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.