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