 meeting to order, and we're going to do a roll call. I am here, Betty Ackley, Dean Decker, here, Leslie Laster, here, Amanda Salazar is excused. Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Okay, we'll do an introduction of who's around the table here. I'm Barfieldy, the chair. I'm Betty Ackley, District 4, Alderperson. Dean Decker, District 6, Alderperson. Chris Demogalski, Police Chief. Eric Montiano, Fire Chief. Kathy Hoffman, City Attorney's Office. Chuck Adams, City Attorney. Ryan Sorenson, City Attorney's Office. Great. Approval of minutes from March 2nd, 2020, 2022. Do I have a motion to approve? Second. Any needs? Leslie, are you in favor? Yes. Thank you. Chair votes aye. All in favor? Aye. I kind of jumped ahead there. Number six, the resolution, oh wait a minute, here we go. Resolution number 150-2122, 3-722. Resolution establishing the Mayor's Youth Advisory Council, MYAC. So that's why I'm here today. I tried to rearrange the lettering so it would say YMCA, but that didn't flow grammatically. So this is just a new, I was creating new committees, but this is a new committee of sorts. So there's a few other cities across Wisconsin that have what are called Youth Advisory Councils, different varieties of names. It's primarily a tool to engage young students in high school, primarily to get them more involved with local government, understanding what goes on from a local government perspective. Sometimes we can have them work on small projects or initiatives within the city, bring them together, kind of create skills, resume and build their, our closest neighbor, Matt Walk, has this. So I essentially copied and pasted, we tweaked it a little bit. So at Fisher-Wigan, the Green Bicycle Company has done what is called a cultural asset mapping project with the Art Center. This is one of the recommendations as well. And some of their interns presented a while back at a meeting. And this was one of the recommendations. So I wanted to get this rolling for the new council, that I believe in the, or the resolution, it just kind of states that the term for this committee will be the school year, so I think it's over through June. So that's what the kids are in school. So you're not really planning on having an up and running until September then? Yeah. And then just want to kind of create contacts and some staff, you know, point of contacts in the schools so we can start finding students. Right. I think this is awesome. I think this is really, this is kind of the engage I use. I remember when we had that group that was here that were asking things again, it was just, it was neat to listen to their questions. I think to engage the students and get them in it. This is how you get people to, to be, so we have future elders and future mayors and things like that going forward. I mean, without this, you know, where, where does that pipeline come from? Yeah, I think this is, this is a really great idea. Any other comments? Leslie? Any? Nope, I'm in social support. All right, great. You want to make more? I'll make a motion to approve. Second. Second. Okay, all in favor say aye. Aye. Chair approves and motion carried. Thank you. Sure. RO number 131-21-22-7-37-22 submitting the annual report for the City of Sheboygan Fire Department for the year. Take it away. Okay. Well, thank you. And good afternoon. So this is just a real quick PowerPoint on our, some of the highlights from our annual report from 2021. So in 2021, we hired three new firefighters, firefighter paramedics, I should say. We had three promotions due to some of the retirements. And actually, we had four retirements. So as you can see, really, there was a lot of seniority, a lot of years that we lost due to the retirements. We are becoming a much younger department, but in a way that's good as well. We have a lot of young, eager individuals willing to learn and train up. So that's great. Also, we initiated our very first Citizen's Fire Academy, which was a huge success. We had 11 participants. As I know, I showed the slide presentation a few several meetings ago, but we had 11 participants making up from the public, city staff, and some elders. So it was great to see. We will be doing another one this fall. We also received approval to purchase a new fire engine, replacing our Ladder 5, which is a quint. It unfortunately did not pass its annual inspection and due to its age, we had to replace it. So we're thankful we got approval on that. And then we began to work with the Department of Public Works, other members of the city, and short Elliott Hendrickson as our architect company to look at a remodel or construction plan for our headquarters station, station number three. So that started last year as well. Some highlights from our incidents. So we ended up in 2021 with 6,299 incidents, which was 636 more than in 2020. So our trend is continuing. As you can see over the last five years, we are trending upwards, which is in line with the national standards as well as statistics. This slide here just is a breakdown of the last five years of what we categorized as fires, rescue EMS calls, our medical calls, and then non-fires, all the other type of incidents. One thing to note in here is that in 2017 under fires, we had a huge, there's like a discrepancy