WEBVTT 00:00:00.386 --> 00:00:07.552 - Okay, I'd like to call this June 18th, 2026 regular meeting of the Board of Public Safety to order. 00:00:07.552 --> 00:00:14.791 - First up, approval of the consent agenda. The consent agenda for this morning contains the following 00:00:14.791 --> 00:00:21.742 - items. Approval of minutes of May 21st, 2026 regular session, approval of claims May 27th, 26th, 00:00:21.742 --> 00:00:28.908 - and June 5th, 26th, and June 18th, 26th. Approval of payroll, May 15th, 26th, May 29th of 26th, and 00:00:28.908 --> 00:00:30.270 - June 12th of 26th. 00:00:30.498 --> 00:00:37.986 - Does any member of the board wish to have any one or more of these items removed from the consent agenda 00:00:37.986 --> 00:00:45.261 - to be discussed separately? All right, hearing none, does any member of the board have any objections 00:00:45.261 --> 00:00:52.892 - to any of the items on the consent agenda? No? Hearing none, the items on the consent agenda are approved. 00:00:52.892 --> 00:00:58.526 - And now we move on to police business. All right, good morning. Oh, thank you. 00:01:00.866 --> 00:01:08.606 - All right, calls for service continue to trend downward slightly, which is good. We're starting to get 00:01:08.606 --> 00:01:16.571 - close to that 10% decrease from last year. I don't honestly have, I don't know why. It's not one specific 00:01:16.571 --> 00:01:24.085 - call type that has gone down, but I'm certainly happy to see that it's decreasing at least slightly 00:01:24.085 --> 00:01:30.622 - from 2025 when we were obviously up quite a bit from 2024. The comparisons, really not 00:01:31.170 --> 00:01:38.351 - a whole lot of change. I mean, some of the things like operating well intoxicated, we have some new 00:01:38.351 --> 00:01:45.891 - officers assigned to night shift and they're pretty gung-ho and they're out actively seeking intoxicated 00:01:45.891 --> 00:01:53.288 - drivers. So that's why a pretty significant increase in the ODI arrest. Public intox is up quite a bit 00:01:53.288 --> 00:01:59.966 - as well, but I don't have a reason for that. I don't know why more people are deciding to be 00:02:00.610 --> 00:02:07.364 - from the streets of Bloomington. But the other one that you see with an increase, the child abuse, 00:02:07.364 --> 00:02:14.733 - I'm sorry, the neglect looks significant, but it's really just six cases. So obviously those are important, 00:02:14.733 --> 00:02:21.623 - but some of those are probably falling under some of our ICAT guys. They continue to take cases from 00:02:21.623 --> 00:02:28.446 - Monroe and surrounding counties for crimes against children. Traffic stop comparisons, pretty flat. 00:02:28.674 --> 00:02:34.977 - It's about the same as where we were last year. Crimes involving weapons continues to decrease. We've 00:02:34.977 --> 00:02:41.219 - talked about this, I think, several times at past meetings. This is really because of a concentrated 00:02:41.219 --> 00:02:47.584 - effort from not only patrol but also detectives and really trying to focus on any time we go to scenes 00:02:47.584 --> 00:02:53.949 - where their shots have been fired, doing a really good job of collecting casings, having them analyzed 00:02:53.949 --> 00:02:56.606 - to hopefully tie criminal groups together. 00:02:56.930 --> 00:03:04.824 - and then we can continue to make arrests and get people in jail that are firing weapons in the city. 00:03:04.824 --> 00:03:12.953 - Adult arrests are up fairly significantly from 2025. That probably, a lot of those can be tied to those 00:03:12.953 --> 00:03:20.769 - things where you see like there's increases in public intox and operating well intoxicated arrests. 00:03:20.769 --> 00:03:24.286 - That's probably the main reason there's that 00:03:24.642 --> 00:03:30.914 - significant increase. We also have some people that just got out of the FTO program, and people that 00:03:30.914 --> 00:03:37.187 - are just starting our field training program. And with that being said, they're actively out looking 00:03:37.187 --> 00:03:43.646 - for these things as well, because they're required to get so many while they're in the training program 00:03:43.646 --> 00:03:49.980 - to make sure they're proficient for soul control. juvenile referrals pretty flat, really no change to 00:03:49.980 --> 00:03:50.974 - speak of there. 