Welcome to the September 17th meeting of the Board of Public Safety. I'd like to call that meeting to
order and begin by asking for approval of the consent agenda. First, let me ask, has everyone looked
at the consent agenda? Do you see anything there that you are concerned about? Any additions to that
agenda? No. Hearing none, I will entertain a motion to approve it. Second. Seconded. All in favor, aye. Aye.
Thank you very much. We can move on to the police department business. OK, for August of 2026.
There we go. So as I have told you guys in the past, our call volume increases, decreases cyclically.
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
showing an increase.
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,
guys. But again, we're not trending so far up or so far down as to be concerning, other than the fact
that, I will tell you anecdotally, the other calls are going on quick and fast. So we very well may
have caught up to our last year's standard, and this slide may be correct, in the graph. Yeah. Yeah,
we'll have to take a look at that.
We had some changeover and people preparing this, so I apologize, but we'll get back to you on that
one. These numbers again remain pretty consistent. There are some increases. There are some notable
decreases. Again, I would caution drawing any opinions on what the crime rate is until we get finished
with the year, because some of these can change pretty quickly. As you see, some of these numbers are
pretty small numbers, so a tick of one or two makes a huge difference in what our percentage is.
traffic stops again we're going back up the officers are particularly paying attention to some crucial
intersections and crucial stretches of roadway where we've had crashes in the past they've been very
aggressive in their enforcements in those zones for that exact reason now I would tell you that as you
noted last year we had decreases in both property damage and personal injury accidents I attribute a
lot of that to the traffic stops so we're efforting this again just to be sure that we're doing the
best for the motoring public
Again, crimes involving weapons. I want a lot with the guys are doing because this is a huge decrease
for 2024 down and it continues to drop. They've really been on it getting into those areas where we've
had issues and when we do have issues getting those cases solved as quickly as possible. Adult arrests
again, they're down this year compared to last year. But again, I would caution be very careful on drawing
any conclusions until we're done.
Same with the juvenile arrests, juvenile referrals, apologize. Apologize here. We have no hate crimes
to report. This is not yet the end of the reporting period. But as soon as we get to there, so far there
are none to report to you. And our lovely chart. Same thing every year. You can draw the same conclusion.
I will tell you substances involved in almost all of those.
And then we're on to training. We had, it's called Moir Mandatory Annual Training. It's 50 hours in
length. It's required by the state of Indiana. That's training we conducted. This is an online service.
The officers cycle through this and get it done as soon as they can throughout their days. So we had
10 officers get all the way completed with that. Nine officers went to a in-service training day where
we bring them off the road and teach a set set of skills for three days in a row. Four officers completed
the IDEX, which is Indiana Data and Communication System Training.
basically the MDTs that are in our cars. Three officer completed the master taser instructor course,
two officers in the crimes against children training, two officers completed a counter unmanned aircraft
drone systems training, and one officer completed a homicide course. As far as community engagement
events, we had four, eight and a half hours involved or 8.25 hours involved. Henderson Court's mini
national night out,
And we had officer's presentation to the Board of Realtors. Upcoming Residence Police Academy is ongoing.
Our started this week. The city's actually is coming to us tonight, so we're running two of those at
once. We're just a one-day part of the city's. And then RCA Park Party for Habitat for Humanities coming
up. And I apologize, we didn't put the date on there. We're also looking at our national night out.
We've elected to use the secondary date this year due to the heat, which will be sometime in October.
So we'll get you those dates pretty quickly. As far as police social worker, they had 225 referrals
this month, 363 contacts. You can basically read the summary. We've assisted people getting protective
orders, connecting with family partners. The project lifesaver is something that's quite necessary.
It used to be run out of Van Buren fire, now it's Monroe fire. Basically, for at-risk folks,
that have some either mental challenges with dementia or something to that degree. It's a small device
they wear, so when they get lost or wander away, they can be found pretty quickly. And that's really
proven itself out over the years. Assist a client with getting volunteer to assist with housing needs.
Our outreach specialist, we're able to get two people into emergency dental, coordinated with the son
and father. The father was dying in the hospital, so the son could come see him before he passed. And
then there are four or five individuals to center stone.
who actually made it to their intakes for some mental health treatment. General business, really don't
have anything for that. On personnel issues, however, bring it up to speed that we're currently, as
we talked before we started this, involved in a hiring process. Currently, we have 93 of 105 slots filled,
so that leaves us 12 down. 15 people are going to backgrounds currently. That includes one former retired
officer who will be coming back to us hopefully shortly.