there, 125. That's because our national fire incident reporting system, what we report to the feds, they changed the criteria for building fires. So that changed. So things like burnt food or that kind of calls were classified as structure fires back in the day. Now they're not. So that's why 125 versus 90 is less than 100. So big, big change there. But this just gives you our trends over the years. You can see again, the number of calls continuing to kind of increase throughout the years. This next slide is a little breakdown here of our calls per station. And what this is, is just our percentages of those 6,299 calls. What are the stations where they had, where it came in as? So for example, station one is our busiest with 28% of the calls. And then station five, just because of the development in its location only covers about 9% of the calls. But they would still for fires go throughout the whole city. It doesn't mean that they don't respond. But those are the initial calls in their district. The next, this next one is about the calls by day. So a pretty average a month to all of them, they're almost equal. So Friday still remains our busiest, but it's really not extremely, you know, busier than Monday, for example, but it is a little more than the others. Okay, this next one is just breaking down the calls by hours. And you can kind of see from like 8am to 5pm. That's our busiest time roughly. So it's typical across the country. So here, this is what we refer to as our mutual aid calls, our calls into the city or our calls out of the city. And you will see that over since 2018, 2021 or 2020 was kind of a unique because of COVID. We went out of the city way, way, way more than normal only because, you know, the COVID responses and a lot of ambulance calls. But really, we're pretty much in line. We receive a little less help than we give, but that's to be expected with the volunteer fire departments throughout the county. And us being the only career department and majority of the ambulance calls, we help Orange Cross out. So it's to be expected. Okay, this here is just an example of all our overlapping incidents, our fire investigation are isolating. So 44% of our incidents, so that's 6,299, 44% of those are overlapping incidents. And what I mean by that is calls occurring while another call is already existing. So we get toned out right now, 10 minutes later, we get another call that's an overlapping incident. Some of them could be multiple overlap, meaning that we have four calls going on at once. So that's what an overlapping incident. Our fire investigation, we completed 84 fire investigation throughout 2021. And truly, the only federal standard we have the federal law is the fire chief is responsible for determining cause and origin of a fire. It's kind of funny to say we don't even need to put the fires out. But we just need to determine the cause and origin. That's federal law. But obviously, we don't have to do more isolating. So insurance service office, in case you're not familiar with that, the insurance companies use this ISO rating for throughout the country for municipalities to determine what rates to charge for certain for commercial buildings or residents. So currently, we are an ISO class two here in the city. ISO class one is the best. Actually, we just had a meeting this afternoon with our ISO rep for the state of Wisconsin. And we'll be looking at doing another survey in 2024 to see if we can increase that. Usually, this is determined by our communication center, the water supply within the city, and the fire department and training hours. They added a new category, community risk reduction, which is basically the fire prevention bureau. So we did very, very well in that. And we will continue to do so. But we're hoping to get down to a class one, which would impact the premiums that residents and business owners pay, which is would be a good thing if we dropped out one. This next slide here is just some of those non fire related calls. So you'll see the just really what non rescue incidents or other fires are. It could be gas leaks, carbon monoxide, you see a list on the left there. That little pie chart just shows you the percentage of the calls. Good intent calls 19%. Those are calls that people call that really don't fit in a case of maybe they they smell something funny, but it's not gas. And so we'll come out there. It could be a skunk. It could be something like that. But they're worried about something being in their house. We go to a system. Those are good good intent calls. So yep. And then the one thing that we're very proud of during our surveys, the city survey, still have 99% resident satisfaction. So yay on that. All right. And you never want that 100% because it always gives you something to strive for, right? Just my little theory. This next slide here is our emergency medical services. So again, in 2021 responded to over 4,800 EMS calls, which is one, which is 500 more. Yes, you were 500 more than three years here. And some of the few notes just we implemented a new response, which added another like a second fire engine or a bladder truck to respond to cardiac arrest because these are and other calls like this. But these are very labor intensive incidents. So we needed we