- Ladies and gentlemen, if we could call this meeting to order. Welcome all of you. Special thanks to
- Jennifer for joining us and assisting with the logistics. I would like, I don't know if it was done
- in my absence, but acknowledge the help that we received from Sarah, who's moved into a new position,
- I guess, with the department. She did a great job and wish her well.
- First order of business is to approve the consent agenda. Are there any additions, corrections to that
- agenda? Hearing none, I would entertain a motion to approve that agenda. So moved. Second. All in favor?
- Aye. The motion is approved. Do we have claims to approve?
- So Russell the minutes and the claims and the payroll are all part of that consent agenda so they've
- been approved so we can move on to police department business yes and at what point do we
- the promotions. Those are going to happen towards the end of police. So police department business they're
- going to get when you get down to personnel issues. Got it. Thank you. Thanks Tim. Did we pass over
- that? Yeah. We did. We've got to certify that. The executive session. So basically you just need to certify
- You that we had that we had it and only discussed the. The personnel issues for promotion. We didn't
- have any other discussion and we didn't vote. Are you? Do you certify that that happened? Can we certify
- that that happened? Yes, that's just you. Did is that I'll certify that. Thank you. Moving on to the
- police. OK, so for August 2026.
- So far this year, we're a little bit down on call volume. Don't worry, we'll catch up. Currently 44,018
- calls as of the time they put this slide together. That's a decrease of about 5,511.2%. Last couple
- days, we're making up ground. Current year to date, crime totals comparison to last year or the year
- before. As we've talked about every month, you can see how they go up and down. Some were in excess
- of, others were doing pretty well.
- So we'll see how that turns out. Traffic stops, we are up for this month. A little over this figure,
- 75, 38. I think we're actually in the 8,000s. We had to pull that for another meeting earlier in the
- week. Crime involving weapons, again, this is something officers are working very hard on. And we are
- again down this month. Year to date, we're down quite a bit, as you see from 2024.
- Adult arrests begin down from last year. Juvenile arrests, however, were up, but that's only by two,
- so statistically not much of a change there. This is not the end of a crime reporting period, so I don't
- have anything for you in this regard. And our general nuisance called pie chart. Training hours this
- month, 424.5.
- As you can see, 34 of the officers completed the 2026 legal update, 43 completed a firearms training
- course, 24 completed a B and B driver's license forfeiture training, 15 completed 94 and a half hours
- of the Moir mandatory annual training, 14 completed search and seizure, 10 completed nine hours of open
- field movement and tactical loading training with the Lifeline medical helicopter. We had one officer
- attend 24 hours of ICAT training in our
- Kenan Union conducted 16 training hours. Community engagement, there were four this month,
- 17 hours involved, 13 personnel, you can see what those were. Upcoming is the mini national night out.
- Actually, that's already gone past, I apologize, but we do have national night out coming up in October,
- so it doesn't appear on here just yet. And do we have anything else for this month? Community events,
- no. Community events, no. Police social worker totals.
- 226 for referrals, 375 for contacts. They had a decent month as far as being able to assist some folks
- getting into Medicare and SSI. They assisted with some loans and financial and student disabilities
- for IU, or for student at the IU for upcoming semester. The outreach specialists have really been busy.
- They've completed some housing assessments for several individuals. They also completed secure housing
- for an individual at Kins or Flats.
- And they provided some follow up to some of the folks that were newly housed and some ongoing support
- for them. We had one here, as you can see, officer responded about 3.30 in the morning to 400 block
- us out of Walnut. They were able to assist this person and get back on track there. So they got basketball,
- bowling balls for loom for life and
- some issues with neighbors and supporting us over life there. A couple more for officers, Jarrett and
- Diltz. They were able to find some property that had been taken. And now we're coming here. Thank you
- very much. Per the executive session, I would entertain a motion to
- approve the promotion of Jeffrey Ridgway to senior officer, police officer? Can we do those together?
- Effective August 17th. The 17th of August. Correct. And can we bulldoze into the also the promotion
- of Tanner Snyder? Just do the first one for Jeffrey. First one first? Yeah. All right. So I would entertain
- a motion to promote Jeffrey Ridgway to officer first class.
- from Officer First Class, a Senior Police Officer, effective August the 17th. So moved. Second. Second.
- All in favor? Aye. Aye. Aye. Approved. Also promote Tanner Snyder from Officer First Class, a Senior
- Police Officer, also effective August 17th. I would entertain a motion to approve that promotion.
- So moved. Second. Thank you. All in favor? Aye. Aye. So moved. So approved. Thank you. Good luck to
- them both.
- Thank you. Congratulations. Staffing update under personnel issues. We currently have 93 sworn officers.
- We have invited 36 applicants for interviews, which will take place throughout the third week of September.
