City of Bloomington, Indiana Board of Public Safety, 23 Jun 2020

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I'm calling to order the board of public safety special session tuesday june 23rd.

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2026, oh 7 p.m. and the first thing we are.

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Going to do is mac. We ba is going to make a request for a moment of silence.

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Hello, everyone, my name, is michaela and I just wanted to address were kind of.

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Going through right now, personally, I'm experiencing anxiety and all that fun.

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Stuff all that random stuff with collating also racism, so I just want to.

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Have a moment of silence to honor the victims took tobit 19 and also to this.

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Other pandemic, which is racism, so if we can have a moment of silence, please.

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Thank you. Okay and mayor hamilton has joined us and would like to say a few.

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Words before the rest of our meeting.

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On mute there we go so at work. Yes, thank you, chair chair, you know I.

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Really appreciate it and the board of public safety, I just wanted to be with.

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You briefly tonight to share one thanks on the role of the board, reminding all.

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Of us, do you five resident members representing the interests of our public.

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Asking questions overseeing our personnel and our protocol receiving.

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Information, this body that's created by state statute. I know how hard you work.

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And how important your role is, and you're gonna hear in detail from chief d.

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Cough and perhaps others I know tonight, but I wanted to just really make three.

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Quick points with you tonight: first, it is to thank you, five for your role on.

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This board, for your representing all the residents of our community of.

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Bloomington and providing that oversight and a public forum and the transparency.

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And the accountability that we all believe in, I sincerely appreciate your.

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Service each of you in assuring that our public safety services reflect our.

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Community and our values. Second: I want to thank the individual members of the.

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Bloomington police department for their daily personal commitment to our.

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Community and to the continual improvement of our department, we know.

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Our commitment to training and to good policies, but we also know that culture.

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Is really the most important part of our department? And I know you know much of.

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The police department's recent history from six years ago, as they embraced body.

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Cameras and the use of them and the downtown resource officer program to.

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Four years ago, when they embraced the review of the 21st century, policing.

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Protocols, as well as the open data initiative.

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More recently, the accreditation that they sought and achieve nationally a.

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Rare thing among police departments, as well as adding neighborhood resource.

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Specialists and social worker positions- I might I might just mention to you that.

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Personally, the very first decision I made as mayor it was actually before I.

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Was mayor was to ask chief kick off to remove the darkly tinted windows from.

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Our police cruisers, because I felt it was important to have that kind of.

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Transparency, I want to remind all of us: we have to continue to embrace and.

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Nurture the culture of community policing and of the strong and deep.

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Connections between our police department and our entire community and.

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Third, I just want to say directly to our community our whole community to assure.

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Our our collective commitment to overcoming the history of racism, that is.

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A sorry and painful part of our own long, bloomington story. We are not immune to.

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Its impacts today, we have collective responsibility to listen to all ideas.

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And welcome all suggestions and questions and to consider sources like.

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It can't wait and campaign 0 and others for how best to move forward in our.

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Public safety efforts, what we've seen lately in minneapolis and louisville and.

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Georgia are excruciatingly public examples of misconduct, dreadful acts of.

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Killing innocent people of color, we know also that the vast majority of such.

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Horrific examples are still invisible to us in history and still today, because no.

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One happened to be there with a cell phone video, it is a tragedy and a.

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Challenge to all of us that to some of our neighbors.

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Some of our most basic efforts to protect public safety can themselves be.

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Viewed and experienced as sources of personal danger, it is critically.

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Important to listen to each other to work together to continue to improve our.

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Public safety efforts, I sincerely appreciate your commitment to that.

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Tonight, and in the days and weeks and months and more ahead, I thank you for.

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Your time and best wishes on your work ahead and look forward to working.

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Together, thank you, chairman, moon back to you. Thank you, mayor hamilton, one of the.

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Things I should have suddenly started is that all of our members are here and.

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That the safety board is composed of myself, susan yoon, kimberly gray, luis.

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Fuentes rohr mokuba reece and rafi hasan, I'd like to read a statement before we.

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Start our public meeting- and this is just kind of some ground rules. Thank you.

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For coming to the board of public safety meeting, all members of the public will.

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Have their audio muted and video turned off for the duration of the meeting.

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Public comment instructions will be given by staff prior to the public.

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Comment portion of the meeting, which is going to be at the end of our regular.

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Business public comment will be given via audio. Only there will be a zero.

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Tolerance policy regarding profanity in public comment and in the chat function.

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Of zoom, lastly, as a general reminder, it is important to practice internet safety.

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As such, it is recommended that you not click on any link from any untrusted.

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Source this includes links that may be shared through the chat function. Thank.

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You for understanding and welcome to our meeting the first order of business will.

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Be to I would like to make a motion to make a request from.

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To move to agenda items just so our meeting flows a little bit better. We're.

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Going to move up the certification of the payroll and move down the search, /a.

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Rv deployment report so I'll take a motion for that. I move that we flip.

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Items on the agenda four and seven, the third deployment in the payroll.

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Certification, a second, I second, the motion.

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Okay, I'm gonna call the roll and I'm going to call everyone's name regardless.

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Of whether you made the motion or whether you second it kim gray, yes at least, went as roar, yes, weeba reese, yes,.

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Rafi hasan.

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Can't hear you ruffy, I don't hear your audio if you nod your head up and down.

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I'm gonna take that as a yes, okay and susan yoon, yes, okay, all right, then.

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We will move on to the verbal approval of the minutes of our regular meeting.

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Which was last week at this time, if someone would like to make a motion to.

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Approve those minutes or if anyone has any questions or discussion about that.

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We approve the june 13th for june 16th any minutes. I second okay, okay, we'll.

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Take the roll kim- yes, we yes weeba, yes, rafi, yes, hear me now, yes and susan. Yes,.

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Okay, we will move on to fire department, business and the report on monthly.

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Statistics and training- great, thank you for everyone. That's not doesn't know me.

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My name is jason, warm, the fire chief in the city of bloomington and our.

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Statistical report I want to go through on for our operational call volume we.

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Are back to our normal call volume for this time of year, which is still way.

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Less than what it was last year, that's a little odd saying: how is I you call.

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Volume is at its lowest, it's ever been so with that being said, our response.

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Times you can imagine with all the construction projects we had have had.

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Some delays, we have not met our goal of being on scene within four minutes. Nine.

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Percent of the time, while we normally sit around 83% we're at 82 percent for.

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The month in our eight minutes response guideline.

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Within 98% of the time we just missed the mark at 97%, we do think that those.

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Times will will improve back to their normal historical averages after some of.

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The construction is completed, the prevention and public engagement due to.

