WEBVTT 00:00:00.258 --> 00:00:08.672 - I would like to call this meeting of the Board of Public Safety to order. And first, I'd like to ask 00:00:08.672 --> 00:00:17.253 - for approval of the consent agenda, which this morning includes approval of the minutes from the April 00:00:17.253 --> 00:00:26.083 - 16th meeting, approval of claims from that meeting, and the approval of payroll from 417 to 51. So moved. 00:00:26.083 --> 00:00:27.166 - Is there any 00:00:28.578 --> 00:00:37.100 - Any objection to the approving of that incentive agenda, or anyone would like to remove anything from 00:00:37.100 --> 00:00:45.622 - that agenda? Hearing none, all in favor? Aye. Motion passed. Does any member, well, excuse me. Let me 00:00:45.622 --> 00:00:54.060 - move on to my notes. At this point, we'll move on to the police department business. And this is the 00:00:54.060 --> 00:00:56.734 - May of 2026 Statistical Report. 00:00:56.866 --> 00:01:04.130 - Generally, following the same pattern, we are just a little bit below call volume from last year. Again, 00:01:04.130 --> 00:01:11.256 - it's a cyclical thing. It could accelerate very quickly during the summer, so I kind of leave you with 00:01:11.256 --> 00:01:18.589 - where it is. It just is what it is. Same for crime totals, if you'll notice, year to date versus previous 00:01:18.589 --> 00:01:25.438 - years. It's trending down a little bit, but again, not by any substantial margins, just as of yet. 00:01:27.234 --> 00:01:33.485 - Traffic stops flatlined a little bit. But again, we've got a lot of things going on right now. So that's 00:01:33.485 --> 00:01:39.439 - probably accounting for most of that. Calls involving weapons continue to decrease, which is a good 00:01:39.439 --> 00:01:45.571 - thing. The officers are working very diligently to make sure that we're interdicting those before they 00:01:45.571 --> 00:01:51.643 - get violent. And they've had a good deal of success with that. As you notice, a precipitous drop from 00:01:51.643 --> 00:01:53.310 - 2024 to where we are today. 00:01:56.514 --> 00:02:04.988 - Arrests were up in April, even from last year. Juvenile arrests were down by one. So statistically, 00:02:04.988 --> 00:02:12.699 - it's not the end of a hate crime reporting period just yet. We'll get that in July to you. 00:02:12.699 --> 00:02:21.681 - And our generalized chart, which stays the same month to month, disturbance, intoxication, and vandalism. 00:02:21.681 --> 00:02:25.918 - Training hours, we had 619 and a half this month. 00:02:26.338 --> 00:02:31.871 - 72 officers completed a mandatory spring hunt qualification for their handgun. 11 officers completed 00:02:31.871 --> 00:02:37.404 - on a half hour of operating on intoxicated investigation training. 22 officers completed 21 hours of 00:02:37.404 --> 00:02:43.046 - annual in-service training. Two officers completed the 40 hours of instructor development. One officer 00:02:43.046 --> 00:02:48.689 - completed four hours of drone training. And our specialty units, as you see listed, had their training 00:02:48.689 --> 00:02:54.496 - days throughout the month. Community engagement events, there were 11 with 35 hours involved. Nine people 00:02:54.496 --> 00:02:55.646 - took place in those. 00:02:55.842 --> 00:03:02.370 - You can see some of those there on the left. Drug Take Back Day, Parks and Rec Child Expo, Coffee with 00:03:02.370 --> 00:03:08.961 - the Cop, DR Outreach, Child Seed Education, and Forever Friends. We have the annual Pack a Cruiser with 00:03:08.961 --> 00:03:15.742 - Hoosier Hills Food Bank coming up on the 30th. And Sarah, where's that going to be at? So it'll be sitting 00:03:15.742 --> 00:03:19.038 - down there. See how much stuff we can push into it. 00:03:20.418 --> 00:03:26.053 - Social workers had 247 referrals this month, 375 contacts. I'll allow you to read through the list. 00:03:26.053 --> 00:03:31.801 - But it basically highlighted continuing to work with casework for families and housing instabilities. 