WEBVTT 00:00:00.194 --> 00:00:10.177 - I'd like to open this meeting of the Board of Public Safety. Welcome all those present. First, I'd like 00:00:10.177 --> 00:00:20.159 - to entertain a motion to approve the consent agenda or certify the executive session. So moved. We have 00:00:20.159 --> 00:00:29.854 - a motion and a second. All in favor? Aye. Motion passed. I'd like to now approve the consent agenda. 00:00:38.210 --> 00:00:46.647 - The items for that agenda is approval of the minutes of the March 19 meeting. Is there a? You can go 00:00:46.647 --> 00:00:55.252 - ahead. So the consent agenda has the approval of the minutes for March 19, 2026. So the entire agenda. 00:00:55.252 --> 00:01:03.773 - And I don't have to. Approval of the client register for 3, 2026 and 3, 2726. OK. And approval of the 00:01:03.773 --> 00:01:07.198 - payroll register for 4, 236 and 4, 1026. 00:01:07.458 --> 00:01:15.638 - And I'll say, does anybody want to pull any of these items off the agenda to discuss independently? 00:01:15.638 --> 00:01:24.226 - And hearing none, then without objection, the consent agenda is going to be approved as written. Hearing 00:01:24.226 --> 00:01:32.897 - no objection, the consent agenda is approved. That works. That works. That's it. Do you want me to repeat 00:01:32.897 --> 00:01:37.150 - that? No, I just did it for you. Thank you so much. 00:01:37.698 --> 00:01:51.298 - Having heard that move, is there a motion to approve the consent agenda? So moved. Second. Second. All 00:01:51.298 --> 00:02:04.766 - in favor? Aye. Motion passes. We would now get the report from the police department. For April 2026. 00:02:06.370 --> 00:02:13.610 - If you look at calls for service, again, this is through the end of March. We're about 1,000 calls down. 00:02:13.610 --> 00:02:20.643 - That represents a 5% decrease. Can't really explain exactly why. But again, you tend to look at these 00:02:20.643 --> 00:02:27.814 - things at the end of the year more so than in the middle to give you any trends. Again, same with crime 00:02:27.814 --> 00:02:32.158 - comparisons. I'll let you guys have a moment to look at those. 00:02:40.578 --> 00:02:48.813 - traffic stops. They went back up this month. We're in a training cycle with several in the FTO program. 00:02:48.813 --> 00:02:56.969 - Six are out making traffic stops more than the rest. So those went back up as we discussed last month. 00:02:56.969 --> 00:03:05.046 - There'll be a fluctuation throughout the time. Crime involving weapons continue to be lower than what 00:03:05.046 --> 00:03:08.926 - we've seen in the past. Adult arrests for March. 00:03:10.178 --> 00:03:19.609 - A little bit down from 2025. Juvenile referrals, they were up. But again, we're moving from five to 00:03:19.609 --> 00:03:29.134 - eight, so statistically not that big a swing. The end of the hate crime reporting period has passed. 00:03:29.134 --> 00:03:37.150 - We had none in the first quarter of the year. Our traditional nuisance call graphic. 00:03:40.578 --> 00:03:46.726 - Training hours, 660.5. 79 of our officers completed the two hour mandatory emergency vehicle operations 00:03:46.726 --> 00:03:52.756 - training. 12 completed one hour emotional survival training. 10 completed annual in-service, and that 00:03:52.756 --> 00:03:58.904 - was for 21 hours. 13 completed one hour of the RAP training, which is a restraint device to keep people 00:03:58.904 --> 00:04:00.382 - from hurting themselves. 00:04:00.930 --> 00:04:07.755 - One officer attended a 40-hour women's leadership training, one attended 16-hour pepperball instructor 00:04:07.755 --> 00:04:14.381 - course, and then you see the specialty units listed on the bottom, K-9, CDU, Honor Guard. Community 00:04:14.381 --> 00:04:21.140 - engagement, there were six events this month for 7.4 hours. Nine of our people were involved. You can 00:04:21.140 --> 00:04:28.031 - see what they were listing as, DRO outreach, Forever Friends, and child car seat installation. Upcoming 00:04:28.031 --> 00:04:29.886 - is DEA drug take-back days. 00:04:29.986 --> 00:04:36.545 - which is 425, ironically that's a little 500 Saturday, and Parks and Rec Children's Expo on the 26th 00:04:36.545 --> 00:04:43.298 - from one to four. Social worker contacts, again you notice these remain consistent throughout the year. 00:04:43.298 --> 00:04:50.052 - 294 referrals, 528 contacts, you can see a summary of what they've done throughout the month, including 00:04:50.052 --> 00:04:56.286 - intervening with some people with suicidal ideations, along with some health and living issues. 00:04:56.450 --> 00:05:01.856 - They assisted an elderly client in transporting her through an insurance company. Saved her a lot of 00:05:01.856 --> 00:05:07.690 - money. They transitioned and so transported from one insurance company to the X to help her out financially. 