WEBVTT 00:00:00.194 --> 00:00:07.488 - Welcome to the September 17th meeting of the Board of Public Safety. I'd like to call that meeting to 00:00:07.488 --> 00:00:14.710 - order and begin by asking for approval of the consent agenda. First, let me ask, has everyone looked 00:00:14.710 --> 00:00:21.932 - at the consent agenda? Do you see anything there that you are concerned about? Any additions to that 00:00:21.932 --> 00:00:29.726 - agenda? No. Hearing none, I will entertain a motion to approve it. Second. Seconded. All in favor, aye. Aye. 00:00:30.050 --> 00:00:38.912 - Thank you very much. We can move on to the police department business. OK, for August of 2026. 00:00:38.912 --> 00:00:48.426 - There we go. So as I have told you guys in the past, our call volume increases, decreases cyclically. 00:00:48.426 --> 00:00:57.847 - Right now, we're a little bit down, and I'm not sure why the slide. I am not so sure why our slide's 00:00:57.847 --> 00:00:59.806 - showing an increase. 00:01:00.066 --> 00:01:06.442 - We had a busy August, so it very well may have caught up. So we'll have to get back to you on this one, 00:01:06.442 --> 00:01:12.696 - guys. But again, we're not trending so far up or so far down as to be concerning, other than the fact 00:01:12.696 --> 00:01:18.828 - that, I will tell you anecdotally, the other calls are going on quick and fast. So we very well may 00:01:18.828 --> 00:01:25.020 - have caught up to our last year's standard, and this slide may be correct, in the graph. Yeah. Yeah, 00:01:25.020 --> 00:01:27.166 - we'll have to take a look at that. 00:01:27.682 --> 00:01:32.736 - We had some changeover and people preparing this, so I apologize, but we'll get back to you on that 00:01:32.736 --> 00:01:37.790 - one. These numbers again remain pretty consistent. There are some increases. There are some notable 00:01:37.790 --> 00:01:42.996 - decreases. Again, I would caution drawing any opinions on what the crime rate is until we get finished 00:01:42.996 --> 00:01:48.151 - with the year, because some of these can change pretty quickly. As you see, some of these numbers are 00:01:48.151 --> 00:01:53.054 - pretty small numbers, so a tick of one or two makes a huge difference in what our percentage is. 00:01:59.074 --> 00:02:04.806 - traffic stops again we're going back up the officers are particularly paying attention to some crucial 00:02:04.806 --> 00:02:10.427 - intersections and crucial stretches of roadway where we've had crashes in the past they've been very 00:02:10.427 --> 00:02:16.159 - aggressive in their enforcements in those zones for that exact reason now I would tell you that as you 00:02:16.159 --> 00:02:21.779 - noted last year we had decreases in both property damage and personal injury accidents I attribute a 00:02:21.779 --> 00:02:27.344 - lot of that to the traffic stops so we're efforting this again just to be sure that we're doing the 00:02:27.344 --> 00:02:28.958 - best for the motoring public 00:02:30.594 --> 00:02:36.714 - Again, crimes involving weapons. I want a lot with the guys are doing because this is a huge decrease 00:02:36.714 --> 00:02:42.894 - for 2024 down and it continues to drop. They've really been on it getting into those areas where we've 00:02:42.894 --> 00:02:49.074 - had issues and when we do have issues getting those cases solved as quickly as possible. Adult arrests 00:02:49.074 --> 00:02:55.494 - again, they're down this year compared to last year. But again, I would caution be very careful on drawing 00:02:55.494 --> 00:02:57.534 - any conclusions until we're done. 00:02:59.874 --> 00:03:07.180 - Same with the juvenile arrests, juvenile referrals, apologize. Apologize here. We have no hate crimes 00:03:07.180 --> 00:03:14.700 - to report. This is not yet the end of the reporting period. But as soon as we get to there, so far there 00:03:14.700 --> 00:03:22.293 - are none to report to you. And our lovely chart. Same thing every year. You can draw the same conclusion. 00:03:22.293 --> 00:03:26.590 - I will tell you substances involved in almost all of those. 00:03:28.578 --> 00:03:33.655 - And then we're on to training. We had, it's called Moir Mandatory Annual Training. It's 50 hours in 00:03:33.655 --> 00:03:38.936 - length. It's required by the state of Indiana. That's training we conducted. This is an online service. 