 Victoria, do we not have quorum with two? Two would be a quorum. Tom is finishing up the call. Good morning, everybody. We'll be getting started in just a moment here. Buenos dias, dentro de unos minutos, vamos a comenzar. Gracias. Great. Do I have a quorum here? I see I do. Great. I'd like to call this meeting of the February 16th Public Safety Subcommittee to order and ask the acting clerk to call the roll, please. Is everybody able to hear me? Yes, we can hear you. We're having some audio issues. One moment, please. Okay. I will go ahead. This is the Zoom host. Go ahead and read the translation. For those just joining the meeting, live translation in Spanish is available, and members wishing to listen in Spanish can join the Spanish channel. To do so, click on the interpretation icon in the Zoom toolbar. It looks like a globe. Once you join the Spanish channel, we recommend you shut off the main audio so you only hear the Spanish translation. Marina, can you please translate? Sure. Buenos dias. Para las personas que necesitan interpretación, pueden hacerle click al globito que está al fondo de su pantalla para que dice interpretación, escojan español. Y les recomendamos que apaguen el sonido original para escuchar solamente en español. Thank you. Thank you very much. Let me take roll real quick, please. Councilmember Schwedhelm? Here. Councilmember Rogers? Present. And chair Fleming? Present. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, so do we have any announcements item two? Moving on to item four, public comment. This is a time when anybody may address the Public Safety Subcommittee on items that are within our scope here. Do we have anybody wishing to make public comment? I see one hand raised. Call our ending in 0694. Can we allow them to make public comment, please? Okay, go ahead. Hi, this is Jim Duffy. I'm an oversight practitioner in Runner Park, and I just have two quick things. First, I want to thank the committee very much for scheduling all your meetings for the year or ahead of time. It's wonderful to see that they're going to be by monthly on the third Wednesday of the month. The willy-nilly way that it started out was really hard for people who care about this stuff to be in tune to when you would be meeting. So this is fantastic. I really, really appreciate that. And second, I want to ask that sometime soon you agendize a discussion of community-based public safety oversight or group that meets that is not appointed by the police. I've heard a call for that from so many people in Santa Rosa, and it just doesn't seem to be breaking through. So I'm just trying to raise up that call that I've heard from folks. Thank you so much for taking my comments. Thank you. Do we have any additional pre-recorded public comment or anybody else who wishing to make public comment? We have no pre-recorded public comments. Okay, thank you. So I'll bring it back to the subcommittee for item 5.1, and which will be the chief's update. So we have Chief Navarro. It's all you. Good morning, Chair Fleming and Council Member Rogers and Council Member Schwedhelm, Rainer Navarro, Chief of Police. I just have a few items for this month. First thing I wanted to let you know about is that the police department command staff met in January to discuss some priorities for the next two years. And you'll be hearing about these as we move along through the year. But one of the things that we looked at was developing projects and measurements of success in the areas of service and safety, personnel, infrastructure and technology. And we have our division managers are gonna be overseeing those particular areas and working with our command staff and managers and the rest of the team as we start developing some of our programs and priorities in those areas. Under our safety and service area, that is largely operational. And so we just, we reaffirmed the areas that we have been looking at over the last several years. And those operational priorities continue to be. Good question, Alice. Continue to be based off of the things that we're seeing and the information from the feedback that we get from the community as traffic safety, violence reduction, homelessness and community engagement. And so we have prioritized those in our operational programs. And so we have special assignments that address several of those particular areas. So traffic safety, we have our traffic bureau which includes accident investigators and motor officers, our homelessness. We are spearhead that with our downtown enforcement team and they work closely with the other city departments on homeless issues and our violence reduction. Last year, the council gave back four positions and we have recently made a whole team, we call it the special enforcement team to address violence reduction and gun issues throughout our city. So those are our specific areas that we are looking at and we're trying to address. And we'll have more information as we go along through the year. In the area of community engagement, I wanted to let everybody know the police department has announced our first community police experience, the first one in person in the last two years, that's going to begin March 16th and going through May. We're really excited about that. We are accepting applications from the community right now. So we're asking people to get the word out. This is a eight week course in which participants meet once a week. The course is designed to enhance relationships between the police department and the community and to familiarize people with our policies and practices. Participants get a firsthand account of the daily responsibilities