00:05:07.690 --> 00:05:13.256 - They assisted an elderly client getting low-cost medications and food for her cat through the community 00:05:13.256 --> 00:05:18.716 - association. Hosted another Easter party for the staff and families. The outreach specialist assisted 00:05:18.716 --> 00:05:22.302 - two long-term homeless individuals into housing. It was a big win. 00:05:22.434 --> 00:05:31.667 - Two clients gaining disability benefits, also another huge win. And four of the OARS people that OARS 00:05:31.667 --> 00:05:41.081 - helped last year get housing have remained housed throughout the year. Had a thank you note to dispatch 00:05:41.081 --> 00:05:51.038 - for Jared, Cheryl, and the rest just exceeding the national standards for performance for 911 call answering. 00:05:51.266 --> 00:05:57.894 - Again, that's something our dispatch center has always done very, very well, is making sure they're 00:05:57.894 --> 00:06:04.057 - getting to the emergencies very quickly. Another one from, this time, Isabel Piedmont-Smith, 00:06:04.057 --> 00:06:10.685 - council member, just thanking the department and the chief and Captain Betago for the Blue Envelope 00:06:10.685 --> 00:06:17.379 - Program, for helping drivers on the autism spectrum, and general business. I don't know that we have 00:06:17.379 --> 00:06:20.030 - anything currently on general business, 00:06:21.826 --> 00:06:32.031 - on the personal issues. DEPARTMENT OF STAFFING CURRENTLY, 93 sworn officers for about a week and a half 00:06:32.031 --> 00:06:41.844 - before the fire department steals one of them. That's, I'll say, 92. We do have six applicants that 00:06:41.844 --> 00:06:51.166 - are awaiting approval from the local pension board to mail to state pension fund for hopefully 00:06:51.682 --> 00:06:59.668 - approval of acceptance so there would be six new hires probably in May depending on how long it takes 00:06:59.668 --> 00:07:07.733 - to get the approvals and then I'm seeking the board's approval for the conditional offer of employment 00:07:07.733 --> 00:07:16.189 - for applicant Olivia Crouse. And at this point I would entertain a motion to approve conditional employment 00:07:16.189 --> 00:07:17.598 - to Olivia Crouse. 00:07:18.210 --> 00:07:24.196 - It's contingent upon Miskrow successfully completing the remaining steps in the hiring process, which 00:07:24.196 --> 00:07:30.182 - include physical and psychological examinations, truth verification test, and acceptance by the local 00:07:30.182 --> 00:07:35.698 - pension board and acceptance by the state pension board. So moved. Is there a second? Second. 00:07:35.698 --> 00:07:40.510 - All in favor? Aye. Motion approved. Congratulations. Thank you. We wish you well. 00:07:43.682 --> 00:07:53.044 - As far as purchase and expenditures, you'll see the normal coming through. Again, it's just our standard 00:07:53.044 --> 00:08:02.316 - replacement cycle items as they come through each year. And for this reporting period, I do not believe 00:08:02.316 --> 00:08:11.499 - there was any cert or armored rescue vehicle deployments. So our year to date, 1608, calls for service 00:08:11.499 --> 00:08:12.926 - for this month. 00:08:13.410 --> 00:08:24.632 - It was 558 of that, so roughly about 500 a month is standard. Of our 558, 220 were medical in nature. 00:08:24.632 --> 00:08:35.635 - We are down from a year ago, which was 150 calls from 2025. However, we're up roughly 10% from five 00:08:35.635 --> 00:08:43.006 - years ago. And that seems more consistent that we're generally up. 00:08:47.394 --> 00:08:57.544 - Of those this month, 62 runs to campus. So 11% of our runs in March went to campus. Heat map, so you 00:08:57.544 --> 00:09:03.774 - can see that we've kind of been everywhere all over in March. 00:09:10.082 --> 00:09:18.381 - Prevention and public engagement statistics. So our inspectors, when they're out doing commercial 00:09:18.381 --> 00:09:26.850 - inspections, again, we've not made a full year yet of reporting this, but it seems like every month 00:09:26.850 --> 00:09:35.827 - there's more, which is good. So a total of $9.98 for the year for that. And then you can see our progress 00:09:35.827 --> 00:09:37.182 - for age groups. 00:09:37.794 --> 00:09:49.054 - so far versus what was last year. So like for this smoke installation, smoke detectors, our goal is 00:09:49.054 --> 00:10:00.315 - 100 per year. And right now, we're at 34. So not bad. The fire inspectors, 11% of the goal. So much 00:10:00.315 --> 00:10:06.846 - of that about 100 plus of those, about 110 of those calls 00:10:07.426 --> 00:10:19.287 - goals, I guess inspections were in March. Training hours. So we've had in March, we had several due 00:10:19.287 --> 00:10:31.267 - out of city trainings. Pumper class in Jasper, driver operator in Brazil, and Chief Litwin went to a 00:10:31.267 --> 00:10:35.774 - conference station design in Florida. 