- Okay, I'd like to call this June 18th, 2026 regular meeting of the Board of Public Safety to order.
- First up, approval of the consent agenda. The consent agenda for this morning contains the following
- items. Approval of minutes of May 21st, 2026 regular session, approval of claims May 27th, 26th,
- and June 5th, 26th, and June 18th, 26th. Approval of payroll, May 15th, 26th, May 29th of 26th, and
- June 12th of 26th.
- Does any member of the board wish to have any one or more of these items removed from the consent agenda
- to be discussed separately? All right, hearing none, does any member of the board have any objections
- to any of the items on the consent agenda? No? Hearing none, the items on the consent agenda are approved.
- And now we move on to police business. All right, good morning. Oh, thank you.
- All right, calls for service continue to trend downward slightly, which is good. We're starting to get
- close to that 10% decrease from last year. I don't honestly have, I don't know why. It's not one specific
- call type that has gone down, but I'm certainly happy to see that it's decreasing at least slightly
- from 2025 when we were obviously up quite a bit from 2024. The comparisons, really not
- a whole lot of change. I mean, some of the things like operating well intoxicated, we have some new
- officers assigned to night shift and they're pretty gung-ho and they're out actively seeking intoxicated
- drivers. So that's why a pretty significant increase in the ODI arrest. Public intox is up quite a bit
- as well, but I don't have a reason for that. I don't know why more people are deciding to be
- from the streets of Bloomington. But the other one that you see with an increase, the child abuse,
- I'm sorry, the neglect looks significant, but it's really just six cases. So obviously those are important,
- but some of those are probably falling under some of our ICAT guys. They continue to take cases from
- Monroe and surrounding counties for crimes against children. Traffic stop comparisons, pretty flat.
- It's about the same as where we were last year. Crimes involving weapons continues to decrease. We've
- talked about this, I think, several times at past meetings. This is really because of a concentrated
- effort from not only patrol but also detectives and really trying to focus on any time we go to scenes
- where their shots have been fired, doing a really good job of collecting casings, having them analyzed
- to hopefully tie criminal groups together.
- and then we can continue to make arrests and get people in jail that are firing weapons in the city.
- Adult arrests are up fairly significantly from 2025. That probably, a lot of those can be tied to those
- things where you see like there's increases in public intox and operating well intoxicated arrests.
- That's probably the main reason there's that
- significant increase. We also have some people that just got out of the FTO program, and people that
- are just starting our field training program. And with that being said, they're actively out looking
- for these things as well, because they're required to get so many while they're in the training program
- to make sure they're proficient for soul control. juvenile referrals pretty flat, really no change to
- speak of there.
- It is not quite a reporting period for, I'm sorry, for hate crimes, so I still have zero for 2026, glad
- to say that. Nuisance calls, I don't know, it's the same, I think, every single month that we do this.
- A lot of disturbances, and a lot of those disturbances are coded that way, but where it shows intoxication
- will be in 2.6%. Probably a lot of those disturbances are also caused by people that are intoxicated.
- Training, 677 hours, just a couple of highlights. We had nine officers that completed, we hosted a low-light
- firearm instructor training course. We had all, I think all of our firearms instructors, correct? All
- went through that so that then they can take the training that they received during that and pass it
- on to all the other officers as we do firearm training throughout the year. In-service training, we
- did send two officers to the
- I have the instructor training, so they will now be certified instructors. Now we can get them into
- the courses such as whether or not they're going to do stops or defensive tactics or whatever they're
- going to specialize in. And then we also have two officers attend the IACP technology conference. Community
- engagement. I think the one here at eight events for 34
- Total hours, I think the one probably the most proud of and Sarah helped facilitate was the packed cruiser
- drive where you see we had 1,135 pounds of food collected. So that was pretty significant.
- That was at, is that Kroger's house? Yeah. Okay. Down the south side. So people come out and throw some
- food in the back of squad cars. So it was probably just about dragging as it left. We did do, we were
- contacted by Bill Trace and they asked for us to come and assist with training on
- when they have individuals with cognitive impairment that elope from the nursing home and kind of what
- they need from us so that we can get there and get to work as quickly as we can and trying to find these
- people. So we did send a couple of detectives.
- Yeah. Well, unfortunately, that's for the people that walk away. The kids are upset. The grandkids.
- Upcoming events, which we actually just had, but Sarah did a fantastic job facilitating the Girl Scout
- troop visit. They came for their junior detective badges at BPD this past week, or a couple days ago,
- I guess, sorry. And Sarah had all kinds of
- They had to go around and investigate various crimes. They had to do things like, I think, pull fingerprints,
- determine who it was responsible for vandalism. So they had a lot of fun doing that. I know that the
- scout leader was very appreciative. And we also have, which the date on there is now incorrect because
- they got moved, but we will be sending our peer support team to Old County for a critical incident debrief.
- They have the deputy shot last Friday.
- And they had several of their deputies involved in that investigation. So they reached out to us and
- asked if we could send a team over so that we can kind of help them work through the issues that,
- you know, surrounding with an officer being shot. And then the response to that scene, obviously they
- had several deputies that fired weapons and were involved in the investigation. So we will go over there
- and assist them on Monday afternoon at one o'clock. Police social workers, 172 referrals and 319 total contacts.
