatively. We're coming back down in weapons calls 00:05:21.013 --> 00:05:29.446 - after that month had passed. We're doing two of these here. Our adult arrests are up for both months, 00:05:29.446 --> 00:05:31.678 - compared to the last year. 00:05:33.122 --> 00:05:40.064 - Juvenile referrals, way up in January, decreased in February. Still not the end of the reporting period. 00:05:40.064 --> 00:05:46.741 - Looks vastly similar to last month. And training hours for this month, a lot more training hours. We 00:05:46.741 --> 00:05:53.353 - had 31 officers patrol rifle, 20 officers completed emotional survival training. Seven completed 20 00:05:53.353 --> 00:06:00.030 - hours of annual in-service training. Four completed their CIT training, which is crisis intervention 00:06:00.030 --> 00:06:01.022 - team training. 00:06:01.666 --> 00:06:08.526 - Three officers completed a drone assessment response tactics training. Two for the Reed Interview School 00:06:08.526 --> 00:06:15.059 - for 36 hours, two officers for 41.25 hours of the probation officer's training course training. One 00:06:15.059 --> 00:06:21.658 - officer attended a standard field spright technique course. And you can see the very specialty units 00:06:21.658 --> 00:06:28.126 - for canine, crisis negotiators, and civil disturbance unit. Community service remained consistent. 00:06:30.178 --> 00:06:36.394 - And now we're into police social workers. They had 181 referrals, 320 contacts. You can see the highlights. 00:06:36.394 --> 00:06:42.265 - They assisted an unhoused client moving into a new apartment. They worked really diligently with this 00:06:42.265 --> 00:06:48.423 - person to make sure that they got into their new apartment. Kind of the first time in a while that they've 00:06:48.423 --> 00:06:54.178 - had a stable home life. Assisted another who was a frequent 911 service user, both for us and Fire, 00:06:54.178 --> 00:06:59.934 - and got in touch with family in Florida and facilitated the transfer of that person back to family. 00:07:00.930 --> 00:07:07.226 - hosted mental health intensive training for members of BPD and other agencies. Our outreach specialist 00:07:07.226 --> 00:07:13.645 - worked with a gentleman who was living in the woods for two and a half years, got him into an apartment, 00:07:13.645 --> 00:07:20.002 - and they were able to get visits with his children reestablished. It was a huge win for them. They also 00:07:20.002 --> 00:07:26.237 - were able to talk to people who had previously refused services into at least getting on the list for 00:07:26.237 --> 00:07:28.254 - housing. Again, a big win there. 00:07:28.482 --> 00:07:37.290 - assisted two other unhoused community members moving into housing. And then we're to general business. 00:07:37.290 --> 00:07:46.099 - Really don't have anything for you guys other than you'll start seeing bills on your replacement. Just 00:07:46.099 --> 00:07:54.907 - the same as always. It's just a routine thing. As things are replaced, you'll get the bills from them. 00:07:54.907 --> 00:07:56.190 - So. Personnel. 00:07:57.122 --> 00:08:05.725 - We currently have 93 sworn out of the 105 that we are authorized. One of the individuals on this list 00:08:05.725 --> 00:08:14.244 - decided not to. Dylan Irwin just told me two days ago that he was no longer interested in employment 00:08:14.244 --> 00:08:22.847 - and didn't complete the testing as he needed to do. So he will not be in this list of those as far as 00:08:22.847 --> 00:08:25.630 - an official offer of employment. 00:08:26.626 --> 00:08:34.346 - This would, if all six of these are approved by the board, local pension and state pension, that would 00:08:34.346 --> 00:08:42.516 - bring us to 99 and we currently have another ongoing process with certified officers. We have six interviews 00:08:42.516 --> 00:08:50.162 - scheduled, five tomorrow and then one probably next Tuesday. So I'm still waiting to confirm that one 00:08:50.162 --> 00:08:56.158 - and that could get us close to that if all of those were to make it through the 00:08:56.706 --> 00:09:07.164 - the entire process that get us close to full staffing. Always have the potential retirements or things 00:09:07.164 --> 00:09:17.521 - like that, but that would get us hopefully over that, at least over that 100 number, which we haven't 00:09:17.521 --> 00:09:26.558 - been in years. So I'm just asking for the board's approval to move these. It's actually. 