WEBVTT 00:00:00.802 --> 00:00:08.746 - Everybody and welcome to session two of the City Council's Public safety the liberation sessions. Thank 00:00:08.746 --> 00:00:16.537 - you so much for being here. It's going to be a wonderful time So I'll just call this meeting to order 00:00:16.537 --> 00:00:24.328 - I think we have to do the thing where the clerk says that we're all here So I'll pass to the clerk to 00:00:24.328 --> 00:00:29.598 - call us all in Okay councilmember Stossberg here Piedmont Smith here 00:00:30.082 --> 00:00:38.091 - Zulek here sorry I'm also here daily here Rallo here all right well thank you so much for those joining 00:00:38.091 --> 00:00:45.868 - online and we're gonna have lots of breakout things and councilmember Rallo is gonna be leading that 00:00:45.868 --> 00:00:53.800 - but for now I'm gonna hand over to our oh in fact okay I'm passing over to councilmember Stasberg take 00:00:53.800 --> 00:00:54.878 - it away ma'am 00:00:55.426 --> 00:01:02.346 - So much welcome everybody I'm so happy to have you guys here tonight for our second community conversation 00:01:02.346 --> 00:01:09.072 - and deliberation session on public safety if staff could maybe get that slideshow up on the screen that 00:01:09.072 --> 00:01:16.121 - would be great. I'm just going to do a little introduction and then I'm going to pass it over to a colleague 00:01:16.121 --> 00:01:19.678 - and then we're going to. There we go. Wonderful. Sure. 00:01:24.770 --> 00:01:30.808 - Thank you. I think that this was the welcome, so I already did that. So this is our little agenda overview 00:01:30.808 --> 00:01:36.677 - for this evening. We're starting with this opening presentation with myself, and then I'll pass it over 00:01:36.677 --> 00:01:42.321 - to Councilmember Piedmont-Smith. We're going to do some community agreements and a process overview 00:01:42.321 --> 00:01:48.020 - with Wyatt Lawson, who's in the back from CGM. And then most of our time is going to be spent having 00:01:48.020 --> 00:01:53.777 - small group deliberative sessions. And each group is going to be on a different topic, then we'll get 00:01:53.777 --> 00:01:54.736 - reports out from 00:01:54.736 --> 00:02:00.869 - each group at the end, do an exit survey and talk about next steps for this. So in terms of what we've 00:02:00.869 --> 00:02:06.883 - already done, how many of you came or like watched the video or did the survey or anything like that 00:02:06.883 --> 00:02:12.837 - from the first session? Can I just have like a little show of hands? Okay, so about half of you. So 00:02:12.837 --> 00:02:18.494 - at the first session we had just kind of general conversation with folks about and every group 00:02:18.658 --> 00:02:24.032 - talked about the same thing, and it was what makes you feel safe and unsafe in Bloomington. And there 00:02:24.032 --> 00:02:29.459 - was an exit survey, and then in early October, there was some follow-up survey kind of recognizing who 00:02:29.459 --> 00:02:34.834 - we connected with in that session and who we did not connect with in that session and trying to reach 00:02:34.834 --> 00:02:37.310 - out with some deliberation to different folks. 00:02:37.378 --> 00:02:43.123 - And CJAM wrote up a report for us on session one. And so as part of that report, there were some very 00:02:43.123 --> 00:02:48.925 - specific focus points identified that were kind of commonalities between those things. And so tonight, 00:02:48.925 --> 00:02:54.727 - we're highlighting four of those commonalities. And so you can see there's four tables set up. So each 00:02:54.727 --> 00:03:00.359 - group is going to be a different one of those topics. Don't feel like you have to stay in the topic 00:03:00.359 --> 00:03:06.386 - that you happened to sit down at this evening before we go into the sessions. You guys can go to whichever 00:03:06.386 --> 00:03:07.344 - one you want to. 00:03:07.344 --> 00:03:14.909 - And that's basically what the session today is about, is within those specific topics, how can we seek 00:03:14.909 --> 00:03:22.254 - to make Bloomington a safer place, feel like a safer place within those specific topics? There will 00:03:22.254 --> 00:03:28.350 - be another report on this session, and then hopefully there'll be some things that 00:03:28.482 --> 00:03:35.730 - will learn as city council to guide our decision making, of course, understanding that we're a legislative 00:03:35.730 --> 00:03:42.639 - body and that some of these things are programmatic elements. And sometimes things are outside of the 00:03:42.639 --> 00:03:49.413 - wheelhouse of council, but they require maybe some collaboration with other community groups. And I 00:03:49.413 --> 00:03:56.254 - think this is slide four, which goes down to my colleague, council member Piedmont-Smith. Thank you. 00:03:56.962 --> 00:04:05.682 - From the first deliberation session in the surveys that we did, there were four issues that kind of 00:04:05.682 --> 00:04:14.576 - came to the forefront. They're a little bit amorphous, but I hope that they are clear enough that you 00:04:14.576 --> 00:04:23.732 - can understand the differences, and we'll go into some of these in other slides. So for one thing, we'll 00:04:23.732 --> 00:04:25.214 - call it group A, 00:04:26.850 --> 00:04:34.317 - is a safe, accessible, and welcoming public spaces in the community. This came up several times as an 00:04:34.317 --> 00:04:41.931 - important aspect of public safety. And then B, community care, crisis response, and supportive services 00:04:41.931 --> 00:04:49.252 - for those who need it. C was a public safety response, prevention, and accountability. And that was 00:04:49.252 --> 00:04:52.766 - mostly around police or alternatives to police. 00:04:53.634 --> 00:05:02.008 - And D was communication, transparency, and community trust. And that's often with those in authority 00:05:02.008 --> 00:05:10.300 - or the city government in particular. Something that came up across categories was that people feel 00:05:10.300 --> 00:05:18.591 - safe when they have a sense of belonging, like they are part of a community that cares. So let's go 00:05:18.591 --> 00:05:22.654 - a little bit more detail into these four groups. 