00:03:31.801 --> 00:03:37.606 - They've been getting some folks connected to power of attorney. That was a process for them. Conducted 00:03:37.606 --> 00:03:43.241 - some intern interviews and selected a candidate for this coming school year. Assist the family with 00:03:43.241 --> 00:03:48.876 - juvenile connected, getting connected with a psychiatrist and some family law legal assistance. The 00:03:48.876 --> 00:03:50.398 - OR specialist of downtown. 00:03:50.626 --> 00:04:00.059 - Assisted people with the lease signing moving into a new apartment support a client during an emergency 00:04:00.059 --> 00:04:10.037 - room visit and also got some clients in contact with stride A note to chief D cough for thanks for supporting 00:04:10.037 --> 00:04:18.110 - cost of the children of the community Not sure what this one is for we donated like some 00:04:18.370 --> 00:04:24.252 - trinkets, badge stickers, things like that, to an elementary school for a visit. It looks like a reading 00:04:24.252 --> 00:04:30.079 - club during the summer, and they're giving goodie bags to all the kids during the student club. So they 00:04:30.079 --> 00:04:35.849 - asked a bunch of community organizations to contribute something for those goodie bags. But do we know 00:04:35.849 --> 00:04:41.508 - what the rare hat is? I don't know. It looks very rare, though. Never seen one before? I'll watch it 00:04:41.508 --> 00:04:47.166 - if we're ever friends. You can probably find it at the American Indians Association. And we're here. 00:04:50.434 --> 00:04:58.875 - business yeah general business general business I don't really we have none they will move to personnel 00:04:58.875 --> 00:05:07.154 - issues we currently have 91 sworn members of the police department we have four new officers that are 00:05:07.154 --> 00:05:15.270 - all sworn officers already that the board has already approved that will start next Tuesday the day 00:05:15.270 --> 00:05:19.166 - after Memorial Day so that'll bring us up to 95 00:05:19.522 --> 00:05:26.997 - And then I'm seeking the board's approval today for applicant Olivia Kroos, who was the board approved 00:05:26.997 --> 00:05:34.690 - for a conditional maybe last month. We have all of her psych and medical reports back. And so I'm seeking 00:05:34.690 --> 00:05:42.310 - the board's approval to move her forward to the final stage of the process, which would then be approval 00:05:42.310 --> 00:05:46.302 - by the local pension board and the state pension fund. 00:05:48.386 --> 00:05:57.016 - And would you seek that approval now? Yes, please. Thank you, Barbara. There's been a motion. I'll second. 00:05:57.016 --> 00:06:05.162 - And a second to approve the offer of employment to Olivia Chase. Cruz, excuse me. All in favor? Aye. 00:06:05.162 --> 00:06:13.308 - Opposed? The same. Motion passes. Congratulations, sir. Thank you. Welcome. Thank you. And that will 00:06:13.308 --> 00:06:17.502 - bring your kick up to? Olivia would bring us to 96. 00:06:17.890 --> 00:06:25.444 - And then I intend to host an open process either June or the first of July, which would theoretically 00:06:25.444 --> 00:06:33.368 - hopefully fill our nine remaining open spots with an entirely open process. We have had a lot of interest. 00:06:33.368 --> 00:06:40.848 - I was kind of waiting on the contract to be voted on, which was approved by the officers. So that'll 00:06:40.848 --> 00:06:45.662 - give me an idea of kind of where the salaries will be next year. 00:06:46.018 --> 00:06:54.072 - And so when I reach out to potential applicants, I have an idea of what we're going to be offering for 00:06:54.072 --> 00:07:01.969 - the next four years. Four? Are you? Our contract is four. Oh, OK. Thank you very much. No purchases? 