00:03:38.936 --> 00:03:44.064 - The officers cycle through this and get it done as soon as they can throughout their days. So we had 00:03:44.064 --> 00:03:49.294 - 10 officers get all the way completed with that. Nine officers went to a in-service training day where 00:03:49.294 --> 00:03:54.676 - we bring them off the road and teach a set set of skills for three days in a row. Four officers completed 00:03:54.676 --> 00:03:58.078 - the IDEX, which is Indiana Data and Communication System Training. 00:03:58.210 --> 00:04:04.476 - basically the MDTs that are in our cars. Three officer completed the master taser instructor course, 00:04:04.476 --> 00:04:10.990 - two officers in the crimes against children training, two officers completed a counter unmanned aircraft 00:04:10.990 --> 00:04:17.193 - drone systems training, and one officer completed a homicide course. As far as community engagement 00:04:17.193 --> 00:04:23.397 - events, we had four, eight and a half hours involved or 8.25 hours involved. Henderson Court's mini 00:04:23.397 --> 00:04:24.638 - national night out, 00:04:24.738 --> 00:04:30.795 - And we had officer's presentation to the Board of Realtors. Upcoming Residence Police Academy is ongoing. 00:04:30.795 --> 00:04:36.567 - Our started this week. The city's actually is coming to us tonight, so we're running two of those at 00:04:36.567 --> 00:04:42.567 - once. We're just a one-day part of the city's. And then RCA Park Party for Habitat for Humanities coming 00:04:42.567 --> 00:04:48.281 - up. And I apologize, we didn't put the date on there. We're also looking at our national night out. 00:04:48.281 --> 00:04:54.110 - We've elected to use the secondary date this year due to the heat, which will be sometime in October. 00:04:54.754 --> 00:05:01.484 - So we'll get you those dates pretty quickly. As far as police social worker, they had 225 referrals 00:05:01.484 --> 00:05:08.417 - this month, 363 contacts. You can basically read the summary. We've assisted people getting protective 00:05:08.417 --> 00:05:15.147 - orders, connecting with family partners. The project lifesaver is something that's quite necessary. 00:05:15.147 --> 00:05:21.406 - It used to be run out of Van Buren fire, now it's Monroe fire. Basically, for at-risk folks, 00:05:21.538 --> 00:05:26.911 - that have some either mental challenges with dementia or something to that degree. It's a small device 00:05:26.911 --> 00:05:32.179 - they wear, so when they get lost or wander away, they can be found pretty quickly. And that's really 00:05:32.179 --> 00:05:37.552 - proven itself out over the years. Assist a client with getting volunteer to assist with housing needs. 00:05:37.552 --> 00:05:42.872 - Our outreach specialist, we're able to get two people into emergency dental, coordinated with the son 00:05:42.872 --> 00:05:48.193 - and father. The father was dying in the hospital, so the son could come see him before he passed. And 00:05:48.193 --> 00:05:51.166 - then there are four or five individuals to center stone. 00:05:51.362 --> 00:05:57.821 - who actually made it to their intakes for some mental health treatment. General business, really don't 00:05:57.821 --> 00:06:04.091 - have anything for that. On personnel issues, however, bring it up to speed that we're currently, as 00:06:04.091 --> 00:06:10.801 - we talked before we started this, involved in a hiring process. Currently, we have 93 of 105 slots filled, 00:06:10.801 --> 00:06:17.448 - so that leaves us 12 down. 15 people are going to backgrounds currently. That includes one former retired 00:06:17.448 --> 00:06:21.022 - officer who will be coming back to us hopefully shortly. 00:06:21.474 --> 00:06:28.023 - And then we have group four already certified so they could go straight to the street after our in-house 00:06:28.023 --> 00:06:34.447 - training. And then 11 would have to go to the academy and that next academy I don't think starts until 00:06:34.447 --> 00:06:40.746 - December. So that is where we are with personnel at this point. We also have one person on long-term 00:06:40.746 --> 00:06:46.982 - light duty who will eventually be undergoing a probably medical pension shortly. And I think that's 00:06:46.982 --> 00:06:50.974 - it. Got a couple of people out, but it's not a long-term thing. 