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.