City of San Jose, CA Public Safety, Finance & Strategic Support Committee, 17 Feb 2022

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City of San José, California
Public Safety, Finance & Strategic Support Committee of February 17, 2022

Pre-meeting citizen input on Agenda via eComment at https://sanjose.granicusideas.com/meetings.

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It doesn't appear that we have a quorum as of yet okay.

B

Let's hang out a little bit and uh wait for some a few folks to pop in please.

B

So right now it seems like it's just uh councilmember mayhem and myself right.

A

That's right: okay,.

B

All right I'll wait to hear from you as someone else pops in. Thank you.

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We now have a quorum.

B

Okay, wonderful, so we'll go ahead and get started again. This is the vice chair, councilmember jimenez, uh starting us off, and this is the public safety, finance and strategic support committee. uh Our chair is running a little late, so I'm gonna go ahead and start our meeting. uh If we can, please have roll call, please arenas.

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Here, mayhem here, jimenez president.

B

Okay, very good, we're gonna, move! Wonderful! Thank you. We're gonna move on to review with a work plan. I don't see anything there so we'll move forward to the consent calendar which has nothing and so we'll move. uh Actually we should probably let me pause for a moment. I think that uh it's been expressed to me by the chair that uh staff seeks to have.

B

Some of these reports come in different order, so moving number two to number one and then having number one be number two and then, and then we go to number three is that is that the order? I know it's a little confusing, but.

A

uh Yes, vice chair lee, wilcox assistant city manager, we'd like to take the two finance items. First, so finance staff can get back to a rather persian item um and then we'll take the pd item. Last.

B

Okay, so we'll go item two and three and then we'll plug item one at the end. If that's okay- and we don't- we don't need a motion for that right.

A

No, you don't know if that's not your discretion, all.

B

Right cool so we'll go ahead and kick off uh item two, which is the second quarter: financial reports for school year, 2021, 2022 and actually before I do that. Can someone remind me if, uh if we're doing a public comment on anything not on the agenda, did I miss that? Can I skip that.

B

Is that is that I think that's something we do right and I guess it's. You know I'll just make the decision staff do we have anyone that wants to make public comment for anything not on the agenda.

B

I guess they can raise their hand. I suppose I'm on my phone at the present time, so I can't it's difficult for me to follow some of some of what's happening, so we.

C

Have two public hands up.

B

Okay, so let's go ahead and uh start calling them please, and I can't let's see.

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D

We love you um sergio jimenez. Thank you for doing the right thing, remembering what paul in honor of paul soto, because we don't know if he died or what he was so upset with everybody, and you know what he said. Is these meanings about us? That's what it's all about. So thank you sweetheart. We really appreciate that and um I guess you can hear me. I got my two minutes. Yeah you hear me you're hearing me yeah.

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Sweetheart, we love you good, thank you sweetheart, and um so basically you know you know piss this public safety, finance and and whatever that ss is. You know just some. What is the ss I forget, but anyway it's a strategic, something strategic something anyway, so you know and we need to be very strategic going forward and we need to really look at. Why is the finances in our safety in our safety committee, because the way we spend our money is critical?

D

You know that's what you know it really boils down to, and so you know I'm saying I've been saying that we need to buy 615 stockton avenue to grow food. It needs to be a victory garden and when we're talking about safety, that's what we're talking about and we're talking about finance, because I have had trouble getting the money to buy it, because I don't have control of the money you guys do, and so what we have to start doing is thinking about resiliency and know more bs about it.

D

Like you know, mayor le cardo has a resiliency, but there's nothing about growing food and we need not incremental change. Like like bike electric electric cars or incremental change, we need radical, revolutionary systemic change and that is going back to uh growing food locally and having a hyper local environment. Where we can, we are growing. All of us are growing food.

D

That's why marshall who's running for mayor based on the science, because he's listening to the climate scientists that his father is and catwood mansi wrote the climate action plan for the city of san jose and so marshall, and as he goes into being the mayor, hopefully he will be it and and don't forget, gretes lindbergh run person of the year at 16, okay, and so the thing is: is that he's listening to the science?

D

That's who's guiding him and it's about what his platform is is make san jose a food garden again and to keep fossil fuels in the ground. We have to do the radical change and we're not doing it, and it shows and that's why we'll go extinct if we don't change and extinction is on the is on the plate for all.

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Thank you appreciate it.

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Hi blair beekman here uh just a few quick uh procedural questions, one uh I'm sorry! uh Yesterday I I was a bit strong boy. It takes practice to learn how to speak in public comment time, thanks for your patience with myself. uh My second question is this: uh this public comment at this time is this different than uh open forum time at the end of the meeting, will we still be allowed open forum at the end of the meeting today? Thank you, that's my question, a procedural question. If it can be answered, thank you.

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B

Is that all the speaker, staff.

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We have one more speaker.

B

Okay and before we allow that other speaker, let me just say that I get, I guess. Typically, we allow this at the end. So, uh given that I'm I'm taking the helm of this committee uh for a very short time- and I don't do it very often- and so I suspect I probably did it backwards so blair to your point- yes, open forum is at the front as opposed to the end today. Thank you.

A

Call in user one.