00:07:01.969 --> 00:07:09.867 - No, you'll see purchases. Again, the familiar, you'll see some large purchases for vehicles. And for 00:07:09.867 --> 00:07:15.262 - updating those, if you haven't seen yet, we'll start coming through. 00:07:15.650 --> 00:07:22.110 - Quite a bit of money, but again, that's needed. Something we have to do every year, it's the annual 00:07:22.110 --> 00:07:28.635 - replacement cycles. And then we moved to the ARB deployment report. We had one during this reporting 00:07:28.635 --> 00:07:35.224 - period down in the south, Roger, that was Roger's, to help extract an individual with a mental crisis 00:07:35.224 --> 00:07:42.071 - that was armed. So that went on for a bit. The ARB played a role in it with lighting and cover and things 00:07:42.071 --> 00:07:42.782 - like that. 00:07:45.506 --> 00:07:59.888 - Thank you very much. Moving on to the fire. OK. So here today, we're at 2,141 calls for service for 00:07:59.888 --> 00:08:13.982 - the month of May. We had 33 fire calls, 219 medical, 38 hazardous conditions, service calls, 102. 00:08:14.786 --> 00:08:25.391 - Rescue 10, non-emergency, and this is a lot of times where our false alarms was 129 and other, and this 00:08:25.391 --> 00:08:35.894 - was two. Of those, they were both police assist calls with their other. So for the month of May, we're 00:08:35.894 --> 00:08:44.766 - about 7.5% increase in the past five years for the month of May. IU 77 runs to campus. 00:08:44.898 --> 00:08:55.435 - which is about 14% of the month's runs. Five years ago, we only had 43 runs to campus in the month of 00:08:55.435 --> 00:09:06.075 - April. Again, these are April stats. I keep saying May, because it's... Heat map for where we've gone, 00:09:06.075 --> 00:09:13.822 - and you can see up off the bypass, Greek Row is where we were quite a bit. 00:09:13.922 --> 00:09:25.735 - during the month of April, no surprise, and downtown, of course. For prevention, the inspectors are 00:09:25.735 --> 00:09:35.422 - at 14% of their overall inspection goal. And we have their 305 is their outreach. 00:09:35.554 --> 00:09:45.752 - for the month of April. Year to date is 1303. So we started tracking that in May of last year. So soon 00:09:45.752 --> 00:09:55.951 - we'll have a year's worth of data on that particular data set. And we are at 42% of our goal for smoke 00:09:55.951 --> 00:10:04.862 - detector installations. Our goal is 100. And we can anticipate our school visits going up 00:10:05.282 --> 00:10:12.083 - For during the month of May so you should see that because May is a lot of end-of-school Egg drop type 00:10:12.083 --> 00:10:18.752 - science projects the kids like to make a little science project put an egg in it and then we drop it 00:10:18.752 --> 00:10:25.684 - from the aerial or a ladder and they like to see which Which one of their contraptions actually survived 00:10:25.684 --> 00:10:32.287 - the fall, you know? But Ellisville's aerial has been down and Monroe we've been assisting Monroe as 00:10:32.287 --> 00:10:34.334 - well. So our school visits are 00:10:35.298 --> 00:10:45.733 - be up and beyond. There's the 14% of the inspections. Training hours. So our year to date, we are at 00:10:45.733 --> 00:10:56.374 - 40% of our goal. Our goal is $42,000 for the year, which again is roughly 30 to 35 hours per month per 00:10:56.374 --> 00:11:02.366 - member. So you can see that in April, we went to a large, 00:11:02.658 --> 00:11:10.493 - 19 people went to the Fire Department Instructors Conference in Indianapolis. We began our recruit academy 00:11:10.493 --> 00:11:17.742 - with three new hires. It is a joint academy with Monroe Fire Protection District. So they had six, 00:11:17.742 --> 00:11:25.211 - I believe. So technical rescue is continuing. Goldship puts on a Tech Tuesday. And Lieutenant Hudson, 00:11:25.211 --> 00:11:31.582 - Shoford Johnson, head that up. And then officer development training instructor hours. 