- kind of look through the highlights there. The ORS continue to be very helpful in reaching out to people
- on the streets and getting them connected with services, getting them into housing. As a matter of fact,
- this past, what was it, last Tuesday we had our awards ceremony and both of our outreach and resource
- specialists received community service awards for the work that they do with our
- downtown resource officers and getting people connected with services and then into long-term housing
- that several of these people are people that have been resistant to assistance for several years and
- they're really starting to break through those barriers and get these people assistance. Speaking of
- the awards program, it went very well. We handed out quite a few awards. The mayor was present and we
- honored several of our officers, some dispatchers,
- and some of our non storm staff as well for the work that they do each year. I'm sorry. No, go ahead.
- General business. I think you guys are aware that there's a new collective bargaining agreement that
- goes into 2027. There was a change to classifications. I don't know.
- Chris, are you going to discuss that with them at some point, with the board at some point, or do you
- want me to kind of? No, I think this is it. OK. This is an FYI to the board about that designation change.
- If you want to explain it, that'd be great. Because the dean is not here to do that. In previous years,
- your order of promotion in the organization was probationary officer, officer first class, then senior
- police officer.
- With the new contract, we've changed that language. We've changed it from probationary officer to officer
- second class, will be your first promotion out of probationary officer. And then we changed senior police
- officer to officer first class. The reason for that was, as is in the 77 Perf Fund, it uses distinct
- language that says that the
- certified retirement salary is based on what the pay scale is for an officer first class plus 20 years
- of longevity, if the agency uses longevity, which we do. So the FOP wanted that change to basically
- help with the retirement salary and what the retirement number would look like. So now our highest promotion
- class within officers for going to supervision.
- will be officer first class. Resulted in a pretty significant increase of that in the longevity to the
- certified salary transfer. So your pension base went up significantly, or you anticipated? Yes. Good.
- It's all agreed upon. I don't know that there's final signatures yet. It's not been presented to council.
- Yeah, it's not been presented to council yet, but all parties are agreed to it. And I think it goes
- before council this month or maybe next month.
- I'm not quite sure on the date yet. But yeah, the goal was to increase the certified pension salary.
- So. I'm sorry. You personnel? Sure. We're currently at 94 Sworn. However, just this morning, I was notified
- by the pension secretary that Officer Crouse, who the board approved,
- I believe at their last meeting for final approval, she just got accepted into the 77 this morning.
- So I will reach out to her and offer employment that will give us the 95. And then we will be hosting
- an open process for both sworn and non-sworn applicants, hopefully July 11th. As long as I can secure
- a, usually we use the school for their track and to do both the physical testing as well as the written
- testing all in one location.
- My contact is currently out of the country for the school that I usually use, so we're trying to find
- another one. So hopefully, I'll host that on that Saturday morning of July 11th, and it would be great
- if we could create even a hiring list. We do anticipate some retirements after the first of the year
- because of the increase to the pension, that certified number that was gonna go through, hopefully,
- with this contract. And I do anticipate that we'll probably have some people that will go ahead, and
- they've kind of made it known
- that if everything goes through, they'll probably go ahead and put in for retirement after the first
- few years. So that's where we are. I'm not aware of any major purchases. I believe last time the deputy
- chief spoke about, and I don't know if they've come through yet, vehicle purchases. Besides that, I'm
- not aware of any major expenditures that the board would see. We had no ARV deployments in May.
- Our year today is 2,647. For the month of May, fire was 19 calls, medical 201. Hazardous conditions,
- 37. Service calls, 99. Rescues, 7. A lot of those are elevators, particularly IU elevators and hospital
- elevators.
- No emergency, 141, and other was two. So for the month, 506 calls, which is slightly above 2025, which
- was 493, but almost five years ago, it was 503. So we're right on with what it was five years ago for
- May. Campus, you can see that we had 57 runs to campus for the month of May.
- which was 11% of the runs for the month. And we had a similar run load five years ago with 525. Where
- do we see the 57 runs? In my notes. Oh. Because those are all year to date as opposed to monthly. So
- I'm just breaking it down. For any interested parties, should there be any.
- prevention and public engagement statistics. So you can see that inspectors' outreach for the month
- was 220. Year to date is 1523. By the end of May, we have now been watching that statistic for a year.
- So within, because we started in May of 25, we've had 3,634 in a single year.
- which we, you know, that's good. And then inspections, we're only at 17% of our goal. We do have a new
- inspector who is starting on Monday with the city, so we hope that that inspection activity will increase
- dramatically. Age groups.
- We're on track with things, and we're over half percent of our halfway to our goal of school visits.
- May is really busy with end of school activities, and there was a lot of rescheduling because of weather.
- But the kids like to do their science projects with the egg drops and whatnot. And so taking their project
- to the top of the aerial ladder and dropping it and see if the egg survives the fall. So it is fun.
- It's messy, but it's fun.