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Cova both of these programs have basically been on hold for several.

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Months, we are well below where we expected to be mid-year and we are gonna.

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Go ahead and make a few changes, I don't know if anyone got to see the videos.

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That were posted, we partnered with mcc sc and some really helpful folks at iu.

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And hosted a contest where we had students create fire safety videos, it.

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Went really well, we received for submissions and they're all going to.

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Receive prizes as awarded so some of the things discussed for your writing school.

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Your first day in a fire truck and some other things, but essentially we're going.

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To make sure that they're rewarded for their efforts for training and education.

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We just missed our monthly goal, but we are well ahead of our annual goal right.

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Now- and I mentioned in one of our previous meetings- that as of right now,.

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We're transitioning into our new target solutions system. If you look at our bar.

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On the spreadsheet you see, one of the training bars is sky high. The others are.

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Really low now that we've completely transitioned into that system, we're.

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Going to start breaking them out by categories again, we just tried to avoid.

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The dual reporting and running into some of the issues of the transition, but.

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We're well on track for meeting our annual goal for training hours and that.

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Is it for statistics and training? Does anyone have any questions for the chief.

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Okay, are there any letters of appreciation and commendation? We do not.

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Have any that we've been provided for this month? Okay, what about general.

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Business general business and if it's okay, I'm kind of do the general business.

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Purchase personnel just all kind of gather for general business. We are just.

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About complete with the the contract that was reviewed for the.

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Leasing, they started construction on our build the suit for a warehouse, central.

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Wash facility and it is going to have some training opportunities down there.

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As well, we are hoping to be into that new facility around july 1.

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Since our lease with iu health runs out july 1, I think they're going to be.

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Really helpful in our transition and not hold us to that july 1, since our leasing.

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Agreement got delayed that does go into the purchasing, so you should start.

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Seeing those lease purchasing the monthly lease payments on our new.

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Facility through our expenditures, our newest engine is still scheduled for.

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Delivery this year it will take because it coded and a few other issues. It is.

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Behind schedule, but we're looking at most likely a september to october.

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Delivery date and the aerial truck that was purchased with this year's money.

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Will definitely not be here this year, so it'll most likely be a 1st to 2nd.

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Quarter delivery of next year and with that personnel issues, we are currently.

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Down four positions: we've had two people leave, they did not retire so they've.

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Actually left the for retirement, it's the first since my career here in.

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Bloomington that we've had that issue come up. They both left for you know.

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Family business opportunities and then is this the point where we want to.

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Discuss promotion or is it going to be a separate agenda item? um It's a separate.

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Agenda item. Okay, so with that I've got one on light duty. I've got one out on.

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Workers comp and that's that's our report for the month. Okay and then you.

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Mentioned some of the engines that will be commissioned that will be delivered.

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In this next till year, but are there any other purchase at large purchases that.

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We should be looking out for in the expense rights. No, we still have some of.

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The ongoing covet expenses which we're hoping to be reimbursed.

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We do have a fema grant application pending right now and then we are.

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Looking to pursue kerr's funding, if the fema grant does not come through, then we can move on to the promotion of darren combs. If I can.

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This one question: chief chief, more you said you have you have four firefighters.

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That that left or four positions excuse me yeah. I currently have four open.

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Positions we've had to retire and I just had to leave. You are running our next.

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Hiring process that announcement went out today, so we're gonna be running the.

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Hiring process before we make any more actual hires. Okay, thank you chief could.

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I ask you quickly on that point, I remember we had a conversation that.

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Feels like a long time ago, but I bet if I were to look at the date, it wasn't.

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That long ago, when you told us about your interviewing process- and it was it.

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Was a lot of people if every member correctly- and it was a over a hundred.

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Maybe so are those people now ow is a new pool forming? How exactly will the.

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New hiring take place, yeah great question, so last process we posted. We.

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Had around 340 applicants around 200 or so arrived for, testing 150 to 170 passed.

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The written test- and we interviewed well over a hundred candidates, the process.

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Teared them into three different tiers tier one being the top 5% of scores and.

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The next year was the next 10% and tier three was everyone that passed all the.

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Way up what we found in the last round of hiring that you know expecting.

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Somebody to wait two years for a job did not bode well for for keeping our list.

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Viable, so we've only done a hiring process every other year and so.

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Potentially, what we're looking at is maybe have to do an annual hiring and.

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The list is only good for the year, but as it is written right now, when we.

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Finish this, we will bring a new list. Tier one and two candidates will go.

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Ahead of any remaining tier three candidates and then the tier three.

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Candidates remaining on the list now will be ahead of any tier threes.

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The new hiring list that we were creating from this process we're starting here around august. So does that answer your question on that? Yes,.

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And then the obvious follow-up we talked then, when we talked about that list.

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About the pool of candidates- and I'm sure I mean I don't- need an answer.

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Tonight, of course, but we reminded you then, and we talked about in you of.

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Course I agreed that the pool is so important and diversifying and all of.

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That so I surely will come back to this sometime in the near future to think.

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About or talk about, the pool itself and and how we can make it as diverse as we.

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Can do yes? Okay chief, I had a quick question about one. Why did do you happen.

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To know why the two in the firefighters left by chance and then persuasion is.

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With this theory tier 1 and tier 2, I'm not you don't have to share that tonight.

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But I'm curious about how michael was going off on louise's questions. We.

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Diversity within that two tiers, okay yeah, so the two individuals both have.

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Family-Owned businesses that are doing extremely well and they moved on for for.

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A better opportunity, so we did not lose members of our fire department to.

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Another fire department, they are staying local and they are there running their.

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Family businesses, to answer your question about the diversity I want to.

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Remind the board that the 2016 hiring process had a diversity profile about.

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1.2 percent, our last round of hiring, we did a much better job of recruiting. I.

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Still think he fell short of our overall goal, but we were around 21% berkeley.

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Profile, we have a new opportunity based on state statute, but prior to this year,.

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We could only recruit from in row county or a county that touches monroe county.

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We are now allowed to recruit than 50 miles of the further city border so to.

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Put that in perspective, that puts its in north loop north end of the loop for 465.

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For nd, so our candidate pool, as you mentioned,.

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Mr. wheeze went as roller is much greater than what it was prior we've.

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Also working with cfr d and several other resources around the county, and I.

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You have worked on our recruiting methodologies and where we're going to.

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Recruit and how we're going to recruit so that we can find the best candidates.

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For our department- and I know that you were working with several different.

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Entities reaching out to getting those and as far as diversity. So I remember.

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That and just trying to make sure it's a recruit as well, and that was definitely.