and expectations of police officers and our other employees. Police staff will be there to provide instruction and answer questions. They will discuss issues. Participants will view demonstrations and they'll get to experience a variety of training that officers and our employees have to complete to perform their duties throughout the day. They'll also have an opportunity to experience a ride-along with our patrol officers and also sit along with our dispatchers. It's been a very valuable opportunity for community members in the past and more information can be found, including the application at srcity.org, forward slash CPE. Again, it's srcity.org, forward slash CPE. We're also planning on being a part of several other career days in the coming months as restrictions are lifted. And we'll be sharing those opportunities to come and meet police personnel during these career days. And we'll be sharing those things on our social media pages, including Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. We are continuing our work with the CPE Collaborative. We developed two subcommittee meetings or subcommittees within the police department, the Equitable Policing Task Force. One is external and they're focused on looking at community partnerships, community engagement, recruitment and cultural understanding. And then the other subcommittee is geared towards policies and procedures, mentorship and internal culture. We have members of the department from throughout the ranks and positions, working with community members on this task force. And we're already getting some great ideas and looking at opportunities that we haven't had in the past to be a part of community engagement in the future. And then finally, I just wanted to acknowledge just some great work by our staff. We do go out there, our staff is out there 24 seven, doing great work, but on January 19th, the Santa Rosa Rotary recognized public safety employees for outstanding work in Sonoma County. And they recognized Santa Rosa police officer, Jason Ducaton and he was recognized for his outstanding work for taking several pounds of elicit narcotics off of the street and over 25 firearms himself in the year of 2021. So Officer Ducaton is part of our four person special enforcement team that is addressing violent crime and taking firearms off the street. And again, it's just a reflection of some of the great work that our staff in the field are doing on a daily basis. That is all to report for the Chief's position. Thank you very much Chief and thank you to your team. I'll bring it back to the subcommittee for questions. All right, seeing none, we'll go to public comment. Do we have any raised hands or prerecorded public comment? There is no prerecorded public comment and I see no raised hands. Okay, thank you. Does the subcommittee have any questions or comments? Okay, item 5.2 in response. Captain Kuehgen will give us an update of the in response program which was launched in January of 2022. Good morning, Chair Fleming and council members. If we can bring up the slide presentation here we'll go through a brief little PowerPoint presentation that we have today and we'll go over some of the data from our very first month. Perfect. So for our community members joining, my name is John Kuehgen. I'm a captain with the Santa Rosa Police Department and I had the distinct pleasure of leading our efforts in our citywide team effort creating our in response mental health support team. And today we're gonna go through some of the brief highlights of our first month in operation and then we're gonna talk about some of our strategy for getting the word out more to our community and raising some of the community awareness of our team. So those in our community when they are experiencing either themselves or a loved one in crisis, they know now this valuable resource we have to call now. We don't mind going to the next slide. So we started off here on January 11th of 2022 and we had our exciting ribbon cutting ceremony and we're able to get many of our key city partners to be able to take part on this important day. We had it, it was available to the public right here at our city hall parking lot. And we had Chief Scott Westrop from the fire department who played such a key role in helping us create this team. Chief Navarro from the police department, Mary Frances Walsh to the executive director of NAMI Sonoma County who really helped kind of guide us in creating the team and even provided guidance on the name, the name of our team and the colors that we're associated with to make sure that our vehicle and our uniforms and our name were something that would resonate with the families who were actually going to be utilizing the services of our team. And then Magalia Teyes and Danielle Gordunio from the community engagement team. And they played such a valuable role in letting us hear some of the community feedback that helped us understand why we really needed this resource in our community and helped build the right team for our community. And then Mayor Rogers also participated and just representing what a role all of council and our city leaders did of prioritizing their financial resources to help us get this team off the ground. So that was on January 11th and our team started rolling out that day on January 11th of responding to calls of those in mental health crisis here in our community. It was an opportunity for our community to be able to tour the vehicle and meet with our actual team members who were in there in uniform. And this is a trend that we wanna continue of making our team available to be able to meet with our