00:10:35.906 --> 00:10:46.404 - still getting technical rescue on all three shifts. And then this month, they did the MCI. 00:10:46.404 --> 00:10:57.594 - That's multi-casualty incident and hazmat training. So again, March was a busy month, of course. 00:10:57.594 --> 00:11:04.862 - And then MIH, we had 11 car seats installed through the month. 00:11:05.090 --> 00:11:15.625 - Six of those were new car seats for families. So not quite half in one month for the year to date, as 00:11:15.625 --> 00:11:26.366 - you can see. Average visits per client, 11.1. 27 different services engaged for the clients this month. 00:11:26.366 --> 00:11:33.182 - That is the most this year for a single month, 27 different ones. 00:11:34.178 --> 00:11:42.181 - Agencies engaged in where the referrals. So again, March was a very busy month. So we had a patient 00:11:42.181 --> 00:11:50.745 - agency for the WINS referred themselves to the program. And they were aware of the program because they've 00:11:50.745 --> 00:11:58.749 - been taking care of somebody else who's been a patient for three years with MIH. They were out on a 00:11:58.749 --> 00:12:01.950 - call with someone, hypertensive crisis. 00:12:02.402 --> 00:12:09.916 - So they ended up having to go to the emergency room with that. And that was a challenge in itself because 00:12:09.916 --> 00:12:17.147 - the patient was very reluctant but then realized that needed to go wasn't going to get better without 00:12:17.147 --> 00:12:23.102 - some intervention there. So multiple services engaged for that single patient after 00:12:23.586 --> 00:12:30.917 - released from the hospital. The two new hires that started at the beginning of March, they are now certified 00:12:30.917 --> 00:12:37.643 - as community health care workers. And then we had two of our members presenting at the National MIH 00:12:37.643 --> 00:12:45.041 - Conference in Arizona. So big deal for that. How many do you have now health care workers that are certified? 00:12:45.041 --> 00:12:51.632 - Everyone is now. How many total were health care? Seven? Seven. You say average visit per client? 00:12:51.632 --> 00:12:52.574 - Is 11. Is 11. 00:12:53.058 --> 00:13:01.280 - How many clients? I don't have that exact count. But some of those, yeah. And like I said, with those 00:13:01.280 --> 00:13:09.663 - 11, they always see a new one at least three times before once they kind of enrolled or become involved 00:13:09.663 --> 00:13:18.045 - with the program. So that's the minimum. But there are some that have been long term. And so the client 00:13:18.045 --> 00:13:22.398 - base continually seems to grow. Does that make sense? 00:13:28.162 --> 00:13:33.939 - General business we have selected a new fire marshal so he's going to work in tandem with the current 00:13:33.939 --> 00:13:39.773 - one until he exits his name is Jeff you Meyer he was an internal candidate so he's super familiar with 00:13:39.773 --> 00:13:45.493 - our operations here in Bloomington so we have faith he's going to do really good job and you may see 00:13:45.493 --> 00:13:51.214 - him around now. First personnel issues currently have one on light duty one FMLA and eight personnel 00:13:51.214 --> 00:13:54.782 - that have intermittent baby bonding available to them to take. 00:13:55.746 --> 00:14:01.134 - Lastly, with purchases, as far as anything major, we have budgeted for this year replacements of the 00:14:01.134 --> 00:14:06.522 - generators at Station 4 and 5 to replace those with diesel. So that's in tandem with a project we've 00:14:06.522 --> 00:14:12.070 - been working on for multiple years to allow for all our generators to be diesel. That way, in the event 00:14:12.070 --> 00:14:17.564 - of an emergency that might knock out infrastructure, we can truck diesel in indefinitely and keep them 00:14:17.564 --> 00:14:23.006 - running. So that will be the last two that we need done, and then they will all be diesel after that. 00:14:23.006 --> 00:14:24.606 - So we're working on that now. 00:14:26.882 --> 00:14:35.175 - That's all I've got for you unless you have any questions. All right. Thank you very much. Is there 00:14:35.175 --> 00:14:43.552 - an old business that we need to attend to? Any old business? Hearing none, new business. I do have a 00:14:43.552 --> 00:14:51.845 - question. This morning I heard that the flock camera system is leaving the city. Yes. What are they 00:14:51.845 --> 00:14:56.158 - planning on putting in its place? No idea. No idea. 00:14:56.418 --> 00:15:03.618 - Well, I would just like to say that I am very disappointed in the city getting rid of the flock camera 00:15:03.618 --> 00:15:10.608 - system. Because if the general public, back on April 30 of 1993, they surrendered pretty much their 00:15:10.608 --> 00:15:17.807 - privacy when the internet came on board, which was developed for and by the military. And if you don't 00:15:17.807 --> 00:15:25.566 - think that the government's not monitoring the internet, you're wrong. Because I used to monitor the internet. 