00:06:51.618 --> 00:06:58.040 - I have one question. How often do we end up using Taser since we started using those again? It's very, 00:06:58.040 --> 00:07:04.399 - very sporadic. We did use one this morning during an event. But it's not daily or monthly? Oh, no. Is 00:07:04.399 --> 00:07:10.696 - it monthly? I'm just trying to remember. Oh, it's definitely monthly. But again, it's proven to be a 00:07:10.696 --> 00:07:16.930 - use of force that is a lot safer than some other uses of force. Oh, yeah. I'm not being critical. I 00:07:16.930 --> 00:07:18.302 - was just curious. No. 00:07:19.106 --> 00:07:24.476 - I think everybody had the opinion, or some people had the opinion, oh, they're going to use them every 00:07:24.476 --> 00:07:30.106 - day on every stop. No. It's just not that. I like what you see on YouTube. No. Well, I remember on YouTube, 00:07:30.106 --> 00:07:35.320 - you're seeing the last 30 seconds of an encounter, not the six hours leading up to it. I just see a 00:07:35.320 --> 00:07:40.586 - lack of perspective there, yes. No, there has not been widespread use. So there's still probably the 00:07:40.586 --> 00:07:43.870 - bulk of the officers who've never deployed a taser. Thank you. 00:07:46.018 --> 00:07:52.326 - Personal issues, that was that. Expenditures, you'll see the normal coming through. I mean, we say it 00:07:52.326 --> 00:07:58.757 - every month. It's just a general replacement cycle. Sure. Is the higher price in fuel, is that becoming 00:07:58.757 --> 00:08:05.002 - a concern at any point? Because I know when we had, during the Iran War or Iraq War, we had to start 00:08:05.002 --> 00:08:11.186 - doing two-man units rather than single-man units. The problem with doing that is it would limit our 00:08:11.186 --> 00:08:13.598 - employment. We just don't have enough. 00:08:13.954 --> 00:08:18.998 - So those single man units able to reach out further faster. We're not using any more fuel. And again, 00:08:18.998 --> 00:08:24.140 - remember the city buys at a bulk rate, but that purchase price has also gone up even for the bulk rate. 00:08:24.140 --> 00:08:29.332 - So we're not paying pump prices, but we're paying more than we ever paid before. With that said, I would 00:08:29.332 --> 00:08:34.623 - love to tell you that we will curtail certain parts of our activity. The problem is if we start curtailing 00:08:34.623 --> 00:08:39.518 - our activity, we start losing connection with what we were doing that brought the crime rate down. 00:08:40.130 --> 00:08:45.036 - So as soon as we stop doing that, it's kind of like you're going to pay one way or another. You're going 00:08:45.036 --> 00:08:49.895 - to pay a higher crime rate, or you're going to use more fuel. Which did you prefer? Well, no one really 00:08:49.895 --> 00:08:54.661 - gets hurt using more fuel. People do get hurt if we don't do what we need to do daily. And so many of 00:08:54.661 --> 00:08:59.380 - our runs, the driving of their vehicles, they're not discretionary. They are people calling going, I 00:08:59.380 --> 00:09:04.146 - need help now. So it's not like they're just wandering around looking for things they do. But I would 00:09:04.146 --> 00:09:08.912 - love to tell you there's a lot of patrol time, but there just isn't. There is call to call to call to 00:09:08.912 --> 00:09:09.566 - call to call. 00:09:10.114 --> 00:09:17.328 - So as far as non-discretionary use, there's just not a whole lot of it. I have one more question. Are 00:09:17.328 --> 00:09:24.471 - you happy with the new building idea? Personally or professionally? Personally, or both, yeah. Both, 00:09:24.471 --> 00:09:31.755 - I love it. Oh, good, good. That is a 50-year building for us, if we do it correctly. I say for us, for 00:09:31.755 --> 00:09:38.686 - somebody, because I won't be in 50 years. I think the selection of that site makes immense sense. 00:09:39.714 --> 00:09:45.807 - Well, it puts us geographically closer to where we're going to see the city expand in the years to come. 00:09:45.807 --> 00:09:51.611 - It puts us downtown essentially, but far enough away from the immediate downtown that it's easy for 00:09:51.611 --> 00:09:57.472 - us to get in and out. It offers a lot of space for us that we can expand our operations. It offers a 00:09:57.472 --> 00:10:01.534 - lot of future build out where right now you're not building anything. 00:10:01.954 --> 00:10:08.497 - There, there'd be room for us to add on or for somebody eventually to add on to do modifications. Well, 00:10:08.497 --> 00:10:14.977 - yeah, but I also couldn't imagine Bloomington growing at the rate it's grown at for the last 10 years. 00:10:14.977 --> 00:10:21.457 - So again, at a certain point, it will get to where you need to build more, where right now, that's not 00:10:21.457 --> 00:10:22.526 - going to happen. 