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From YouTube: City of Charleston Committee on Public Safety 10/25/2021
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City of Charleston Committee on Public Safety 10/25/2021
B
All
right
good
afternoon,
all
this
is
the
public
safety
committee
meeting
on
october
25th
at
two
o'clock
promptly.
I
understand
that
councilman
mitchell,
one
of
our
committee
members,
will
not
be
able
to
join
us,
and
the
mayor
is
entertaining
the
first
lady
of
the
united
states,
so
we
will
excuse
both
of
them
today,
councilmember
sheila,
if
I
may,
impose
on
you
to
lead
us
in
a
moment
of
silence
or
an
invocation,
please,
sir.
C
I'll
be
happy
to
let
us
pray
our
deadly
father.
We
thank
you
for
the
blessings
of
this
day,
the
blessings
that
you
have
bestowed
upon
the
city
of
charleston.
We
ask
that
you
will
place
your
hand
over
those
who
protect
us
every
day
in
public
safety,
lord,
that
you
will
keep
them
safe
and
free
from
harm.
Lord,
we
ask
all
these
things
in
your
holy
and
precious
name,
amen.
B
Amen
very
good.
Thank
you.
The
first
item
are
our
agenda's:
approval
of
the
minutes
for
september
13th,
oh
for
approval
for
a
second,
all,
those
in
favor
say
aye
aye
any
oppose
your
eyes
very
good.
The
first
item
of
substance
on
our
agenda
is
the
memorandum
of
agreement
between
the
south
carolina
law
enforcement
division
and
the
charleston
fire
department,
chief
courier-
and
I
chatted
about
this
earlier
today.
B
My
understanding
is
that
this
is
a
pretty
standard
memorandum
of
understanding
for
response
to
terrorism
or
counterterrorism,
and
this
is
mainly
dealing
with
training
in
the
equipment,
and
I
see
the
chief
is
on
chief,
my
I
know
I
said
that
very
quickly
and
very
bare
bones.
But
what
can
you
add
to
that
with
our
agreement
between
sled
and
charles
of
fire.
D
They
provide
us
equipment
every
year
in
the
urban
search
and
rescue
realm,
and
they
provide
us
a
sum
of
money
for
training,
and
they
just
want
to
formalize
that
so
that
we
all
agree
if
there's
a
need
for
the
equipment
or
the
training,
and
we
have
the
ability
to
provide
the
service
that
we
go
ahead
and
provide
it.
Okay,.
B
I'll
entertain
a
motion
to
approve
item
number
three
move
for
approval.
Second,
second,
any
questions
or
discussions
regarding
item
number.
Three,
any
questions
for
chief
courier,
cnn,
I'll
call
the
question
all
those
in
favor
say:
aye
aye
any
opposed
the
ice
chief
courier.
Thank
you
for
that
item.
Four
is
approval
for
an
agreement
between
the
charleston,
the
city
of
charleston
and
extra
duty,
solutions
for
services
and
measuring
off-duty
assignments
for
police
and
supporting
departments.
B
Chief
walker.
Are
you
going
to
give
us
an
update
on
this,
sir?.
B
E
E
Preliminary
reached
out
the
fire
department,
you
know
for
some
of
their
needs,
but
basically
it's
a
company
that
comes
in
manages
all
of
our
off-duty
employment
provides.
You
know
a
higher
level
of
accountability,
oversight
for
all
of
these
jobs.
I
think.
Last
year
we
had
about
42
000
hours
of
requested
off-duty
employment
through
the
city
and
this
company
does
it
under
one
umbrella
they
send
they
provide
a.
E
I
could
go
through
a
whole
litany
of
services
they
provide,
but
it's
definitely
a
step
in
moving
in
the
right
direction
to
manage
all
of
our
off-duty
employment.
B
C
Thank
you,
d.c
thompson.
Is
there
any
there's,
no
expense
to
the
city
on
this?
I
guess
is
that
correct.
E
No
sir,
no
expense.
One
of
the
big
pluses
with
this
company
was
the
liability
insurance.
We
met
with
hr,
all
the
attorneys
and
and
what
this
does
is
the
actual.
If
a
business
wants
to
hire
off
duty,
they
contact
extra
duty
solutions
and
their
billed.