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One of my goals too, so thank you. Thank you for the questions.

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Okay, we can talk about the promotion of darren combs. Alright, thank you for, for.

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Having this darren combs is currently a firefighter with the command appointment.

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Of engineer he's been on our department for 13 years. If you remember, we.

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Discussed in the last contract, there was a restructuring of the chauffeur and.

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Sargent position: the chauffeur is a driver, a sergeant as an acting officer.

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He is one of the former chauffeurs and his current chauffeurs step down, which.

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Will then allow him to automatically promote to the position which he has.

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Been doing for several years now without compensation, so with that, I respectfully.

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Request the board promote him and I had it in the the agenda of what the.

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Effective date- and I do not have that in front of me right now- I apologize, but I.

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Do know that it was back dated because of some of the delays from the last meeting as well so you're requesting a promotion from an engineer to chauffeur.

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From firefighter first class to chauffeur oh chris, what do we do about.

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The effective date.

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So I was trying to find the effective date from the last agenda and I was.

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Off-Screen, sorry, I'm back now. I can't find it at the moment, but chief more did.

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You say that you placed it in the agenda from last week's meeting. I believe it.

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Was but I just pulled up his paperwork here. I apologize for that delay. An.

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Effective date of june 5th 2020, please perfect. Thank you. She more. Could you.

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Clarify again, you said that he's been performing in that role already. Can you.

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Elaborate on that, yes, so with the contract restructuring, there were.

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Sergeants, which was a rank in our department, it is now a command.

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Appointment, all of those sergeants were grandfathered to the chauffeur pay and.

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Then there were the chauffeurs, which was a command appointment and they were.

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Basically, given a stipend to the a firefighter who could drive, darrin combs.

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Has continued to be a firefighter who could drive, and this is actually the.

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Official promotion to the job that he's been doing since that contract realignment due to his chauffeur stepping down and giving that position.

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To him I should have happens. Thank you.

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Any other questions for chief, more.

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Okay, then I'll take a motion for the promotion, because on my motion to.

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Approve the promotion of firefighter first class darrin cones to chauffeur.

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With a employment date to be wretchedly active as of june 5th, 2020, okay,.

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I'll take the role kim can't hear you.

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That was problem. Sorry, yes, we, yes, mokuba, yes, rafi! First and susan. Yes,.

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Okay, the promotion is effective june 5th 2020. We will move on to police.

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Department, business, the we'll start with the report on monthly statistics and.

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Training, ok for the month of may, as we found for april calls for service.

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Have declined? They have picked up a little bit for the month of may, but they.

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Are at three thousand eight hundred and eighty-two by comparison april was.

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Thirty one twenty two march was four thousand sixty five, so as things began,.

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To shut down, you can see that we had the decline in the number of calls for.

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Service in nuisance calls noise complaints comprised the most of those.

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At 48 percent with disturbance calls right after that at 36 percent, again.

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There is no real statistical significance in any of the other things.

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That are being tracked, as you can see from the report. I will note that.

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We do have an ongoing concern about weapons related calls and it shows an.

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Increase of two hundred two hundred percent, but they basically went from two.

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To six so what we do- and I think we mentioned this at perhaps the maybe the.

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January meeting or february meeting when we're at last able to gather in person.

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And I think at that point we expressed concerns about the increase in weapons.

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Related calls and that that concern continues adult arrest again, because the.

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Calls for service were down, they were also down when you compare them to may.

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20 19 247 versus 160 for juvenile referrals were also down domestic.

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Violence cases I think we had mentioned that anecdotally things seem to be on.

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The increase even during kovat, but we also mentioned, as is born out here, that.

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The statistics do not show that to be true, so we have actually had a fewer.

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Number of domestic violence calls in may 20, as opposed to may of 2019. You see, are.

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Hate crimes, it was not a reporting quarter, so we.

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Have nothing in that category filled in and then we can go to more of the.

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Narrative type on the stats crime trends, major cases we did have burglary series.

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At stim line, which is located in the 900 block of south walnut street and then.

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You may have seen in the newspaper that we also dealt with a couple of incidents.

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Of a large number of vandalism to parking meters and graffiti to some.

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Buildings downtown as well, at least on one of the sprees of vandalism, to the.

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Parking meters- I know that we did make an arrest on that, so that has been.

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Cleared up training, as you might imagine, those training hours are down because we.

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Cannot gather, as a matter of fact, for the mandatory training topics? That's.

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Required by the state of indiana, we have moved to an online format for.

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That training hours for the month or at 4:22 we did have some officers go.

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Through the mandatory training topics online, we also had three officers that.

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Attended a mid-level, narcotics investigations and six officers attended.

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A rifle course again: kovat did not allow us to have any type of community.

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Engagement events, so that stands a zero and I think that was also the same for.

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April and we have nothing scheduled for the future.

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Police social worker told a number of referrals was 15. She had 139 contacts.

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During that time and the summer, as you can see, she assisted a client with.

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Connecting to an attorney to get temporary emergency custody of her.

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Grandchildren, which was successful, assisted a client who lost his mother.

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With navigating payment for the funeral and continuing to work with him on rent.

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Future housing, food, etc and assisted the neighborhood resource specialist was.

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Looking a carseat for a child leaving the hospital after a a vehicle accident.

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So, despite code, the police, social work of melissa stays very busy and again.

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That has been a very, very successful position for the department neighborhood.

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Resource specialists, total calls for service is 23. Unfortunately, I'm not able.

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To provide you with a summary of the types of calls that those work, so I.

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Apologize for that and I'll try to get that added for future stats just to give.

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The board a flavor, what types of calls they are either going to or initiating.

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On their own, as they are in the neighborhoods as their job title intends.

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Them to be so, that's it on training and stats. I'm sorry. I had a quick question.

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About training, mandatory training topics, what are the online? What are some of.

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Those training topics some of the primary things that we are required to.

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Go through every year would be domestic violence, training, cid.

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Training, for you know, sids investigation, sudden infant death syndrome and oh.

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There's human trafficking and I'm sorry, the rest of them just aren't coming to.

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Me right now, but there are certain ones that we are required to do and then.

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There are supplemental trainings that we also include in our training block if.

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You remember from past reports. We have sometimes tried to do those over the.

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Course of a three day: training block but again because we're not able to gather.

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We have not been able to do that, so we've had to shift to the to the online.

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Function, thank you. I'm sure I have some more questions, but.

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Ravi, if you wanted to rock thank you sorry, I'm meeting myself and start.

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Talking sorry, mr. carter's, uh just briefly when you say calls for service.

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Does that include like, is that only actual phone like calls, or does that.