community members to bring the vehicle, to bring the actual operators who were out there in the field. So our team can start to be more well known in the community and our community can begin to know the resources and kind of build trust with our team. So it was a really exciting day for us. And we have a video of this on our website at Santa Rosa or SRCity.org slash in response that anyone can watch if you wanna still be able to learn about this important day. We can go to the next slide, please. Here's our vehicle right here. So we're still struggling to get the rest of our vehicles in but we've made some significant progress in this. But this is our first vehicle actually out in the field over at Courthouse Square. And you see it's just the distinct white band with the in-response logo on it. And it was so important for us to make sure it didn't look like a police vehicle. And it didn't have some of the trauma that could be associated with bidding back in the back of a cage police vehicle. And you're gonna continue to see this vehicle driving around town. And if anyone has community presentations they want for their organizations. And we're gonna be working with some of our local schools to be doing presentations in the coming months. We go to the next slide. Here's some of our actual team members out in the field. This is their uniforms they're wearing kind of the soft gray jackets and a soft gray polo shirt they wear with just regular blue jeans and with tennis shoes with absolutely no weapons on the team. And that was really important for us to have the team of not having that like uniform that looks anything like a police officer or firefighter and be able to really kind of have like this disarming approach as they walk up and be able to provide their services to those in the community. Here's our next slide, please. So this is really important that we really wanna start getting the word out to the community about how to access that team. So you can always call just any of the police department numbers, including 911 here in the city of Santa Rosa and it'll get routed to a 911 dispatcher who will evaluate the call. But we wanted to have a dedicated line. So we launched the dedicated line of 707-575-HELP and the numerics there are 4357. So 575-4357. And that rings directly in our 911 dispatch center but it has a different ring tone and it alerts the dispatcher about this is someone calling specifically for the in-response team. And they'll evaluate that call as they will with any call that's coming into our 911 dispatch center. They'll evaluate it. Is it able to be able to send our in-response team to that right now for the phase one of our program? Our team is in operation seven days a week but from 12 o'clock noon till 10 p.m. That team will be available. We're working as quickly as possible to get our second vehicles in here in to be able to launch our second team in late spring or early summer of this year. And then that's where we'll have a second team that starts at 7 a.m. And then it'll be from seven to three and then they'll overlap with the other team which will continue from 12 to 10. So we'd have 15 hours coverage, seven days a week and we wanna get there as quickly as possible and then we think that's gonna be an important timeframe for us to be more involved with our local schools and to be able to provide the service for those who are struggling with mental health or substance abuse or homelessness on our school campuses. So please spread this number out here and feel free to access this number when you need to be able to have and this is actually for the van to respond. But what really sets the Santa Rosa model apart within a response team is our robust level of services to our system navigators. And the system navigators, we have representatives from both Buckaloo programs and from Humanidad Therapy here, both nonprofits here locally in Santa Rosa and they're gonna do important level of service of reaching out to those who have been contacted by our team. And this is a service that doesn't exist in Sonoma County and this is where we saw so many people who once they actually were maybe got services to the crisis stabilization unit or through Kaiser hospital that they were back out 12 hours, 24 hours later, maybe 72 hours after a hold. But then they weren't getting the level of service they can to prevent them from going back into a crisis. And so this team is gonna be able to be able to interrupt that and be able to reach out to them. And if you get put on a hold or get contacted by the team, we're gonna be reaching out and contacting them and knocking on their front door and saying, hey, how are you doing? What services can you provide? We're gonna do things like actually transport them to doctor's appointments or get their meds filled and these system navigators are gonna have these vehicles and this is a separate team and in response team that goes out there and they're gonna be able to give you support. So for community members who want help from the system navigators or maybe it's someone who has a loved one and you need some help and support to be able to do them whether it's getting a conservatorship or whether it's just giving them resources then please call our system navigators directly. And that's at the 707-204-9756. And then also we created a dedicated email address that will go directly to our system navigator or program manager. And that's the in response at srcity.org. So those are both ways. And so to be clear, the system navigators are not when you're reaching out for a moment of crisis that you need assistance from the team. This is for follow-up