H

Oh, you guys don't know which end is up down there. City. Oh, you guys are amazing. This guy's working off of his smartphone, hey, you know. What's not, uh you know, what's not happening in san jose, it's overnight patrols for sjpd how many stolen cars there are. I encourage everybody listening to go on crimemapping.com and key in your your zip code, you're going to find out how many stolen cars there are, how many car break-ins there are, and a lot of that has to do sometimes with stealing the catalytic converters which san jose pd thinks.

H

If they're going to etch your number on there, it's going to keep these guys wait, wait they're going to get underneath the car and in 10 seconds they take it out. Do they care if there's, if there's a an etching from the san jose police department and your drivers or your license plate number? No, but overnight, there's lots of cars being stolen, sometimes five cars and five days in a row depending on where you are there's cars stolen all over the place.

H

I know people say district nine is perfect because all the white people live here, but you know what we've got plenty of stolen cars here too, just like on the east side essay. So yeah uh we got a problem in san jose, stolen cars. It's on the news. You know, I think you guys control the news I swear to god. You only have what you want, like you know, getting vaccination boosters or showing how you're raising up a flag for some lifestyle of the week.

H

But you guys need to talk about how you're gonna deter car theft, because that means your insurance rates go up, including your own, that are all sitting there. uh Wherever you're sitting your your insurance rates are going to go up, but I guess you guys make enough money. What do you guys make about 150 000 a year? All of you mark around there mayor makes a little more.

H

Maybe hey everyone look up what your city council person makes it's about: 150 000 a year, plus a nice staff of people to do all the work for them as they do nothing, but maybe.

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Back to the committee.

B

Thank you appreciate it. uh Okay, before we jump into some of the items, let me just restate uh that uh that was open forum. We're not gonna have that at the end, unless the chair decides to do something differently, when he pops back in we're gonna jump into item two three vice.

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Chair, I have made it on now.

B

There you go so I'll hand things over to you. We've already changed the order, so it's a matter of kicking us off. Item number two. Thank you all right.

I

Thank you very much apologize for being a little late there, um but I'm up to speed on where we're at so. We are now taking item uh d2, which is our second quarter: financial reports for fiscal year, 2021 2022., okay,.

C

Welcome. Thank you. um Do you? Can you see the slide presentation? Yes, okay, great, so this this there's a whole deck attached to the staff report. We're only doing the investment piece of it. The second quarter investment report, as required under the investment policy. um The rest of the report is there. If there are specific questions, I have staff I'm here to help answer those if, if needed, so the investment objectives are in terms of managing our investments. The policy objectives are safety, liquidity and yield in that order.

C

um The quarterly reports are available to the public online they're placed on the committee, agendas quarterly and then separately, agendized for city council acceptance and approval, so the total the portfolio performance. As of the end of december, the size was about 2.2 billion dollars. um Our earned interest yield was uh 85 basis, points average days to maturity, 520 days and fiscal year. To date, income realized was uh 9.3 million dollars and no exceptions to the policy.

C

So the investments I fund this you can see. um You know a bulk of it- is um sitting in the general fund, 5.568 million dollars.

C

Some most of that does represent the general fund, but it also includes all of the corona relief funds and the arpa funds as well in that um packet. So it looks like a looks like it's slip. I need to go back.

C

It's skipping every other slide on me here as I go through, so our general fund balance did increase by 11.9 million during the quarter, um as I said, ending just under 500, just over 568 million dollars and the general fund balance, usually peaks in january and june, because that's when we get the property most of our property tax money.

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So this is an example. This slide shows uh the cash balances um on a quarterly basis between the largest funds in the portfolio, and you can see that the general fund has the most volatility associated with the spending patterns and the receipt of revenue.

C

We also do some benchmark comparisons, looking at the city portfolio yield and compare it also to lake, which is a local agency investment fund, and it has a much shorter average life 340 days. So, as interest rates decline, their portfolio earnings slip faster as interest rates rise, their portfolio earnings, increase faster and then the the bml one is the bank of america merrill lynch it's a triple a corporate and government index and their their yield is over a rolling two-year period of time.

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So our investment strategy is to continue matching known expenditures with suitable investments over a 24-month horizon. We extend the portfolio beyond that two-year period when appropriate, to provide income and structure the portfolio. We also, as you could see, have a diversification in the portfolio, but as always, we focus on the core objectives of safety, liquidity and yield. So with that we're available to answer any questions.

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Thank you very much. Julia we'll go over to our members of the public first and you will have two minutes and as a reminder, this is on our second quarter: financial reports uh for fiscal year, 2021 2022.

F

Hello beacon, hi ray beekman here um well with this report uh and with reports that you've been having uh uh the past few weeks, uh I've been reminded that there's an importance to uh how we are begin planning for not just these reports, but for our reports into 2023 and 24.

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um we're having difficulties with those reports uh at this time. I feel and that, if we start to make steps at this time towards you know an openness towards those reports, I think it can help uh we're a bit unclear with each other. How we're going to talk about 2023 and 24.. I hope we can make the efforts with those reports.

F

Honest reports can really help facilitate a better conversation for ourselves and uh be a good facilitator overall towards public safety and community health and good practices, and good luck in those efforts and a reminder and the efforts to try to work uh in in the future reporting uh of these budget items. Thank you.

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Next up, we have uh tessa woodmancy.

