WEBVTT 00:00:00.482 --> 00:00:07.438 - Let's call to order the July 17th, 2026 meeting of the Board of Public Safety, a regular session. The 00:00:07.438 --> 00:00:14.393 - first thing on the agenda is approval consent agenda, which includes some minutes from the June 18th, 00:00:14.393 --> 00:00:21.349 - 2026 regular session. Your type is very small. Yeah, you can pull it up. Approval of claims from July 00:00:21.349 --> 00:00:27.486 - 2nd and July 17th of 2026, and approval of payroll June 26th this year and 710 this year. 00:00:27.650 --> 00:00:34.545 - We don't need a vote on that. Does anybody have an objection? So yeah. So does anybody wish to have 00:00:34.545 --> 00:00:41.647 - any one or more of those items pulled from the consent agenda? And hearing none, does anybody have any 00:00:41.647 --> 00:00:48.748 - further discussion they wish to have with regards to the consent agenda? And hearing none, the consent 00:00:48.748 --> 00:00:56.264 - agenda is approved by recommendation by staff. Thank you. Next item on agenda is police department business. 00:00:56.264 --> 00:00:57.022 - All right. 00:00:57.154 --> 00:01:03.750 - July 2026 report. As you can see, we're down about 10%, almost 11% in our current call for volumes from 00:01:03.750 --> 00:01:10.410 - the same time period last year. I will caution you, however, that we've seen this before, and it changes 00:01:10.410 --> 00:01:16.879 - fairly dramatically at some points. So essentially, that means very little. Current crime statistics, 00:01:16.879 --> 00:01:22.967 - again. Thank you for the information. We were down a couple years ago, and they're like, great, 00:01:22.967 --> 00:01:25.758 - we're down. And we wound up up quite a bit. 00:01:26.594 --> 00:01:34.081 - Again, crime statistics, as you can see, we're definitely seeing an increase in certain categories. 00:01:34.081 --> 00:01:41.718 - However, the categories are falling fairly precipitously. Again, I will caution you that we see those 00:01:41.718 --> 00:01:49.655 - numbers rise. So this is just a comparison for you. Traffic stops remain fairly flat. They're up a little 00:01:49.655 --> 00:01:52.350 - bit from this same month last year. 00:01:53.282 --> 00:02:00.138 - Again, we've got some people in training, getting ready to have more in training hopefully shortly. 00:02:00.138 --> 00:02:06.994 - And we'll go from there. Crime involving weapons, however, they are down. Again, this could change, 00:02:06.994 --> 00:02:13.919 - but this is a pretty big drop from 2024. The officers have done a stellar job with making sure we're 00:02:13.919 --> 00:02:17.758 - in the areas where a lot of these incidents took place. 00:02:17.858 --> 00:02:26.179 - being seen, contacting people who are suspicious in nature, and making sure that we're doing some things 00:02:26.179 --> 00:02:34.342 - proactively, which has led to this big drop. Comparison of year to year for adult arrests, up slightly 00:02:34.342 --> 00:02:42.267 - from this month in 2025. Again, up slightly for juvenile referrals for the same period. This is the 00:02:42.267 --> 00:02:43.614 - end of the hate. 00:02:43.746 --> 00:02:50.681 - or the end of the reporting period, because this is the July report. And we had none in April to June. 00:02:50.681 --> 00:02:57.615 - We've had none at all this year for eight crimes. And our infamous pie chart that we have every month, 00:02:57.615 --> 00:03:04.685 - which remains fairly consistent throughout the entire time. Training hours, 721 and 1 half. 66 completed 00:03:04.685 --> 00:03:12.158 - a half hour threshold training. That's standing in a doorway. Some legal cases have come down concerning that. 00:03:12.290 --> 00:03:18.140 - 43 officers completed firearms training, 24 completed BMVs, mandatory license forfeiture training, 13 00:03:18.140 --> 00:03:24.277 - with 78 hours of more mandatory individual training, nine officers with seven hours of crisis negotiation, 00:03:24.277 --> 00:03:30.185 - six officers with First Amendment auditors training, four new officers completed 66 hours of probation 00:03:30.185 --> 00:03:35.920 - officer training course, one officer in interview and interrogation course, one officer of homicide 00:03:35.920 --> 00:03:37.182 - investigation course, 00:03:37.666 --> 00:03:44.438 - one officer, a 13-hour course on emotional survival, and of course, our K9 unit with their monthly training. 