00:03:51.266 --> 00:03:58.121 - It is not quite a reporting period for, I'm sorry, for hate crimes, so I still have zero for 2026, glad 00:03:58.121 --> 00:04:04.910 - to say that. Nuisance calls, I don't know, it's the same, I think, every single month that we do this. 00:04:04.910 --> 00:04:11.963 - A lot of disturbances, and a lot of those disturbances are coded that way, but where it shows intoxication 00:04:11.963 --> 00:04:18.686 - will be in 2.6%. Probably a lot of those disturbances are also caused by people that are intoxicated. 00:04:20.450 --> 00:04:27.639 - Training, 677 hours, just a couple of highlights. We had nine officers that completed, we hosted a low-light 00:04:27.639 --> 00:04:34.365 - firearm instructor training course. We had all, I think all of our firearms instructors, correct? All 00:04:34.365 --> 00:04:41.026 - went through that so that then they can take the training that they received during that and pass it 00:04:41.026 --> 00:04:47.621 - on to all the other officers as we do firearm training throughout the year. In-service training, we 00:04:47.621 --> 00:04:49.534 - did send two officers to the 00:04:49.634 --> 00:04:57.283 - I have the instructor training, so they will now be certified instructors. Now we can get them into 00:04:57.283 --> 00:05:05.085 - the courses such as whether or not they're going to do stops or defensive tactics or whatever they're 00:05:05.085 --> 00:05:13.346 - going to specialize in. And then we also have two officers attend the IACP technology conference. Community 00:05:13.346 --> 00:05:17.630 - engagement. I think the one here at eight events for 34 00:05:17.858 --> 00:05:24.374 - Total hours, I think the one probably the most proud of and Sarah helped facilitate was the packed cruiser 00:05:24.374 --> 00:05:29.916 - drive where you see we had 1,135 pounds of food collected. So that was pretty significant. 00:05:29.916 --> 00:05:36.249 - That was at, is that Kroger's house? Yeah. Okay. Down the south side. So people come out and throw some 00:05:36.249 --> 00:05:42.460 - food in the back of squad cars. So it was probably just about dragging as it left. We did do, we were 00:05:42.460 --> 00:05:47.454 - contacted by Bill Trace and they asked for us to come and assist with training on 00:05:47.650 --> 00:05:55.145 - when they have individuals with cognitive impairment that elope from the nursing home and kind of what 00:05:55.145 --> 00:06:02.786 - they need from us so that we can get there and get to work as quickly as we can and trying to find these 00:06:02.786 --> 00:06:06.206 - people. So we did send a couple of detectives. 00:06:06.434 --> 00:06:15.040 - Yeah. Well, unfortunately, that's for the people that walk away. The kids are upset. The grandkids. 00:06:15.040 --> 00:06:23.904 - Upcoming events, which we actually just had, but Sarah did a fantastic job facilitating the Girl Scout 00:06:23.904 --> 00:06:32.682 - troop visit. They came for their junior detective badges at BPD this past week, or a couple days ago, 00:06:32.682 --> 00:06:36.382 - I guess, sorry. And Sarah had all kinds of 00:06:36.482 --> 00:06:42.819 - They had to go around and investigate various crimes. They had to do things like, I think, pull fingerprints, 00:06:42.819 --> 00:06:48.637 - determine who it was responsible for vandalism. So they had a lot of fun doing that. I know that the 00:06:48.637 --> 00:06:54.570 - scout leader was very appreciative. And we also have, which the date on there is now incorrect because 00:06:54.570 --> 00:07:00.791 - they got moved, but we will be sending our peer support team to Old County for a critical incident debrief. 00:07:00.791 --> 00:07:03.038 - They have the deputy shot last Friday. 00:07:03.426 --> 00:07:09.167 - And they had several of their deputies involved in that investigation. So they reached out to us and 00:07:09.167 --> 00:07:14.737 - asked if we could send a team over so that we can kind of help them work through the issues that, 00:07:14.737 --> 00:07:20.535 - you know, surrounding with an officer being shot. And then the response to that scene, obviously they 00:07:20.535 --> 00:07:26.503 - had several deputies that fired weapons and were involved in the investigation. So we will go over there 00:07:26.503 --> 00:07:32.926 - and assist them on Monday afternoon at one o'clock. Police social workers, 172 referrals and 319 total contacts. 