00:09:26.914 --> 00:09:34.419 - I only need approval from the board for five, because one is already in the 1977 police pension fund. 00:09:34.419 --> 00:09:41.998 - So therefore, that is just a transfer. That person's already been accepted in. So there's no signature 00:09:41.998 --> 00:09:49.356 - page for that individual, but then the other five seeking the board's approval to move them forward 00:09:49.356 --> 00:09:54.654 - one step closer to employment. So I would entertain a motion to approve 00:09:55.458 --> 00:10:04.065 - the employment of those five? That's my understanding. To extended conditional. I'd generally like to 00:10:04.065 --> 00:10:13.095 - have you do that individually. Individually? Which five of that? Here's all their packets if it's easiest. 00:10:13.095 --> 00:10:22.040 - Okay. So I would entertain a motion to approve for employment. Tyler McLaughlin? Move to approve. Second. 00:10:22.040 --> 00:10:24.318 - Second. All in favor? Aye. 00:10:26.146 --> 00:10:36.199 - Motion to approve Cade Lindsay. Is that Cade or Katie? Cade. Cade. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Moved to approve. 00:10:36.199 --> 00:10:45.595 - Second. All in favor? Aye. I have a motion to approve Harrison Fleetwood. Moved to approve. Second. 00:10:45.595 --> 00:10:55.742 - All in favor? Aye. Motion to approve Zachary Brock. Moved to approve. Second. Thank you. All in favor? Aye. 00:10:56.194 --> 00:11:03.524 - And finally, Dustin Carpenter? Move to approve. Second. Thank you. All in favor? Aye. It may be best 00:11:03.524 --> 00:11:10.855 - to go ahead since the, just to get board's approval to offer employment to Stephen Hatton, but he, I 00:11:10.855 --> 00:11:18.257 - won't need a signature page for him because he is already in the 77. All right. Is there someone that 00:11:18.257 --> 00:11:24.862 - we'd undertake a motion to approve Mr. Hatton? Move to approve. Second. All in favor? Aye. 00:11:25.474 --> 00:11:31.585 - Thank you very much. Thank you. Purchasers, purchases and expenditures? Again, we kind of went a little 00:11:31.585 --> 00:11:37.638 - before the horse there. That's all right. You'll see the regular routine purchases, again, so that the 00:11:37.638 --> 00:11:43.514 - new board members are aware. Everything that we own is on a cyclical replacement cycle. Some have a 00:11:43.514 --> 00:11:49.390 - two year, five year, 10 year, seven year cycles. And a certain percentage of the department will be 00:11:49.390 --> 00:11:52.446 - cycled out every year on those pieces of equipment. 00:11:53.026 --> 00:12:00.154 - That way, we're not having huge expenditures for one piece of equipment or another. And we have different 00:12:00.154 --> 00:12:07.081 - generations of models in our fleet, for want of a better word. That way, we don't get stuck with a bad 00:12:07.081 --> 00:12:14.210 - batch of anything. It's also easier to budget for, which is why we do it. Moving on, any questions there? 00:12:14.210 --> 00:12:21.069 - Moving on, cert ARB deployments. Don't think we had any with the ARB involved this month. Well, thank 00:12:21.069 --> 00:12:22.078 - you very much. 00:12:22.210 --> 00:12:28.287 - I have one question. Sure. Can you say what the current status is with the flock cameras? I think that's 00:12:28.287 --> 00:12:34.133 - something better addressed with the administration and the chief. That is something that I know that 00:12:34.133 --> 00:12:40.267 - both the mayor's office and also the chief of police have been coordinating with Council on. And I prefer 00:12:40.267 --> 00:12:46.287 - that we probably see their comment rather than us talking. I understand. I was just curious. Thank you. 00:12:46.287 --> 00:12:52.190 - Thank you very much. Thank you. Moving on to the fire department statistics. So for our year to date, 00:12:52.514 --> 00:13:04.119 - We've had 1,050 calls for service of those. February is 512, so half. And then break down the numbers 00:13:04.119 --> 00:13:16.066 - of what is the most popular call with medical. And we've changed the new nationally. Fire is classifying 00:13:16.066 --> 00:13:18.910 - their calls differently. 00:13:19.298 --> 00:13:29.305 - with a new system called Nearest. So our false alarms are now categorized under the no-emergency. I 00:13:29.305 --> 00:13:39.812 - wondered about that. Yeah, so that's, yeah. There was no choice in that. It was a national thing. Again, 00:13:39.812 --> 00:13:48.318 - like I said, IU, we had 62 runs to campus this month. And when you break down to IU, 00:13:48.738 --> 00:13:59.083 - what the calls are, medical, and then public service. A lot of times, public services also, there's 00:13:59.083 --> 00:14:09.635 - an odd situation, and so they don't know who to call. But then no emergency also. All right, for fire 00:14:09.635 --> 00:14:18.014 - inspections, so we are at 6% of our goal so far. We have set the goal for 2,000. 