And then we have group four already certified so they could go straight to the street after our in-house
training. And then 11 would have to go to the academy and that next academy I don't think starts until
December. So that is where we are with personnel at this point. We also have one person on long-term
light duty who will eventually be undergoing a probably medical pension shortly. And I think that's
it. Got a couple of people out, but it's not a long-term thing.
I have one question. How often do we end up using Taser since we started using those again? It's very,
very sporadic. We did use one this morning during an event. But it's not daily or monthly? Oh, no. Is
it monthly? I'm just trying to remember. Oh, it's definitely monthly. But again, it's proven to be a
use of force that is a lot safer than some other uses of force. Oh, yeah. I'm not being critical. I
was just curious. No.
I think everybody had the opinion, or some people had the opinion, oh, they're going to use them every
day on every stop. No. It's just not that. I like what you see on YouTube. No. Well, I remember on YouTube,
you're seeing the last 30 seconds of an encounter, not the six hours leading up to it. I just see a
lack of perspective there, yes. No, there has not been widespread use. So there's still probably the
bulk of the officers who've never deployed a taser. Thank you.
Personal issues, that was that. Expenditures, you'll see the normal coming through. I mean, we say it
every month. It's just a general replacement cycle. Sure. Is the higher price in fuel, is that becoming
a concern at any point? Because I know when we had, during the Iran War or Iraq War, we had to start
doing two-man units rather than single-man units. The problem with doing that is it would limit our
employment. We just don't have enough.
So those single man units able to reach out further faster. We're not using any more fuel. And again,
remember the city buys at a bulk rate, but that purchase price has also gone up even for the bulk rate.
So we're not paying pump prices, but we're paying more than we ever paid before. With that said, I would
love to tell you that we will curtail certain parts of our activity. The problem is if we start curtailing
our activity, we start losing connection with what we were doing that brought the crime rate down.
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
to pay a higher crime rate, or you're going to use more fuel. Which did you prefer? Well, no one really
gets hurt using more fuel. People do get hurt if we don't do what we need to do daily. And so many of
our runs, the driving of their vehicles, they're not discretionary. They are people calling going, I
need help now. So it's not like they're just wandering around looking for things they do. But I would
love to tell you there's a lot of patrol time, but there just isn't. There is call to call to call to
call to call.
So as far as non-discretionary use, there's just not a whole lot of it. I have one more question. Are
you happy with the new building idea? Personally or professionally? Personally, or both, yeah. Both,
I love it. Oh, good, good. That is a 50-year building for us, if we do it correctly. I say for us, for
somebody, because I won't be in 50 years. I think the selection of that site makes immense sense.
Well, it puts us geographically closer to where we're going to see the city expand in the years to come.
It puts us downtown essentially, but far enough away from the immediate downtown that it's easy for
us to get in and out. It offers a lot of space for us that we can expand our operations. It offers a
lot of future build out where right now you're not building anything.
There, there'd be room for us to add on or for somebody eventually to add on to do modifications. Well,
yeah, but I also couldn't imagine Bloomington growing at the rate it's grown at for the last 10 years.
So again, at a certain point, it will get to where you need to build more, where right now, that's not
going to happen.
There's a lot of things that you can just sit there and go, yeah, they could do this, and they could
do that, and they could make these changes. And like I said, we're not planning for that building to
be in next Tuesday. We're planning for that building to be here in 2070, where we're at. I do not think
there were any cert or ARV deployments. There were cert deployments, but no ARV deployments during this cycle.
Thank you very much. OK. We're fired. So we can look at our heat map response, August versus July. So
you can see that campus kind of lit up, especially Jordan and the extensions. That is not surprising
for August. We'll look at our breakdown emergency responses, again, year to date. For the month of August,
22 fire calls.