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Also, you know, I know that there's other ways that kind of report things you know.

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Online or so calls for service would be anything to which an officer is either.

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Dispatched or is initiated by the officer, essentially everything that the.

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Officer does is recorded and assigned a number as a call for service through.

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Dispatch, so those would include an officer out on a traffic stop again a.

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Self-Initiated type stop if they are dispatched to a vehicle accident that is.

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Assigned a call for service, so basically it documents and logs everything that.

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Our officers do but when you mentioned the types of reports, not all of those.

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Would result in either a case report being done and sometime.

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Even some of our case reports again because we've tried to minimize our.

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Officers, contact with individuals to you know slow the spread if you will or not.

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Subject: anyone who might be vulnerable we have had a lot of people, we've.

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Shifted them either to from reports, or we have encouraged people to do more.

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Online reports, but again not every call for service will result in any type of.

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Report, if we get dispatched to a loud noise complaint, the officers may get.

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Into the area and not find anything so they would simply mark you know back in.

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Service failed to locate and that's not something that would require a police.

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Report in the more general sense of what we're talking about, and it just just.

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Sounds like from a perspective of terminology, it just is something doesn't.

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Refer to the actual person that might be calling for police, but just a term that.

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The police use just as a way to respond so could either be. Someone has called in.

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You know ie the call for service, or it is also that that same terminology.

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Applies to anything that might be initiated by an officer because they.

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Have to call that out and notify dispatch about where they are. What.

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They're doing so that is logged as a call for service, and it's just. Secondly,.

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I want to make sure that I certainly want to want to hear more about what the.

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Police department has been doing to either create a create some sort of a.

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Space that officers are able to to talk about some of the things that have been.

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Happening, I do know that you know that.

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You know there's just various internal supports that you have, for you know the.

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Officers but wanna know if in particular, thought about doing something to support.

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You know officers coming just again to be able to. You know, create a space that.

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Some open and honest conversations about you know dealing with really a lot.

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That's that you know obviously happened more recent months, but we all know that.

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He's a longer history again, not necessarily a discussion about it now.

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But you know spending you know, I'd like to follow up in a few months. I do.

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Believe in making sure that we are, you know intentional about you, know famous.

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Based at that they happen. So thank you. I had another follow-up question so so say.

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As far as dish dispatch goes, how do you, how do those individuals know to alert.

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The social worker or end or the resource officer do they know like different.

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Terms to alert a resource officer or social worker versus the police versus.

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An armed officer as far as someone who calls in yeah so say if it's like a.

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Panel, like with what the social worker did earlier so with with the dispatcher.

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Know to alert the social worker versus an armed police officer, so there's a.

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Variety of ways in which those can be routed to the appropriate person if it.

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Should not be a sworn police officer, sometimes it's the the downtown resource.

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Officers, sometimes they come in contact with someone who they realize might.

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Benefit from the services of the social worker, or they may.

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Work on it jointly, sometimes there are direct referrals to the social worker.

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Someone may have heard that we have one and we'll call in asking specifically.

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For melissa, the uniformed officers may get to a a call for service. If you will.

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And realize that you know, maybe there are some services that the social worker.

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Can either provide or network with other social service agencies in the community.

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And try to get those individuals, you know hooked up with the appropriate.

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Service, you know, let's say somebody's having a problem with their juvenile. You.

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Know acting out or something like that, you know the officer could make a.

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Referral or get the social worker involved to try to network and find out.

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Is there a resource within the community that might help this mother or father or.

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Whoever it might be in trying to get their child under control and again some.

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Of that too, even when school is in session, there could be that partnership with school personnel. So you kind of have that.

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Continuum of services, so that everybody's on the same page and on.

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Board with trying to address this issue, that's come to the attention of the.

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Social worker so there's a variety of ways where we can try to get it to the.

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The most appropriate person within the park and to try to in the last question.

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So I know that, as far as um homicide girl was, I think there was a recent one.

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That took place- I'm sure, is more than that, but how did.

B

So how was um how did that end up going? I think it was recent. It was it big. It's.

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Like a recent yeah, that's probably got three weeks ago yeah. How did so, how and.

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That's all like take like what what's the front like what I'm trying to.

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Formulate my question: you know I we had.

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How did that? um How did they get pulled in? Thank you. Yes, how did they get coffee.

J

I think, just as they call you, no shots fired or something like that. Probably.

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With an ambulance dispatch as well, I've, not I've not heard to call, but I mean.

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Typically, it would be, someone would call in and say you know, there's either shots.

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Fired or someone has been shot and we respond and work the situation from.

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There, depending on what the circumstances are, thank you.

A

Rafi did your question get answered.

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That's a require. I was making a comment that up that I would follow up on.

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Perhaps in the next next two meetings, okay, I had requested a change to the.

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Agenda and then I didn't follow that so I'm gonna go back and do the.

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Certification for the payrolls, so that, if jason needs to leave early, he can do.

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That so I need surf approval from the chiefs to say that the payrolls is.

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Appropriate and we can approve the payroll yes and yes, okay. Thank you.

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Then we'll move on to the police department, letters of appreciation and.

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Commendation you have been provided with seven. I will note for the record that.

J

There is a duplicate in there. I want to assure the board that it was not an.

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Effort to stuff the ballot box and then trying to beat out the fire department.

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Which, wouldn't matter could they have zero anyway, but in any event, most of.

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These were in the month of june and, as you know, I would typically hold those.

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Until the july meeting, but it just seemed timely to share these with the.

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Board many of them were very complimentary about the performance of.

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Officers during the protests and other events regarding the demeanor, the.

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Ability and willingness of the officers to allow folks to protest peacefully.

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They also were complimentary about some of the training that has come to light.

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That we engage in as far de-escalation training and some of the.

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Other hotter topics within law enforcement training. So again, I'm not.

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Going to go through each one of them, you have them in front of you, but the.

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General consensus is essentially thanking us for how we perform and how.

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We protect the community and are very cognizant of the rights of individuals.

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To protest peacefully, and I also have to say that being out there on friday.

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Captain pedigo and I were at kirkland washington and we had a number of people.

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That came by and said. Thank you. Thank you for service, appreciate what you do.

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And it's very gratifying, especially in these very trying times to realize that.

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There are many in the community that appreciate what we do and how we go.

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About doing our jobs, so thank you and then we will move on to general business.

K

So I just wanted to take this opportunity to kind of comment on kind.

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Of what's been going on, I issued a statement several weeks ago denouncing.

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What happened in minneapolis? After that event, I started to get questions from.

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The public about policies and how we do things, and I would direct you to our.

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Website on our website, there is a link to the statement that I issued there's.