A
percentage
of
their
fees
are
for
liability
insurance
and
then
the
insurance
check
is
cut
back
to
the
city,
so
everything
is
handled
through
that
third
party
and
then
given
back
to
the
city.
E
Yes,
sir,
they
mount
pleasant
and
charleston
county
uses
them
that's
another
plus
for
us,
because
we're
finding
that
we
can
only
fill
about
75
percent
of
our
off-duty
jobs
and
that's
consistent
with
the
other
agencies
as
well.
So
if
we
can't
get
something
filled,
you
know
by
a
deadline,
then
we
can
put
it
out
to
the
other
agencies
to
have
it
filled,
so
you
know
works
hand
in
hand
and,
like
I
said,
they're
already
using
it
and
we're
communicating.
E
I
think,
the
cheat
sheet
that
we
sent
you
guys
we're
already
communicating
with
them
about
increasing
rates
and
making
sure
that
we're
in
line
with
all
the
other
agencies
not
doing
something.
You
know
outside
of
the
norm,
great.
C
B
A
B
G
This
is
kind
of
following,
along
with
the
over
all
mission
of
our
overdose
response
team
they've
been
trying
to
conduct
some
community
outreach
post
overdose,
to
get
individuals
connected
to
some
form
of
recovery
and
essentially
what
we've,
what
we've
been
confronted
with
is
we
have
all
these
partnerships
with
nonprofits
and
the
charleston
center
to
be
able
to
get
narcan
distributed
to
some
of
these
individuals
or
their
loved
ones?
Who
recently
experienced
an
overdose?
G
However,
they're
not
always
available
to
do
this,
while
our
overdose
response
team
is
so,
it
was
recommended
by
the
charleston
center
and
dayotas
to
apply
to
be
a
narcan
distributor,
and
this
would
allow
our
pari
outreach
coordinator,
who's,
the
police
assistant,
addiction
and
recovery
initiative.
Outreach
coordinator,
she's
our
current
vista
member,
as
well
as
officer
washington,
who
is
our
overdose
outreach
officer
to
essentially
be
able
to
go
out
into
the
field
when
they're
doing
these
overdose
outreach
calls
and
be
able
to
also
provide
narcan
for
these
individuals
to
use.
G
B
And
I
noticed
we
got
a
lot
of
support
from
our
one
and
only
resident
federal
judge.
My
former
colleague
miles
at
the
u.s
attorney's
office,
bruce
hendricks,
that's
correct!.
A
B
B
F
B
Levity
make
sure
you're
all
on
your
toes
over
here.
Okay,
I
wonder
what
happened
to
councilman
mitchell
because
he's
his
video
is
up,
but
I
don't
see
his
his
mind
over
there
all
right
item
number
six
is
approval
to
accept
the
2021
2022
kennedy
center
alcohol
enforcement
grant
an
amount
of
3
500.
G
This
is
mine
as
well
councilman
a
recurring
grant
that
we've
received
annually
from
the
kennedy
center.
It's
essentially
just
a
data
use
agreement
that
we
have
with
them
to
participate
in
their
alcohol
enforcement
team.
That's
charleston
and
berkeley
counties
this
year.
The
award
for
the
past
year's
data
use
has
been
3
hundred
dollars
and
we
typically
use
these
for
technology
and
training
for
our
alcohol
enforcement
team.
So
there's
no
match
required
for
this
grant
all
right.
B
I'll
entertain
emotions
for
approval
all
right,
all
those
in
favor
signify.
By
saying
I
I
in
the
opposed
the
eyes,
have
it
all
right,
and
the
last
item
is
just
for
information.
Only
it's
a
letter
from
the
saccharine
department
of
public
safety
have
an
award
an
amount
of
176
000
sounds
like
a
hefty
chunk
of
change
there.
Chief
who's
going
to
talk
about
this
for
us.
H
H
So
essentially,
this
is
a
a
grant
that
charleston
county
school
district
applied
for
it
used
to
be
done
through
the
department
of
education
and
they
switched
to
sadps
for
this
grant
this
year.
So
this
just
pays
for
two
of
the
officers
for
sros
through
for
this
for
ccsd,
but
but
we
are
not
the
grantee,
they
are.
H
No
sir,
this
is,
we
just
felt
that
it
was
for
informational
purposes,
just
make
sure
you
all
were
aware.
H
Yes,
sir,
is
for
this
school
year;
essentially
they
will.