00:05:23.106 --> 00:05:30.563 - or these four focus areas. So first of all, a safe, accessible, and welcoming community or public spaces 00:05:30.563 --> 00:05:38.090 - in the community. This has to do with physical safety, including lighting, transportation infrastructure, 00:05:38.090 --> 00:05:45.192 - sidewalks, safe places to bicycle, things like that, and also accessibility as far as if you have a 00:05:45.192 --> 00:05:49.950 - disability of some sort, you can have access to the public spaces. 00:05:50.946 --> 00:05:58.629 - It also has to do with predictable surroundings. You know what to expect. And the feeling that you can 00:05:58.629 --> 00:06:06.164 - be yourself and not have to hide who you are because you fear any kind of discrimination. That was a 00:06:06.164 --> 00:06:13.772 - big point as well about feeling safe. And then of course the availability of public space in general. 00:06:13.772 --> 00:06:17.726 - Like the Switchyard Park swings here in the picture. 00:06:17.858 --> 00:06:27.090 - is very important to generating that feeling of a welcoming community. So second focal point B is community 00:06:27.090 --> 00:06:35.639 - care, crisis response, and supportive services. In this category, we heard comments about providing 00:06:35.639 --> 00:06:44.187 - healthcare and housing, especially for the most vulnerable people in the community, including those 00:06:44.187 --> 00:06:45.726 - who are unhoused. 00:06:45.922 --> 00:06:54.178 - Knowing what to do when you encounter somebody who is in crisis so that you can help. Addressing the 00:06:54.178 --> 00:07:02.353 - root causes of lack of safety among certain populations. So again, that's that supportive services, 00:07:02.353 --> 00:07:11.018 - the community care that if it's lacking, it can lead to emergencies. And just stability of the community. 00:07:11.018 --> 00:07:15.678 - So both stability for individuals and families, but also 00:07:15.874 --> 00:07:26.327 - for the community as a whole so that we feel like we're not in kind of a unpredictable state of society. 00:07:26.327 --> 00:07:36.482 - The third category is public safety response, prevention, and accountability. So here, of course, any 00:07:36.482 --> 00:07:45.342 - conversation about public safety will talk about police, both as a response to crime and 00:07:45.442 --> 00:07:53.574 - as a community outreach because we have different kinds of police employees. Also a non-police community 00:07:53.574 --> 00:08:01.550 - response. Here it would focus on mostly addressing mental health emergencies, substance use disorders, 00:08:01.550 --> 00:08:09.372 - but also preventative outreach to communities who may, if they don't have the right connections, may 00:08:09.372 --> 00:08:12.702 - have emergencies. The prevention of crime. 00:08:13.090 --> 00:08:21.147 - and prevention of emergency situations. Okay, I already mentioned those in the above two contexts. And 00:08:21.147 --> 00:08:29.204 - then accountability for their actions of individuals, but also of the emergency responders themselves. 00:08:29.204 --> 00:08:37.417 - And our last category is communication, transparency, and community trust. This is an image from a press 00:08:37.417 --> 00:08:42.814 - conference with Chief DeKoff and Mayor Thompson. This has to do with 00:08:43.714 --> 00:08:51.469 - people feeling they have a role in local decision making, in making decisions that impact either directly 00:08:51.469 --> 00:08:59.223 - or indirectly their sense of safety and their actual safety. This also involves communication from people 00:08:59.223 --> 00:09:06.832 - in authority about imminent threats and about incidents that happen that threaten public safety or have 00:09:06.832 --> 00:09:08.734 - threatened public safety. 00:09:08.930 --> 00:09:15.982 - and full transparency what happened as much as possible without jeopardizing an investigation. 00:09:15.982 --> 00:09:23.628 - What happened? What were the responses? How can we prevent it in the future? And then making sure that 00:09:23.628 --> 00:09:31.200 - all populations are represented when we bring people into the decision making process. So I think I'm 00:09:31.200 --> 00:09:38.846 - supposed to hand it back to Councilmember Stossberg at this point who can kind of summarize using this 00:09:39.394 --> 00:09:46.381 - chart. Great. Thank you. I wasn't expecting that. I'm not as organized as I usually am. So this chart 00:09:46.381 --> 00:09:53.232 - is actually kind of a basic model that I can't remember. Councilmember Piedmont-Smith found it. And 00:09:53.232 --> 00:10:00.151 - it's basically this idea of if we have public safety in the center, then public safety has different 00:10:00.151 --> 00:10:02.206 - aspects of it. And of course, 00:10:03.010 --> 00:10:10.497 - I would say probably there's more than four, but these are the four that came out in the September session. 00:10:10.497 --> 00:10:17.707 - So these are the four that are on here for now. And then within each of these four, there's other, it's 00:10:17.707 --> 00:10:24.778 - another path to follow, a little bit more detail in each of them. And so that's something that we can 00:10:24.778 --> 00:10:31.779 - think about filling in more completely as a community. And one of the origins of this that we talked 00:10:31.779 --> 00:10:32.542 - about was, 00:10:33.282 --> 00:10:38.659 - budget time last year and we were looking at the plans and things for the city and going how should 00:10:38.659 --> 00:10:44.036 - we invest and and having kind of an overall goal of public safety and recognizing we don't actually 00:10:44.036 --> 00:10:49.575 - have a public safety plan in the same way that we have other city plans like a transportation plan and 00:10:49.575 --> 00:10:54.952 - a climate action plan and so if we want to improve public safety, what does that really mean and we 00:10:54.952 --> 00:11:00.222 - need to think about about those pieces and so this is just sort of a visual of how to think about 00:11:00.578 --> 00:11:07.747 - These pieces to say okay if we have a if if a piece of public safety is safe accessible and welcoming 00:11:07.747 --> 00:11:14.142 - public spaces Then there's pedestrian and traffic safety where some specific places may be 00:11:14.242 --> 00:11:20.280 - There are some challenges with that and then how to address those and so that's a piece of the conversation 00:11:20.280 --> 00:11:25.982 - to have this evening is going into those specific Places in these different categories saying how can 00:11:25.982 --> 00:11:31.572 - we address them? And of course the city as a city councilmember I'm most you know, are there things 00:11:31.572 --> 00:11:37.386 - that need to be addressed? Legislatively, are there things that need to be addressed in terms of budget 00:11:37.386 --> 00:11:39.678 - priority? Do we need to figure out some? 00:11:39.810 --> 00:11:47.671 - Different programmatic kind of things and communicate, you know within city and within city departments 00:11:47.671 --> 00:11:55.229 - Do we need to collaborate with other community groups some of whom are represented here today, so I 00:11:55.229 --> 00:12:02.939 - thank you there's some community groups here represented today and Is this where is this why it's No, 00:12:02.939 --> 00:12:06.718 - if you could review this then we can hand it back 00:12:06.850 --> 00:12:13.476 - All right, so in our group deliberation session, each of you need to choose a focus area. And so each 00:12:13.476 --> 00:12:19.971 - of the tables should be labeled, I don't actually, I didn't actually remember to look to know where 00:12:19.971 --> 00:12:26.467 - they are, but they're A, B, C, D, right? A, B, C, D. So hopefully you guys remembered, oh great, so 00:12:26.467 --> 00:12:32.962 - there's C back there, D, who are we up here? Is this A over here? A, B. So if you wanna talk about, 00:12:32.962 --> 00:12:34.846 - let's go back a slide. Oops. 00:12:34.946 --> 00:12:41.466 - Okay, if you wanna talk about safe, accessible, welcoming public spaces, you're over here at A. Okay, 00:12:41.466 --> 00:12:47.986 - community care crisis response, you're at B. Public safety response prevention accountability, you're 00:12:47.986 --> 00:12:54.634 - back there at C. And then communication transparency and community trust, you're back there at D, okay? 00:12:54.634 --> 00:13:01.538 - And each group will work to understand the community needs, right? Thinking about those different sections. 00:13:01.538 --> 00:13:04.542 - What do we need? Potentially, what do we have? 00:13:05.026 --> 00:13:11.135 - Already what do we need to improve brainstorm those potential solutions? consider some benefits and 00:13:11.135 --> 00:13:17.244 - trade-offs and then Reflect and summarize so that the council member in your group will report back 00:13:17.244 --> 00:13:23.413 - to the whole thing This is not a moment where we all have to agree on something This is not a moment 00:13:23.413 --> 00:13:25.918 - where we have to have some final sort of 00:13:26.210 --> 00:13:39.131 - Product right. This is this is an idea generation time Where we just you know can continue to share 00:13:39.131 --> 00:13:49.726 - but delve in a little bit deeper on each of these areas Okay Now now it's Wyatt I 00:13:53.090 --> 00:13:58.772 - All right. Hi, everyone. My name is Wyatt Lawson. I'm with CGM. I'm excited that we have a group out 00:13:58.772 --> 00:14:04.397 - here ready to do some deliberation. And thank you, Hopi, for kind of talking through what that will 00:14:04.397 --> 00:14:09.854 - look like. In general, and actually first, can my facilitators raise their hands really quickly? 00:14:10.434 --> 00:14:15.269 - All of my facilitators for each group. Thank you, thank you. So these folks are here to help you all 00:14:15.269 --> 00:14:20.151 - guide this conversation. What about my note takers? Can you raise your hand? And then these folks are 00:14:20.151 --> 00:14:24.985 - here to make sure that I can hear everything you all say tonight. So as we work to this next part, I 00:14:24.985 --> 00:14:29.868 - will be compiling a report to the city council that will grab the findings, solutions, considerations 00:14:29.868 --> 00:14:34.846 - that you all come up with tonight to then present and hopefully a well packaged report to city council. 00:14:35.362 --> 00:14:40.869 - A couple things I want to go through before we get started are what we call community agreements. One 00:14:40.869 --> 00:14:46.377 - of the big things, and I hope he said it, we're not all going to agree on the solutions we talk about 00:14:46.377 --> 00:14:51.776 - this evening. In fact, it would be wild if we did. Preserving a certain level of difference between 00:14:51.776 --> 00:14:57.391 - our opinions of what should happen is going to be an important part tonight. Our facilitators will help 00:14:57.391 --> 00:15:02.790 - you do that. We will test and problem solve potential solutions so we get a good idea of what could 00:15:02.790 --> 00:15:05.328 - work as we work through these recommendations. 00:15:05.328 --> 00:15:09.676 - It's not an intention of this evening that we're all going to walk out of here saying we know exactly 00:15:09.676 --> 00:15:13.342 - how we're going to improve public safety in Bloomington. This is a step towards that. 00:15:13.506 --> 00:15:19.345 - And in order for us to have a good generative conversation, deliberation session, we all are going to 00:15:19.345 --> 00:15:25.242 - want to agree how we're going to engage this evening. So we do, this is about CGM, I guess I'm hopping 00:15:25.242 --> 00:15:31.139 - in front of myself a little bit more high. We're from CGM. We've been in Bloomington for over 30 years 00:15:31.139 --> 00:15:37.150 - doing conflict resolution, restorative justice, and facilitation work. We offer work within restorative. 