00:03:44.438 --> 00:03:50.775 - Again, there are some recent court decisions that have come up about interactions with individuals at 00:03:50.775 --> 00:03:57.361 - a doorway, the doorway to their home. So it was teaching them what that new case law was, how it affected 00:03:57.361 --> 00:04:03.698 - our standard procedures, how it affected them. Right, exactly. We had five community events, 20 hours 00:04:03.698 --> 00:04:07.550 - with 12 people involved. Again, I won't read them all to you. 00:04:07.874 --> 00:04:14.422 - We've already successfully gotten through the Fourth of July Parade and the Stoneville Career Readiness. 00:04:14.422 --> 00:04:20.657 - Don't remember the date on that, but that was, what, last week? Yeah. Social workers had two and 18 00:04:20.657 --> 00:04:27.205 - referrals, 361 contacts. I'll let you go through those, but some of the highlights was assisted a mother 00:04:27.205 --> 00:04:34.002 - in obtaining the Autism Safety Kit to assist with a seven-year-old who frequently elopes from the residence. 00:04:34.002 --> 00:04:37.182 - They've been working with that person quite a bit. 00:04:37.698 --> 00:04:45.668 - You can see the other things that they do month to month, which is helping people get a role with Medicare, 00:04:45.668 --> 00:04:52.827 - getting them some intake services, helping them with legal advice for probate issues, and again, 00:04:52.827 --> 00:05:00.650 - on and on. We also had a presentation at a national conference in Dallas, Texas, regarding their response 00:05:00.650 --> 00:05:03.454 - to survivors after death. A couple of 00:05:05.154 --> 00:05:10.465 - Good guy letters, as it were, one from the Santa Clara Police Department. I don't remember either one 00:05:10.465 --> 00:05:16.088 - of you two remembering what this is. That was the guy that traveled to California and murdered his brother. 00:05:16.088 --> 00:05:21.294 - Right, was originally from here. And we helped them wrap up their investigation on this end. Again, 00:05:21.294 --> 00:05:26.657 - we had some other things come up where people congratulating departments and thanking them for keeping 00:05:26.657 --> 00:05:32.280 - the community safe. We had one where Officer Wells helped daughter flash a change of flat tire in Kirkwood, 00:05:32.280 --> 00:05:33.790 - came from those folks again. 00:05:33.922 --> 00:05:44.375 - Just the standard thing the officers do every day, but it's nice to be recognized for them. No, that's 00:05:44.375 --> 00:05:54.828 - under general business. Don't think we have anything under general business for you. Personnel issues? 00:05:54.828 --> 00:06:02.846 - Currently have 93 sworn. So we have 12 openings. We have one officer starting. 00:06:03.106 --> 00:06:10.970 - next Monday, so that'll take us to 11. We have two on extended light duty, three in the field training 00:06:10.970 --> 00:06:18.911 - program, and one that's out on extended FMLA due to the birth of a child. We also have a hiring process 00:06:18.911 --> 00:06:26.698 - set for August 1st. It's an open process. We've had one of the largest amount of applicants that have 00:06:26.698 --> 00:06:30.974 - sent in their preliminary information that I can recall 00:06:31.362 --> 00:06:38.501 - in recent times anyway, so hopefully we have a good turnout on that Saturday the 1st and then looking 00:06:38.501 --> 00:06:45.780 - to fill as many openings as we can. Several are already certified officers from other agencies and then 00:06:45.780 --> 00:06:52.849 - several, the majority are not certified, which is fine. We'll just have to send them to the Academy. 00:06:52.849 --> 00:06:59.358 - That is Tri-North Middle School. Yeah. Starts at, well, registration will be from 8 to 8.30. 