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Also, a document that we produced it kind of summarized a lot of the questions.

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That we received- and we kind of we just kind of titled. It frequently asked.

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Questions and there's also a document on there about a national program called it.

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Can't wait and and how we have implemented those within our policies to.

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Reduce the chances of someone getting injured or killed by the police, some.

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Some things I wanted to touch on one of the big things people were asking about.

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Had with body cams, we were one of the first.

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Agencies in the state of indiana many years ago to adopt body cams, all of our.

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All of our officers have body cams. The policy is those are to be activated when.

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In whenever an officer is, is interacting with someone a member of the public on.

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The street the mayor mentioned earlier, some of the other steps that we have.

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Taken over the years, we are a nationally accredited police department through.

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Kalia, we are also state accredited through a.

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Program that the state of indiana has the the national accreditation program.

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You may may or may not be aware less than 5% of police departments nationwide.

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Or accredited I'm in indiana, I believe there are around 12 and we are one of.

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Those agencies there's around 180 standards that our best practices in.

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Police policy and operations those standards are reviewed every year to.

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Make sure that we are up-to-date and that you know new best practices that.

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Might have been developed, are, are presented and policies are written for.

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Those you you also the mayor mentioned. We we went through with the board of.

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Safety several years ago, the 21st century, policing project that president.

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Obama launched there were six pillars: multiple recommendations within those.

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Pillars, we went through, we spent over six months of reviewing that, with with.

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The board of safety and going over those recommendations, there were two.

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Recommendations that we did not implement one of those was tasers and.

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One had to do with flexible scheduling which we were prevented. We weren't able.

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To do that, because of a collective bargaining agreement that we have but.

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All the other recommendations we did implement talked a little bit about.

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Transparency, we are one of the few agencies across the country that.

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Released data to the police data initiative, we were we report 14.

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Different data sets just a variety of things that we do. We.

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Also publish that data locally on the city's website under the be clear portal.

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The mayor mentioned some of the specialty positions that we have. We have.

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Neighborhood resource specialists, which are non sworn members of our department,.

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That respond to really kind of non police type events, a lot of neighborhood.

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Issues they're involved in we have a police, social worker. We were one of the.

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First in the state of indiana to have a full-time social worker on.

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Staff, the training was talked a little bit in the training report. You probably.

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Are aware that our officers receive about four and a half times the amount.

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Of required training that the state of indiana requires we go above and beyond.

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In our training- and we do a lot of training on de-escalation on on a bias.

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Training on critical incident training dealing with people who are in mental.

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Crisis: a lot of our training, our firearms training, our driving training.

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Our defensive tactics, training all have elements of de-escalation training when.

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We do those, so we constantly are striving to make sure that our officers.

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Are properly trained that they get the most up-to-date training that they can.

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Get and we have, we have maintained those high levels of training year after year.

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So those are just some of the things again. I would refer you to our website.

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If you have other other, I want to see if some of the other questions that we've.

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Been asked those are listed there and I will take any questions that you might.

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Have about that chief? If I may ask you you mentioned, and I remember going.

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Through there, the 21st century, policing it took months in going thro, the other.

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Policies and initiatives- and I remember the the booklet and all that took a lot.

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Of time I remember, and you mentioned, and it was well worth it- I don't want to be.

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Misunderstood- and you mentioned- we've adopted most of the.

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But two I'm wondering you also mentioned the eight, can wait and there's eight of.

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Those and you you left it vague, and I know some of those we have. I don't know.

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What the color we've barred them! We put a lot of their recommendations so deep.

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Because I'm assuming I mean I wanted to know, do you have a specific out of the.

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Eight that I am seeing how many have we adopted, do you know of hand and if you.

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Don't well actually, we've adopted all of them. Those those eight are banned.

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Chokeholds and strangleholds require de-escalation. Three is require warning.

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Before shooting for is exhaust all of alternatives before shooting five is a.

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Duty to intervene, six is ban shooting at moving vehicles. Seven is established a.

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Use of force, continuum and eight is require all force be reported, and if you.

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Look at that document that is on our website. It talks about how we've.

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Implemented those and where those are at I'm in policy, there were a couple that.

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What we found when we reviewed our policy, that the policy implied it, but it.

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Didn't specifically call for so we have changed those policies so that it is.

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Clear in the policy, for instance, the one that comes to mind is, let me find here.

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The duty to intervene, it was implied in policy, but we we have changed the.

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Language where it specifically says that the officers are required to intervene.

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If they see excessive force or violation of policy, so there's there's things that.

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We've been doing all of these, it wasn't specific in a couple of instances and.

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We've we've corrected that so that the policy is specific, but that document is.

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On our website- and it talks about the language and everything is, is there.

D

Thank you and if I may follow up briefly, I you know I've been on the board now.

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Maybe four years and and then we had lots of conversations about the police.

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On what you do and how hard your job job is and can be, and so as we're going.

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Through this moment you know, I never stopped to think about many of the.

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Things that we just do so that when deputy chief coulter's was reading, we've.

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Right that rapport that you give us every month, we go through those and then.

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We just you, tell us the numbers and we move on to the next and the one thing.

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That struck me this time, and this is you know it's a paradigm shift in our world.

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It struck me, I mean it almost took me aback as I'm listening to the things.

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That you do and what sometimes we ask you to do things that you know now we're.

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Stopping to think about, why do we ask you to do that, and I don't have anything.

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In mind at the moment I mean I do, but it's not new, we can talk about it. It.

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I'm simply sound like rafi. I want to think this through with you, and I know.

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Many other things we are ahead of the curve right, the social worker and the.

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Community officers, I thought those are fantastic and they're recent so that.

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Gives me lots of much? It's not hope, but it makes me feel good about bloomington.

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In that way, but I we're still in a place where I love to think out loud with the.

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Board but the things that we do, because you know I never stopped the things I've.

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Been reading about the funding or these all these all these words, I never.

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Understood and it took back just just listening and think away.

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Why are we doing that? What why do we ask you to do that and I'm with ralphie? I.

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Don't have a question for you them, you can respond. Well. So I'm sorry, are you.

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Finished, yes, okay! So it's interesting! You bring that out, because if you actually look at some of the discussions around the.

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Country about defunding the police they're talking about the police, not.

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Having interactions with people who might be experiencing homelessness for.

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People who might have some kind of mental health issue, you know what has.

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Happened is those types of calls with with funding being cut everywhere.

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They've just kind of defaulted to police departments. And so because that has been.

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The case here locally also, you know we saw the need to create specialty units.

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To um to respond to those type of calls, so six or seven years ago we started the.