It
is
our
understanding
that
they
anticipate
doing
this
every
year
annually-
and
I
know
d.c
walker
and
the
chief
has
have
had
conversations
about
expectations,
and
you
know
meeting
with
the
school
district
in
future
budget
years
to
see
what
we're
anticipating.
B
B
Have
a
question
about
this
grant
that
sounds
like
a
nice
way
to
offset
some
expense
on
these
resource
officers.
So
thank
you
all
for
the
work
and
getting
that
done.
That
goes
a
long
long
way
and
we'll
just
make
sure
we're
staying
on
top
of
that
councilman
mitchell.
We
we've
gone
through
this
agenda
pretty
quickly.
So
I
was
told
you
may
be
a
little
late,
but
we've
approved
all
of
the
items
from
three
to
f
through
six
number:
seven,
which
is
some
information
purposes.
F
I
have
a
question
if
you
don't
mind,
mr
chairman,
as
soon
as
we
have
a
little
bit
of
time
here
and
it's
a
question
for
the
chiefs
or
their
duly
appointed
spokesperson,
I'm
wondering
if,
since
judge
norton
issued
his
order
of
last
week
upholding
the
vaccine
mandate,
whether
you've
seen
an
increase
in
activity
in
getting
vaccines
in
the
fire
and
the
police
departments
and
as
a
follow-up.
And
if
you
know,
where
are
we,
what
are
the
rates
of
vaccination
in
the
various
departments?
Please.
B
I'm
gonna
call
out
chief
courier
first,
he
popped
up
quickly
and
asked
that
question.
B
No,
he
and
I
talked
about
this
I
think
last
week
and
I
wanted
to
get
his
insights
on
that.
So
this
is
a
and
by
the
way,
if
you
haven't
read
the
order,
it's
rather
lengthy,
but
it
is
a
it's.
A
beautiful,
well
written
well
thought
out
order.
It's
it's
interesting
what
this
is
going
to
lead
to
down
the
line,
but,
chief
courier,
do
you
want
to
take
the
first
step
at
this?
From
your
perspective,
please.
D
Sure
so
the
the
latest
information
we
got
from
hr
and
it's
just
for
the
fire
department.
We
are
excuse
me
about
90,
either
vaccinated
or
or
people
in
the
process
of
getting
waivers
in
place.
So
I
think
we
have
maybe
37
personnel
who
haven't
reported
their
status
to
the
city.
Yet.
D
That
information
is
probably
right
at
a
week
old,
so
you
know
I
couldn't
comment
as
to
whether
we've
improved
or
not
since
the
the
order
came
through,
I
will
say
37
people
compared
to
maybe
three
weeks
ago.
I
think
we
were
in
the
low
80s.
So
so
we
are
making
progress.
B
B
But
I'm
going
to
just
ask
achieve
one
more
quick
question
before
I
go
to
chief
reynolds.
What
is
the
total
number
of
personnel
chief
courier
in
your
department
to
give
a
sort
of
a
point
of
reference.
D
D
B
Yes,
sir
councilman,
I.
C
Just
wanted
to
ask
the
question,
I
guess
I
know
some
have
turned
in
waivers.
Has
anybody
been
denied?
Are
all
those
being
accepted
or
do
we
know.
I
A
I
B
Hey
rick,
I
think
you
kind
of
broke
up
a
little
bit.
Let's
just
go
back
over
here
right
yeah,
you
broke
up
a
little
bit.
Let's
go
back
over
those
numbers
a
little
bit
slowly,
one
more
time
for
the
fire
department.
You've
got
90
percent
compliant
of
those
of
that
total
you've
got
65
who've
been
fully
vaccinated.
I
I
mean
get
off
news,
69
have
been
vaccinated,
90
are
compliant
and
by
compliant
that
means
they've
either
gotten
one
of
the
exemptions
or
the
or
or
or
they're
actually
scheduled
to
be
they're,
partially
vaccinated.
I
Three
percent
and
the
police
department
at
75
have
been
vaccinated
and
they're
at
92
percent
compliance.
C
Yes,
sir
one
follow-up
can,
can
there
still
be
waivers
turned
in
or
is
it
too
late
for
that.
I
No
it's
up
until
november
22nd.