00:15:37.218 --> 00:15:41.708 - more about harm and working within the criminal justice system, but also any kind of conflict. If you're 00:15:41.708 --> 00:15:46.112 - interested in learning more about CGM or maybe being a future facilitator at a table like this, please 00:15:46.112 --> 00:15:50.302 - come up to me at the end. I would love to talk a little bit more about what we do and who we are. 00:15:51.362 --> 00:15:56.269 - Now let's talk about community agreements. I'll jump in front of myself again. So we want to make sure 00:15:56.269 --> 00:16:01.033 - that we're all on the same page of how we want to engage this evening. So we have some pretty basic 00:16:01.033 --> 00:16:05.845 - community agreements. I'm going to read through them all, and then I'm going to ask you all if there 00:16:05.845 --> 00:16:10.609 - should be any additions or strikes from this list. So we all agree about how we want to engage this 00:16:10.609 --> 00:16:14.992 - evening. So our first community engagement is to speak from your own experience. Share what 00:16:14.992 --> 00:16:19.899 - you've experienced, noticed, or believe. You are always welcome to pass. So we're not going to require 00:16:19.899 --> 00:16:21.328 - you to give any kind of input 00:16:21.328 --> 00:16:26.215 - you're speaking from your experiences. We're not asking you to speak on behalf of other people. You 00:16:26.215 --> 00:16:31.199 - can bring the experiences that you have with different people in communities, but it should come from 00:16:31.199 --> 00:16:32.030 - your experience. 00:16:32.610 --> 00:16:37.196 - With that being said, if there's something you do not want to share, do not feel pressured to share. 00:16:37.196 --> 00:16:41.781 - You can always pass. We can always keep moving forward. Listening to understand, being curious about 00:16:41.781 --> 00:16:46.095 - experiences, perspectives that may be different from your own. Like I said, this is inevitable 00:16:46.095 --> 00:16:50.680 - in conversations around public safety. I hope that we find a lot of things that we may align on, but 00:16:50.680 --> 00:16:55.448 - there's going to be things that we have different opinions on. And that's part of this finding. So being 00:16:55.448 --> 00:17:00.079 - curious about the experience and perspectives that may be different from your own is important in how 00:17:00.079 --> 00:17:02.576 - we do this work. Making room for one another and being 00:17:02.576 --> 00:17:07.831 - mindful of how much space we're taking up so everyone has an opportunity to participate. My facilitators 00:17:07.831 --> 00:17:12.887 - will help in this process, but knowing that if you tend to share a lot, or maybe you're someone that 00:17:12.887 --> 00:17:17.992 - doesn't tend to share as much, knowing that when it's your time to speak up, please feel empowered to 00:17:17.992 --> 00:17:22.046 - do so, but also be conscious of how everybody in your group gets to participate. 00:17:22.178 --> 00:17:27.336 - And then it's okay to disagree, but do so with curiosity and hostility. It comes to that listening to 00:17:27.336 --> 00:17:32.798 - understanding, but we try to approach everything in this facilitative session with some level of curiosity. 00:17:33.826 --> 00:17:38.656 - A couple more, respect what other people share. Take the lessons and ideas from this conversation with 00:17:38.656 --> 00:17:43.393 - you, but leave the people's personal stories here. So I hope that you take the conversations that we 00:17:43.393 --> 00:17:48.176 - have tonight with you wherever you head. But if there are things shared that should stay confidential 00:17:48.176 --> 00:17:52.959 - or should stay in this room, I hope you also leave that in this space. So take the concept ideas that 00:17:52.959 --> 00:17:57.461 - we talk about, but leave those specific stories. And then of course, we work towards some level 00:17:57.461 --> 00:18:02.291 - of understanding before problem solving. We are asking you all to do some problem solving tonight, but 00:18:02.291 --> 00:18:03.792 - we want to make sure that we're 00:18:03.792 --> 00:18:08.581 - we're doing so in a level of understanding, not just trying to find that solution. If we come up with 00:18:08.581 --> 00:18:13.557 - a list of considerations tonight, that's a list that could be very generative when working towards public 00:18:13.557 --> 00:18:18.299 - safety solutions. So we don't have to agree on solutions, that's not the purpose of this evening. So 00:18:18.299 --> 00:18:23.041 - I wanna bring them all back up here. I know I went through them pretty quickly, but I'm gonna hold a 00:18:23.041 --> 00:18:27.783 - little bit of space for any additions or strikes. So if there's something up here that you feel like 00:18:27.783 --> 00:18:32.525 - is missing, I would welcome that from the group, or if there's something up here you don't feel like 00:18:32.525 --> 00:18:33.182 - is necessary. 00:18:42.914 --> 00:18:48.730 - I'll hold a couple more seconds. I'll take no strikes or additions that we all feel pretty comfortable 00:18:48.730 --> 00:18:54.434 - using these community agreements on how we'll engage this evening, because as facilitators and me as 00:18:54.434 --> 00:18:59.742 - your lead facilitator, I will hold you to that. So that will be my job of this evening. Okay. 00:18:59.874 --> 00:19:05.026 - The last piece, it's not quite part of the community agreements, but we mentioned it earlier, something 00:19:05.026 --> 00:19:09.979 - that came up in almost every session, in our first session, and quite a bit in our responses to our 00:19:09.979 --> 00:19:14.933 - surveys, is this aspect of belonging, inclusion, and diversity. So instead of holding it as a fully 00:19:14.933 --> 00:19:19.985 - separate group, because it's so intertwined with the four groups that we have in front of us, this is 00:19:19.985 --> 00:19:24.939 - something that I'll ask you all to hold as you have those conversations. Your facilitators will ask 00:19:24.939 --> 00:19:26.078 - questions that'll help 00:19:26.178 --> 00:19:31.623 - move towards this, but as we think about solutions, as we think about considerations, thinking about 00:19:31.623 --> 00:19:37.230 - how it will work towards belonging in the Bloomington community, but also who is here, who is not here, 00:19:37.230 --> 00:19:42.783 - and how those communities are interacting with the solutions that we're posing this evening. We're not 00:19:42.783 --> 00:19:48.390 - asking you to assume identities and make assumptions, but we're asking you to do some critical thinking 00:19:48.390 --> 00:19:53.566 - about the potential solutions that we may come up with this evening. Okay, I think we're ready. 