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Downtown resource officer program because the the increase in the number.

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Of calls that we were having with people experiencing homelessness and people who.

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Were experiencing mental crisis, we we needed a specialized unit to deal with.

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That we added the social worker as another component of that, so those are.

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The types of things that we've responded to we've added neighborhood resource.

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Specialists, because a lot of the calls that we get aren't really police officer.

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Type calls so we still get them, so we created a kind of a non-sworn position.

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To do that, I remember it's been a long time since I've I've worked patrol but.

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We used to get calls with bats in people's houses. What experience does a.

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Police officer have to get him back out of somebody's house just this weekend.

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I've got this very lengthy email from someone who lives in the city about a.

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Dead raccoon, that was in their yard, and they called all kinds of other agencies.

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To get the raccoon removed and nobody would respond so she called the police.

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So we we dealt with it, we helped facilitate getting so those types of.

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Calls happen all the time and what happens is no one knows what to.

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Do a really good example of that is. There's you've heard me talk in the last.

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Couple of months about the the crisis center- that's coming online.

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You know there's when somebody's in some type of addictions, crisis or mental.

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Health crisis and they have an interaction with law enforcement and.

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It's really not appropriate to arrest them. We don't have any place else to.

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Take these people there's no one else to call it 2:00 in the morning. So that's.

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Kind of why this crisis center is starting, so there are lots of things.

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That that the bloomington police department is doing and things that are.

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Happening in this community that go right to what what the national.

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Discussion is on defunding the police, because they shouldn't be dealing with.

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These things well, nobody else was we stepped up and met that challenge, and I.

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Believe we've created some pretty good programs that address those needs that.

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Haven't been addressed for a long time and just to be clear if I may follow up.

D

Very quickly, I agree- and that was my point of my question or my comment: how.

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Something have defaulted to you not just here but everywhere. That's surely a.

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Larger conversation, and so thinking about with you other some things, you've.

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Now created programs that we'd like to know about them, if we don't and then.

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Thinking about we are the things that you're doing the thing that you should be doing should we have, for example, just up on my head.

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More social worker less should we have more community resource officers, should.

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We have, why should should, should I don't have answers and I don't ask for you to.

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Have them either, but I'm encouraged everything I've seen from all my four.

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Years on the board encouraged me that we'll be thinking about this hard and.

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The bloomington's, a model city I don't have- I don't- have doubts about that in.

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Light of what I know and I'm encouraged that we'll be talking about it with this.

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Board and with you thank you thanks. I wanted to jump in and just be extremely.

B

Transparent chief and I we've had really intense conversations about what it.

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Means to view a black woman in america and what it means to be black in america.

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And we discussed a lot of some deep fears that I've had.

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Knowing I have nine brother and saw their all throughout the world, and I'm.

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Just always thinking about them, we've had conversations, and I know exactly why.

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I'm on this board because I'm not be black voice, but I'm am one of the black.

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Voices- and I'm always thinking about that because I work for the university.

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And my main job is to work with black and brown students in all spectrums, so.

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I'm always constantly having these conversations with chief geek off about.

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Just some the the climate of america and I'm also a social worker, so I got my.

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Masters in social work, and so I appreciate that we have a social worker.

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Here in bloomington and when I first heard that I was like what have a social.

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Worker, but in light of what lewis just mentioned, the different there, these.

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Conversations won't stop right. This, I feel, like this board, is in a position to.

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Ask the tough questions to have those hard conversations about what should we.

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Do what should we do, and so my question goes to the crisis center. I know you.

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Kind of briefly touched on that chief. Could you tell us a little bit more.

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About that center, please, and what what? What are those initiatives so the the.

K

Crisis center, it's it's been named the stride center. That was that's the.

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Project, that's been being discussed for a couple of years now and it started.

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With the discussion of pre-arrest diversion programs, and so it basically.

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It's kind of similar, a pre-arrest reversion program is kind of like our.

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Dro program, you know we recognize that that people who were experiencing.

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Homelessness or people who had some kind of mental health crisis may commit.

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Crimes, but that the reason they're doing that is because of the situation.

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Homelessness situation or the mental health situation, and so arresting them.

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Was appropriate but partnering with social service agencies and getting them.

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Services was that's what the crisis center is. The crisis center now gives.

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Law enforcement in in the city and in power.

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The opportunity to someone that they may be dealing with that has an addictions.

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Issue has you know a mental health issue that may be committed some kind of minor.

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Frying, the appropriate thing is probably to deal with what caused them to do that.

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Which would be either the mental health issue or the the substance use issue and.

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Get them treatment instead of arresting them and putting them in jail. So a large.

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Group of community members came together and started the discussion about this. It.

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Started with the pre arrest diversion program, and then we were kind of like wait, a minute, we're all we're kind of doing that already we're willing to do.

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That but we don't really have a place to take people, so we kind of took this fork.

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In the road and started talking about, we need a place and cook was instrumental.

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In bringing people together, the city the county also participated, centerstone was.

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A major player iu health was a major player, and so all of these entities and.

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There's a lot more that I didn't mince and came together and came up with this.

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This idea of a a crisis center, it was based on a program out of louisville.

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That center stone of kentucky started center stone of the local center stone.

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Agency knew those people we took several trips down there to see what they did.

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And we kind of developed this program center stone, we'll run it locally. It.

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Will be open, 24 hours a day and staffed with center stone employees who are.

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Trained in dealing with those types of issues with the people that we might.

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Bring in so it's a it's a program to get people help that they might need instead.

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Of taking someone to jail for something that they did, that, that was fire if, for.

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The record, could you stay with dr o stands for downtown resource officers.

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It's the name of the program. Thank you.

A

Okay, thank you chief d cough. There are no other questions, we'll move on to as.

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To whether there are any upcoming large purchases that we should be aware of, I.

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Think if I remember you may have seen some invoices on the large evidence.

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Storage facility, any construction related one would be for that finishing.

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Up that building and then personnel issues, I believe captain pedigo might be.

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On the call- and he can talk about the openings- that we have yes good evening-.

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Miss ryan dover. Now we do probably have ten openings.

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We're slated in hire three officers that will start with us on june 29th, and I.

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Know I've spoken with the board about this before is something that I'm pretty.

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Proud of two of those applicants, actually, our social workers currently.

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And had their masters in social work and they have decided to transfer into the.

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Field of law enforcement, so we're certainly looking forward to getting them on board like I said they, two of those will start june 29th. Unfortunately, the academy.

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Class that they were slated to attend was pushed back several months due to.

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The pandemic and then the academy cut the class size by one-third. So one of.

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Those applicants actually got moved to a class that will begin in november, so.