00:15:25.922 --> 00:15:33.763 - when I was a police officer working in ICAC down in Houston. We monitored it for various sex crimes. 00:15:33.763 --> 00:15:42.148 - And I feel that the flock camera system is a very good program. And I don't see how it's violating anyone's 00:15:42.148 --> 00:15:50.378 - civil rights or privacy. It's not being kept forever. It's 30 days. And it's only a license plate number. 00:15:50.378 --> 00:15:53.406 - And as far as I'm concerned, if police 00:15:53.794 --> 00:16:00.616 - The government wants to know how many times I go to the upstairs pub. Well, look at the flock camera 00:16:00.616 --> 00:16:07.641 - system down there, because I personally don't care. But some people feel that it's an invasion of their 00:16:07.641 --> 00:16:14.396 - privacy. And I would say that out of the people that say that, 99% of them are on Facebook. And 85% 00:16:14.396 --> 00:16:21.218 - of them don't have it locked down. And when you don't have it locked down, you have welcomed me into 00:16:21.218 --> 00:16:22.974 - your life with open arms. 00:16:23.074 --> 00:16:30.240 - Now I can see where you like to go eat. I can see where you live. I can see the inside of your house, 00:16:30.240 --> 00:16:37.476 - your family, when you're going on vacation, how long you're going to be gone. What kind of pets do you 00:16:37.476 --> 00:16:45.134 - have? So I don't understand this invasion of privacy with the flock camera system at all. So me, personally, 00:16:45.134 --> 00:16:52.862 - I'm very disappointed in the city, and I fully supported the flock camera system. Could you explain what the? 00:16:53.026 --> 00:16:58.685 - is, I'm not aware of that. It's a camera system that records license plates as it goes through 00:16:58.685 --> 00:17:04.760 - an intersection. And it's been used multiple times to solve crimes. Actually, the city where I worked 00:17:04.760 --> 00:17:10.776 - in Texas, they recently had a sex crime, juvenile sex crime, where it was a red pickup truck. Little 00:17:10.776 --> 00:17:16.732 - girl didn't know who the person was, but they knew approximately what time it happened. And in that 00:17:16.732 --> 00:17:21.438 - general vicinity, a couple of blocks away, there was two flock camera systems. 00:17:21.890 --> 00:17:29.189 - They actually ran the system to find red trucks that went through at approximately that time. They narrowed 00:17:29.189 --> 00:17:36.217 - it down to one red truck. They were able to find out who that truck belonged to, got a driver's license 00:17:36.217 --> 00:17:43.110 - photo, put it in a photo lineup, and she was able to pick out the person solving the crime. I used to 00:17:43.110 --> 00:17:50.070 - work sex crimes down in Pasadena, Texas. I would have loved to have had that system because many, many 00:17:50.070 --> 00:17:51.422 - times it was, well, 00:17:51.906 --> 00:17:59.303 - or a truck, well, there's about two million of them in the Houston area. So I don't know which one it's 00:17:59.303 --> 00:18:06.558 - going to be. And that is a very useful tool, the flock camera system is. And I've had friends tell me 00:18:06.558 --> 00:18:13.955 - that they're afraid of their invasion of privacy on it. And I'm like, why? Why? It's your license plate 00:18:13.955 --> 00:18:21.566 - number. It's not taking pictures of people in the car. And the government's going to figure out other ways 00:18:21.922 --> 00:18:28.116 - get around certain systems. But to me, it's not an invasion of my privacy whatsoever. It's like when 00:18:28.116 --> 00:18:34.433 - you go to the airport. Do you think your passport is not being monitored? The minute you walk in, it's 00:18:34.433 --> 00:18:40.689 - got a chip. They're monitoring that passport all the way through the airport, no matter where you go, 00:18:40.689 --> 00:18:46.945 - duty free, wherever. They know exactly where you are in the airport. So there's a lot of other things 00:18:46.945 --> 00:18:50.686 - that they should be worried about for protection of privacy. 00:18:51.042 --> 00:19:04.172 - And the flock camera system is not one of them. Any comments? No. Well, I think your objections are 00:19:04.172 --> 00:19:17.434 - noted. I appreciate your thoughts, Tim. Any other new business? Any petitions or communications from 00:19:17.434 --> 00:19:18.878 - the floor? 00:19:20.546 --> 00:19:27.230 - Hearing none, I would entertain a motion to adjourn. So moved. Second. We are adjourned.