00:10:23.042 --> 00:10:29.428 - There's a lot of things that you can just sit there and go, yeah, they could do this, and they could 00:10:29.428 --> 00:10:35.813 - do that, and they could make these changes. And like I said, we're not planning for that building to 00:10:35.813 --> 00:10:42.388 - be in next Tuesday. We're planning for that building to be here in 2070, where we're at. I do not think 00:10:42.388 --> 00:10:49.406 - there were any cert or ARV deployments. There were cert deployments, but no ARV deployments during this cycle. 00:10:53.314 --> 00:11:02.492 - Thank you very much. OK. We're fired. So we can look at our heat map response, August versus July. So 00:11:02.492 --> 00:11:11.580 - you can see that campus kind of lit up, especially Jordan and the extensions. That is not surprising 00:11:11.580 --> 00:11:21.208 - for August. We'll look at our breakdown emergency responses, again, year to date. For the month of August, 00:11:21.208 --> 00:11:22.558 - 22 fire calls. 00:11:22.690 --> 00:11:35.660 - 252 medical, 53 hazardous materials, 112 service calls, eight rescues, and 164 no emergencies. So the 00:11:35.660 --> 00:11:48.376 - month total was 611, which is very similar to August of 25. But in month five years ago, we were up 00:11:48.376 --> 00:11:52.318 - 12% from August of 2021. City? 00:11:52.450 --> 00:12:02.688 - versus IU. 81 runs to campus in August, and that was roughly 13% of August runs. We can anticipate that 00:12:02.688 --> 00:12:12.728 - going up for the rest of the semester. All right. This is our turnout time, what our averages are. So 00:12:12.728 --> 00:12:19.422 - we're 30% of the runs. We are out the door in less than 80 seconds. 00:12:20.290 --> 00:12:32.878 - is ideally what we like to see and that is for fire calls. Prevention, our engagement there, they're 00:12:32.878 --> 00:12:45.591 - at 24% of their inspection goal, 197 hours for their inspectors public engagement, and let's see, see 00:12:45.591 --> 00:12:50.078 - here today, they're at 2239 for the 00:12:50.434 --> 00:13:04.639 - Community engagement there, we have had 67 smoke detectors installed and we are on track with meeting 00:13:04.639 --> 00:13:16.894 - or surpassing 2025. Training by month and year to date, 34,543. We are 82% of our goal. 00:13:17.154 --> 00:13:26.491 - which is $42,000. Again, that is roughly 30 to 35 hours per month per member. There are highlights for 00:13:26.491 --> 00:13:35.829 - the month. We say we had nine lieutenants successfully get promoted. And you may have been seeing them 00:13:35.829 --> 00:13:45.438 - recently on Facebook. So they actually got their pins. The recruit class concluded on the 14th of August. 00:13:46.114 --> 00:13:54.625 - And they were put on shift. So operations is 100% fully staffed. So we had these new lieutenants go 00:13:54.625 --> 00:14:03.135 - to vehicle extrication, operations and tech level training. Same for Vandegrift and Staggs. Staggs, 00:14:03.135 --> 00:14:11.646 - excuse me, has two Gs. And that's trench rescue, operations and technician level. And then the SEAL 00:14:11.810 --> 00:14:20.916 - coating at the training tower. So basically that was like a no drive only, no drive zone for the better 00:14:20.916 --> 00:14:30.109 - part of a week, wasn't it? I think so. Mobile Integrated Health, we installed 10 car seats. Next Friday, 00:14:30.109 --> 00:14:39.128 - we're hosting a multi-agency car seat fitting event. So that is actually National Child Passenger Seat 00:14:39.128 --> 00:14:41.054 - Safety Week. And then 00:14:41.570 --> 00:14:52.808 - We had 14 program referrals from nine different agencies and we are still at an average of 10.9 visits 00:14:52.808 --> 00:15:04.156 - per patient. That's our average. We looked at, we got a unhoused pregnant patient housing once the baby 00:15:04.156 --> 00:15:07.102 - arrives. Then we also got, 00:15:07.618 --> 00:15:15.630 - increased mobility for a patient as well. So they got a wheelchair and a rollator. It was not just the 00:15:15.630 --> 00:15:23.409 - MIH team who was at the first day of school for Fairview. I think we have a picture coming up next. 00:15:23.409 --> 00:15:31.577 - Back to school event, concerts at Switchyard Park. So they're doing community first aid at those events. 00:15:31.577 --> 00:15:37.022 - And then we've had a patient, this is a long standing patient getting 00:15:37.218 --> 00:15:45.627 - transportation and admission to do rehab. So that is progress when you can actually get them to commit 00:15:45.627 --> 00:15:53.954 - to going. There's our picture. So we have MIH team members, admin, and community engagement all mixed 00:15:53.954 --> 00:16:02.444 - within that crowd there. So that was on the south side of Fairview. So first day, cheered all the kids. 00:16:02.444 --> 00:16:06.526 - And then that's our community engagement officer. 