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Description
Public Safety, Civil Rights & Emergency Management Committee Meeting
A
We
have
three
items
on
the
agenda
today,
all
submitted
by
the
police
department,
two
of
which
are
consent
items
as
follows.
The
first
one
is
the
general
mills
grant
and
it's
asking
for
us
to
authorize
acceptance
of
grant
funds
of
thirty
thousand
dollars
from
general
mills
to
support
program
costs
related
to
community
community
engagement,
youth,
violence,
education
and
related
policy
and
approve
appropriation
increase.
A
The
second
item
is
the
joints
Joyce
foundation
to
authorize
acceptance
of
grant
funds
of
thirty
thousand
dollars
to
support
the
position
of
community
engagement
coordinator
and
other
project
costs
and
to
approve
the
appropriation
increase
committee
members.
Does
anyone
wish
to
pull
items
number
one
or
two
from
the
discussion
for
discussion?
A
A
The
third
piece
is
training
services
for
cadets,
recruit
training
and
it's
the
accept
proposal
from
the
hennepin
county
or
Hennepin
Technical
College
for
training
services
for
cadets
recruit
training
to
be
conducted
in
spring
of
2014
4
up
to
35
pre-selected
police
cadet,
recruit
candidates
and
to
enter
into
a
contract
for
services,
so
assistant
chief
Matt
Clark.
Can
you
introduce
yourself
and
a
little
bit
about
yourself
and
then
just
continue
with
the
presentation?
I'm.
C
Assistant
Chief
Matt
Clark
with
the
police
department,
mr.
chair
and
council
members,
thanks
for
considering
this
RFP
today,
my
job
is
that
I
run
daily
operations
for
the
police
department
and
work
in
conjunction
with
our
finance
director,
Robin
McPherson
and
Wendy
guck.
On
items
like
this.
For
the
council,
the
cadet
program
is
one
of
three
programs.
We
have
for
hiring
police
officers
for
the
city
of
Minneapolis.
C
The
other
two
are
the
recruit
program
and
the
CSO
program,
and
essentially
for
the
cadet
program,
one
of
the
best
things
about
it
is
we
don't
take
just
individuals
who
have
a
strictly
law
enforcement
background
or
focus
we're
hiring
folks
that
have
diverse
backgrounds.
Some
folks
come
to
us
with
business
degrees.
Some
folks
come
to
us
with
other
social
services
degrees
and
there's
a
wide
variety.
What
we
get
is
a
healthy
dose
of
diverse
backgrounds.
C
We
also
get
quite
frequently
a
good
selection
of
diversity,
along
with
the
candidates
that
apply
for
this
position
and
in
this
cadet
program.
What
we
do
is
we
take
those
individuals
who
have
a
at
least
a
two
year
degree,
and
we
put
them
through
an
accelerated
degree
program
where
they
receive
all
of
the
mandated
training
that
the
state
has
a
post
program
which
you'll
become
familiar
with
if
you're
not
already
familiar
with.
C
Is
our
licensing
program,
there's
specific
and
educational
requirements
to
take
our
licensing
exam
and
we
give
them
that
accelerated
education
and
then
put
them
through
the
exam
process.
In
addition
to
that,
then
they
have
a
Academy
which
they
need
to
go
through,
and
it's
about
two
and
half
months
in.
C
Chair
there
are
a
number
programs
in
the
state,
but
the
Hennepin
Technical
College
Program
is
the
only
local
one
and
the
one
that
we'd
want
to
use
just
for
accessibility.
There's
some
in
hibbing,
some
in
alexandria,
I
believe,
is
also
on
a
Mankato
around
the
state.
I
think
it's
a
total
of
eight
last
time,
I
heard,
but
this
is
the
local
one
that
we
need
to
use.
That
would
provide
those
educational
requirements
for
the
post
board.
A
D
C
C
E
E
C
Mr.
chair
and
council
member,
we
have
done
the
backgrounds
and
approximately
60
Plus
cadet
candidates,
and
the
selections
were
made
actually
today
by
the
chief
chief
harteau
on
those
individuals,
and
the
reason
we
picked
35
is
we're
never
sure,
with
the
budget,
how
many
we
can
put
into
the
system
we'd
like
to
do
more.
C
We
know
a
lot
there's
a
lot
of
publicity
about
the
number
of
officers
that
are
retiring
throughout
the
state,
as
well
as
with
the
police
department,
but
we're
always
going
to
base
that
on
what
our
projections
are
for
attrition,
and
so
we
put
it
at
30.
I
believe
we're
at
about
30
right
now,
but
we're
waiting
to
hear
back
from
those
candidates
on
their
response.
So
I
don't
have
a
specific
number
free
today.