appointments, our assistance, our support, our advice and what you can do is what the system navigators are for. If it's you needed immediate response from the team then it would either 9-1-1 or the 575 help number. We also updated our in response webpage that we have and you can just Google that at Santa Rosa in response or here's the actual webpage. And it has all these numbers. It has some more in-depth description of our team. So now that we have our team kind of off the ground for the first month, we're really starting to dedicate on getting that community awareness out there and getting these numbers out there. And one of it is we've been working, we hired a local film producer to create a video where he went out in the field and filmed our team in action. And we're gonna be launching that on social media. And if we can go to the next slide, we'll see if we're able to embed this video. I just got it last night. So it hasn't been updated as part of the slides on the council agenda, but we're gonna update because I was just able to get this video last night. But we're so excited about this video that I wanted to be able to share with our community and with our city leaders here today. And we're gonna be posting it on our social media channels through the police department in the city on Friday. So if you don't mind, go ahead and play in the video. We'll see if we can get the audio for this. Looks like the audio in the video is not coming through right now if we have a way. I'm sorry, you're not hearing the audio? No, maybe sometimes it does that if you're on mute. So maybe if you not- Okay, I gotcha. Let me start over. Sometimes there are bad things. It's a little low. Every once in a while, life becomes overwhelming. Mental health crisis are more common than you think. One in five Americans will experience a mental health illness this year. Often the shortage of mental health services have required law enforcement to be the first responder for people experiencing a mental health crisis, but not anymore. In response to these challenges, there is a groundbreaking new program in Santa Rosa to better help our community. Introducing the in-response mental health support team. A multidisciplinary team that responds to calls for service with a mental health service. In response will respond to nonviolent mental health related calls for service, substance abuse related issues, and homeless related complaints. In response includes a licensed mental health clinician, a paramedic, and a homeless outreach specialist, all supported by a bilingual wraparound support services provider. The in-response team is trained to provide individualized treatment for those who need it most when they need it most. In response is a bridge to the resources that people need and redirects law enforcement to high priority calls when it's necessary. In response is in response to you. Your voices, your ideas have all made this in-response team a reality. Operating seven days a week with expanded hours to come soon, in-response mental health support team is ready to serve. I can't deal with this right now, I'm sorry. Or someone you know is experiencing a mental health crisis in Santa Rosa. It is called the in-response mental health support team at 707-575-HELP, that's 707. 575-4357. Great, so we'll put this out on social media and the audio will be a little bit better and I apologize for that, we were just getting it in last night, but I wanted just to give you guys a quick update on what it is and then to encourage people to go to the website and be able to learn more about that and then to talk a little bit more about our data. So what our commitment is, is that once a quarter, every three months that we're gonna publicly release the data of our team because we really want the community to understand this is what the team has been able to do and this was a big investment from the city of Santa Rosa toward this team. So we're working on collecting what the data we're gonna do and so what we have right now is every contact that our team makes, we have a two-page document that they're filling out and it's capturing what are the primary needs, whether it was at medical, was it mental health, was it substance, was it homelessness assistance and then where obviously like the demographic information on that and where in the city are we utilizing these resources and then we created a definition even for what was a jail divert and how many people were able to divert that maybe were going into custody in the past for low level offenses of maybe like intoxicated in public or minor theft and maybe now we're able to divert with some of the resources with this team and be able to treat it like the mental health crisis that it really is. We're also gonna look at police diverts and fire department diverts and emergency room diverts. So we're really putting all this data together to be able to see what we're gonna be able to do when they were gonna put that out on a platform. We were also excited to be able to cure a grant with the County of Sonoma that we can start capturing data with some of the other teams. So the city of Petaluma and Rona Park and Cotati have a team that they're working on called the SAFE Team Special Assistance for Everyone is what the acronym stands for and it doesn't have quite all the bells and whistles of our team that have a non-license mental health clinician and a first aid clinician as opposed to a paramedic and no homeless outreach and no system navigator system. But they're still a great team and they're providing a level of service to their teams. So we're meeting with them and we're all gonna