wanted to add extra help to give the paramedics a chance and a successful outcome for the patient. So that that helps increase that. And that little picture to the right there is what we call video laryngoscope. So when a person is not breathing, we can insert this tube to a system and breathing. This video now it allows us to see the vocal cords and the points where we insert that tube in there. So the success rate is much higher. In the past, we had to do it blindly by looking and doing the best we can. This will actually have the camera go into your esophagus and we can see the trachea and all that. So better outcome. Part of our operations, we respond on a lot of unique calls, specialized calls. And this also includes responding out in the county for such things as the hazmat, hazmat incident, dive incident or technical rescue. So we do a lot of training with the county and we do a lot of in-house training because they are what we call high risk, low frequency events. And all that means is that these type of calls don't happen often, but they are very, very labor intensive and technical. So we have to do a lot of training on that. Speaking of training, we do a lot throughout the year. Some of these categories you see on the left included our confined space, which again is a technical thing. We train on hose all the time, hose pulls, water flow, water rescue, hazmat. So a lot of different training throughout the year and that pie chart just shows you what our percentage of the training hours that we do. Administrative can be anything from paperwork kind of stuff or how we speak on the radio and how to deal with incidents as incident command itself. So then we talk about our apparatus. Some of the highlights and equipment of our apparatus is we did our five-year hydrostatic testing on all our SCBA cylinders, which we have a lot of on the department. So that was quite a feat. We did our 25-year-old hydraulic extrication equipment was replaced. We actually went to a more modern what we call e-tools, which are battery operated. Technology has changed considerably. So now we can use regular batteries that you would use in like your cordless drill at home. That's what we use on these, but you have to technology change so you can still get a lot of power out of them. So that's good. We continue to replace our gear. We're on a replacement program, so we were able to purchase 10 sets of turnout gear for our personnel. Our rescue boat, the inflatable that we used for ice rescue, was replaced. So we bought a new one of that. And then we had some, believe it or not, 40-year-old hose that we still use that was still in service that we finally replaced, which is a great thing because now they're lighter and composite so they don't rot as easily as in the past. So fire prevention is one of our most important aspects of the fire service. This is where we are able to educate the public on fire safety. We were into the schools again after the COVID release, so we were able to see 3,148 area students. And these range anywhere from kindergarten to fourth grade. They would meet the firefighters, obviously, to see what we wear as far as our turnout gear, do exit drills, planning exit drills, stop, drop, and roll. This is all done and then they end up by being able to what we call our survival live house. It's a big, huge camper that they call the skills that they learned, then they practice and then are able to exit the house because we built with the theater smoke and then they're able to practice calling 911 to get the help, how you would do it if it was your house. So that's a successful program that we enjoy doing. Speaking of fire inspections as well, we installed, this graph here shows how many smoke alarms we installed. Obviously, this number hopefully will decrease continuously as we go on, but we will always assist. So we will, homeowner or resident cannot install them themselves, we will install them for. And then we also do some inspections obviously throughout the year. And so this graph just shows from 2017 through 2021. We continue to improve our inspection program, getting into the buildings as much as possible. So over 2200 inspections last year, which in 2017, we were only at 1800. So quite a jump. So we're doing well. And then finally, as I mentioned at Citizens Fire Academy, the individuals learned everything about our history, what we do as a fire department, what our firefighters do in this community. They were able to try on the equipment, utilize some of the stuff that we do, extrication equipment, perform search and rescues, you know, breathing through the CBA, our self-contained breathing apparatus, and then basically get to know the crews. Very successful program and we're excited to do our second one this fall. That is my presentation. So if you have any questions, I'll be glad to answer. Otherwise, thanks for your time. Any questions? You did a good job. Nobody has any questions. It's a short suite. That's what I like. Everybody looks nice today. All right. Motion. Motion picks up the report. Second. All in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed nay. Chair votes aye. Motion carries. Thank you. You're welcome. Thank you. RO number 130-21-22, 3-7-22 submitting the annual report, showing the