 I'm going to call the committee of the whole. I am sorry, I am going to call the licenseeering and public safety committee to order, date is March 1st, 2023. Roll call, Alderperson Feldy, I am present. Alderperson Ackley is excused. Alderperson Decker. Here. Alderperson Heidemann. Here. And Alderperson Salazar, I have not heard from him. She said last time she got me here. Okay, so she is excused. Thanks for reminding me. Pledge of Allegiance. I'm going to try to stand for this one. Nope. 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, approval of the minutes from October 17th. So moved. Checked. 2022. I have it first and the second. All in favor say aye. Aye. Chair votes aye. Right, I think this is, this is... I can. Wait a minute. I'm ready to say. Okay. So the minutes were February. February 15th, 2023. Okay, want to vote on that again? No? Okay. The minutes have been approved. Yeah. Yeah. Items for discussion and possible action. 2022 annual report from the police department, discussion only. Okay, good afternoon. Thank you all for giving us time to review our annual report with you today. We should all have the report as posted. And so I'll just go over the highlights and try to answer any questions that you might have. So I'd start out with where in many cities across the country, crime is increasing part one crimes for the year where essentially flat, we had 852 part one crimes in 2022 versus 841 the year before 2021. This includes a 4% decrease in violent crime and a 3% increase in property crime. It also represents as you see on page 43, a 14% decrease over the five year comparison of 852 versus 991 in a 50% decrease over the 10 year period from 2012 to 2022. So 2022, as I've said, we had 852 part one crimes and in 2012 we were 1,609. There were 1,418 traffic accidents in 2022. This marks the third year in a row that we've been below 1,500 and that's our goal. So even with all of the distracted and aggressive driving that's gone on, we've had some good progress on trying to keep accidents down. 2022 officers received over 7,000 hours of training. It's about 88 hours for each officer. And this includes 32 hours of in-service training and other specialized training. During the year we recovered 22 and a half kilos of methamphetamine, 1.5 kilos of cocaine and 5.5 kilos of fentanyl. We onboarded seven new police officers, three CSOs and four professional staff. Hiring and retention will continue to be an issue in the coming year. And I believe that we'll hire about 10 police officers this year and probably at least one professional staff. During 2022, we put seven new vehicles into service including two hybrid vehicles. We remediated the firearms range, replaced the carpet and painted the courtroom, replaced the carpeting and painted the shift commander's office puts a new furniture in there and reorganized it to make it work better for our mid-level management and shift commanders since they're in there all day, every day. We also replaced the chairs and audio visual equipment in the roll call room and DPW resurfaced the parking lot and installed more efficient site in the hallways. For community outreach, we held our 26th Citizens Academy, Junior Police Academy, we assisted with Safety Town, we ran a cadet program, worked with Bako to organize a unity walk in community barbecue, ran a cops and bobbers event and two part in dozens of neighborhood events. And so if you go to the community outreach part of it, you'll see that there's literally hundreds of events that we participated in in the community. And then we also actively participated in drug treatment court and advocated for funding to support a correspondent program that should begin this year. So those are the highlights that I have for you. If you have any particular questions, I'd be happy to answer them. So I have one. What does all the drug stuff go that you pick up? Do you send it to the state or do you dispose of it? So we maintain it as evidence until it's no longer needed and then once it's no longer needed, it essentially gets parked up. No resale value on that. I think you're shaking your hand. Yeah, good thing. No, thank you. Thank you, sure. So on the 10 new hires in this next year, is that a combination of people that are gonna add to the force or does that include retirees within that 10? So retirees and resignations. Okay. So then your staffing will still be at 95%, 100%. Up and down is where it will be, right? So right now we have, we probably have three or four vacancies. We have three people that we've hired better in the academy. Then we have, I think three vacancies. We'll have another vacancy on March 3rd when John Ropnik retires. So we have conditional offers up to most of those people and we have an event scheduled tentatively now for March 20th where we're gonna promote some people and swear in some new officers. In that field, is there a lot of crossing over from one community to another community or are you looking at all brand new recruits? Most of ours are brand new. Okay. We'll get a couple that are laterals from someplace else but not too many. But that's not commonplace for some of the students. I think it's becoming more common. I'm not a huge fan of it. There's some people that I would like to hire but most of the time when people are leaving someplace. Oh, okay. There's some baggage that goes with it most of the time. So not- Do you advertise anywhere for hiring? Yep. We recruit and advertise all over the place, yeah. And we do a continuous recruitment. So we're taking applications right now. So where is that like the academy? Where do they go then for that academy trading and things like that? Most of ours go to Fox Valley but it really, it depends on what's available and where they live when it happens. Okay. How long is that academy trading usually? It's 720 hours. Okay. So it's about four months. Okay. Okay. So. And I have my wife's grandson has a friend that's in the process of becoming a policeman or whatever but he's at Oshkosh. So he goes to the University of Oshkosh. Is that also connected with since Fox Valley or is that one's a tech school and one's not? Right. Once he graduates from his four year degree he'll have to go to the academy. So he'll either have to sponsor himself or if he gets hired someplace they might sponsor him. So, I gotta think. So we have three people in the academy right now that we're sponsoring. We have a conditional offer out for