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Thank you so much raul perales. Thank you. um Yes, you know, I mean you know, you know, we call it this, you know, nobody knows what that means and that it's sort of you know talking another language and that's what's bad. You know we need to talk the same language and and the one thing we need to always talk about is our climate crisis because are you there am? I you hear me.

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I do test it, but you're.

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Going to have to come back.

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I know okay good, I know I know the financial and it's interesting that this is a financial committee. You know public safety, financial and strategic support or something strategic. The word strategic is very critical as we go forward and I've been listening to um a councilwoman at uh in the um because I don't see my.

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Life, so we're not.

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In general, about okay.

D

Okay, all right good! Second, I know we're talking about this right. Okay, good! That's good! Thank you for helping me stay back because I the way I said it before you were in the room was that I want 615 stockton avenue to be bought as a garden. We need a victory garden, and even my name, my neighbor chris stanton who's been a who's lived here for 40 years. He's saying: yes, we need a, we need a um and you know he's on the other side of the spectrum, politically, even a denialist of of climate change,.

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I'll give you one more warning this is this.

D

Is okay? Well, no, I'm saying about what we spend our money. The finance is what we're talking about, how we spend our money and public safety is what I'm talking about, because we need food to be to be safe. We know that there is a a food food emergency people are having trouble. You have spent all of kovid trying to deliver food, and you know I don't even see my timer that's a problem so anyway, that's the thing. I wanted to be bought. 615, stockton avenue as a victory garden.

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Okay, thank you um and going back to the committee members, don't see any hands up for questions comments. If I can get a motion to approve the staff report so moved, we have a motion target and we have a second. uh If we get a real couple, please.

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Mayhem, hi jimenez.

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Okay motion passes uh with three eyes: one absent move on to item uh d3, which is our city of san jose investment policy, annual review.

C

Yes, um thank you. So we have a slight present a brief presentation here as well. um I do want to thank um damian chalate who's, our new principal investment officer. He started with us at the end of september and did take a deep dive in looking at the investment policy, so it's always good to have fresh eyes. So we have um some recommendations to the policy and your packet is a memo and then a redline version of the investment policy that will go to council on the 15th of march.

C

We're planning to put it on consent unless you feel that it should be not on the consent calendar after we go through the presentation here. So the first first slide is, as the policy is required to be reviewed annually, and then we submit the changes to the committee and then the full council will approve them and, as I mentioned, there's a redline version of it attached to the staff report. So the policy changes are kind of grouped in several categories, one to update and approve or clarify language.

C

So that's to clarify the authority to better align with the city charter, to also clarify language. To improve disclosure requirements for financial institutions that were that we um deal with and then also to standardize and update the language for authorized investments. Next to add some new elements for additional flexibility. So we do have a new investment category for joint power authority, pools that will increase our short-term options for investing, also a section allowing investments in negative rates, which sounds a little scary, but under certain market conditions those.

C

Unfortunately, we would have to invest in that, as opposed to leaving the money in cash overnight with the bank, so those those changes conform with the changes that were also made in state law and also to finally to improve and refine the policy considerations. So we expanded the language for social responsibility. So it includes all the protected categories, as in the city, administrative man, policy, manual um policy 1.1.1.

C

So it would just reference that so it includes everything and then to make permanent. The temporary modification on the weighted average maturity to two and a half years. The council originally approved it as temporary in september of 2020 through july of 2021 and then later extended it through july of 2022, and the policy were just recommending that it be extended on a permanent basis.

C

So, as I mentioned, the recommendation is for you to approve the policy as we've amended it and then refer it to the full council at the 15th meeting. As I mentioned, we're planning to put on consent unless you feel that the full council should have a presentation. So with that we're available to answer any questions.

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Thank you very much, we'll go over to members of the public first and uh as a reminder. This is on the city of san jose investment policy, annual review um and I I will be keeping public uh commenters um in line with the the subject. If you do go astray uh and first up, we have tesla woodmancy.

D

Well, that was really ugly, you know, but that that is the way it goes. Is that you control the the conversation instead of what what chappie jones does he says?

D

Okay, you know get it back and that's what you should do, because not saying you're going to control and shut us off, because that's what you love to do, but don't do that raul, and so anyway, the issue is, is strategic with strategic is very critical and as we're you know, we're investing, and I see I know about money and investing it and trying to get returns and uh in this difficult time and the strategic is what's really important, because we have to start planning for an uninhabitable earth and that's not what we're doing and we're not making the changes in regards to that we are.

D

We are going full speed ahead um with fossil fuel use and that is going to bring us to room. That's what the science says. It says it and we know it, but you politicians don't want to listen to it because you're invested in it and we see it over and over and over, and so what we have to start doing is investing in public safety, and that is your mandate, and that is your mandate right here. That's.

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uh This is, this is not in relation to the investment policy. Well,.

D

It is because the investment policy is what creates you're looking at the finances of our city and what our city is doing in regards to uh you know our finances and what we're investing in and what benefits we're, giving five million dollars we gave you know as a tax credit to a developer when we were charging. You know the person was giving free food fifteen thousand, and you know so. This is where you know we have to look.

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At how we thank you, that is, that is not on topic with our investment policy that we have today. This is not a general conversation around where the city invests. This is our specific to our investment policy, so we will move on to speaker, blair, beekman,.