00:19:53.730 --> 00:19:58.742 - to go, so we're not reporting out yet. But I want to go ahead and give an opportunity that if you are 00:19:58.742 --> 00:20:03.755 - not at a table that you would like to stay at, we can go ahead and do some moving. So for my table A, 00:20:03.755 --> 00:20:08.669 - if you could raise your hand, this is safe, accessible, and welcome public spaces. So we're up here 00:20:08.669 --> 00:20:13.534 - in the corner. You'll be with Julie and Grace. If you would like to join that table, please do so. 00:20:13.698 --> 00:20:19.674 - Table B, I believe up here, right? Yes, Table B is community care, crisis response, and supportive services. 00:20:19.674 --> 00:20:25.266 - So please feel free to shift to that table if you would prefer to be in that conversation. Table C in 00:20:25.266 --> 00:20:30.803 - my back corner is going to be public safety response, prevention, and accountability. And then Table 00:20:30.803 --> 00:20:36.285 - D over here in the corner is communication, transparency, and community trust. So I'll give you all 00:20:36.285 --> 00:20:41.768 - a few moments to get to where you should be, and then I'll also give my city council folks a moment 00:20:41.768 --> 00:20:42.974 - to get there as well. 00:20:46.722 --> 00:20:54.357 - Okay, so we will be in our small groups for the majority of this evening. I'm gonna bring us back together 00:20:54.357 --> 00:21:01.492 - at eight, 10, but I will be here to help facilitate how much time you have left. I'm here for help, 00:21:01.492 --> 00:21:08.984 - but I will turn it over to your facilitators to start our small group conversations. All right everyone, 00:21:08.984 --> 00:21:12.766 - we will bring it back to the large group. I hear so. 00:21:13.250 --> 00:21:19.168 - good conversations, I feel bad for putting a stop to it, but we've got a time limit tonight. I want 00:21:19.168 --> 00:21:25.205 - to make sure everyone gets out of here on time. All right, so one, thank you all for participating in 00:21:25.205 --> 00:21:31.301 - this small group deliberation session. I know there's a lot to consider, and each of these areas could 00:21:31.301 --> 00:21:37.278 - really go on for much longer than the 75 minutes we had to be able to deliberate this evening. So to 00:21:37.278 --> 00:21:38.462 - do our report outs, 00:21:39.330 --> 00:21:46.522 - We are going to ask, of course, our council members at each table to come up and report what they heard, 00:21:46.522 --> 00:21:53.439 - potential approaches, benefits, trade-offs, and maybe different perspectives and considerations. And 00:21:53.439 --> 00:22:00.357 - to go in no specific order but the order that we put you all in, I'm gonna have Group A go first. So 00:22:00.357 --> 00:22:06.590 - if my council member representative wants to come up from Group A, I'll have you go first. 00:22:15.778 --> 00:22:24.948 - Well, good evening, everyone. I'm happy to be the designee to report out from group A. We were talking 00:22:24.948 --> 00:22:33.940 - about community spaces, public space and perceptions of safety within those spaces, and my team will 00:22:33.940 --> 00:22:38.302 - tell me what I'm getting wrong here, but I would 00:22:38.722 --> 00:22:46.530 - We spend an awful lot of time talking about the need for information, and information flows, and how 00:22:46.530 --> 00:22:54.260 - that builds into people's perceptions about space and accessibility of those spaces. One example of 00:22:54.260 --> 00:23:02.223 - that is how people feel about going downtown because of the information that's available to them about 00:23:02.223 --> 00:23:04.542 - what's open, what's not open, 00:23:04.674 --> 00:23:12.084 - prevalence of things like homelessness and other things like that. And so the flow of information, how 00:23:12.084 --> 00:23:19.134 - we get information, how we provide information to people was sort of thing one that we discussed. 00:23:19.234 --> 00:23:26.154 - The other thing that we spent a good amount of time talking about were user-centered design and mixing 00:23:26.154 --> 00:23:32.940 - up both the needs here and the solutions. But we pointed out multiple physical spaces throughout the 00:23:32.940 --> 00:23:40.130 - city that don't feel necessarily like they were built for the people who use them. Parks being one example 00:23:40.130 --> 00:23:46.983 - where we love our parks and everything's fantastic about them, but they're not great to take kids to. 00:23:46.983 --> 00:23:49.200 - And so we were talking about the 00:23:49.200 --> 00:23:57.655 - need for things like fences, for example, if you have small children trying to take them to parks. And 00:23:57.655 --> 00:24:06.110 - then we talked an awful lot about follow through with public investment. So we talked about sidewalks. 00:24:06.178 --> 00:24:12.743 - tried to deal with these questions of where we should be prioritizing investments in sidewalks, both 00:24:12.743 --> 00:24:19.633 - concerns around areas, for example, where sidewalks just end or where there are no sidewalks, even though 00:24:19.633 --> 00:24:26.134 - there's lots of people using those spaces. We tried to struggle through the questions of, OK, well, 00:24:26.134 --> 00:24:32.634 - how then do you prioritize it, where we invest in all of these things? And finally, we talked a lot 00:24:32.634 --> 00:24:36.144 - about lighting in public spaces and the inconsistency 00:24:36.144 --> 00:24:44.037 - with which we seem to light public spaces. I think our solutions to almost all of these things is, well, 00:24:44.037 --> 00:24:51.855 - you know, spend more money and do those things. So at the end, we didn't really have time to solve this 00:24:51.855 --> 00:24:59.071 - question, but figuring out how then you prioritize spending with those type of desires in mind. 00:24:59.071 --> 00:25:05.310 - How did I do, team? Okay, they have nothing to add. All right, thank you, Group A. 00:25:05.506 --> 00:25:14.918 - Just, I'm gonna go Group B and then I'm gonna turn it to our folks online for their report out before 00:25:14.918 --> 00:25:24.515 - we go C and D, just to give you an idea so I