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.