00:07:00.066 --> 00:07:07.570 - And then we'll start the physical testing at about 8.30 AM. And then we're going to do the written testing 00:07:07.570 --> 00:07:14.584 - there in their cafeteria as well. As far as expenditures of procurement, you will see bills at this 00:07:14.584 --> 00:07:21.738 - point for the remainder of the fleet acquisitions we made for the year, which is vehicles and vehicle 00:07:21.738 --> 00:07:28.190 - equipment, and then the outfitting for them. There will be some radial procurement as well. 00:07:28.770 --> 00:07:35.489 - I think that's about it for the bigger ticket items. Other than that, it's just the standard replacement 00:07:35.489 --> 00:07:41.888 - cycle. Of course, those are all in the replacement cycle as well. They just are such large monetary 00:07:41.888 --> 00:07:48.479 - that they'll come to you. And then there were no armored rescue vehicle deployments during this cycle. 00:07:48.479 --> 00:07:54.942 - Thank you. Any questions for you? We'll move on to fire department business. OK, great. So this is a 00:07:54.942 --> 00:07:57.950 - heat map showing where our runs were for June. 00:07:58.082 --> 00:08:13.427 - So June had 497 runs for us. And there you can see our year today is 3,144. And our top one for this 00:08:13.427 --> 00:08:22.846 - month was medical calls followed by service and no emergency. 00:08:27.170 --> 00:08:35.080 - pretty much in the city. IU, even though they are, there's 40 runs to campus in June, that's 8% of this 00:08:35.080 --> 00:08:42.990 - month's runs. We still had several false alarms in elevators. Even though the students are mostly gone, 00:08:42.990 --> 00:08:50.748 - there's a lot of sport camps. So station three is still saying we're going on a lot of burnt popcorn. 00:08:50.748 --> 00:08:53.182 - It's the bane of our existence. 00:08:53.410 --> 00:09:03.137 - Why you want to be a firefighter? Well, not exactly. So the inspectors are at 19% are their goal. We 00:09:03.137 --> 00:09:12.960 - did have a new one get hired on June 22nd. So he is also an investigator. And so he's anticipate that 00:09:12.960 --> 00:09:22.398 - number increasing dramatically here. Their outreach, we're looking at their year to date is 1633. 00:09:22.850 --> 00:09:31.278 - And here we've had, with prevention also, 57 smoke detector installations. So we're over halfway through 00:09:31.278 --> 00:09:39.384 - our goal and halfway through the year. So on track for that. We'll say that the age groups up there, 00:09:39.384 --> 00:09:47.410 - adults, we did have 39 students from visiting angels. They're not home health, but they assist. But 00:09:47.410 --> 00:09:50.942 - 39 of them have gone through American Heart 00:09:51.458 --> 00:10:02.790 - HCPR first aid training. So June went up compared to April and May. We did EVOC, which is the emergency 00:10:02.790 --> 00:10:14.230 - vehicle operations course. So they did some of that. Blackshift did their flash over training. The Joint 00:10:14.230 --> 00:10:19.678 - Recruit Academy is still in progress and they are 00:10:19.810 --> 00:10:27.674 - on track, our three-passer National Registry for EMT, which is great news. Just got that Tuesday, that 00:10:27.674 --> 00:10:35.843 - information. And we are on track to graduate on August 14th, and the location is to be determined, because 00:10:35.843 --> 00:10:43.630 - council chambers is occupied at that time. And then we had, Morgan attended the Honor Guard School in 00:10:43.630 --> 00:10:46.302 - Indianapolis, and that was a week. 00:10:49.602 --> 00:10:59.273 - Mobile integrated health, six car seat installations for the month, year to date 57, 18 agencies with 00:10:59.273 --> 00:11:08.755 - our 18 new referrals, services that were included in that, shelter, emergency actions, home health, 00:11:08.755 --> 00:11:18.142 - housing utilities, VA, legal, mental health referrals, elderly disability service, police and DRO, 00:11:18.594 --> 00:11:26.841 - primary medical. You can see that we had some impactful wins for the month. So you had the hospice patient 00:11:26.841 --> 00:11:34.856 - after the patient had died, who was originally the NIH patient, then the new widow came in and enrolled 00:11:34.856 --> 00:11:42.563 - herself