activity of the police department for the period commencing January 1, 2021, and ending December 31, 2021. Picking away, Chief. Okay. Good evening. So the report is on Municode and everybody has it. There's obviously quite a bit of information in there, so I'm not going to go over all of it. I would hit some highlights. So in 2021, we saw a reduction in Part 1 crimes with 841 reported. You've heard some of this already, but that's in comparison to 973 in 2020 and 945 in 2019. And then looking longer term, we did a comparison from 2012. So 841 in 2021 and 1690 in 2012. So that equates to a 50% reduction over that 10-year period there. We also continue to see a positive trend in motor vehicle accidents last year with 1,365, which is much higher than we'd like to see it. But in comparison to past years, it's a good reduction for us. And last night, the mayor was part of our citizens academy in class. And so we showed some statistics going farther back. And if you look at the early 2000s, we had as many as double that 2,660 accidents in the city. And so as I've talked about at past meetings, I think right now it's more challenging than ever because people are a more distractive and drive much more aggressively. But we've tried to do a great deal and we'll continue to try to do that with our messaging and educating upon when we're trying to mix that with the enforcement that we do. I mentioned it at the last meeting. And I'll mention it again. One of the big challenges that we face is trying to find the resources to do traffic enforcement in the way that we have in the past because of the number of calls that we get sent to regarding both mental health issues and alcohol and drug abuse issues. So we've put together some partnerships that we hope will move forward to address that more. So there's proposals with the county for the county debt to put a crisis worker in the dispatch center to try to take some of those calls off right there. And then there's also proposals to try to put social workers embedded in the police department to go along with us to some of these calls to try to make better connections with people to services. So hopefully some of that will happen going forward. And if that does, I'm pretty excited about that. I think there's some good possibilities of developing better relationships with some of the people that need help and then having their resources really to follow up and make sure those connections happen. Some of the other big things that happened is we replaced six officers last year and seven professional staff. So more than 10% of the staff. So that's a big task for us. But we've seen a lot of positive things out of that. So I'm excited about that. And we've continued to build some stronger relationships in our collaborative relationships. So things like the drug court program, which is a collaboration between law enforcement, health and human services, the DA's office, the judges probation and parole, public defenders and the detention center has continued to move forward in a good fashion. And we've seen some real success out of that program. So I'm excited that that's continuing to move forward. And then one of the partnerships that's mentioned in the report that I'd like to highlight is our partnership with the child advocacy center. So this is a center that started with a partnership between three counties, Sheboygan, Washington and Ozaki and the center is located in Salkville of the use of that center. About 60% comes from the city of Sheboygan. So there's been a real push to try to get those services closer to the city so that we're not having to travel. And so something that we did two years ago was essentially offer them some space in our building so that they could deliver some of those services right from our building A to make it more convenient for us but really more convenient for the citizens so that they can come right to the police. So the child advocacy center is trying to raise the funds to have their own center in the city of Sheboygan. And I'm encouraged that that's going to happen. They've also started some new partnerships with some other counties. So Manitowoc would be one of those which really again helps push it north too. So hopefully that continues but last year they did 185 child interviews right out of our police department. So we're excited about that. Otherwise a lot of it was really trying to get back to the things that have helped us to be successful that were interrupted during the pandemic. And a lot of that goes to some of the things that like Citizens Academy and community barbecues and cleanups and that outreach. So that's not at the level that we would have liked it to be last year but we're excited about the opportunity to expand that again this year. So that's really all I have for you at this point unless you have questions. I have questions. The social workers, are you finding that hard to get anybody because I know they're trying to short always with social workers in the county? So is that a problem for you? So I think that could potentially be a problem if it gets approved and that's why they're looking at you know pushing the date back a little bit. Right now I believe the only thing that is actually posted is that I won't get this right. But