00:16:06.850 --> 00:16:15.159 - He was doing a speech at the Old Catalant, the Novo Nordisk, and had a crowd there. What is deviation 00:16:15.159 --> 00:16:23.712 - investigation? My brother actually does that over there. That's when a product has an outcome that isn't 00:16:23.712 --> 00:16:30.718 - what it should be. They investigate where the deviation occurred to make it that way. 00:16:34.338 --> 00:16:41.518 - So he was making the relation to fire because when they do a fire investigation, when things go wrong 00:16:41.518 --> 00:16:49.120 - and there's a fire, that's how they instigate recalls, national recalls of like furnace motors or whatever. 00:16:49.120 --> 00:16:56.370 - Yes, exactly. It's not supposed to happen, but it did. And now we've got to figure out why it stopped. 00:16:56.370 --> 00:17:03.902 - So general business, I'll mention IU football season has started, and that's a different world for us now. 00:17:04.482 --> 00:17:10.872 - So we provide them more resources, more equipment while also trying to handle the call volume around 00:17:10.872 --> 00:17:17.199 - the game. So we've seen it uptake and over time covering that, but we've been able to handle it. So 00:17:17.199 --> 00:17:23.905 - just new for us, but on a positive note. Otherwise, we have some courtesy notifications to make regarding 00:17:23.905 --> 00:17:30.485 - direction we intend to go with Title 14 and 18. Just to quickly summarize those, small change amendment 00:17:30.485 --> 00:17:32.446 - to Title 14, which encompasses 00:17:32.930 --> 00:17:38.677 - allowing fire the authority to enforce our fee schedule. So we've had a fee schedule in the past, but 00:17:38.677 --> 00:17:44.762 - there really wasn't a means for our officers to issue the citations or fee collection. So now the authority 00:17:44.762 --> 00:17:50.396 - has been granted to fire to actually do that. So that's been needed to be in there for a while. Now 00:17:50.396 --> 00:17:56.255 - it's happening. Title 18 is essentially updating. It's actually a repeal and replace, but it's updating 00:17:56.255 --> 00:18:02.622 - the fee schedule to reflect what those amounts should be in today's dollars. The previous amounts were very old. 00:18:03.010 --> 00:18:08.691 - And now they're still pretty modest, but they're more along the lines of what you'd expect to see in 00:18:08.691 --> 00:18:14.316 - today's value of those equivalent costs. One more thing we're adding that will live inside of Title 00:18:14.316 --> 00:18:20.166 - 18 is the addition of a fire fund. So now that we can collect fees, this will be a means to place those 00:18:20.166 --> 00:18:26.184 - funds in a non-reverting fund that allows us to support fire prevention. So we can get education material, 00:18:26.184 --> 00:18:31.865 - pay for the materials they need to enforce the fee collection software, things like that. So I don't 00:18:31.865 --> 00:18:32.990 - anticipate it being 00:18:33.122 --> 00:18:39.393 - a substantial amount of money, but when they do collect fees, there's a place for it to go now. As far 00:18:39.393 --> 00:18:45.969 - as personnel issues, we're actually pretty healthy at the moment. One light duty, no FMLA, and we currently 00:18:45.969 --> 00:18:52.606 - have six people on intermittent baby bonding time available to them to use. And lastly, as far as purchases, 00:18:52.606 --> 00:18:58.756 - just ongoing costs you'll see related to the operations center, it is substantially complete now. So 00:18:58.756 --> 00:19:01.374 - we're in the phase where we're wrapping up 00:19:01.762 --> 00:19:09.876 - just minor miscellaneous things moving in and we will have a grand opening and we'll invite everyone 00:19:09.876 --> 00:19:17.910 - to it. So we're hoping that will be next month, but we don't have a date yet. So we hope to see you 00:19:17.910 --> 00:19:26.184 - there for that. We'll keep you in the loop of when that is. Any questions? Thank you very much. You're 00:19:26.184 --> 00:19:31.326 - welcome. Is there any old business? How about new business? Any 00:19:32.930 --> 00:19:53.630 - input from the floor. I don't see any visitors this morning. Is there anyone online? 00:20:04.674 --> 00:20:15.200 - No one online? So I guess it's just a matter of where Chris is taking us to lunch. I will entertain 00:20:15.200 --> 00:20:20.990 - a motion to adjourn. Second? Second. We are adjourned.