F

uh Hi claire b, queen here hold on a sec. I gotta pick up my mask yeah. uh Thank you. I just wanted to quickly add to from my previous uh public comment. uh You know this is a time for investment too, as well as the budget ideas uh to really consider new ideas of what can be openness and honesty and clarity and how to uh talk with each other about our investment plans for the next few years.

F

um I think we're a bit unsure what to expect it's time if we can start to make clear to each other what to expect and to honestly plan in. In those terms, uh it can facilitate a good conversation for ourselves where it can be difficult to talk about. You know one way or another what to expect in the next couple years.

F

So good luck in these efforts- and uh I hope we take care of each other and be honest and open with each other and that's the best way we can all move forward in the next few years. Thanks a.

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Lot, thank you blair. uh The last speaker will be jill borders.

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Hi, thank you. I just wanted to quickly mention that in the report, when uh the person said that we will have to do something with negative interest rates, just because it's a state law um now and sort of we're bound by that, that's just a curious little tiny side. Note that I'd like to know more about now.

E

I recognize that we've elected you guys and you guys are the ones that are going to be able to make these decisions, but for the public that when she said that sounds a little scary, it does sound a little scary to me. So I'm not expert. I don't know about that. I looked it up real quick. I didn't know that a state law had said something about that.

E

So as you're having any discussion, it would be very interesting to find out if, um just because it's a state law now doesn't mean that you know our um city is thrilled about it and the impact that it might have. So I'm curious to know if that will be discussed number one. I'm curious to know number two. If you know it's sort of like sb9 right, it's just handed down. Okay, we've got to vote, we've got to accept it, but um that's a little scary.

E

So I do want to know if somebody can kind of expand on it or discuss it or maybe it is no big deal. Maybe it's just sort of a technical thing that I don't understand, but that's my thoughts. Thank you.

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Okay, thank you very much. um That'll conclude our public speakers we'll come back to the committee and I will take the privileges chair actually to forward through that question from jill in regards to that section that you're adding on uh negative rates uh much like jill. This is not my area of expertise, so uh I am. I am just as interested in regards to an explanation on on that section. If you can expand a little bit on that julia.

C

So so it has to do um when we have overnight investments, but I am going to ask um damian to come on screen and kind of explain it in more detail um and why why it's important for us to have that kind of as an option in the in the investment it doesn't happen very often, but I'll have him give the more technical answer for you.

A

Thank you julia uh on on this particular item. It's under a very controlled environment where we could not buy anything that has a positive rate and the best available option would still be a negative rate, and so we would be allowed to invest treasuries in that environment so that we wouldn't leave funds at the bank where they're at risk of loss, which would go against our safety of principal mandate and so uh yield being our third mandate. uh We will go with the least worst alternative, which may still be a negative rate.

I

uh And and just to maybe see if I understood it correctly, obviously leaving securities in the bank and and depending on what that that potential loss is there you're saying that there may be instances where, if they were invested in something that also was, was essentially uh including a negative rate of return?

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But if that was less worse right, the least of the worst options, it would be better for us ultimately to do so, and today you don't have that authority, because you don't have the authority to um to reallocate investments in something with a negative rate. Is that correct? That's correct, okay, I get it it's challenging and I understand for our community as well. um You know we, as elected officials, are charged with um you know, making these decisions and thus having to have a better understanding on some of these issues.

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um But I appreciate our public being engaged on on them as well to understand them better. Any other questions or call comments from my colleagues and if not, if I can get a motion to approve so moved.

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And I, and can we include in there that this well, it is already included that this should go to um consent. Correct we're, not we're not. So I don't think we need to include that in the motion. Would you like us to julia.

C

No, I just wanted to make sure that if you had a problem with it going to consent that we would put it on the regular agenda, but.

I

I don't if, if anybody or the maker of the motion or anybody on the committee does I.

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Sorry chair, I think consent makes sense if it does to you yep. Okay, I think we're good. We have a motion a second. Let's do roll cover, please arenas.

A

Yes, mayhem, hi jimenez, hi ferales, yes, thank you and jones is here too, and I vote I oh hey. I apologize.

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We didn't notice you thank.

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I was kind of still.

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uh Welcome. Thank you all right that passes unanimously. uh That'll. Take us to our final uh item, which is uh item d1, which is the police department, operations and performance, bi-monthly status report and I'll turn it over to lieutenant donahue.

G

Good afternoon, thank you all right, let's see if you can see my window when I share this, can you see that okay.

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uh It's a little small, I don't know if it's small for everybody else, that's just my screen.

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All right, let me see if I can make it bigger. Let me stop sharing and see what we can do here.

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It was like a narrow band. Oh.

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Well, we don't want that. I bet you. It's gonna move my script when I do that. So let's try this again.

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Sorry councilmember.

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There you are how's. That look. Is that better? That is better. Okay, then, give me a second to put my script on another screen here, so I don't say.

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All right, thank you very much and good afternoon. My name is lieutenant steve donahue and I'm the commander of the research and development unit of the san jose police department today I'll be presenting the department's bi-monthly operations.

G

Performance status report we'll be covering part one crimes and uh today I'll be presenting on other matters of interest, including the gender-based violence or I'm sorry, gender-based violence, response and strategy work plan, update and a brief update on redistricting efforts and then um a brief update on the domestic violence incidents using firearms.