- So we'll see how that progresses forward. How many of those go on the background will be unknown at
- this time. How many? 36 for interviews.
- As far as purchase expenditures, there's nothing really notable this month, just the general things
- that you see from us. And there was no armor rescue vehicle deployments during this reporting period.
- Fire department. Hooray. You're up. For July, we're looking, this is our heat map. Had to kind of blow
- it up because they were so diffuse, we didn't have any hot spots. So I'll give you two views for that.
- Year to date, 3,615. Medicals still are high point as far as runs. In this month, medical calls were
- 188. Fire calls were 23. So that gives you, no emergency is 105 for the month. Year to date, 918. So
- no emergency, that also includes our false alarms.
- For the month, total runs were 471, which is a 4% increase for the month of July in the past five years.
- Do you see the difference between IU and city runs? We have that. IU runs make up roughly 10% of this
- month's runs in July, which is not bad for an empty campus. So not empty.
- Inspector outreach so far for this year, 1,868 with 129 this month. They have reached 20% of their goal
- for inspections, so 449 out of 2,250. Year-to-date numbers for our community engagement, so we have
- had 63 year-to-date smoke detector installations.
- Training education, so we've had a flash-over training, which is down at our training center. Live fire
- evolutions, those are for recruits. Those are heavy lists for the training division. It takes a lot
- of people power to do that. We've had officer-led training, and then we had some specialty training.
- Abram went to Rope Rescue Tech and Ops in Greenwood. We did some more technical rescue training. And
- then the Joint Recruit Academy,
- All of them were finished all their required certifications. So they were sworn in on the 14th and started
- shift work this week. So we are fully operationally staffed. Mobile integrated health, 17 car seats
- for the month, 74 for the year. Multiple agencies helped out. 31 different services were provided.
- And among those would be like home health, housing utilities, insurance, case management, and health
- department among just a few of them. 20 different referrals from nine different agencies. So they were
- busy. The team wins. So we had somebody who needed mental health assistance, and they were employed.
- But now they're employed, and they get free mental health assistance. So that's great.
- They got somebody approved for vascular surgery, so that was a big lift for that team to do. They did
- first aid event at Concert in the Park series at Switchyard, and they've been teaching, they teach at
- the Y, the falls and fall risks, how to minimize that. And then they were able to get a multi-generational
- family to stay in their home. They were faced with eviction, so.
- that we didn't have any notes of public interest this month for us. As far as general business, we currently
- have a vacancy for our MIH, our mobile integrated health care program manager spot. So that position
- is open right now. We're looking for a replacement hopefully sooner than later. And then as mentioned
- earlier, reiterating the three recruits that came on shift brings us back up to full staff operationally
- front line. That's an important fact because we
- We hit that benchmark and this shows that when we do have vacancies through natural attrition, we're
- able to refill those and bring us back up to full staff again. So good deal there. Personnel issues,
- light duty, four people currently on light duty. Hopefully one of those will come off next week. Seven
- people are currently on intermittent baby bonding. So let's just kind of take it as they need to for
- bonding with their child. And as far as any purchases,
- really only just ongoing costs related to the bond project we have going down south. That's still slated
- for completion September 11th or earlier, so that's right around the corner. So we're looking forward
- to that being complete. It's the extent of our expenditures. Could I ask a quick question about the
- baby monitoring? Baby bonding? Yeah, sure.
- That's different than a leave of some kind for maternity or paternity leave? It's essentially that.
- So it's technically, in the system, it's parental, it's PFML, so it's parental family medical leave.
- So it's, I think it's kind of, correct me if I'm wrong, I believe it's like a FMLA treated benefit that's
- paid so that you can have X amount of time off with your child when it's first born. It doesn't have
- to be consecutive. So someone may take it all at once or
- Perhaps they have time, they want to spend. The family that's not in the area, they can delay some of
- that leave to create that bonding experience down the road. So we just report how many people have an
- accrued time that they could spend that they have not spent yet. And right now there's seven people.
- We have a pretty young department. So I think we'll probably have quite a few people in that category
- for a while. But right now it's seven. Thanks. And it can last until the baby is one year. So you don't
- have to take the six weeks all at once.
- Like I said, it's intermittent, but it has to be used up within the first year of the baby's life. That's
- helpful. I appreciate it. I've not heard of that before. Is it a relatively new phenomenon, a new benefit
- of sorts? A couple of years. I don't know. Clinton signed into law. It's been around for a while.
- Thank you. Of course. Appreciate it. I'm going to turn to old business at this point. Is there old business
- to address? Hearing none.
- New business. No new business. Petitions and communications from the floor. Anybody online? Apparently
- not. Well, that being said, I would entertain a motion to adjourn. Second.
- All in favor? We are adjourned. I want my quarterback from the parking meeting.