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.