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Unfortunately, right now our hiring is kind of on hold, because the november.

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Class is basically already about to my knowledge at least one-third full, if not.

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More due to many of the people that were supposed to be in the class that start.

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Soon getting pushed to it, so we simply I don't have anywhere to I can't get.

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Applicants into the academy, so at this point we're kind of on hold, it's been my.

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Experience so far in my position that if, if you do a lot of.

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Recruitment efforts they sometimes will then fall stale. If you have to wait.

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Several months before, you're able to actually like start a process and hire.

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Applicants so right now we're kind of in a holding pattern with recruiting and.

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Hiring until an open academy class gets closer. I certainly don't want to try and.

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Seek applicants and then then become upset with the length of time before.

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They could actually begin employment, so unfortunately, that's we're kind of at.

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The mercy of the state right now due to the size of academy classes, okay, any.

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Other retirements or anyone on disability, we have two on light duty.

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They were on duty injuries and that's all right now, okay, all right, then we.

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Will just move on to whether there were any cert or arv deployments know we've.

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Had none, okay, okay, then we have finished our regular business for the month and.

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We are going to move into the public comment portion of our meeting. Okay is.

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Nikki or nicole, going to monitor, make the instructions for the hand raising or.

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Do I need to do that yeah? I can give some instructions for that. So in order.

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To get on the list, so you speak publicly. I need people to use the raise your hand.

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Function, I will add you to the list and send you a confirmation message. If.

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You're unable to do so feel free to message the account that says: bps.

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Meeting host to be added to the list as well and before we close public comment.

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I'll ask if there's anyone else, we have not received any email comments.

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At this time, if you're still having issues or can't figure out how to chat.

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You can email legal at bloomington, iein gov, and we will be monitoring that.

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Email as well and the raise your hand function should either be in your chat.

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Box or on the bottom, it depends on what browser you're, using or if you're, using.

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The app and the public comments will be limited to three minutes and we will not.

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Have a discussion about the comments we're just allowing comments to be made.

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And we will take up discussion at a future meeting.

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All right, the first person that I have that is asking to speak is greg. May.

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And you should be able to unmute yourself now you, my name is greg. May I'm.

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The director of administration at center, stone in the adult services, division and.

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I just wanted to talk about some of the work that center stone, and so some of my.

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Colleagues have done with the bloomington police department.

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Specifically, the downtown resource officers for the six years that the.

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Program has been operational, we, you know, have partnered with the police.

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Department- and they have you know, funded for us and other agencies in the.

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Bloomington community things such as transportation assistance lodging.

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Assistance when shelters are full employment supports, which is basically.

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Money that is given to help people through the job search process to.

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Purchase clothes for interviews to purchase shoes to provide transportation.

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To and from the job interview process agencies beside centerstone that have.

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Benefited from those funds and from that downtown outreach program that the chief.

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Oversees have been salom center, new hope, shelter for families, volunteers and.

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Medicine and the wheeler shelters- I also you know, just want to say how much.

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Support that chief dehoff has given to the stride center. He was the only law.

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Enforcement officer locally that pushed that agenda to make the stride center.

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Happen he attended site visits to the living room program out of kentucky that.

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He mentioned he led a site visit to north carolina to a law enforcement.

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Assisted diversion program there and he and I, along with beverly calendar.

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Anderson attended the police, treatment and community collaborative conference.

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In november, which is a pre arrests in diversion and deflection program, that's.

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Just a community collaborative where groups that are running those types of.

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Programs come together to talk about what is working.

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For people I I've had, you know great experiences where the downtown resource.

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Officers have encountered a situation that has truly been one of those mental.

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Health crises that the chief described, where they call someone from center.

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Stone and say: hey: we have this situation, the situation that I can that always.

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Comes to my mind is: I was called once to the intersection on the south side, where.

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The starbucks and the mcdonald's is because there was an agitated client.

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Standing in the middle of the road who had sort of obstructed traffic in all.

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Directions- and you know this person didn't necessarily like the police and.

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Didn't respond well to the police. The downtown resource officers called us.

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Myself and another social worker went down de-escalated the situation, remove.

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The person from the road, let the police, take care of police business and we took.

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Care of the client care business I'll leave it with that. I know that there are.

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Some of my other colleagues that are going to speak and will probably tell.

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You some other stories. Thank you for your time. So nicole go ahead and make.

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The announcement again, the necessity for raising hand if anybody wishes to give.

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Public comment, I'm being advised only mr. may rate, used to raise hand.

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Functions so we're only aware that mr. may wanted to give public comment if anybody else wishes to give public comment.

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Please use the raised hand function next, we have ruth and I will unmute you now.

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Thank you, my name is ruth. I I'm a community member and I just wanted to.

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Raise a concern I have first of all, I do want to say thank you.

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Because, as a person who likes to study data and believes the value and looking.

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At that, I do think that bpd has invested in collecting and reporting data. That is.

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Valuable, unfortunately, I think we are seeing disparities. Racial disparities in.

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The data- I don't know if that's related to the larger community issues or what.

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But recently in the paper I read a statement that said some crime in the.

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City is attributed to out-of-town visitors, which confuse statistics as far.

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As demographics of those arrested when compared to local census data and.

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Although I have not looked at the bpd data directly for this as part of some.

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Work I've been doing with kyle othman and the n double ac p and the uu church.

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We have looked at some court data and in particular, when I look at criminal case.

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Data filed in monroe county between january 1st, 2018 and june 30th 2019. If I.

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Look at defendants whose zip codes indicates that they are from monroe.

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County as opposed to not, I still see a lot of, in fact, more disparities for bpd.

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Involvement, so I think as people, it's very easy to think that we know an.

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Explanation for what's going on, but I would encourage bpd since you have all.

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This wonderful data that you're collecting to actually go back and see.

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If, in fact, it is people from out of town that you know if the skewing is.

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Happening and based on what I've been able to look at from other data sets.

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It's just not the explanation. Thank you.

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Alright, next we have tammy.

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Hi, I'm tammy giles and I work at center. Stone have been there five years and.

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I've been doing street outreach for the last three years and I just wanted to.

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Say that the dro and melissa, the social worker from bpd and myself have been.

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Built a partnership that is priceless. They have been extremely helpful.

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Especially through all this kovat we've been able to text each other and they've.

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Helped me find two different clients that needed injections and told me they.

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Were where they were located and I was able to go, get the clients they were able to get their injections melissa. Actually I know that chief.

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Talked about a lot of stuff, she does, but he didn't mention that she goes to camp.

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Sites with me, as well as the dro, she actually referred a client to us that.