G

So to start, we are going to look at our part, one ucr crime statistics, and from here you can see that we have a decrease in homicides and increase in rape, which I'll talk about in a few minutes, slight increases in robbery and aggravated assault in 2021 when compared to 2020, but we've had decreases in all property crimes across the board over the last year and now we'll move on to our gender-based violence response and strategy work plan update and what you see here is a comparison of 2021 to the last four years.

G

There was a 21 increase in sexual assaults uh for ucr defined rape offenses in 2021, compared to the four years prior and again, I've mentioned this in several of my last bi-monthlies over the last year, but we are attributing this to the intersectionality tool that we implemented at the beginning of 2021 and its effectiveness, and when we drill down into the increases uh across the board in the next slide, you'll also see that we have that very specifically attributed so for the gender-based violence response and strategy work plan implementation status.

G

Here you can see we've completed 16 of the items for san jose specific items and then five of the items for county-wide, and we still have some work that we're doing with the in-process items and pending you'll notice on this slide that I've added a new little icon on the right there. I did that in order for you guys to see the items that have changed since the last time I reported out on them.

G

It's just a quick way of identifying things that I've changed, and the biggest that I want to point out is the three direction: intersectionality between domestic violence, sexual assault, human trafficking that was completed in november with a department-wide memorandum and we've already implemented it, and we have new forms that cover all three three-way intersectionality.

G

The other thing I'd like to point out is that the high-risk response team was funded through june of 2022, and then we've requested additional funding for the 2022-2023 fiscal year, and the last thing is the last yellow box there. That's the expanded, trauma-informed care to reflect patterns of stress and trauma for children and incorporate survivor-centered strategies.

G

This special victims unit created an incredible video. I've actually been able to watch it ahead of time and it's pretty amazing we're going to be putting that out department wide and requiring all department members to watch this video. So it's pending that distribution department. Why? But we expect that we're going to be able to get that started here in the next couple weeks.

G

As far as the open county-wide report, the county-wide items, the review and explore recommendations from the housing presentation was completed and it was reported out. The november public safety, finance and strategic support committee meeting and then the ethnic-based agency work group and build out has had a huge jump forward. Lieutenant jimenez and the sexual assault investigations unit along the special victims unit. Lieutenant seymour have done an amazing job in becoming involved with this they've developed.

G

This four prong strategy to work with the billy defrank, lgbtq plus community center for education and outreach they're working with the vietnamese community they're, placing literature in bars and working with the security and bouncer staff at bars, so that um patrons are not just kicked out onto the street when they're, intoxicated and then they're also working with the african-american community for education and outreach. So it's a great intersection through all different walks of life here at jose and how they're reaching out to all different aspects of the community.

G

When we look at the sexual assault bill of rights which you see here is pretty much the same as the last meeting. The in progress for the evaluate and reform at the department of resource cards is on hold right now.

G

What happened is we've developed the card, the county has it and we're waiting for the county to print it, because it's not actually a department card, it's a county card, so we're on hold until they can finish the printing and the distribution of that item, but it the work on it is done so we're just waiting to get that one across the line.

G

I'm hoping that by the next bi-monthly update, you'll, see a red check there and we'll be able to check off the sexual assault bill of rights for these safe, qualified exams and exams completed september december 2021 you'll notice that this is a longer period, it's actually september through december, and the reason for that is that there is no bi-monthly update in december or january, so we covered the entire period. That's why you see the numbers that are significantly higher than my last bi-monthly for adults.

G

We had 84 qualified, safe exams and nine qualified for juveniles of the 93 individuals who qualified for exams 53 move forward with the exam, and now I'm going to touch on the use of firearms during domestic violence incidents. This was brought to us. We were asked to report back on this in the fall, and so we scheduled to bring it out to this public safety meeting.

G

We did a calendar year, analysis of firearms used in domestic violence incidents and, as you can see from the chart that we were able to discern that of all the 2 900, I think it's 86 total uh domestic violence incidents in 2021 firearms were used in four robberies: domestic violence related robberies, which would be something that can of um the subject stealing the survivor's phone. You know that kind of thing or taking their property and then by force or fear, that's the robbery, part of it or an aggravated assault.

G

Okay, none of them were homicides and that total of 24 out of the 2986.

G

Amounts to point- I'm sorry 0.8, so while it's never okay to use a firearm or use any domestic violence whatsoever. The fact is, it's not a pervasive issue here in san jose I'll, give you a very quick redistricting update, so you'll notice that we're still in the same position for redistricting.

G

I actually have a good update that I just received literally an hour ago. The redistricting rfp is currently in its final stage. It's been. The final draft is made and it's with the stakeholders for their final input. We expect it to be posted next week, so that will be posted. These dates that you see on here, they're all going to change as soon as we're able to select a vendor, I'm going to be able to update these and come back to you with more accurate and better dates for the redistricting.

G

Obviously we didn't get it out by the end of december, but we're going to have better information for you at the next meeting. Just know that it is in process and it should be posted by hopefully next week, and that is all I have do. You have any questions.

I

Very much lieutenant and uh we'll go over just members of the public first um and as a reminder, this is on the police, department, operations and performance. Bi-Monthly status report and first up will be tessa woodmancy.