B
Comes
from
warden
that
prompts
another
question,
and
maybe
you
really
don't
know
the
answer
to
this,
but
I
know
that
in
the
past
this
has
been
one
of
our
keys
to
getting
more
diversity
on
the
force
and
do
you
have
any
previews
of
the
diversity
of
this
Cadet
class?
Are
you
aware
of
what
it
is
and
mr.
C
Chair
and
Cal's
number
I
don't
have
the
specific
information
on
that.
That's
part
of
that
hiring
process
through
the
city
civil
service
process,
and
we
don't
necessarily
get
all
that
information.
We
will
have
that
for
you,
usually
as
the
class
starts,
but
then
a
lot
of
times.
That's
the
self
identifier
for
those
individuals,
so
we
don't
necessarily
want
to
come
out
and
say
that
this
is
what
we
have
for
diversity.
We
would
rather,
that
be
that,
be
you
be
the
judge
on
some
of
that.
Well,.
D
C
Mr.
chair
and
council
number
we
usually
go
through
the
city's
civil
service
process,
where
we
have
an
interview.
They
also
apply
through
the
standard
application
process
to
the
city.
In
addition
to
that
interview,
then
what
we
do
is
we
eat,
send
them
through
a
background
process.
There's
also
once
we
do
conditional
job
office
offers
there's.
Additionally,
some
drug
testing
involved
and
some
psychological
testing
as
well.
A
Any
other
questions
I
have
one
last
question
you
know
with
with
regards
you,
know
the
potential
attrition
through
retirement
and
those
sorts
of
things.
How
how
soon
can
I
guess
training
services
for
cadet
and
recruits
starts?
Let's
say
for
this
one:
it's
going
to
happen.
Let's
say
pretty
soon
bet
I
mean
how
soon
can
you
restart
that?
Or
can
you
do
that
every
three
months,
six
months
every
year?
How
does
that
work
in
terms
of
cadet
classes?
Mr.
C
What
we've
planned
out
is
in
January
usually
will
hire
community
service
officers,
and
we've
done
that
this
year
about
20
of
those
those
folks
as
they
get
through
their
educational
requirements.
Kind
of
bleed
into
our
Academy
system,
as
you
will
with
this
March
hiring,
is
that's
when
we
basically
have
this
class
starting
in
march,
we're
looking
at
another
30
officers
to
get
through
the
program
that
takes
about
six
months
and
then
we're
looking
at
a
recruit
class
anywhere
from
20
to
30
officers
depending
on
attrition
and
our
budget.
C
In
october,
we'd
like
to
consistently
have
those
three
hirings
going
on
each
year
give
or
take
how
how
things
look
and,
as
you
know,
there
is
a
change
in
our
pension
system.
It's
really
something
that
we're
not
sure
about,
and
as
we
get
into
the
spring
months,
whether
we're
going
to
have
a
large
amount
of
retirement
or
not
it's
something
we're
not
going
to
go
to
our
employees
and
our
officers
and
say:
do
you
intend
to
retire?
C
That's
something
that
they
need
to
decide
on
their
own
and
then
come
forward
with
as
they
enter
that
kind
of
phase.
But
the
big
advantage
to
retiring
now
is
there's
a
lot
less
of
a
reduction
on
their
pension,
and
so
many
of
them
are
considering
it,
but
we're
not
sure,
but
those
numbers
are
going
to
be
so
it's
very
hard
to
predict,
at
least
at
this
stage
in
the
game
in
2014,
okay,.
E
C
Chair
and
councilmember
that's
correct.
It
would
be
approximately
six
months
this
used
to
be
about
a
nine
to
ten
month
program.
We
worked
extensively
with
Hennepin
County
and
there
are
in
their
program
to
reduce
that
amount
of
time,
because
there
was
some
repetition
of
training
and
we
were
able
to
to
change
that
up
about
ten
years
ago
and
when
Linda,
guck
and
I
worked
on
some
of
those
things
and
changing
that
program.
But
it's
something
very
similar
to
what
State
Patrol
does
and
they've
kind
of
modeled
it
some
other
stuff
after
week.
E
That
kind
of
starts
in
to
the
second
part
of
my
question,
which
is:
can
you
tell
me,
can
you
tell
me
a
little
bit
more
of
what
changes
have
been
made
on
a
training
level
in
this
program
over
time,
so
you've
condensed
some
of
it.
You've
made
it
more
similar
to
stating
state
kinds
of
programs,
but
is
there
other
any
other
curriculum
changes?
Mr.
C
Chair
and
council
member
I've
met
with
pulse
board
and,
as
recently
as
last
year,
too,
I
should
say
two
years
ago
to
talk
about
what
they're
learning
objectives
are,
and
we
modeled
our
training
after
those
learning
objectives,
to
make
sure
that
we
had
those
educational
pieces
met.
The
examples
of
redundancy
was
that
we
would
usually
send
our
officers
through
a
range
qualification
course
that
takes
about
two
weeks,
but
then
the
Metro
course
would
also
do
the
same.