in the program. But she did come into the office to do that and thank the team. They worked 00:11:42.563 --> 00:11:46.494 - with emergency management to get patients who have 00:11:46.946 --> 00:11:54.287 - refrigerated medicines, got them a portable cooler and cold packs. So if the weather does power goes 00:11:54.287 --> 00:12:01.773 - out that they can maintain their medicines. They did first aid at several community events and another 00:12:01.773 --> 00:12:09.113 - one came in and said that they would be dead if it weren't for the efforts of the program. So that's 00:12:09.113 --> 00:12:15.582 - a big win. And then a team presented at the Florida Fire Marshal's Conference at Disney. 00:12:15.938 --> 00:12:24.878 - And they were the only out-of-state presenters. So that was kind of cool. General business, I already 00:12:24.878 --> 00:12:33.643 - mentioned the Recruit Academy out on 8-14. The Ops Center is on track for its September completion. 00:12:33.643 --> 00:12:42.408 - That ongoing bond project. And then for our personnel issues, we have one off on night duty and the 00:12:42.408 --> 00:12:44.862 - intermittent parental leave 00:12:44.962 --> 00:12:53.731 - are eight. So that is it for fire. No purchases, sir. Nothing significant that Deputy T. Flitwood. Any 00:12:53.731 --> 00:13:02.245 - questions? Thank you. Any old business we need to deal with? Any old business? No old business, but 00:13:02.245 --> 00:13:10.930 - we do have new business. Yes, I have. Let's go on the new business, which is resolution 202601, which 00:13:10.930 --> 00:13:14.846 - I'm going to defer to Chris to explain. Yeah. 00:13:15.970 --> 00:13:24.340 - The legal department has decided that there should be some acknowledgement in our Bloomington Municipal 00:13:24.340 --> 00:13:32.549 - Code of the existence of the Fire Merit Commission. To do so, we need to amend a section of Title II, 00:13:32.549 --> 00:13:40.758 - actually several sections of Title II, one of which is to identify and delineate the responsibilities 00:13:40.758 --> 00:13:44.702 - between this board and the Fire Merit Commission 00:13:45.506 --> 00:13:54.165 - So when you look through the resolution, you'll see at the very end of that resolution is the proposed 00:13:54.165 --> 00:14:02.741 - ordinance amendments. And so we are proposing to amend the section under Title II that deals with the 00:14:02.741 --> 00:14:11.232 - Board of Public Safety to identify that it still is the oversight board for both the fire department 00:14:11.232 --> 00:14:13.502 - and the police department. 00:14:14.402 --> 00:14:21.698 - identifies the delineation with regards to the fire department to the extent that the Fire Merit Commission 00:14:21.698 --> 00:14:28.588 - is now responsible for the hiring promotion and discipline of the fire members. So it does that quick 00:14:28.588 --> 00:14:35.411 - little delineation to show that we have this Fire Merit Commission. Because we're making that change 00:14:35.411 --> 00:14:42.302 - and identifying the fact that there is a Fire Merit Commission, it made sense then to also entitle to 00:14:42.946 --> 00:14:49.934 - create a section that actually discusses the Fire Merit Commission and the fact that it exists. So the 00:14:49.934 --> 00:14:57.194 - rest of the ordinance is proposing to amend Title II to create a whole new section that's devoted entirely 00:14:57.194 --> 00:15:04.115 - to the Fire Merit Commission. And it mirrors how our section for Board of Public Safety is written or 00:15:04.115 --> 00:15:11.646 - reads. So it identifies the existence of the board, how it was created, the makeup of the board, the officers, 00:15:12.002 --> 00:15:20.205 - and the terms that they have basically. It briefly explains their powers. So that's the ordinance that 00:15:20.205 --> 00:15:28.567 - we are going to propose to the council. And we thought it appropriate for this board as a advisory board 00:15:28.567 --> 00:15:36.611 - to the council that we are recommending that this ordinance be adopted. So this resolution is simply 00:15:36.611 --> 00:15:41.310 - recommending to city council that we adopt this ordinance. 