00:07:34.850 --> 00:07:42.860 - kind of look through the highlights there. The ORS continue to be very helpful in reaching out to people 00:07:42.860 --> 00:07:50.870 - on the streets and getting them connected with services, getting them into housing. As a matter of fact, 00:07:50.870 --> 00:07:58.651 - this past, what was it, last Tuesday we had our awards ceremony and both of our outreach and resource 00:07:58.651 --> 00:08:04.830 - specialists received community service awards for the work that they do with our 00:08:04.994 --> 00:08:11.550 - downtown resource officers and getting people connected with services and then into long-term housing 00:08:11.550 --> 00:08:18.041 - that several of these people are people that have been resistant to assistance for several years and 00:08:18.041 --> 00:08:24.532 - they're really starting to break through those barriers and get these people assistance. Speaking of 00:08:24.532 --> 00:08:31.088 - the awards program, it went very well. We handed out quite a few awards. The mayor was present and we 00:08:31.088 --> 00:08:34.366 - honored several of our officers, some dispatchers, 00:08:34.690 --> 00:08:45.380 - and some of our non storm staff as well for the work that they do each year. I'm sorry. No, go ahead. 00:08:45.380 --> 00:08:55.966 - General business. I think you guys are aware that there's a new collective bargaining agreement that 00:08:55.966 --> 00:09:03.198 - goes into 2027. There was a change to classifications. I don't know. 00:09:03.298 --> 00:09:09.991 - Chris, are you going to discuss that with them at some point, with the board at some point, or do you 00:09:09.991 --> 00:09:17.013 - want me to kind of? No, I think this is it. OK. This is an FYI to the board about that designation change. 00:09:17.013 --> 00:09:23.837 - If you want to explain it, that'd be great. Because the dean is not here to do that. In previous years, 00:09:23.837 --> 00:09:30.596 - your order of promotion in the organization was probationary officer, officer first class, then senior 00:09:30.596 --> 00:09:31.646 - police officer. 00:09:32.962 --> 00:09:41.844 - With the new contract, we've changed that language. We've changed it from probationary officer to officer 00:09:41.844 --> 00:09:50.725 - second class, will be your first promotion out of probationary officer. And then we changed senior police 00:09:50.725 --> 00:09:59.188 - officer to officer first class. The reason for that was, as is in the 77 Perf Fund, it uses distinct 00:09:59.188 --> 00:10:01.534 - language that says that the 00:10:01.858 --> 00:10:10.033 - certified retirement salary is based on what the pay scale is for an officer first class plus 20 years 00:10:10.033 --> 00:10:17.969 - of longevity, if the agency uses longevity, which we do. So the FOP wanted that change to basically 00:10:17.969 --> 00:10:26.620 - help with the retirement salary and what the retirement number would look like. So now our highest promotion 00:10:26.620 --> 00:10:30.430 - class within officers for going to supervision. 00:10:30.818 --> 00:10:37.539 - will be officer first class. Resulted in a pretty significant increase of that in the longevity to the 00:10:37.539 --> 00:10:44.194 - certified salary transfer. So your pension base went up significantly, or you anticipated? Yes. Good. 00:10:44.194 --> 00:10:51.110 - It's all agreed upon. I don't know that there's final signatures yet. It's not been presented to council. 00:10:51.110 --> 00:10:57.635 - Yeah, it's not been presented to council yet, but all parties are agreed to it. And I think it goes 00:10:57.635 --> 00:11:00.702 - before council this month or maybe next month. 00:11:01.058 --> 00:11:11.007 - I'm not quite sure on the date yet. But yeah, the goal was to increase the certified pension salary. 