00:14:18.402 --> 00:14:29.299 - I said we're just at 127. For community engagement so far, again, with the inspectors, when they're 00:14:29.299 --> 00:14:40.415 - doing education, they're on the left there. So for the year, we're looking, what do I have there? 565 00:14:40.415 --> 00:14:47.934 - for the year. We could see that last year, we only did partial year. 00:14:57.250 --> 00:15:07.029 - smoke detectors and whatnot that are on the right hand side. So we've not done any school visits this 00:15:07.029 --> 00:15:16.808 - year. And that will pick up shortly when the weather gets nicer. And then we've actually had 13 smoke 00:15:16.808 --> 00:15:24.382 - detector installations. I'd say intercity training or public education officer 00:15:24.802 --> 00:15:33.434 - He went down to utilities and they did some live fire with some fire extinguisher training there. And 00:15:33.434 --> 00:15:42.404 - they insisted on having live fire. And then they put it in there. We also have a digital one, but somehow 00:15:42.404 --> 00:15:51.036 - it's more realistic to practice the fire extinguisher with the actual, you know, one that's going out 00:15:51.036 --> 00:15:54.590 - than a laser beam. Training hours for the 00:15:54.946 --> 00:16:03.806 - A year so far, we're at 20% of our goal. So pretty consistent from January to February. So we had actually 00:16:03.806 --> 00:16:12.584 - hosted the NIMS classes, which is the incident command system. 300 and 400 are higher level ones, despite 00:16:12.584 --> 00:16:20.947 - the numbers. I mean, it looks like 300 or 400 would be basic, but these are bigger incidents, and we 00:16:20.947 --> 00:16:22.686 - want our upper staff 00:16:25.186 --> 00:16:33.595 - Accessibility training, Chief Litwin and Chief Drescher went to the ISO, which is the Insurance Service 00:16:33.595 --> 00:16:42.005 - Office, one that does our rating for our classes. And then EMS training with the mega code, that's what 00:16:42.005 --> 00:16:50.414 - that is, cardiac arrest. And we got some new radios that are very neat. And then we had Chief Drescher, 00:16:50.414 --> 00:16:54.942 - who was our Battalion Chief of Training, he went to the 00:16:55.170 --> 00:17:02.922 - Fire Chief Training Academy in Lanefield there. That's a week. MIH for Mobile Integrated Healthcare, 00:17:02.922 --> 00:17:10.596 - we've done 13 car seats this year. They worked with a senior living facility, and like I said, they 00:17:10.596 --> 00:17:18.578 - got three people, at least three that were determined to have high blood pressure and high blood sugar, 00:17:18.578 --> 00:17:20.190 - so they're following 00:17:24.098 --> 00:17:33.090 - being taken care of or addressed by their medical providers. We had the domestic violence incident, 00:17:33.090 --> 00:17:42.352 - and so they got the police involved with there. I guess it's not sure how they got the call first, but 00:17:42.352 --> 00:17:51.614 - police were involved with that, because that's as well as it should be. And then mall, which is the... 00:17:52.066 --> 00:18:01.564 - mobility aids lending library. They got a patient what they needed through there so they could get out 00:18:01.564 --> 00:18:11.246 - and about. And then we had a medical issue and got them to the hospital. And then we taught the teachers 00:18:11.246 --> 00:18:20.651 - at Harmony School of CPR. Any questions on any of that? Thank you. General business and personnel, we 00:18:20.651 --> 00:18:21.758 - can kind of 00:18:21.890 --> 00:18:27.973 - So we have three new recruits starting April 27th. That fills our three operational vacancies and brings 00:18:27.973 --> 00:18:33.940 - us up to full staff operationally. So that's maintaining that. Yeah. So we had three, two retirements. 00:18:33.940 --> 00:18:40.023 - One was a voluntary resignation and we put lists ready and we're filling them rather quickly. So that'll 00:18:40.023 --> 00:18:46.048 - be good to be back to a hundred percent. Our fire marshal is leaving here in the next couple of months. 00:18:46.048 --> 00:18:49.118 - So we have a hiring process underway to replace him. 00:18:49.890 --> 00:18:56.560 - And then we also have two new mobile integrated health care employees that started recently, bringing 00:18:56.560 --> 00:19:02.969 - that division up to fully staff. So cycling well with the personnel. Who's the fighter, Marshall? 00:19:02.969 --> 00:19:09.574 - Tim Platt. He's been with us for a while. This is an uncommon one to see. Other personnel issues, we 00:19:09.574 --> 00:19:16.702 - have one on light duty, one on FMLA, and currently have eight with intermittent baby bonding time available. 