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