D

Okay, good and um remember you know, this is a committee of public safety, uh finance, finance and strategic strategic strategies. I think that is a strategic strategic is very critical strategy, is all about uh what what we're doing what how we're going forward in our future, and so this is a very critical phase. We even give it a an acronym, but it's a very important.

D

um You know committee that is dealing with our finance, our public safety and strategy. So when you say, oh, it's got to be just on police. I understand you know, police, and one thing that really bothered me about reimagining police is the problems with our democracy, because when she, our our city clerk, puts it in the agenda, she always put the um the uh the reimagining police in a separate section, not in the main section, so I never found it.

D

I never found that committee at all, and so this is the corruption that's going on and the other corruption is is that our public comment is not being recorded in the minutes, and maybe it is, but that paul soto told me it's not, and I trust him he only talks. The truth- and so you know that's the problem, and so you know with the police getting back to the topic, and I will we have a lot of problems.

D

One thing I didn't like that I heard about with the police is that they get overtime to do the medical care, the mental health care, it's overtime budget. My husband said: oh, that's because it's very dangerous, I don't know, but you know I didn't like him getting overtime that that that is what we've been talking about. Reimagining police was all about the mental health part, and so we need to not be paying. We shouldn't be paying overtime. We need to be that, for that I'm perfect on on target is about finance and police.

D

It needs to be a criteria. This is reimagining police, which is caring. We need a caring world, and that is what you know. We need to do in terms of you know polluting, because we don't care about each other and we are destroying each other's health and that's public safety is stopping polluting. We have to do that. It's destroying our health and you know so that's another reason.

I

I think you next up will be calling user one.

H

Yeah, I would hope, with all this redistricting there'd be more overnight patrols in the southern division, which is the largest division in the department with the least amount of people, except if it's, if they put t-e-u at the corner of brian and sherry right, there's plenty of time for that, but there's never seems to be enough money or coverage for overnight when the cars get stolen, the license plate gets stolen. My car and my license plate had a car and a license. Plate gets stolen.

H

I've been a victim of that, but you look. I want everyone to go on crime mapping, including you donahue, and take a look at how many cars are stolen in this town. It is, it is catastrophic how many there are and they're stealing a lot of they're. Stealing everything it doesn't matter.

H

Cars are worth a lot of money right now, so you guys need to get on that get out of the pot business get out of the casino business right get out of these businesses that you guys have pal and all you know you guys focus on a lot of things that are not important right. You don't focus on real crime. I mean, unless you guys, think of possession of marijuana or jaywalking is a real crime or a 10 miles over the speed limit. But you guys need to focus on real crime.

H

You guys got to get get your act together because you know chickens are coming home to roost. It's happening everywhere, but instead you guys wanna you guys wanna, reopen marijuana stores that you shut down by the way right now, you're gonna, reopen them. Maybe there's gonna, be a pop-up marijuana store in uh pam nick in pam's neighborhood. That's what I want to say. I want to see a pop-up uh pot shop. You know certified by you guys paid.

H

You know all the taxes paid and you guys you guys will shut them down again, like you always have right. There's a lot of them. Remember that I want you guys to. I want you guys to talk about that in the meeting, how you shut them all down, you're, going to reopen them.

H

Well, let the oligarchs the three people there in the industrial zone that are have connections with city hall, get to have it now they're going to get to have they're going to they're going to have competition. That's not going to last long! You guys are you guys are okay.

I

Thank you. Next up will be blair, beekman.

F

Hi uh brad beekman here I've been uh going uh covered along bart today. So sorry, if you could hear that today, I uh thank you very much for the reports. uh It was reported that a domestic violence issues with with gun use is is not uh quite as maybe as bad as we have thought in the past, the san jose police department and these monthly reports. uh They have a way to really try to lessen the statistical data they present when things are happening.

F

Sometimes that's like helpful and it's honest, and sometimes it's just a little too soft, and I always hope that when this happens that uh our council persons can know how to draw out and better ask about these items and to continue to ask about these items of public comment time. I know it was reported at the vta that uh aggravated assaults and assaults are down uh over the past year. uh That's a very hopeful sign and assaults on police office on bus drivers are also down.

F

So uh the and the threat of uh felony uh arrests uh is up uh around vta transit stations and issues so they're using that sort of strategy. um It's a good short-term strategy. I don't know how do we address that for the long term?

F

uh You know these are the day-to-day year-to-year police issues in this era of coba.

F

I hope that you can talk about here today and obviously the relevance of working on the gun, issues that we're trying to address uh domestic violence and counseling issues. I hope that can be talked about today.

F

um Thank you overall for this item and a good organization with openness and accountability can always help, and I know you guys are thinking about those things that can really be of help. Good luck.

I

All right, our last speaker, will be brian darby.

J

Thank you, sir appreciate it. Can you hear me okay,.

I

Yes, yes, we can. Okay.

J

Thank you, um a really quick, I I know you know this and I know the police know this and I do appreciate the report and the effort that police officers make, but every statistic has a person behind it and as one other individual talked about the stolen cars um that devastates people, I hear about all the time people you know on next story. I know next door is not a way to get accurate data, but the anecdotal data does speak to people losing tools.

J

You know it doesn't seem like a big deal unless you're the person that has to repair it and if your catalytic converter is stolen. If somebody smashes your window, I know on several occasions I've tried to call 9-1-1 and nobody answered the phone, um and it was for things that I was told.