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Was really struggling and he is now on the ak team, which we work with the.

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Sickest of the sick and he's getting his medication daily and is engaged in.

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Services- and I just can't express enough how important that partnership has been.

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They've helped me recently get a guy that was directing traffic in the.

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Highway, we got him into the hospital on a 72-hour hold and he's now in an.

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Inpatient facility they've called me numerous times to come to situations.

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Where there's homeless people there have a mental illness that I have helped them.

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Deescalate the situation and because of that those people haven't, went to jail.

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And so I think that's all I have to say. I just want to say that that partnership.

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Has been yeah amazing.

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Alright, next we have susan.

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Hey everyone, I'm susan harrington. I am a center stone employee as well. I.

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Just want to echo what greg and tammy have said in regards to the partnership.

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That we have with bpd, especially the the diario officers and the social worker.

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They have been such great partners in countless ways and- and it's I, I hope.

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It's been a back and forth, but there's there's been many times that we've.

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Attended meetings together and they've they've helped us find clients that have.

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You know fallen off our radar and vice versa.

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You know if they're looking for someone or want an update about someone, then you.

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Know if we've seen them that we've been able to provide them with minimal.

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Information in regards to you know: we've seen them there: okay, well, because we we.

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Can't give them lots of information due to hippa, of course, but again what what.

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Tammy said it is a very much appreciated partnership that we have with bpd and.

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Very valuable for for center stone and the clients in which we serve to to.

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Maintain that partnership.

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Okay, I saw that there's a question from someone who is titled.

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Are m in the chat? I private message you to try to get a name to introduce you by.

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Besides rm is there anyone else who would like to speak.

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You can use the chat function or they raise your hand, and I will add you to.

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All right rm, I will give you the opportunity to unmute yourself to me.

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Just one moment.

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Sorry about that I think I'm unmuted. Now I am rm and I have a question for chief.

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Eikhoff and others- I understand you're not going to actually respond at this.

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Meeting but I hope you respond in the future, our officers allowed to be affiliated with white supremacy groups to be on.

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Your department, and how do you monitor to make sure they are not and other than.

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That I would like a complete 2 minute silence for all the lives lost to police.

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Violence and thank you all.

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All right next up, I have linda okay. Thank you hi. My name is linda grove, paul.

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I'm the vice president of adult services at center stone, and I am a community.

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Member here in bloomington lived here since I did my undergrad at iu and been.

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With center stone for 22 years, I'm in charge of all of our adult services.

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Including all of our supportive housing, all of our substance, residential and you.

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Know all of our our services for addictions and mental illness, and you.

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Know bloomington is one of about 20 different communities. We work in and I.

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Have to say you know, we've had several people speak from center stone, but it's.

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Such a stark contrast working with the police department, specifically here in.

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Bloomington in terms of really trying to do the right thing, and I just appreciate.

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The conversation we're having tonight because as rafi and luis and you know.

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All of you guys are pointing out it's an important time to have a conversation.

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There are efforts that have been made and we know there are more efforts that.

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Need to be made, but having a police department that actually wants to get.

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Away from criminalizing people with mental health and substance issues is.

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Frankly, pretty unusual, and I think that, especially when we've seen the efforts.

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That this particular police department has made to try to make it a better.

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Place to decriminalize as much as they possibly can, as greg indicated, you know.

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We've worked with the chief on the crisis diversion center. I really frankly.

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If it hadn't been the partnership, I think between not only the folks with.

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Stride, but you know bpd really standing up front center with us life. I don't.

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Think that would happen, so I think that that commitment to ensure that people.

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Who are criminalized, particularly people of color? We've got to be doing more and.

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We have to do better and I there aren't quick, easy solutions. You.

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Know part of criminalization of black and brown people we know has been around.

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You know forever as well. As you know, people with mental health and substance.

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Issues- and you know if you have both life is- is much harder, but you know so.

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Many of the people that we work with you know we're institutionalized way back.

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When mental health hospitals were around those went away unless some of the.

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Resources we're talking about is there's no place for a person with a mental.

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Health issue or substance issue: that's in a crisis to go. So how do we begin to.

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Start working on that safety, not you know other parts or you know we need to.

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Ensure that we have housing, we have jobs, employment. We have a great partnership.

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With the city where we have an employment first, we're working with the.

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Parks and rec department to employ people who are homeless and jobs, picking.

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Up the trash we've got a crew, that's working with the landscaping another.

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Crew that works on the golf course these are people who you've heard of housing.

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First, these are people who are homeless, who have their first job and they're.

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Going out and they're there cleaning up and they're really, I think, helping other.

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People in the community get engaged so I'm very proud to be a resident of.

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Bloomington and I really hope that people can see that there are a lot of.

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Good things that are happening not that there's not room for improvement, but I.

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Really appreciate the partnership that we have with with the police department.

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You uh thank you and thank you to everyone who has spoken so far. Is there anyone.

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Else I currently do not see anyone with their hand raised or that his messaged.

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Privately or to the group that they would like to speak, so this is kind of a.

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Final call out.

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Thank you, nicole, now, back towards here you see one more one: more able to get.

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One okay, thank you! Kayla, I'm going to unmute you! If you would like to ask that.

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Question that you had message to me privately.

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If not, I'm more than happy to read it out, hi there yeah, my name is kayla mason.

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Garvin I'm a resident here in bloomington. I just had a quick question.

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That I just wanted to pose from my understanding of listening to this.

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Meeting bloomington police department is doing a lot to sort of shift policing to.

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Social work into people who are trained in social work but from my understanding.

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I've heard that there's sort of one officer who's a social worker, and I was.

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Looking at the numbers- and it looks like there's about a hundred and three.

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Officers with bloomington police department currently so I'm just curious.

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About the other 102, and how do they also have social work in or de-escalation.

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Training and how does the entirety of the force and not just the downtown.

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Division that we were hearing about today, work for the community. It sounds.

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Like there are a lot of good starts to policies in place and yeah, I would love.

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To hear more in the future, about sort of what what's being done for each officer.

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All right that is currently all that I have thank you kayla and I do not see.

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Anyone else in line, or that has requested to speak no emails, no no.

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Emails that have come in okay board members have any final questions.

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Or comments before we adjourn, then I will take a motion to adjourn.

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I will personally adjourn. Oh I'm sorry, I should have first said thank you to all.

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Our people, the public that have joined us today and have made comments. We are.

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Going to review the transcript from this meeting and we will address your.

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Questions and concerns in our future meetings. Thank you and I will take a.

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Motion to adjourn, I move that we adjourn. Thank you. Thank you. Everyone. Thank you.

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Next month, thank you.

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