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