00:11:11.007 --> 00:11:21.646 - So. I'm sorry. You personnel? Sure. We're currently at 94 Sworn. However, just this morning, I was notified 00:11:21.646 --> 00:11:28.542 - by the pension secretary that Officer Crouse, who the board approved, 00:11:28.930 --> 00:11:35.410 - I believe at their last meeting for final approval, she just got accepted into the 77 this morning. 00:11:35.410 --> 00:11:42.019 - So I will reach out to her and offer employment that will give us the 95. And then we will be hosting 00:11:42.019 --> 00:11:48.628 - an open process for both sworn and non-sworn applicants, hopefully July 11th. As long as I can secure 00:11:48.628 --> 00:11:55.367 - a, usually we use the school for their track and to do both the physical testing as well as the written 00:11:55.367 --> 00:11:57.246 - testing all in one location. 00:11:57.858 --> 00:12:03.528 - My contact is currently out of the country for the school that I usually use, so we're trying to find 00:12:03.528 --> 00:12:09.254 - another one. So hopefully, I'll host that on that Saturday morning of July 11th, and it would be great 00:12:09.254 --> 00:12:14.869 - if we could create even a hiring list. We do anticipate some retirements after the first of the year 00:12:14.869 --> 00:12:20.428 - because of the increase to the pension, that certified number that was gonna go through, hopefully, 00:12:20.428 --> 00:12:26.042 - with this contract. And I do anticipate that we'll probably have some people that will go ahead, and 00:12:26.042 --> 00:12:27.710 - they've kind of made it known 00:12:27.970 --> 00:12:35.211 - that if everything goes through, they'll probably go ahead and put in for retirement after the first 00:12:35.211 --> 00:12:42.667 - few years. So that's where we are. I'm not aware of any major purchases. I believe last time the deputy 00:12:42.667 --> 00:12:49.980 - chief spoke about, and I don't know if they've come through yet, vehicle purchases. Besides that, I'm 00:12:49.980 --> 00:12:56.862 - not aware of any major expenditures that the board would see. We had no ARV deployments in May. 00:13:06.722 --> 00:13:18.541 - Our year today is 2,647. For the month of May, fire was 19 calls, medical 201. Hazardous conditions, 00:13:18.541 --> 00:13:30.711 - 37. Service calls, 99. Rescues, 7. A lot of those are elevators, particularly IU elevators and hospital 00:13:30.711 --> 00:13:31.998 - elevators. 00:13:32.546 --> 00:13:43.134 - No emergency, 141, and other was two. So for the month, 506 calls, which is slightly above 2025, which 00:13:43.134 --> 00:13:53.619 - was 493, but almost five years ago, it was 503. So we're right on with what it was five years ago for 00:13:53.619 --> 00:14:01.534 - May. Campus, you can see that we had 57 runs to campus for the month of May. 00:14:01.634 --> 00:14:11.951 - which was 11% of the runs for the month. And we had a similar run load five years ago with 525. Where 00:14:11.951 --> 00:14:22.167 - do we see the 57 runs? In my notes. Oh. Because those are all year to date as opposed to monthly. So 00:14:22.167 --> 00:14:29.854 - I'm just breaking it down. For any interested parties, should there be any. 00:14:32.546 --> 00:14:43.169 - prevention and public engagement statistics. So you can see that inspectors' outreach for the month 00:14:43.169 --> 00:14:54.112 - was 220. Year to date is 1523. By the end of May, we have now been watching that statistic for a year. 00:14:54.112 --> 00:15:02.398 - So within, because we started in May of 25, we've had 3,634 in a single year. 00:15:02.978 --> 00:15:12.458 - which we, you know, that's good. And then inspections, we're only at 17% of our goal. We do have a new 00:15:12.458 --> 00:15:22.213 - inspector who is starting on Monday with the city, so we hope that that inspection activity will increase 00:15:22.213 --> 00:15:24.606 - dramatically. Age groups. 00:15:24.898 --> 00:15:31.750 - We're on track with things, and we're over half percent of our halfway to our goal of school visits. 00:15:31.750 --> 00:15:38.942 - May is really busy with end of school activities, and there was a lot of rescheduling because of weather. 