- And then training for, you can see the breakdown by month for here, year to date. We're at halfway for
- a goal at the end of May, which is good. So Recruit Academy, it is a joint academy with Monroe Fire
- Protection District. May was their EMT out at Ivy Tech. So we had the flash over training, so they were
- down at the training tower.
- in our flash over chamber learning about that. And then mega code, which is EMS training, cardiac arrest
- is what we're learning about. And then we had some specialty training as well. For our MIH, eight installs
- for car seats and year to date is 51. That number did not, they didn't transcribe.
- My bad, but we had eight. For the average visits per, it was, we were at 9.3. We had nine agencies involved
- with new patients, new clients, providing 18 different, 18 services ranging from food security, housing
- utilities, smoke detectors, mental health referrals, and elderly disability center.
- referrals there, 12 new referrals. And you can see that we had some significant wins. So one of the
- fires that we responded to, the family, the father and autistic son lost everything. And so they were
- able to put them together with St. Vincent de Paul and furnish
- their new, new apartment. So, and then while they were there, they also took care of the wounds that
- they had received in the fire. So bandage changes and whatnot. The first one there, the patient, they
- said that they credited MIH with saving their life because they've gone from being bed confined with
- significant bed sores to now they're free of infection and they can you know the wound vacs no longer
- there they're ambulatory so that's a significant improvement for them.
- And then we got a ramp installed for someone, so they've been homebound before, but now they can get
- out of the house. And that person was calling you, and how often were you taking him to Kroger or something?
- When they were leaving the home, we weren't going there. It was when they had to go to doctor's appointments
- and things like that. It just sent assistance to leave the home, and I thought, this is not going to
- happen. No, no, we're not doing that. We don't do that. I would hope not. And then when we visit a patient
- at home, we do a home safety, you know, just
- look at the whole home in general and they've gotten referred for falls. But now they've implemented
- the recommended safety measures and they haven't fallen anymore. So which is great. So with general
- business, like I already mentioned, our new deputy fire marshal starts on Monday. He used to be a Louisville
- Metro police officer and he's gone into fire investigation, inspections and plan review. So we look
- forward to it.
- We anticipate he'll have amazing documentation skills, because police do that. That's right. So we have
- personnel issues, two people on light duty and seven are off on intermittent parental baby bonding time.
- We did not have any public acknowledgments for this month. And then as far as expenditures and procurements,
- nothing new to report other than our training and logistics, we are still on track for a September move
- in. Any old business? No old business. It looks like we got new business.
- I do have new business. What's your new business? One of the new business is that I have a scheduling
- conflict starting in August. I'll be teaching a class at IU. I teach it, but this semester the class
- I'm teaching is going to be every Tuesday, Thursday, starting at 9.35 in the morning.
- won't be able to attend these meetings. So I was hoping that the board might allow staff to push this
- meeting back a little bit, same day, same place, just if it's available. And I think, did you look to
- see if it is? Yeah. The room's available, so I'll just push the start time back to, I think, 1130. 1130?
- Does that work for everybody? Yeah. From August through December? I think it usually would, maybe not
- every time. So if we just did that.
- until the end of the year, that would allow me to get my class instruction complete and get back in
- time to sit and watch you all do your thing. So we want a new motion on that? I don't think we need
- a motion to do that. I just wanted your blessing to make that happen. And we will then, from a staff
- level, alter the time and date. I'm sorry, alter the time.
- for the same day and same place. And I'll reach out to Russell to make sure it works for him as well.
- So it'll start next month? In August. Next month we have a different situation here, which is why I
- put the calendar, a screenshot of the calendar so that you can see what's going on in this room if we
- wanted to stay in this room. Looks like for that same week, the third week of July, we have availability
- on Friday and Monday.
- And then if you click the next slide, I don't know who has the clicker. This is the following week.
- So if we wanted to look at, I guess that would be the second to last week of July. If we wanted to try
- and move it to the following week, we can do that. I really just wanted to see what you guys had available.
- If we wanted to maybe try for 1030 a.m. on Friday the 17th, the following day,
- But I can't make the new meeting in July and October. I have another meeting at noon. So unless that
- gets canceled. OK. So moving to July to the 17th, Friday. If that works for everybody, maybe I will
- check with Wilson to make sure he's available. If instead, next month, instead of meeting on Thursday
- the 16th at 1030,
- potentially be on Friday the 17th at 1030? July 17th, actually, I can't make it. I was not able to make
- it previously. You can't? I can. Oh, you can't make it? I was not able to make it previously, so that
- would actually help me. OK. Does that work for everybody in the 17th? I'll be back from Boston. OK,
- so I'll put a note. July 17th? Yes, July 17th. I'll send an email too ahead of time. I'll email Katz,
- and I'll email. We have to do a public notice to the newspaper, so I'll get all that stuff taken care of.
- So July 17th at 10.30 a.m. And I think that covers all of the new business from staff. All right. Okay.
- Any petitions, communications out there in Zoom land? Nothing? Jack, do you have anything you'd like
- to say to the board? No. Okay, Jay. Thanks. I'm under a chair. You have no public comments in the Zoom. Okay.
- All right then, this June 18, 2026 Board of Public Safety is now adjourned.