one person that's accepted it that will be hiring that's putting himself through the academy at like Northwest Tech I think he's at. We have another one that we're hoping to give a conditional offer to very soon that is same thing. Actually went to Oshkosh, played football there graduated and started on his master's degree because he got that extra COVID year. So now he's putting himself through Northeast Tech in Green Bay. So some are gonna sponsor themselves. Most of them now try to get sponsored by somebody just because the academy at one point was 400 hours, it was 520. And then when I was chairman of the board we changed it to 720 hours. So it's longer. So it's more expensive for them to put themselves through it. Well, this young man, he does a lot of work in Oshkosh at the same time. And they always have a program where he can go to school, can also work and he seems to enjoy it so. So is there usually offer like a little bit more than for someone that's been through the academy that are already in the board? We have in our contract we've negotiated an academy rate. So somebody that's going through the academy we pay them 70% of their salary. Okay. Any other question? No. Okay, that was discussion only. So we're gonna move on to 2020 number seven, 2022 annual report to the William Planner department. Your is chief. Thank you, chair. Hold all questions to the end, please. So thank you. As chief said, we really appreciate you giving us the time to talk about our annual report. And this is a quick synopsis. Everybody should have a copy of that. But some of the highlights that we received our grant in our EMS flex grant. So that is basically about 120,000. You have to spend half of it first before they'll give you the other half. So obviously that's an ongoing kind of thing just because of supply issues that carried over to this year. We also received our AFG grant for the purchase. And that's what that picture is there is what we consider Lucas devices, their compression devices. So they will do CPR compressions while our medics are administering medications or as you see in the picture, air doing some oxygen stuff. So we're happy about that. We had our second annual citizens fire Academy with 15 graduates. So that was another success. So we enjoyed that. Placing new order for an ambulance. The vendors, much like the suppression vendors, they're about two years out for ambulances. So we are, as you are aware of, replacing our fleet, it's over 18 years old. So we need to start replacing them. And for sure they shouldn't be that old. But unfortunately, just due to the times they got to be a little older than we'd like. We also worked with some vendors on a board up procedure, which would bring in after a fire company to help board up and secure the property. So for a business owner or homeowner. So we're proud of that. A few other highlights. We instituted a chaplain program, very similar to what the police have, just at a smaller scale right now. So that is a picture of Father Leo. So he's been coming around and meeting the members and there, if anybody in the department or the city needs a year. Placed our new engine and that's the picture we're very proud of, a new paint scheme. So we appreciate all the support and the ability to replace it. So we're very happy with how it turned out. And then obviously our ongoing discussions with station three and the remodel. Something that doesn't happen too often. We did a live burn, working with our neighboring communities, which is Kohler, town of Sheboygan and town of Wilson. So just, we don't get houses too often. So it's just simulating actual things that we would do at a fire scene. So that worked out nice. We also, as you are aware, joined the Wisconsin task force. So our three members, AC Salisman, Lieutenant Lois and Captain Miller should be done by April with all their certification training and all that. So now they'll be deployable. So that's a nationwide or statewide deployment. And then we also worked and bought several replacement equipment for our technical rescue team for our department. So that's all part of the task force kind of thing too. So worked out well. Had several promotions like PD did. We had, as you can see, there's in 2022, the positions a lot of turnover just due to recent retirements. We hear some of the retirements that we lost and you'll see the years on there. So again, we're becoming a very young department. So it will present its own set of challenges, but also it's very exciting because you get new blood in there that's wanting to learn and train. And then we hired three new members that joined our team last year. And as PD, that'll continue throughout this year as well. Our call volume was our busiest year on record, 6,800, a little over 6,800, so calls. Out of that, the unique stat. And we did talk about this in our court of report, but 4,380, remember I gave you just a percentage, which I recall was 64%. So really you don't equate that to a number until you see this. So 4,380 of those calls out of the 6,000 we're overlapping, that's a lot, that is a lot. So, and again, we talked about it, you guys asked questions, so we talked about that. But this is just a breakdown of our incident. So 92 fires, what we consider fires. So there's a live flame and all that. The rescue EMS, so this is our EMS calls and then our nonfire is everything else. So that equals our 6,800 to change. Out of those EMS calls, our most common advanced life procedures were our cardiac monitor. So that's how we used to looking at the heart rate, putting the monitor, the little pads on your chest. And then our IV starts. So over 2,600 IVs were started. We bought some new fire prevention program equipment. So we go out to teach our schools every year and that house, that picture on the left is our hazard house. So you can actually, it simulates smoke and fire and you can see different aspects of what an average home might look like. And then 3,122 students was the total number from last year. And as I mentioned, our annual fire academy, so our second one was a success. So again, they learn all aspects of what we do in the fire service, extrication, advancing hose, searching in a smoke environment, EMS procedures, all that kind of stuff. So very, very successful, we're proud of that. As far as the fire prevention bureau, 2,700 and change of inspection. So that's a lot and we're continuing to get busier as more businesses