start capturing data together from the SAFE Team, from the accounting's existing mobile support team, from the in-response team and the city of Hillsburg's launched a team with a licensed mental health clinician with a police officer. So you have a variety of models that are existing in Sonoma County right now and we're gonna start evaluating the effectiveness of each one of those models but then really importantly capturing all that data and be able to get it out to the public. So for the very first month of our data and this was from our launch date on January 11th to the January 31st, we're excited to visit that our Santa Rosa in-response team with the 70 calls in the city of Santa Rosa which was pretty impressive for their first couple of weeks of getting off the ground and coming together as a team out of those 70 calls, they put 17 mental health holds and those were actually like 5150s that they put where someone gets transport to the crisis stabilization under hold and those were exciting what a police officer would have been doing in the city of Santa Rosa and now our in-response team was able to provide their enhanced level of service and be able to do transports directly to our crisis stabilization unit, diverting a police officer from the scene. We're breaking those down into the age groups too for out of those 70 calls that they had, six of those calls were for juveniles under the age of 17 and under, two were between the age group of 18 to 25, 27 our largest population was there from 26 to 59 and five of those individuals were 60 plus, then we have some that they didn't have the age on here so we're still refining some of that data collection. We're gonna look at they had in their first one that there was overwhelmingly mental health calls with homeless resources, number two and then third track by medical calls or minor medical things. So we're gonna continue to be able to track that data and then for the month of February, now that the team is really coming together, working together, having the seven day coverage, we're really hopeful to see those numbers go up dramatically and then especially when we're able to launch our second team and then we're gonna continue to get feedback from our community on what's the data that needs to be collected and then be able to build that first data collection report out that we're gonna do in April and with that we also created we wanna continue to get the feedback from the community. We've created a community advisory group for our in response team and this is gonna be a public meeting that's available for anyone in the public and we're gonna do our first one, I'll put out the date within the next two weeks but the first one's gonna be in the month of April and we'll put it out in our city and Santa Rosa Police Department Social Media platforms and we wanna invite the public and we're gonna have the team there, we're gonna do our first report out which is gonna be a lot deeper dive into the data. We'll have our team there for questions to be able to tour the vehicle, talk to our team members, hear really a detailed analysis of our first quarter of data but then really importantly hearing what's working well with the team, what are some of the improvements that we can do and then we'll have a more realistic timeline of when we're able to launch the second team to be able to get up to our 15 hours of coverage a day. So I know that was a pretty brief update and the data right now is just the very initial data that our team is getting but I want it just to be able to perlet our city leaders know about this and especially our community know about some of the successes in the first week and to be able to hear any comments that we may have from our city or other questions as we dive deeper into some of the data collection. So I'll go ahead and turn it over to any questions from our council now. Thank you, captain, really appreciate it. Does anybody on the subcommittee, Natalie or Tom have any questions? I don't necessarily have a question. I just want to thank you, John. I know at our last meeting the Violence Prevention Partnership you shared the video and sharing it with the community and all those service providers who can spread the word because I really liked the approach we're taking in. I'm glad that you shared, you know that what Petaluma, Rona Park, Katadi and Healdsburg is doing because this is a community wide issue needing a community wide approach. So I'm really appreciative of the data collection methodology. Again, we term this as a pilot program and I'm really open or I'm very appreciative how open we are to hearing feedback, what's working, what's not working to make it actually a model not only for Northern California but the nation as a whole. So thank you, I think we're off to a great start. Thank you so much for your help. Natalie, any comments or questions? Just, yeah, both. Just again, thank you so much. First time I saw the video actually it brought tears to my eyes I was crying at the last meeting. So just to know that we have this service available in the community and all the work that went into getting it out there. So just very thankful that we have it. Wanted to ask and if it's not already in the works just to put it out there maybe work the system navigators working with social workers and also therapists that are in the ERs just so that they kind of know what the system navigators are able to do and assist because I think sometimes that is where people don't get follow-up services. If someone goes to a specific ER and they need to follow up maybe with the county or do something else and that ball comes