don't spring it up on anybody, but I'll let Group B report 00:25:24.515 --> 00:25:33.374 - out next. Significantly shorter than the previous speaker. All right, so Group B, our topic was 00:25:34.082 --> 00:25:44.178 - community care and crisis response. And we very quickly homed in on shelter as the biggest need related 00:25:44.178 --> 00:25:53.982 - to public safety. And we talked about that we need to increase shelter options, including for groups 00:25:53.982 --> 00:26:02.622 - that really are not, don't really have options now, including people with pets, couples, 00:26:02.978 --> 00:26:13.035 - Women, they're very limited options, sex offenders, people with uncontrolled behavioral problems, people 00:26:13.035 --> 00:26:22.900 - that are not comfortable in aggregate settings, et cetera. And then we talked about coordination among 00:26:22.900 --> 00:26:32.478 - service providers, that there is a high level of coordination, but it could be better. For example, 00:26:33.026 --> 00:26:40.529 - ROI, what was that again? Release of information, we need a universal release of information form so 00:26:40.529 --> 00:26:48.106 - that people don't have to fill it out repeatedly when they come in contact with service providers. We 00:26:48.106 --> 00:26:55.535 - also talked about the need for more opportunities for people who have been unhoused or are unhoused 00:26:55.535 --> 00:27:00.958 - to share about their experiences, to overcome stigma and to build trust. 00:27:01.218 --> 00:27:09.719 - with members of the community. We talked about incentives and opportunities to hire Spanish speakers 00:27:09.719 --> 00:27:18.304 - to help provide supportive services. We talked about the importance of housing being accompanied with 00:27:18.304 --> 00:27:26.721 - ongoing wraparound support services. Doesn't end with housing. And that there needs to be buy-in on 00:27:26.721 --> 00:27:29.246 - the part of the person that's 00:27:29.730 --> 00:27:38.569 - newly receiving housing to agree to those wraparound services. And then finally increased visibility 00:27:38.569 --> 00:27:47.932 - of the services that are available and building community support for what is already working specifically 00:27:47.932 --> 00:27:56.158 - for city council. The group talked about the city council could exercise greater oversight by 00:27:56.258 --> 00:28:03.769 - holding grant recipients accountable, reviewing the data after grants are awarded to service providers 00:28:03.769 --> 00:28:11.352 - or shelter providers to make sure that the success is documented, that we know what works. Also, follow 00:28:11.352 --> 00:28:18.644 - up on the homeless coordinator position in the mayor's office and make sure that's working well and 00:28:18.644 --> 00:28:21.342 - living up to the funding commitment. 00:28:21.634 --> 00:28:29.435 - And overall, making sure we don't stigmatize the people who are struggling in our community. And finally, 00:28:29.435 --> 00:28:37.014 - a note about messaging. We talked about city leaders are important bearers of the message that we need 00:28:37.014 --> 00:28:44.520 - to understand and uplift the voices of people experiencing homelessness and the lack of security that 00:28:44.520 --> 00:28:51.070 - comes along with homelessness. So that is sort of, did I miss anything? Okay, thank you. 00:28:55.266 --> 00:29:02.842 - Thank you, Group B. Now I'm going to turn it over to our folks online to report for their conversations, 00:29:02.842 --> 00:29:09.984 - which will kind of cover, I'm assuming, a wider group. So I'll turn it over to Councilman Marullo. 00:29:09.984 --> 00:29:17.199 - Thank you. Appreciate it. We were allowed to choose our own topic. And so it was settled on that we 00:29:17.199 --> 00:29:24.414 - would unpack communication transparency and community trust. And I was joined by Heather and Kevin. 00:29:24.610 --> 00:29:35.808 - And there's a number of topics, subtopics that we unpacked. And the first one was budgetary. So the 00:29:35.808 --> 00:29:47.007 - question was, taxes are going to be raised soon. We have a PSAP, which is a funding for dispatcher. 00:29:47.007 --> 00:29:51.262 - The PSAP fund should have been set up 00:29:51.874 --> 00:30:04.667 - some years ago in 2017, but the funds were commingled with FIAS lit. The question is, how did this happen? 00:30:04.667 --> 00:30:16.863 - Yet now taxes need to be raised for dispatch. The fact remains that the county has in their PSAP fund 00:30:16.863 --> 00:30:21.406 - about $3.2 million. The question was, 00:30:22.242 --> 00:30:31.904 - why hasn't this been transferred to the city? There seems to be some question about the city can't seem 00:30:31.904 --> 00:30:41.288 - to attract and retain personnel at central dispatch. There seems to be a problem related to that. If 00:30:41.288 --> 00:30:50.671 - it is the concern of the council to have an outcome-based budget, then obviously one outcome that we 00:30:50.671 --> 00:30:52.158 - would desire of 00:30:52.642 --> 00:31:01.815 - public safety would be the optimum operational conditions at central dispatch. We would want the most 00:31:01.815 --> 00:31:11.348 - skilled dispatchers for public safety and we would want to retain them and attrition indicates otherwise. 00:31:11.348 --> 00:31:20.971 - It's something for us to examine and consider. Then the topic regarding community trust turned to concerns 00:31:20.971 --> 00:31:22.590 - about cybercrime, 00:31:23.106 --> 00:31:33.122 - and the vulnerabilities that public safety should include hardening of our cybersecurity for protection 00:31:33.122 --> 00:31:43.042 - of basic services. So that was a concern. Along the lines of communication, there was some frustration 00:31:43.042 --> 00:31:51.614 - that the public doesn't have adequate time at times to have been able to have their say. 00:31:52.002 --> 00:32:01.158 - And yet there are some topics that need to be addressed that are complicated and shouldn't be relegated 00:32:01.158 --> 00:32:10.666 - to a three-minute limitation for public comment. So either allowing more time for the community to present, 00:32:10.666 --> 00:32:19.558 - or the idea was to have a consideration for an ombudsman, somebody independent of both the mayor and 00:32:19.558 --> 00:32:20.702 - the council, 00:32:21.186 --> 00:32:31.323 - that could vet concerns from the public, explore them, and then present to both the administration and 00:32:31.323 --> 00:32:41.855 - the council. And then lastly, regarding the communication aspects, came the idea of further collaboration. 