J

I could call 9-1-1 about people wandering in the middle of the street with their pants down screaming almost getting hit and as we know that our there's been a substantial increase in people dying on the streets of san jose and that should be a top priority. It doesn't seem to be um at times there's a lot of discussion about it, but it can't be the police can't be everywhere, and people us, the citizens and police are citizens too.

J

I think we sometimes forget it, and your, ladies and gentlemen, are citizens too, so we're actually all in the same boat, um and um I I don't have really any answers. It's just that people do not feel heard on these subjects. They absolutely do not at all feel heard at all, and I think that is something that would help if we could address that that uh people do understand that the statistics represent live human beings whose lives have been disrupted due to some kind of crime. Thank you.

I

Thank you, uh and now we'll come back to members of the committee. uh First up will be councilmember arenas.

K

Thank you. um Thank you so much um for the report and I really appreciate it and um was really pleased to see the progress on the gender-based violence plan um prevention, work plan. um There's a lot of really good um progress being made there, and um I believe you said that the um that expanded trauma-informed care training to reflect patterns of stress and trauma for children there's a video is that the video that you said that you got a chance to watch.

K

Oh awesome when would that be available for for for the rest of us, as parents.

G

Thank you, councilmember. I knew that question was coming soon.

A

G

As soon as it's done, I got to see a preliminary version to make sure it was in line with what you were looking for um I'll tell you that they're put the finishing touches on it, which is why we haven't been able to put it out to the troops. Yet I'm sure that we'll get you a uh a final copy right before we uh put it out. So you can take a look at that, but um from what I saw yeah, it's you're gonna love it you're, gonna love. It.

K

Oh, my gosh, I'm really excited um that. That's wonderful to hear- and you know I I'm joking- about uh the the benefit for parents, but really. I think it is a multi-use tool um not only for for survivors but for our children, who are going through a very traumatic time that none of us have ever lived through um and we don't know how development is going to be impacted.

K

So I'm really interested in that um because I think it will be a creating some awareness for parents um alike, whether their children are survivors or not, and so I really look forward to that. Thank you so much for that work. I'm I'm really really grateful.

K

I know you you hear me uh during uh pispis during these committee meetings, um you honor the feedback that you hear from our stakeholders as well, and I just I really am I'm I'm really grateful for the work that you're doing, um and I was really impressed with the zero incidence of rape of offenses, um the ones that you were reporting with: domestic rape and spousal rape, and I was wondering what how about the intimate partner violence um category, because I don't think that falls under the domestic related crime.

K

Offense of the ucr defined rape, correct.

G

I'm I'm not quite sure I understand your question. Man.

K

So isn't part intimate partner violence different from the the ucr defined uh spousal rape.

A

E

Those two different things.

K

Like domestic violence, um sure it could be um domestic violence right.

G

Yes, so intimate partner, violence isn't defined by ucr, so like a domestic violence is right and ucr gathers a strike. The crime statistics on ucr defined rape, which are those very specific categories. You saw on the slide if you'd like me to bring it up, I could show you oh.

K

G

K

Yeah no problem.

G

No problem, so uh let me show.

K

You I'm also down one screen, so I was.

A

K

To I was trying to maneuver between um the slides and and this um no.

G

Problem: okay, so when you look at this screen, what you see here is when the uniform crime reports define rape. These are the um categories that fall under rape for the definition of ucr, even though you know, as we've discussed in other meetings, they're different acts and different circumstances.

G

So as an example, you can have rape or you can have rape of a spouse. They are both fall under the definition of rape for the uniform crime reports right. So when we look at these, none of these are domestic violence. These are none of these are batteries unless it's a sexual related battery, something like that.

G

Does that make sense.

K

Right so those those are not uh battery, and so I guess I'm trying to figure out the ones with battery you're saying that there isn't any guns or firearms there isn't any firearms.

G

Okay, so yeah, so when, when you're looking at this screen, what this is is this is the uniform crime reports definition of rape? It has nothing to do with the firearms. So when I talk to lieutenant jimenez about um firearm use and sexual assaults, it's almost none right.

G

He couldn't even think of one off the top of his head that a firearm was used in a sexual assault, but so what we did was we actually pulled all the domestic violence incidents in the city, and so these are domestic related part one crimes right, so we used the ucr defined rape and you'll see that as the second line here. So that encompasses all those other things that I just showed you and firearms were not used in any of them all right.

G

So that shows you that yeah we have not had a firearm used in any of the ucr defined rape categories in 2021 right, which is about.

K

The non-ucr defined what falls outside of that, that it could.

G

That could potentially use a firearm. I don't, I can't think of anything off the top of my head. um All these categories are outside.

G

You see our defined rape, a homicide or a robbery, maybe a simple assault, or something like that would be outside these part. One crime categories, but.

K

I I appreciate you taking me down this road. Thank you. I I appreciate, I think I get I get that now. So I'm, okay, you know it. It is really um astounding to me not to have any um any connections, because, as you know, that that the research nationwide shows the opposite right, um and so it makes me wonder what what where could they be? Where are they hiding? Are they hiding somewhere that there has to be somewhere?