00:11:34.626 --> 00:11:45.758 - Mobile Integrated Health of 19 car installations for the month, 43 year to date. We saw 17 agencies 00:11:45.758 --> 00:11:57.446 - that were assisting the new referrals. And those are groups like Area 10, Habitat for Humanity, Hospice, 00:11:57.446 --> 00:11:58.782 - other ones. 00:11:58.914 --> 00:12:05.754 - Child Passenger Safety Technician course so we have three new technicians and we had some BPD members 00:12:05.754 --> 00:12:12.930 - in that class as well so Advocated for a patient who had missed their morning appointments and so dialysis 00:12:12.930 --> 00:12:19.637 - was ready to just you know Boot them and they advocated say let's just change your appointment time 00:12:19.637 --> 00:12:26.544 - and he's been compliant since he's got a more Time that's more conducive to his schedule. So first aid 00:12:26.544 --> 00:12:27.550 - events at four 00:12:27.810 --> 00:12:39.827 - community events. We had the team present at a national MIH conference in Chicago, and now we have another 00:12:39.827 --> 00:12:49.822 - new referral that has a wheelchair and primary care. Any questions with anything so far? 00:12:50.306 --> 00:13:00.282 - Brownie troop. So myself and one of the MIHs, we worked with the Brownies from Fairview at Station 1. 00:13:00.282 --> 00:13:10.942 - And they got a merit badge for safety after that. For general business, we recently signed an MOU with HMIS. 00:13:11.106 --> 00:13:17.847 - No cost was involved, otherwise we would have been asking for permission, but no cost. HMIS is the Homeless 00:13:17.847 --> 00:13:24.589 - Management Information System that is going through the Indiana Housing and Community Development Authority 00:13:24.589 --> 00:13:31.143 - and they are looking to collect and maintain information on characteristics and service needs of clients 00:13:31.143 --> 00:13:37.385 - to better determine the use and effectiveness of services being provided to the homeless population 00:13:37.385 --> 00:13:39.070 - in the state. So that is a 00:13:40.994 --> 00:13:51.644 - It's good to be a part of that. Personnel issues. We have two on light duty, one off on FMLA, 00:13:51.644 --> 00:14:03.994 - and intermittent parental leave, we have eight. And then our public acknowledgments. And then for financial, 00:14:03.994 --> 00:14:09.886 - the training and logistics building on South Walnut 00:14:09.986 --> 00:14:31.134 - on track to be open in September. Thank you very much. 00:14:31.266 --> 00:14:37.283 - it was sad you had to intervene to get somebody to have their treatment in the afternoon and otherwise 00:14:37.283 --> 00:14:43.242 - they would have died I'm assuming. Well yeah and sometimes people just they just don't know that they 00:14:43.242 --> 00:14:46.046 - have that option. People don't speak out. Yeah. 00:14:46.466 --> 00:14:53.143 - Is the opening still set for September? That is still our target date. So we have right now the lease 00:14:53.143 --> 00:14:59.755 - building. We're looking at how do we exit that lease because it's a month-to-month lease, the moving 00:14:59.755 --> 00:15:06.629 - and getting all that situated so we can move in. I don't know that we'll be up and ready and operational 00:15:06.629 --> 00:15:13.241 - on the 11th, but. It works. We will have a big open house. Yeah, we'll have it. There certainly will 00:15:13.241 --> 00:15:14.878 - be an open house for it. 00:15:15.394 --> 00:15:24.391 - Call for old business. Hearing none, new business. I want my quarterback from the meter I put up. I 00:15:24.391 --> 00:15:33.659 - think you'd just get 12 and a half cents back. Just a quick question. I'd like to ask about the Coffee 00:15:33.659 --> 00:15:43.646 - with a Cop program. How does one get involved or invited to that? Sarah? It's Target that puts it on normally. 