00:32:41.855 --> 00:32:49.630 - And this specifically focused on substance use and treatment in our community. 00:32:50.178 --> 00:32:59.310 - that we need more of a comprehensive approach, that programs in the jail are very important, but services 00:32:59.310 --> 00:33:07.666 - are still lacking and are very key. The downtown resource officers are instrumental, but further 00:33:07.666 --> 00:33:16.712 - collaboration is really needed because people need a way out of their addiction. Peer support is crucial 00:33:16.712 --> 00:33:20.158 - for success. The numbers indicate that. 00:33:20.258 --> 00:33:28.828 - people who have power in our community, i.e. the city council and the mayor, have the resources to join 00:33:28.828 --> 00:33:37.151 - in the collaboration. And we concluded by saying that this has been, in terms of communication, this 00:33:37.151 --> 00:33:45.391 - has been a very good discussion and the participants in our group were optimistic that deliberation 00:33:45.391 --> 00:33:49.182 - sessions like this could yield good outcomes. 00:33:50.850 --> 00:34:03.092 - Thank you. Thank you to my folks who joined virtually claps for councilman. Okay, we'll go to a group 00:34:03.092 --> 00:34:14.373 - see who is my back corner and Thank you So group see it was public safety response prevention 00:34:14.373 --> 00:34:19.294 - and accountability and I I think that we 00:34:19.970 --> 00:34:27.811 - spent our time talking about a couple of different things for the most part. One was communication. 00:34:27.811 --> 00:34:35.731 - And the other was actual resources. So in terms of communication, the importance of not rushing even 00:34:35.731 --> 00:34:43.572 - in crisis situations. And we talked about social media and that idea of rolling out when big things 00:34:43.572 --> 00:34:49.374 - are happening and how to do that in a way that doesn't make the community 00:34:50.306 --> 00:34:59.024 - Extra anxious right in the way that sometimes social media can do and then and we also talked about 00:34:59.024 --> 00:35:08.090 - this idea of whether enforcement is complementary or competing with compassion and other response types 00:35:08.090 --> 00:35:16.808 - and how to kind of make sure that those responses work together in ways that serve our community so 00:35:16.808 --> 00:35:17.854 - in terms of 00:35:19.074 --> 00:35:25.268 - Oh, and then we also, this is kind of communication too, that just interacting with safety response 00:35:25.268 --> 00:35:31.462 - can just be very anxiety provoking and can be very traumatic for the people who might call 911, for 00:35:31.462 --> 00:35:37.780 - the dispatchers, for the response, for any bystanders, and for the person themselves who are actually 00:35:37.780 --> 00:35:44.346 - having this crisis, regardless of what kind of crisis it is, right? Whether it's a personal mental health 00:35:44.346 --> 00:35:48.062 - crisis or a vehicular accident or some larger sort of issue 00:35:48.130 --> 00:35:54.218 - it's all very traumatic and stressful. And so in that respect, we kind of talked about the importance 00:35:54.218 --> 00:36:00.545 - of follow through service, which is kind of like some wraparound services that we've talked about before, 00:36:00.545 --> 00:36:06.514 - but also just follow through in terms of that trauma response and that anxiety response and how can 00:36:06.514 --> 00:36:13.079 - we do that for our community so that the whole experience of interacting with our public safety professionals 00:36:13.079 --> 00:36:17.854 - in whatever aspect doesn't become any more stressful than it already has to be. 00:36:18.018 --> 00:36:24.594 - In terms of possible solutions or things that we could do to respond to some of this, there was a general 00:36:24.594 --> 00:36:30.923 - kind of understanding, especially amongst our table in this realization that Bloomington has a lot of 00:36:30.923 --> 00:36:37.127 - services that people don't necessarily know that much about or don't know the details of the things 00:36:37.127 --> 00:36:43.517 - that are here or don't know the protocols of what is happening. And so the importance of asset mapping 00:36:43.517 --> 00:36:47.984 - in order to capture all of those resources and then somehow communicate 00:36:47.984 --> 00:36:57.050 - Communicating that asset mapping to the community as this like education piece we talked about the importance 00:36:57.050 --> 00:37:05.540 - of the ability to address the root causes and to prevent that need for a response in the beginning and 00:37:05.540 --> 00:37:12.958 - that part of that is some of those services that we do have and that kind of preventative 00:37:13.314 --> 00:37:22.167 - those preventative aspects of what we do. And then we talked a lot about education and marketing of 00:37:22.167 --> 00:37:31.197 - those resources and what can we do. I mentioned the, it's not Residence Academy, it's the police have 00:37:31.197 --> 00:37:40.670 - a specific, is it just called Residence Academy even at the Police Department? Thank you. Where they have, 00:37:40.962 --> 00:37:48.348 - Several weeks actually of sessions about the police department and something like that could be expanded 00:37:48.348 --> 00:37:55.593 - to talk more about response protocols and what happens and how our How our police officers are trained 00:37:55.593 --> 00:38:03.050 - but also the other resources that we have within our dispatch department for example within our community 00:38:03.050 --> 00:38:09.310 - and potentially, you know helping make sure people understand like if you call 9-1-1 and 00:38:09.666 --> 00:38:16.420 - This is what might happen if you call 911 about this kind of thing, this is the kind of response you 00:38:16.420 --> 00:38:23.308 - can expect, and you can also call these other numbers if you need