come in and our program continues to be aggressive and we fine tune how it used to be done in the past where we're hitting the businesses like we should be. So we're very proud of that. 21% increase from 2021, which again, it's still continuing. We expect it to continue again next year. Some of just to wrap it up here, just a few of our incidents that we had from last year. We had that dive incident on Memorial Day last year, several fires. So this one was in October and then we had that string of that week about when we had around five fires in the city, which was kind of unique. You don't get that too often in one day or a one week period, sorry. So just those are some of the pictures and then that's it. So I'll be glad to answer any questions you may have. Okay, thank you. Okay, when you increase the number of inspections, the number of inspections, does that business owner get a break on his insurance or is there something that they say, okay, your department's doing such a great job. We know they're inspecting, they went through your building. Is there any monetary value? Typically, no, not for a business owner. Where you get that is where it's related to the ISOs classification. So we are a city, we're classified ISO class two. One is the best, we are trying to work on that. So that involves a lot of like your water supply, your telecommunication, your staffing, your responses, that kind of stuff. And then that affects the premiums for the business owners and homeowners, but more for the businesses because they're larger. By us doing inspections, it doesn't decrease the insurance rate premiums, but it does obviously make your building safer and hopefully in the long run, less likely to burn, which is that reason. The non-fire calls, non-fire non-EMS calls, are those mostly like vehicle accidents or what's your majority of those kind of calls? Yeah, so the non-EMS ones, depending on if there is a patient involved. So that would be a patient. We don't double bill if you will. We don't mark it as an EMS and a non-fire. So if it was an accident, it would be an EMS if we transported. If there was no entries, then yes, that would be a non-fire. Those are typically what we consider fire alarms. So the fires are actually, those 92 were actually where there was flames. Okay. Whether it was a candle that lit a curtain on fire, garbage can, kitchen fire, or an actual full blown house fire. The rest are all are missing. You're going into the sewers to get the ducklings, you know, all those, anything that we do, that's not, I'll pull the fire alarm in a school or something like that. That's a non-fire. Even though it's a fire response, it's not a fire fire. Yeah, which I pick and save. That is yummy for the chief. Any other questions? Okay, that was discussionally, so moving on. Thank you. You're welcome. Thank you, chief. We have attorney's office. That's also discussionally. Yeah, I'm sorry, I provided you a report. I can answer any questions if you want, but you had the opportunity to read it. I'm looking at it now. This is really helpful to know, you know, how many cases you've had to take to the municipal court, but I think this is good to see. We anticipate there may be some new metrics we'll be able to do in the future. The software we're in the midst of working on will give us some of that. Probably won't be 23 numbers yet since we're into 23 and we haven't gotten it all running yet, but maybe by 24 there might be a few other numbers that we'll be able to add to the report. But this is the basics, sort of the things that take us a lot of time. 17 cases against the city this year, our last year. Yeah, lawsuits, right? Yeah, that's... It can range from 45. Yeah, everything from... You know, pothole and brain my ankle. Yeah, I mean, if it gets to that, a lot of those were able to prevent at the claim stage, but occasionally people do file those. It can be... And things that have settled recently or that we've been dealing with recently include things having to do with resources. They include things having to do with... We just recently got dismissed the suit against the police and fire commission from Mr. Gillette. So, you know, those kinds of things all count in that, 17. There was a sign case last year that took quite a bit of time that we finally were able to settle. Yes, I've noticed the council documents process, you know, has gone up. Well... It's pretty steady. Yeah, it's pretty steady, I would say. I would anticipate that that number, you know, it might go up or down a little bit each year, but you know, it's not like we're anticipating, suddenly it's gonna be 400. Yeah. What are the bankruptcies? Like tax defaults? Or is that... They're typically... You know, it can be any number of things, but sometimes it's... If they owe us... It's not so much taxes, at least real property taxes, because that's really handled at the county level once we've processed it through. But personal property, it could be included in that. A lot of times the people who declare bankruptcy are people who either owe us money because we perhaps got a loan out. You know, some of the loans that the development department will do some of those programs, or it could be people who owe fines, forfeitures at the court, those kinds of things too. Yeah, and this year there were a lot fewer of those, yeah. And we were looking in the past, we were 12, 12, 9, you know, and all of a sudden there's two of them. I think the economy plays a big role in that. I think that one other thing that maybe has played a role, maybe it's more a feeling that I have any proof for it. But, you know, we've been sort of complaining for years about all the personal property taxes that was just sitting out there uncollected and Kate and her department have really attacked that. So I think that's helped as well. I'm glad that they're doing that. All right, any other questions? That was discussion only, so we're going to move on to number nine. Our number one, one, zero. 2223 to 2023 by city clerk submitting various license applications. We're recommending granting all the applications of this. Make a motion to grant the applications on the arrow. Second. Any discussion. All right, all in favor say aye. Opposed nay. Chair votes aye. Motion carries. Okay. Next meeting will be March 15th, 2023. And we need a motion to adjourn. Second. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed nay. Chair votes aye. And we're adjourned.