We
really
don't
need
to
duplicate
the
firearms
training
they
get.
C
We
really
only
need
to
do
it
once,
and
the
agreement
was
that
some
of
their
instructors
would
assist
ours
in
the
training,
so
we
were
kind
of
doing
it.
At
the
same
time,
similar
for
use
of
force
are
one
of
our
officers
teaches
at
the
school.
So
we
kind
of
combined
the
teaching
that
we
would
have
given
them
an
academy
with
the
teaching
they
would
have
received
at
the
school
by
the
same
officer
so
that
that
allowed
us
to
shrink
that
amount
of
time
to
what
you
have
now,
which
is
six
months.
F
C
B
Thank
You
mr.
chair
I
just
wanted
to
note
that
I'm
my
experience
on
the
council.
We
have
had
some
periods
where
we've
gone
years
without
a
cadet
class.
So
there
really
isn't
a
steady
expectation
of
when
we're
going
to
get
a
new
class
I
think
there
was
some
hard
economic
times
when
actually
the
force
was
declining
a
little
bit
and
we
were
needing
cadet.
So
we
weren't
trying
to
recruit
and
drain
anybody
because
they
wouldn't
have
a
job
at
the
end.
B
So
this
is
nice
and
good
and
exciting,
but
you
were
kind
of
asking
about
the
routine
and
it
seems
like
it's
very
flexible
and
sometimes
there's
no
need
and
sometimes
there's
more
efforts
made
and
I
think
we're
actually
in
a
good
time
kind
of
because
of
potential
retirements
and
the
way
the
workforce
is
going
or
maybe
it's
a
challenging
time,
but
there's
an
opportunity
for
more
people,
maybe
to
join
the
four
next
few
years.
Then
there
has
been
in
the
past
and
I
just
wanted
to
note
that
thank.
C
Chair
and
council
members,
one
other
item
is
the
thing
that
about
the
cadet
selection
process.
It
does
help
us
is.
We
have
rule
of
the
list
where
we
can
select
from
the
list,
and
one
of
the
things
that
restricts
us
when
we
hire
recruits
and
recruits
are
individuals
that
have
already
received
all
of
the
training
on
their
own
and
have
to
pass
the
state,
licensing
or
post
exam.
C
That
list
for
recruits
is
rule
of
three.
We
can
only
skip
three
individuals
and
sometimes
there's
some
tough
decisions
that
need
to
be
made,
but
with
the
cadet
program
we
can
kind
of
select
from
that
entire
list,
which
helps
us
with
picking
a
diverse
group
and
a
group
that
best
fits
what
I
believe
the
city
wants
for
a
police
officer.
Okay,.
C
F
F
C
F
C
F
D
F
It
is
a
different
I
mean,
like
you
said,
you
have
rule
of
three
on
the
on
the
recruits
and
rule
of
the
list
and
the
other
more
control
unruly
the
list.
So
in
our
community
service
officers,
I
always
thought
that's
been
kind
of
a
that's.
A
interesting
and
productive
way
to
judge
people's
worth
at
work.
Ethic
watch
them
for
a
number
of
years
before
we
actually
have
actually
hire
them
in.
So
there
is
some
attrition
and
that
that
that
happens,
so
you
know,
might
be
interesting
to
do.
Look
back
and
mr.
C
Sharon
Cal
suppose
I
will
say
clearly
we
find
that
we
have
more
diversity
when
we
are
through
the
cadet
program
and
through
the
CSO
program.
It's
very
clear
to
us.
We
have
the
second
or
third
hiring
from
our
recruit
list,
which
isn't
as
diverse
as
we've
seen,
and
that
is
again
because
we
can't
pick
from
the
list
so
I
would
I
can't
give
a
specific
percentage.
But
I'll
say
that
it's
pretty
apparent
to
me.
B
So
I
don't
think
we
can
start
the
study
now,
but
that
would
be
interesting
to
look
at
longevity
of
an
employ
of
employment.
Number
of
complaints
promotions
be
interesting
to
see
because
if
we
find
out
somehow
there's
a
it's
much
better
one
way
or
the
other,
we
could
keep
focusing
our
efforts.
There
I
think
we
tend
to
like
the
CSO
in
the
Cadet
class,
because
we
imagine
we're
getting
more
diverse
recruits
and
also
on.
B
A
Big,
mr.,
so
I
am
going
to
apologize
but
councilmember
Gordon
and
didn't
make
a
motion
to
prove
the
staff
recommendations
and
so
all
in
favor
say
aye
aye,
elbows
hearing
none
the
motion
carries,
and
that
is
all
we
have
so
seeing
no
further
business.
Before
this
committee.
We
are
going
to
adjourn
this
meeting.
Thank
you
so
much.