00:15:44.162 --> 00:15:50.159 - So I don't know where they share it. I think they just kind of put up a table, and it's just if you're 00:15:50.159 --> 00:15:56.331 - there, you can come approach us and talk to us. Can they have a published schedule somewhere? They don't, 00:15:56.331 --> 00:16:02.329 - and they don't really have a schedule to begin with. They just kind of send me a text whenever they're 00:16:02.329 --> 00:16:08.384 - thinking about having one. It's kind of disorganized, but I don't know. I don't know if they're wanting 00:16:08.384 --> 00:16:12.926 - to make that a more regular thing. I think at one point, we were posting them 00:16:13.570 --> 00:16:20.208 - But we haven't done that for local businesses used to host and we would like we would go but yeah, these 00:16:20.208 --> 00:16:26.530 - are these are very informal Target throws them together kind of at the last minute, but I can reach 00:16:26.530 --> 00:16:33.042 - out to them and see if they're interested in making it just curious Is it in the Starbucks area? Yeah, 00:16:33.042 --> 00:16:37.278 - that's pretty small. How's the new police department coming along? 00:16:37.570 --> 00:16:42.973 - I will refer you to the chief of the administration for that. There have been challenges, and there 00:16:42.973 --> 00:16:48.537 - continue to be challenges. I think at this point it's safe to say that we're going to have for several 00:16:48.537 --> 00:16:54.210 - different scenarios and see which pans out best for us. I mean, I'm not trying to sidestep the question. 00:16:54.210 --> 00:16:59.883 - It's just a question right now. Everything's up in the air. Yeah. So. Because I drive past that building 00:16:59.883 --> 00:17:03.070 - and I'm like, I wonder when it's going to start. So do we. 00:17:03.586 --> 00:17:08.823 - There's a lot of due diligence that has to be done behind the scenes. I mean, as you know, any construction 00:17:08.823 --> 00:17:13.673 - project of that size and scope, you don't want to make a mistake, because those mistakes have a lot 00:17:13.673 --> 00:17:18.619 - of zeros behind them. So I think we're still in the due diligence phase, making sure that not only is 00:17:18.619 --> 00:17:23.663 - the site appropriate, is the structure appropriate, and if it's not, what's the secondary tertiary plan 00:17:23.663 --> 00:17:28.755 - behind that? We're looking to build essentially a 50-year building, so it's not going to happen quickly, 00:17:28.755 --> 00:17:31.422 - but I will assure you that it's going to happen right. 00:17:32.386 --> 00:17:38.059 - because we're going to take our time and do it correctly, as opposed to rushing something and missing 00:17:38.059 --> 00:17:43.676 - something that 10, 15 years from now has got significantly lost behind it. That's right. 50 years of 00:17:43.676 --> 00:17:49.404 - it's not long enough. My house is 100 years old, but we're tearing down buildings that were built when 00:17:49.404 --> 00:17:55.188 - I was in school. Absolutely. Which is not that long. We also have to try and project forward as to what 00:17:55.188 --> 00:18:00.638 - does the city look like in 50 years. What's the population base? What's the service requirements? 00:18:01.090 --> 00:18:07.101 - If nothing else, you have to create a building with open architecture because you don't know what your 00:18:07.101 --> 00:18:13.053 - electronic needs are going to be, you don't know what your fiber needs are going to be, and any other 00:18:13.053 --> 00:18:19.005 - technology you're literally trying to see into the future. So when you construct something like that, 00:18:19.005 --> 00:18:24.841 - you've got to get your crystal ball into, I think, X, Y, and Z. Good luck with that. Yeah, exactly. 00:18:24.841 --> 00:18:30.910 - Any other old business? Hearing none, do we have any guests or any comment online from visitors online? 00:18:36.450 --> 00:18:47.678 - All right. Well, then I would entertain a motion to adjourn. Second. We are adjourned. Thank you very much.