252 medical, 53 hazardous materials, 112 service calls, eight rescues, and 164 no emergencies. So the
month total was 611, which is very similar to August of 25. But in month five years ago, we were up
12% from August of 2021. City?
versus IU. 81 runs to campus in August, and that was roughly 13% of August runs. We can anticipate that
going up for the rest of the semester. All right. This is our turnout time, what our averages are. So
we're 30% of the runs. We are out the door in less than 80 seconds.
is ideally what we like to see and that is for fire calls. Prevention, our engagement there, they're
at 24% of their inspection goal, 197 hours for their inspectors public engagement, and let's see, see
here today, they're at 2239 for the
Community engagement there, we have had 67 smoke detectors installed and we are on track with meeting
or surpassing 2025. Training by month and year to date, 34,543. We are 82% of our goal.
which is $42,000. Again, that is roughly 30 to 35 hours per month per member. There are highlights for
the month. We say we had nine lieutenants successfully get promoted. And you may have been seeing them
recently on Facebook. So they actually got their pins. The recruit class concluded on the 14th of August.
And they were put on shift. So operations is 100% fully staffed. So we had these new lieutenants go
to vehicle extrication, operations and tech level training. Same for Vandegrift and Staggs. Staggs,
excuse me, has two Gs. And that's trench rescue, operations and technician level. And then the SEAL
coating at the training tower. So basically that was like a no drive only, no drive zone for the better
part of a week, wasn't it? I think so. Mobile Integrated Health, we installed 10 car seats. Next Friday,
we're hosting a multi-agency car seat fitting event. So that is actually National Child Passenger Seat
Safety Week. And then
We had 14 program referrals from nine different agencies and we are still at an average of 10.9 visits
per patient. That's our average. We looked at, we got a unhoused pregnant patient housing once the baby
arrives. Then we also got,
increased mobility for a patient as well. So they got a wheelchair and a rollator. It was not just the
MIH team who was at the first day of school for Fairview. I think we have a picture coming up next.
Back to school event, concerts at Switchyard Park. So they're doing community first aid at those events.
And then we've had a patient, this is a long standing patient getting
transportation and admission to do rehab. So that is progress when you can actually get them to commit
to going. There's our picture. So we have MIH team members, admin, and community engagement all mixed
within that crowd there. So that was on the south side of Fairview. So first day, cheered all the kids.
And then that's our community engagement officer.
He was doing a speech at the Old Catalant, the Novo Nordisk, and had a crowd there. What is deviation
investigation? My brother actually does that over there. That's when a product has an outcome that isn't
what it should be. They investigate where the deviation occurred to make it that way.
So he was making the relation to fire because when they do a fire investigation, when things go wrong
and there's a fire, that's how they instigate recalls, national recalls of like furnace motors or whatever.
Yes, exactly. It's not supposed to happen, but it did. And now we've got to figure out why it stopped.
So general business, I'll mention IU football season has started, and that's a different world for us now.
So we provide them more resources, more equipment while also trying to handle the call volume around
the game. So we've seen it uptake and over time covering that, but we've been able to handle it. So
just new for us, but on a positive note. Otherwise, we have some courtesy notifications to make regarding
direction we intend to go with Title 14 and 18. Just to quickly summarize those, small change amendment
to Title 14, which encompasses
allowing fire the authority to enforce our fee schedule. So we've had a fee schedule in the past, but
there really wasn't a means for our officers to issue the citations or fee collection. So now the authority
has been granted to fire to actually do that. So that's been needed to be in there for a while. Now
it's happening. Title 18 is essentially updating. It's actually a repeal and replace, but it's updating
the fee schedule to reflect what those amounts should be in today's dollars. The previous amounts were very old.
And now they're still pretty modest, but they're more along the lines of what you'd expect to see in
today's value of those equivalent costs. One more thing we're adding that will live inside of Title
18 is the addition of a fire fund. So now that we can collect fees, this will be a means to place those
funds in a non-reverting fund that allows us to support fire prevention. So we can get education material,
pay for the materials they need to enforce the fee collection software, things like that. So I don't
anticipate it being
a substantial amount of money, but when they do collect fees, there's a place for it to go now. As far
as personnel issues, we're actually pretty healthy at the moment. One light duty, no FMLA, and we currently
have six people on intermittent baby bonding time available to them to use. And lastly, as far as purchases,
just ongoing costs you'll see related to the operations center, it is substantially complete now. So
we're in the phase where we're wrapping up
just minor miscellaneous things moving in and we will have a grand opening and we'll invite everyone
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
there for that. We'll keep you in the loop of when that is. Any questions? Thank you very much. You're
welcome. Is there any old business? How about new business? Any
input from the floor. I don't see any visitors this morning. Is there anyone online?
No one online? So I guess it's just a matter of where Chris is taking us to lunch. I will entertain
a motion to adjourn. Second? Second. We are adjourned.