00:19:18.498 --> 00:19:24.655 - As far as purchases, we have a few items that were previously declared that have come in and are now 00:19:24.655 --> 00:19:30.752 - complete. The first is the radios that Chief Deferment mentioned, and they are really, really neat. 00:19:30.752 --> 00:19:37.397 - They have taken care of some issues we've had in the past. The prior radios relied on towers to communicate, 00:19:37.397 --> 00:19:43.493 - so we commonly would encounter issues at some of the IU buildings where we couldn't get out to talk 00:19:43.493 --> 00:19:46.846 - to one another. So the new radios utilize radio towers 00:19:47.426 --> 00:19:53.671 - cell signal and Wi-Fi, of which we coordinated with IU to have access. So there's really no, we're gonna 00:19:53.671 --> 00:19:59.678 - find a channel to communicate through one way or another. So that's really good. They also even have 00:19:59.678 --> 00:20:05.626 - GPS. So you can see the location of the radios. Detailed enough, you can actually track individuals 00:20:05.626 --> 00:20:11.811 - within a fire and a structure and where they are based on where the radio is. There's a screen on them. 00:20:11.811 --> 00:20:16.510 - You can look up hydrant locations. They are a great upgrade for us. We had two 00:20:16.706 --> 00:20:23.911 - engines come in. One is from a new vendor, HME, and it had about a three-month turnaround. It was a 00:20:23.911 --> 00:20:31.260 - stock unit, and it arrived at a better price. The other one was from our previous vendor, and it took 00:20:31.260 --> 00:20:38.609 - about two to three years to get it. So hopefully we're navigating this issue of an extended lead time 00:20:38.609 --> 00:20:45.598 - on some of these engines by maybe switching up vendors or going with stock units as an advantage 00:20:45.762 --> 00:20:52.418 - pricing as of now appears to be better. So they both came in at the same time, even though they were 00:20:52.418 --> 00:20:59.139 - ordered on a very different timeline. So it's good to have those in. And lastly, I'd mentioned in the 00:20:59.139 --> 00:21:05.795 - past, we had a few projects at the stations making the restrooms go from communal to individual. And 00:21:05.795 --> 00:21:12.517 - those are all complete now. Station two, four, and five are subject to those. And those are all done. 00:21:12.517 --> 00:21:15.614 - They look great. Any questions on any of that? 00:21:15.714 --> 00:21:21.270 - Sure, I can update our training logistics building on South Walnut. There's ongoing expenses to that. 00:21:21.270 --> 00:21:26.771 - It's scheduled to be completed September 11th. So moving along, coordinated some of that with PD and 00:21:26.771 --> 00:21:32.545 - worked well together on it. So it actually looks like a building now. It's not just a mud pit down there. 00:21:32.545 --> 00:21:38.101 - Yeah, pretty impressive. Yeah, it's coming along. Can't wait to show you guys the final product. It's 00:21:38.101 --> 00:21:43.820 - going to be really, really nice. And we should have a churro, definitely. We should have a churro. Yeah, 00:21:43.820 --> 00:21:45.182 - I'd love to. Absolutely. 00:21:48.514 --> 00:22:01.397 - Any other questions from either the fire or police departments? Then moving on, old business. 00:22:01.397 --> 00:22:14.142 - Hearing none, new business. Are we done? I think so. Any petitions or questions from guests? 00:22:14.530 --> 00:22:21.292 - I'd like to thank the fire department police department for the quick response to the tornado that hit 00:22:21.292 --> 00:22:27.989 - up there and we take care of the animal shelter and getting things put back together. That was great. 00:22:27.989 --> 00:22:34.554 - I was hoping for some money from the bank flying around. I heard there was money flying around. Was 00:22:34.554 --> 00:22:41.054 - that not true? I didn't get there in time. The only thing I have is I went through and I typed out 00:22:41.730 --> 00:22:47.999 - Our meetings, everyone can kind of post on a refrigerator so everybody knows when they're coming up. 00:22:47.999 --> 00:22:54.517 - I went through the year, and so I just put the dates everywhere when they are, because I'm a more visual 00:22:54.517 --> 00:23:01.159 - person. So if anybody wants one, I've got several. I think it's all on my calendar. OK. Any other comments 00:23:01.159 --> 00:23:07.553 - or questions? If not, I'll entertain a motion to adjourn. So moved. Second. Second. All in favor? Aye. 00:23:07.553 --> 00:23:08.670 - We are adjourned.