00:15:41.890 --> 00:15:48.481 - That's it. I'm happy to ask to answer any questions you might have. I do. Does this establish are they 00:15:48.481 --> 00:15:54.880 - going to become paid or no? We have not identified that through this ordinance, no. I think it said 00:15:54.880 --> 00:16:01.343 - no pay for them. The American mission can be a paid position, but we haven't decided to do that yet. 00:16:01.343 --> 00:16:06.334 - OK. And that was something that we at the Board of Public Safety decided that 00:16:06.434 --> 00:16:11.914 - on your recommendation that they not be paid until it was established, and the fund lining, 00:16:11.914 --> 00:16:18.286 - and the fund line, and stuff like that. I've got to talk with the controller's office. It wasn't something 00:16:18.286 --> 00:16:24.362 - that we gave any consideration to with this go around. And will we need to update the merit rules for 00:16:24.362 --> 00:16:30.675 - this? No. It doesn't impact the merit commission. It merely identifies the fact that it exists. We didn't 00:16:30.675 --> 00:16:35.678 - have to do this. It just seemed like it would be a good idea, since we do have one. 00:16:36.034 --> 00:16:41.560 - The general public might want to know that it's there, and the only way to know really is to look at 00:16:41.560 --> 00:16:47.141 - the code. And so there's no problem, and they've been operating for a while, but there hasn't been an 00:16:47.141 --> 00:16:52.339 - ordinance in effect? Doesn't have to, because that merit commission was created by law. Right, 00:16:52.339 --> 00:16:57.974 - by state law. It's just by state law, and it springs into existence if you do nothing other than watch 00:16:57.974 --> 00:17:03.774 - time pass. OK, that makes sense. And it very specifically, oddly enough, spells out that because there is 00:17:04.610 --> 00:17:09.511 - getting into the weeds a little bit. There's a part of the statute that spells out how you're supposed 00:17:09.511 --> 00:17:14.555 - to go through the creation of a merit commission, which requires the creation of an ordinance. But that's 00:17:14.555 --> 00:17:19.313 - if you do it the old-fashioned way before the law was changed to spring them into existence. So you 00:17:19.313 --> 00:17:24.214 - don't need the ordinance. There's a carve-out that says you don't have to follow all of that if you're 00:17:24.214 --> 00:17:29.020 - springing into existence. It seems strange. That's the kind of thing I was wondering why they did it 00:17:29.020 --> 00:17:30.590 - that way. It doesn't make sense. 00:17:30.722 --> 00:17:37.372 - I don't understand half of what the state legislation does. I know we're on record. I myself don't understand 00:17:37.372 --> 00:17:43.901 - it. Some people are smarter than me who do. But here we are today asking for this ordinance now to identify 00:17:43.901 --> 00:17:50.007 - the fact that the Merit Commission exists. And will it specifically say in that ordinance that we're 00:17:50.007 --> 00:17:50.974 - a public safety 00:17:51.138 --> 00:17:56.822 - could still take care of discipline in the event that the merit commission recuses themselves or the 00:17:56.822 --> 00:18:02.506 - rules. I don't get into all of that because the statute already provides for all of that. And I just 00:18:02.506 --> 00:18:08.247 - wasn't going to bog down with a bunch of language trying to explain every little nuance to tell. That 00:18:08.247 --> 00:18:13.875 - hopefully we won't ever even need to. That could be done by myself. Hopefully. Other questions from 00:18:13.875 --> 00:18:14.494 - the board? 00:18:15.682 --> 00:18:25.138 - So we need a motion to approve resolution 2026-01. Move to approve. Second. Any discussion? All those 00:18:25.138 --> 00:18:34.594 - in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Pass unanimously. All right. I think the only thing left on the phone 00:18:34.594 --> 00:18:41.918 - was do we have any communications from the public online or? I'd be so amazed. 00:18:50.914 --> 00:18:55.262 - I think we're adjourning. We just need to sign a bunch of stuff. Thank you.