 April 10th, licensing hearings and public safety committee quarter. We'll call all the Russes here, all their Decker, all their Heidemann, all their Ackley, and all their Feldy. I am here and I can take the meeting from here as long as there's no delay. Alrighty. Alright, please stand for the pledge. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice. Can we all know each other here? Can we have everybody go around the table and introduce themselves? Sure. Alrighty. Betty, you want to start? I'm Betty Ackley, district 4 older person. Joe Heidemann, district 10. Decker, district 6. Zach Russ, district 8. Chuck Adams, city attorney. Matt Walsh, lieutenant, police department. Eric Montiano, fire chief. Mr. Mugalski, police chief. Kevin Hoffman, city attorney's office. And I am virtual, I am vice chair of this committee. I'm looking for approval of the minutes for the March 27th meeting. Second. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. Aye. The minutes are approved. I am number 6, RO number 128-23-24 by police chief Christopher Damogalski, pursuant to section 30-50 of the municipal codes made to any report for the police department for the year 2023. Chief. Good afternoon. So the report should be attached. There's a lot of information in it about the work that we did last year. I'll just hit some of the highlights. It was a year of change. We had some retirements in our senior management and did a reorganization of that senior staff. So we promoted an assistant chief and two new captains. So our executive staff is pretty much brand new this year. So it's been exciting, lots of new energy and work. We've also, last year, had two new feed officers appointed. And so they've hit the ground running and had to build new relationships and I think lots of excitement around them. And then another big change was through a grant we were able to hire a victim services coordinator. It should be my job. Good stuff. The other thing is at the end of last year, finally, we were able to start a co-responder program with the county. And so we started to see good things through that, really able to respond better to people in crisis and hopefully over time make better connections with them for the services that they need. What we found so far is that because of the demand, Elevate has actually now put more resources into it. So on second shift, on many days, we have actually two social workers working with us rather than just one. So in spite of all the challenges that we faced last year, we still saw an overall 3% reduction in crimes that were reported versus 2022 and a slight reduction about 2% in accidents. So that's very positive things. Besides that, I would just say that we're really grateful for the great relationships and cooperation and good relationships, working relationships that we have throughout the city and with many partners and citizens that support us and work with us. So we're grateful for all of that. So that would be my report. I can answer any questions that anybody might have. Any questions? How's the relationship between your department and the county's initial boy and county police department? Is that something that's like they're always working? Because the other day I drove down to Indiana and there was a sheriff's car over there. And I don't know what he was doing there, but do they patrol for us? They don't patrol for us, but there's obviously some overlap. And then depending on what's going on where in the city and county with joint dispatch, I think there's better awareness of where resources are needed. So we have a strong relationship with the sheriff's department and with all the other law enforcement agencies in the county. Any other? Do you have the MEG unit that takes care of a lot of that? Do you also have drug enforcement that's with Plymouth Falls? That's all of them, correct? Yeah, multi-jurisictional unit that we're the lead on, but wouldn't get done without help from everybody. One other thing I would add, so yeah, I was going to see that, is at the end there are some highlights about some awards that were given out. So I think that that recognition is important. So the MEG unit won an award from the International Association of Chiefs of Police. They were recognized for excellence in criminal investigations. So some of our members got to go out to San Diego to receive that award. Sarah Blodgett was selected last year as the woman police officer of the year. And Michael Thilke was recognized by the Wisconsin State Assembly as the 2023 hometown hero award. Any other, yeah, exception file? All righty. We'll recommend the exception file. Second. All righty, all those in favor? Aye. Aye. Opposed? All righty, that's filed. Thank you. I am number seven, RO number 132-23-24 by the state clerk's main various license applications. We are recommending granting all of the applications, but one of the grants will be contingent on their first receiving a street festival permit, including permission to close the street. And I suspect that will not be happening. However, that the issue is not so much change of premises as it is the street festival. So we would grant contingent. Okay. Any discussion on this? Make a motion to approve with some recommendations. Second. All those that approve? Aye. Aye. Aye. Ayes have it. That is approved. Number eight, our next meeting date is tentatively scheduled for April 24, 2024. Looking for a motion to adjourn. To adjourn, set a die. Second. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. Aye. We are adjourned at 4.38. Thank you, everybody.