something else instead. We mentioned 00:38:23.308 --> 00:38:30.062 - 211, we mentioned 988, that those things aren't necessarily as well advertised as they could be, and 00:38:30.062 --> 00:38:36.950 - about how important it is to have that transparency of our resources, to know what their plans are and 00:38:36.950 --> 00:38:38.622 - their protocols are, and 00:38:38.978 --> 00:38:48.080 - I don't want to leave out that we thought it was very important for solutions to include IU Monroe County 00:38:48.080 --> 00:38:56.838 - and the city in terms of an integrated service and I Think I got everything did I get everything over 00:38:56.838 --> 00:39:04.222 - there y'all? Thank you All right, I welcome up our last group for the last report out 00:39:09.506 --> 00:39:16.488 - Hello everyone. Thank you for being here. I know that it is past 830 so I will be as brief as I can 00:39:16.488 --> 00:39:23.469 - be My group was about community transparency and community communication transparency and community 00:39:23.469 --> 00:39:30.520 - trust and most of what we talked about has a lot to do with information both on the council side and 00:39:30.520 --> 00:39:38.270 - the members of the public side and so we discussed a lot of different ways that we can increase that access to 00:39:38.434 --> 00:39:44.761 - Information and so on the council side we discussed council members being more aware of what's currently 00:39:44.761 --> 00:39:50.787 - out there in regard to community organizations But also the resources that are available within the 00:39:50.787 --> 00:39:56.030 - Bloomington Police Department and the Bloomington Fire Department We also talked about 00:39:56.386 --> 00:40:02.645 - expanding community partnerships so that council members are more informed when they're making policy 00:40:02.645 --> 00:40:08.904 - about public safety and council members as individuals meeting with leaders within their district and 00:40:08.904 --> 00:40:15.224 - for at-large members across the city to better understand just different perspectives on public safety 00:40:15.224 --> 00:40:21.054 - and also just what's going on in the community and issues that might arise throughout the year 00:40:21.730 --> 00:40:31.298 - On the public side, we talked a lot about gun safety and making sure that people just know how to safely 00:40:31.298 --> 00:40:40.411 - maintain a weapon. As we know, the state of Indiana allows people to buy guns fairly freely. And so 00:40:40.411 --> 00:40:49.705 - while that might not be a city issue in itself, we can take on the responsibility of educating people 00:40:49.705 --> 00:40:51.710 - on how to safely have 00:40:52.674 --> 00:40:59.088 - Firearms the last thing that we discussed is while there is a county reporting system primarily for 00:40:59.088 --> 00:41:05.567 - weather Issues and there's a university reporting system also for public safety same with MCC SC The 00:41:05.567 --> 00:41:12.110 - city itself does not have any type of reporting system. So in terms of action items Developing one of 00:41:12.110 --> 00:41:19.230 - those for the city in terms of public safety might be beneficial that concludes my report. Thank you very much 00:41:23.842 --> 00:41:29.188 - All right, well thank you all for participating. I know we're right at time so I'm gonna move us to 00:41:29.188 --> 00:41:34.747 - the last couple pieces here. The last big ask of us this evening is to complete an exit survey. So this 00:41:34.747 --> 00:41:40.093 - both allows you to dive a little deeper into what we were talking about this evening but also gives 00:41:40.093 --> 00:41:45.492 - us a little bit of feedback about how this process was this evening. So I've got a QR code up on the 00:41:45.492 --> 00:41:49.822 - screens here if you all don't mind taking a few moments to scan that and we will 00:41:50.018 --> 00:41:56.479 - do our quick exit survey. I try to keep my surveys below four minutes to complete, so it should be a 00:41:56.479 --> 00:41:58.334 - pretty easy one to complete. 00:42:19.650 --> 00:42:20.478 - Who knows what it is? 00:42:46.434 --> 00:42:52.739 - give you all a few more moments to check out that exit survey and then we'll do a wrap up and let everyone 00:42:52.739 --> 00:42:53.918 - go for the evening. 00:43:13.346 --> 00:43:22.004 - Okay, so I'm gonna go ahead and get us wrapped up. So before folks leave, I believe we have one more 00:43:22.004 --> 00:43:31.004 - step. I think, are you wrapping us up? All right everybody, I'm gonna turn it over to our council member 00:43:31.004 --> 00:43:38.462 - to wrap us up this evening and then we'll go from there. It's all you. Yes. All right. 00:43:38.626 --> 00:43:44.687 - know that it is late and everyone wants to go home, so I will keep this as brief as possible. Thank 00:43:44.687 --> 00:43:51.052 - you all so much for being here tonight. This was a great way for me and my colleagues to better identify 00:43:51.052 --> 00:43:57.477 - what we can do as individuals to better inform ourselves on public safety issues and make better informed 00:43:57.477 --> 00:44:03.780 - decision making, but also better understand how we as a body can move forward legislatively. So I think 00:44:03.780 --> 00:44:07.902 - you could expect to see potential legislative proposals in the next 00:44:08.130 --> 00:44:14.453 - six months or so, and none of my colleagues are giving me terrified looks, so I think six months is 00:44:14.453 --> 00:44:20.902 - a good timeline. So keep an eye out, and again, thank you so much for everyone being here and sharing 00:44:20.902 --> 00:44:27.288 - your experience. I know that public safety can be an uncomfortable topic for a lot of people, and so 00:44:27.288 --> 00:44:33.800 - we just appreciate the amount of people who showed up to share their experience. And thank you so much 00:44:33.800 --> 00:44:37.278 - to C-Jam, who has been lovely throughout this process. 00:44:38.466 --> 00:44:47.113 - And also, yes. And thank you very much to council members Piedmont-Smith and Stasberg for planning this. 00:44:47.113 --> 00:44:55.678 - And cookies are available, courtesy, I believe, of council member Piedmont-Smith. They're on the table.