they're essentially trying to hire a psychologist that would be a behavior about supervisor for the programs over there and they've had some problems attracting a person to that position. So that's what I'm going to ask for them. I like the idea that psychologists, not that I'm opposed to social worker, whatever you can get will help. Yeah, you'd consider maybe retirees? I think they're considering all kinds of things. I'm done with that. Okay, thank you. Yeah and I think there's even some people that work for some of the programs either within the county or for VistaCare would be the contractor that they would be working with that might consider moving from their current positions into the field. That's one way they might be able to do it but they would still have to backfill and replace those positions. So how would this exactly, would the officers go into the scene or would they identify it right away on the call when the call comes into the call center? Or would you have the officers kind of go to the scene and assess the situation and say I think we need them here? So to start out with we've identified the peak hours where the calls would happen and so those are those times that the social workers would be working about 16 hours a day at this point and what we would do is what we would do is rotate it but they would get assigned with one officer and then that squad would get sent priority to these types of calls. And to start out with they'd be embedded they'd be in the squad with the officers going and the reason for that is really two-fold kind of builds to skills in a knowledge base both ways but I think one of the things right now that kind of holds this kind of response from going forward is that there's a fear by some of the workers and a fear in the community that's sending a social worker to these some of these calls is either inappropriate or too dangerous and that that's really not true. Most of the people that they're dealing with are dangerous. If they were dangerous they wouldn't be in the residences where they are there would be other places that we would have them and so somebody who's suicidal or most people that are suffering from depression or something like that aren't to the point where they're actively committing suicide. We're trying to get to them before they hit that crisis point and then even when they get to that crisis point most of those people aren't looking to do harm to somebody else they're looking to do harm to themselves and so what their intent is or their manner of carrying that out is really what creates the danger or the risk so I think by at least starting them out with police officers there's that feeling of greater safety until they can get comfortable and we can get the training in place for dispatchers to be able to differentiate between which which calls they should just be sending them and which they should be sending a cold response. So if some of that I think is just building that knowledge base over time. Yeah but I was going to say as it happens they'll figure it out. Yeah but I think really it's really the same concept that putting that crisis worker call taker in the dispatch center is the dispatchers are really trained to send either law enforcement or EMS or the fire department to these calls. They're not trained to do other things and so that's really their first response and so having somebody else there that's used to taking these calls and can identify well wait on that one let me try that one and then those dispatchers getting that kind of experience it is really I think a key to making this successful that experience base. I hope you can find somebody. I really this is I think this is something that really this is one of the recommendations with the ARPA. I have another question. There's two beat officers. What areas did beat officers cover? Where are they? Without a neighborhood map I'm not going to be able to tell you but it's on the north side it's around Keeney Court. Okay Maple Heights right in that area. And then on the south side it's that Franklin Park neighborhood. King Park, Franka Park, the HVD out of court or they work through all this. Get it up there. Okay thank you. Have a wonderful job though. Yeah they really are. The neighborhood meetings and they help provide information to citizens that we wouldn't know otherwise. Yeah it's really handy to have them. I'm glad we have them. And it's it's really an advocacy for the for the police department. It really helps the citizens you know connect with them. That's a great job so it's you know the lunches in the park and yeah I'm impressed. Okay any other questions? Okay we need a motion. Take a motion to accept the report. All in favor say aye. Aye. Okay oppose. Chair votes aye. All in favor. One more. RO number 132 21 22 3 7 22 submitting a license application. Anything on there is a temporary change of premises for Innis Bar and we're recommending approving it for a one-day event. A motion to approve that. Second. Any discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Chair votes aye. Motion approved. Now we're to the next meeting date will be March 30th 2022 and motion to adjourn. Second. All in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Great. Everybody have a great evening.