Okay,
great
I
mean,
and
what
we're
going
to
be
doing
is
allowing
folks
right
up
to
the
22nd
to
either
get
vaccinated
or
submit
a
waiver
and
those
who
are
only
the
november
22nd
councilman
is
to
be
fully
in
compliance
either
fully
vaccinated.
But
what
we'll
do
on
november
22nd
is.
Let
people
have
30
days
if
they've
been
partially
vaccinated
to
be
become
fully
vaccinated.
I
B
Yeah
and
I
and
I
think
rick
if
we
could
get
an
update
as
to
the
status
of
anybody
who's
going
to
be
terminated
from
either
department
we'd
like
to
know
that,
and
you
know
what
their
situation
is
with
those
folks.
J
Yeah,
I
would
just
say
to
your
point:
I
know
that
we
all
value
our
team.
The
greatest
asset
we
have
is
our
people.
By
far,
we've
had
a
lot
of
conversations
with
our
all
of
our
people.
We've
had
teleconference
discussions,
zoom
calls
with
everybody
in
the
department,
even
their
family
members.
J
It
is
our
intent
and
our
goal
and
our
hope
that
we
don't
lose
anybody.
So
over
this
issue
and
as
rick
just
shared
people
can
opt
out
and
choose
that
other
path,
and
I've
said
to
my
I
mean
personally,
I'm
a
big
fan
of
vaccines.
I
just
got
my
booster
and,
and
we
have
people
in
our
department-
who've
gotten
their
third
shot
now,
but
we
respect
those
people
who
do
not
want
to
get
vaccinated
and
have
either
the
religious
or
the
medical
exemption.
J
Most
of
them
are
of
religious
requests.
I'm
not
aware
of
any
that
have
been
denied,
and
I
I
just
think
the
key
is
that
they
have
to
actually
have
some
explanation
and
then
they're,
granted
and
and
so
far.
We
think
that
I
think
we
have
the
exact
same
numbers
fire.
I
think
37
total.
As
of
a
week
ago,
that
had
not
declared
yet
and
then,
as
you
said,
with
the
court
case
and
the
decision
that
was
made,
we
hope
to
kind
of
we're
hoping
that
that
number
goes
to
zero.
B
Thank
you
for
that
insight.
Chief
reynolds
appreciate
it.
Councilman
was
seeking
any
follow-up
to
that
information.
No.
Thank
you.
Mitchell.
A
B
I
think
we
all
sign
on
to
that
senator
council
mitchell
thanks
for
expressing
that
we
don't
want
any
of
our
personnel
to
leave
because
of
this
issue,
all
right,
any
further
questions
or
any
other
items
you
need
to
take
up
for
public
safety.
Yes,
sir
councilman
sheila,
I.
B
C
Thank
you
for
allowing
me
to
be
in
the
citizens
police
academy.
It's
been
great,
we're
chief
walker's
laughing
a
little
bit.
We've
had
some
fun,
it's
been
great,
but
very,
very
educational,
and
I
mean
we
just
voted
on
this
narcan
distribution.
We
went
through
a
training
on
opioid
overdose
in
one
of
our
in
one
of
our
sessions
and
certainly
valuable
information,
and
it's
opened
my
eyes
to
a
lot
of
things.
It's
going
to
make
me
be
a
better
counsel
person
and
a
better
member
of
this
committee.
C
So
I
just
want
to
say
thank
you.
We've
got
a
long
way
to
go
we're
only
three
weeks
into
nine
weeks,
but
but
I
just
appreciate
all
the
extra
time
you
know
the
extra
time
and
extra
effort
that
people
are
putting
in.
I
know
there's
guys
that
have
worked
all
day
long
and
then
they're
turning
around
and
doing
this,
and
I
really
appreciate
it-
it's
very
valuable
for
me.
So
thank
you.
B
Well,
thanks
for
signing
up
on
that,
I'm
sure
they'll
appreciate
your
involvement
with
that
councilmember
sheila
and-
and
I
know
you
will
gain
some
insights
on
that-
oh
yeah
yeah.
It's
been.
B
Give
you
a
gun?
Okay,
so
that's
right,
all
right!
It's
good,
seeing
everybody
and
thank
you
all
for
your
participation
and
have
a
good
rest
of
the
day
and
I'll
see
some
of
you
familiar
faces
on
real
estate
in
a
little
bit
so
be
no
further
business.
We
are
here.