K

So I I'll put that in your ball court for you to you kind of mulch and think about, um because I certainly don't understand the system in the way that you understand the system um and so just putting that out there, because I know that we're we're no exception to the role um we're now a microcosm of what's happening nationwide, although um we we always work uh the best, even though, um and provide the best services.

K

Even though we have a very skim um police uh force, and so um I know we can account that to great training, good leadership, but the absence of firearms. I don't know what to account that to um because we're not we're not exempted from from from violence and the other kind of violence that we see all right. So those are my questions. um I also just wanted to thank you for the for the implementation of the bill of rights. Once again, thank you, councilmember corrales, for making sure that that move forward.

K

um I was also very pleased- and I wanted to take the opportunity to say this, because I know that every time I'm asking questions it's because I have a doubt um or or something's lingering, but I also want to take an opportunity to thank you and to recognize the progress and the really good work. That's been happening, and so, when I saw that there's uh the trauma, informed uh training um is almost complete, there's only 15 percent left.

K

I thought that was absolutely fabulous and um and that you're doing this number of vigilant parent trainings throughout our city is just absolutely fabulous. I'd like to request them for my district, um because I know that uh that this you know our kids are just spending much more time as we are, I think, we're in a competition.

K

I think parents are spending more time on uh on devices than children at this point um and then that so lastly, I just wanted to say, um because that there was a comment earlier about catalytic converters and those um those crimes that impact our community, and I had somebody, uh mr wynn, who passed away um in the transmission of that crime um and which was very you know he left a family behind and- and it was just a senseless, every crime to me is senseless, but that absolutely um just uh really impacted our community, and so um captain traitor has been working to have this catalytic um etch and protect program in honor of of mr winn, um and I know uh chief mata you're involved with donahue as well and and the folks who've been part part of this in in a way to honor uh mr nguyen um and to make this a a crime.

K

That's less appealing for for criminals is is, um is really great work to me um in honoring our community. This way um I've got to tell you we had our catalytic converter, also stolen. I think I've shared that with you. We did the same thing in that we went outside and we're like. Hey what's going on, but of course the people were ready and had already left for him. He went outside.

K

Unfortunately, he he caught them when in a moment where he was still able to engage with them and that didn't turn out um favorable for him, and so this is something that I'm really looking forward to making sure that this less of this crime, not only in my district but throughout the the city of san jose. So thank you. Thank you. So much for all the really great work, great progress and thank you for answering my questions and I'm going to make a motion to approve.

I

Thank you. We have a second uh lieutenant donahue. I see your hand up that was from before. Okay.

G

Actually yeah, it is something new. Sorry uh um before you close off this this uh part of the meeting I just wanted to mention something and bring something to your attention. um I want to introduce you that we're going to be moving from our uniform crime report, reporting to a new method for the national incident based reporting system, which is called neighbors.

G

uh That's gonna be expected around july first, and I'm telling you now just because I want to get you used to it and get the idea that our our stats are gonna change, neighbors, captures details on every single crime incident and as well as the separate incidents within the same incident, so it'll include information on victims, known offenders, relationships between victims and offenders, that kind of thing, and so we switched to them.

G

Like I said around july 1st, and when that happens, the statistical reports you see for our ucr are are going to dramatically change, and I just want you to get that start hearing that now I'll give you more information as we get closer to the date and what that's going to look like for us.

I

Thank you for that update, appreciate that go ahead. Counselor dennis.

K

Chair actually that creates a question for me, because I know that I've been wondering about um uh the the residents of the perpetrators and survivors of sexual assault, especially with children under the age of uh 12, um because I suspect that they're living in the same home. We know that typically, it's somebody they already know. But I think this is.

K

This is a um an item that we couldn't really capture, um and I want to make sure that our survivors have the right type of resource and if it's housing that prevents them from from seeing that perpetrator being within that environment of that perpetrator, then then we need to make sure that we have the resources and refer them into the right systems to get them housing options, um as well as intimate partner violence for adults. But but is that something that we'll be able to capture or to see not to capture but to actually see.

G

Short answers, I'm not sure yet I don't know I will look into it and I'll get back to you. um I I don't know if that's going to be a piece of data captured and when we switch to neighbors we're not implementing any new data capture systems for us as an agency we're joining the federal um required capture, so basically I'll find out if they require that info and then we'll know whether or not we can report out on that.

K

Got it I I appreciate it. I know that you all capture where the the crime happens and usually it is a high number of uh crimes happening in a residence, but we don't know if it's the shared residence and that's, I think, pivotal. Thank you.

I

Hey, thank you uh just one uh comment um from me in regards to the redistricting uh happy to hear that progress looks like it'll be made. Maybe next week with the rfp, I know, work will be a couple months late, a couple months behind and and lieutenant. Thank you for saying, we'll update that timeline.

I

I think it's uh it's just nice to be making some progress and moving ahead, and I look forward to that uh that opportunity um and that's it for me and I don't see any other hands raised from my colleagues, so uh we will now uh take a roll couple. Please.

A

Arenas yes, jones, hi mayhem, hi mayhem, feminism hi,.

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I

Do I really get mine.

A

I

A

I was thank you, okay, thank you. So much jimenez.

A

I

Yes, thank you. Okay, thank you and, as we took uh open forum at the beginning of today's agenda, that will conclude our meeting for today. Thank you very much.

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