00:15:38.942 --> 00:15:46.201 - But the kids like to do their science projects with the egg drops and whatnot. And so taking their project 00:15:46.201 --> 00:15:52.986 - to the top of the aerial ladder and dropping it and see if the egg survives the fall. So it is fun. 00:15:52.986 --> 00:15:54.750 - It's messy, but it's fun. 00:15:54.946 --> 00:16:03.308 - And then training for, you can see the breakdown by month for here, year to date. We're at halfway for 00:16:03.308 --> 00:16:11.426 - a goal at the end of May, which is good. So Recruit Academy, it is a joint academy with Monroe Fire 00:16:11.426 --> 00:16:19.869 - Protection District. May was their EMT out at Ivy Tech. So we had the flash over training, so they were 00:16:19.869 --> 00:16:22.142 - down at the training tower. 00:16:22.242 --> 00:16:32.081 - in our flash over chamber learning about that. And then mega code, which is EMS training, cardiac arrest 00:16:32.081 --> 00:16:42.108 - is what we're learning about. And then we had some specialty training as well. For our MIH, eight installs 00:16:42.108 --> 00:16:49.886 - for car seats and year to date is 51. That number did not, they didn't transcribe. 00:16:50.594 --> 00:17:01.346 - My bad, but we had eight. For the average visits per, it was, we were at 9.3. We had nine agencies involved 00:17:01.346 --> 00:17:11.699 - with new patients, new clients, providing 18 different, 18 services ranging from food security, housing 00:17:11.699 --> 00:17:20.062 - utilities, smoke detectors, mental health referrals, and elderly disability center. 00:17:20.866 --> 00:17:29.064 - referrals there, 12 new referrals. And you can see that we had some significant wins. So one of the 00:17:29.064 --> 00:17:37.425 - fires that we responded to, the family, the father and autistic son lost everything. And so they were 00:17:37.425 --> 00:17:42.590 - able to put them together with St. Vincent de Paul and furnish 00:17:42.786 --> 00:17:48.845 - their new, new apartment. So, and then while they were there, they also took care of the wounds that 00:17:48.845 --> 00:17:54.963 - they had received in the fire. So bandage changes and whatnot. The first one there, the patient, they 00:17:54.963 --> 00:18:01.022 - said that they credited MIH with saving their life because they've gone from being bed confined with 00:18:01.442 --> 00:18:08.156 - significant bed sores to now they're free of infection and they can you know the wound vacs no longer 00:18:08.156 --> 00:18:12.830 - there they're ambulatory so that's a significant improvement for them. 00:18:13.410 --> 00:18:18.704 - And then we got a ramp installed for someone, so they've been homebound before, but now they can get 00:18:18.704 --> 00:18:24.417 - out of the house. And that person was calling you, and how often were you taking him to Kroger or something? 00:18:24.417 --> 00:18:30.130 - When they were leaving the home, we weren't going there. It was when they had to go to doctor's appointments 00:18:30.130 --> 00:18:35.423 - and things like that. It just sent assistance to leave the home, and I thought, this is not going to 00:18:35.423 --> 00:18:41.031 - happen. No, no, we're not doing that. We don't do that. I would hope not. And then when we visit a patient 00:18:41.031 --> 00:18:43.390 - at home, we do a home safety, you know, just 00:18:43.554 --> 00:18:50.230 - look at the whole home in general and they've gotten referred for falls. But now they've implemented 00:18:50.230 --> 00:18:56.840 - the recommended safety measures and they haven't fallen anymore. So which is great. So with general 00:18:56.840 --> 00:19:04.045 - business, like I already mentioned, our new deputy fire marshal starts on Monday. He used to be a Louisville 00:19:04.045 --> 00:19:10.655 - Metro police officer and he's gone into fire investigation, inspections and plan review. So we look 00:19:10.655 --> 00:19:11.646 - forward to it. 00:19:12.290 --> 00:19:26.046 - We anticipate he'll have amazing documentation skills, because police do that. That's right. So we have 00:19:26.046 --> 00:19:39.934 - personnel issues, two people on light duty and seven are off on intermittent parental baby bonding time. 00:19:40.066 --> 00:19:51.282 - We did not have any public acknowledgments for this month. And then as far as expenditures and procurements, 00:19:51.282 --> 00:20:01.983 - nothing new to report other than our training and logistics, we are still on track for a September move 00:20:01.983 --> 00:20:09.598 - in. Any old business? No old business. It looks like we got new business. 