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.