00:20:11.970 --> 00:20:22.201 - I do have new business. What's your new business? One of the new business is that I have a scheduling 00:20:22.201 --> 00:20:32.332 - conflict starting in August. I'll be teaching a class at IU. I teach it, but this semester the class 00:20:32.332 --> 00:20:40.958 - I'm teaching is going to be every Tuesday, Thursday, starting at 9.35 in the morning. 00:20:41.218 --> 00:20:47.935 - won't be able to attend these meetings. So I was hoping that the board might allow staff to push this 00:20:47.935 --> 00:20:54.652 - meeting back a little bit, same day, same place, just if it's available. And I think, did you look to 00:20:54.652 --> 00:21:01.566 - see if it is? Yeah. The room's available, so I'll just push the start time back to, I think, 1130. 1130? 00:21:01.566 --> 00:21:08.283 - Does that work for everybody? Yeah. From August through December? I think it usually would, maybe not 00:21:08.283 --> 00:21:10.654 - every time. So if we just did that. 00:21:10.818 --> 00:21:18.372 - until the end of the year, that would allow me to get my class instruction complete and get back in 00:21:18.372 --> 00:21:25.927 - time to sit and watch you all do your thing. So we want a new motion on that? I don't think we need 00:21:25.927 --> 00:21:33.557 - a motion to do that. I just wanted your blessing to make that happen. And we will then, from a staff 00:21:33.557 --> 00:21:38.014 - level, alter the time and date. I'm sorry, alter the time. 00:21:38.530 --> 00:21:45.428 - for the same day and same place. And I'll reach out to Russell to make sure it works for him as well. 00:21:45.428 --> 00:21:52.191 - So it'll start next month? In August. Next month we have a different situation here, which is why I 00:21:52.191 --> 00:21:59.089 - put the calendar, a screenshot of the calendar so that you can see what's going on in this room if we 00:21:59.089 --> 00:22:06.190 - wanted to stay in this room. Looks like for that same week, the third week of July, we have availability 00:22:06.190 --> 00:22:07.678 - on Friday and Monday. 00:22:08.034 --> 00:22:15.098 - And then if you click the next slide, I don't know who has the clicker. This is the following week. 00:22:15.098 --> 00:22:22.373 - So if we wanted to look at, I guess that would be the second to last week of July. If we wanted to try 00:22:22.373 --> 00:22:30.002 - and move it to the following week, we can do that. I really just wanted to see what you guys had available. 00:22:30.002 --> 00:22:35.582 - If we wanted to maybe try for 1030 a.m. on Friday the 17th, the following day, 00:22:41.858 --> 00:22:50.677 - But I can't make the new meeting in July and October. I have another meeting at noon. So unless that 00:22:50.677 --> 00:22:59.408 - gets canceled. OK. So moving to July to the 17th, Friday. If that works for everybody, maybe I will 00:22:59.408 --> 00:23:08.314 - check with Wilson to make sure he's available. If instead, next month, instead of meeting on Thursday 00:23:08.314 --> 00:23:09.886 - the 16th at 1030, 00:23:10.018 --> 00:23:15.780 - potentially be on Friday the 17th at 1030? July 17th, actually, I can't make it. I was not able to make 00:23:15.780 --> 00:23:21.431 - it previously. You can't? I can. Oh, you can't make it? I was not able to make it previously, so that 00:23:21.431 --> 00:23:26.971 - would actually help me. OK. Does that work for everybody in the 17th? I'll be back from Boston. OK, 00:23:26.971 --> 00:23:32.622 - so I'll put a note. July 17th? Yes, July 17th. I'll send an email too ahead of time. I'll email Katz, 00:23:32.622 --> 00:23:38.494 - and I'll email. We have to do a public notice to the newspaper, so I'll get all that stuff taken care of. 00:23:38.594 --> 00:23:48.418 - So July 17th at 10.30 a.m. And I think that covers all of the new business from staff. All right. Okay. 00:23:48.418 --> 00:23:57.959 - Any petitions, communications out there in Zoom land? Nothing? Jack, do you have anything you'd like 00:23:57.959 --> 00:24:08.350 - to say to the board? No. Okay, Jay. Thanks. I'm under a chair. You have no public comments in the Zoom. Okay. 00:24:09.058 --> 00:24:14.782 - All right then, this June 18, 2026 Board of Public Safety is now adjourned.