 Welcome to your City Hall and to the District 8 Budget Town Hall, Councilwoman Kelly Allen Gray and I am delighted to see you all here and to those who are watching on Facebook Live and the City's Channel. Welcome to the budget overview. We're going to talk about our City's budget as well as the CCPD budget and so we're going to have, starting off, we're going to have our City Manager David Cook who'll present the budget and then our Chief, our Police Chief Ed Kraus who will come behind him will do questions in between. For those who are watching, there's a phone number on the screen so you can text in your questions or you can also call in and we will ask those questions during question and answer time so want to be respective of everybody's time so let's get started and I'll turn it over to our City Manager David Cook. Thank you Councilmember Kelly Allen Gray. What it's evening now, right? Good evening everybody. I'm David Cook, the City Manager and I'm going to give an overview of the City's budget at a pretty high level because I know we want to get to questions and also talk about the CCPD budget and back in February when we work with the City Council we set up a number of goals and again it's a very different period of time from February to now and I'll talk about some of those changes but some of our goals as we go through the budget process the first one is maintain or reduce the property tax rate as property values have been going up dramatically. The City Council has been reducing the property tax rate to but I'll say minimize the impact on property owners and I think we've needed to reduce the property tax rate to become more competitive from a business standpoint as well. The second goal is to maintain funding for capital investment and maintenance so one of the first things we have to decide in a budget is how much money should we set aside to maintain the stuff that we've already built like libraries and rec centers and roads and parks and so forth. How much money do we need to set aside for new infrastructure like roads and parks because we still are growing at 15 to 20,000 people a year so when you think about that every year we add nearly 100,000 people and I'd have you think about the infrastructure that's needed for a town or city of 100,000 and we've got to do that every five or six years. That's why we have bond programs. We're thankful that citizens have approved bond programs in 2014, 2018 and now we're planning for the bond program for right now plan for 2022. The third goal relates to as we go to the bond programs and we ask citizens to vote for whether it's a new fire station or library or park. When we build those things we have to operate them and maintain them so we have obligations that come with building those bond projects. We also have contracts with fire through the collective bargaining agreement and we have contract with the meet and confer for police officers. The fourth goal is implementing the recommendations from the task force on race and culture looking at equity and city services. In the current year that we're in we started the implementation of those recommendations. We carry those over to the second year and I can address some of those as well. Goal number five is about looking at how we fund police and the CCPD funding. I'll leave most of that for Chief Krause when he talks about the CCPD budget and then goal number six is really the reality of where we are now. I think we have to be thinking about preparing for fewer resources in the next couple years as we work through the economic impact of the pandemic. Real quick this is just to talk first about taxable values in Fort Worth. So if you look at the far left number that's the current year taxable value of all the property in the city forward. Now two things happen to grow that tax base or decrease that tax base. First is we look at all the existing values and whether they go up or down. So when you see that change in net taxable or net taxable going up by 378 million that's only a half a percent. That's the lowest increase in current values in at least the last six to eight years. So that's not growing very much. Thankfully we've got a lot of new development still under construction. That value is going up and that's 2.5 billion in new development put on the ground and that gives us a three and a quarter percent. So of the property tax base growing by less than four percent that's the smallest growth in the tax base in probably the last six to twelve. So this is a budget that's going to get tighter and there's not going to be the amount of property tax dollars we thought available. So the recommendation for the next year's budget is to keep the property tax rate the same and so this is how we break out the property tax rate. Overall it's seventy four and three quarter cents. And this is where we get into how much do we set aside for capital infrastructure. That's the debt. So we debt finance some of the infrastructure. And when you look at the O&M some of that money goes for programs and services and some of it goes to maintain some of the capital infrastructure that we have and some maintenance responsibilities and we use cash to pay for that. So we don't debt finance a lot of our maintenance. We debt finance building new infrastructure. I want to point out here we go. This is just a depiction of taxable value gross total assessed value and revenue over a longer period of time. And all I'll point out is the line is getting flatter and increase year over year before was greater. Now to the total budget. This is operating and this includes now all the different businesses that I talked about before. So this is water. This is storm water. It's our parking. It's solid waste and it's the general fund. So we spend every year one point eight billion dollars in the operating budget. This budget is less than a half a percent larger than the current year. So there's really not a lot of growth going on from one year to the next in the operating budget yet we're still going to grow in population 15 to 20,000 people. How about if I say next. There we go. Now let's just focus on the general fund which is going to be 1.5 percent higher than the current year budget. And this is the show the property tax makes up most of the revenue sales tax sales tax another 23% so when you think of property and sales tax that makes up roughly 79% of all the money in the general fund. Next the second goal that we talked about before was maintaining funding for capital investment maintenance and since we're keeping the tax rate the same and the tax base is growing a little bit we're maintaining our current level of investment for both those things and some of that that we fund also includes the neighborhood improvement strategy that we've been doing for the last four years. And then we are planning for the 2022 bond will open new facilities this year. Thank you very much. Golden triangle library actually opened I think on Tuesday. We're going to open the Riva carry library at the end of next fiscal year. The far north animal shelter new parks and we have their meet and confirm collective bargaining and all this again is intended to restate that if we're going to build these new facilities the new infrastructure new assets for the community we have to pay to maintain them once we open the goal for about the racing culture task force. We've had money in this year's budget and transportation public works but money in there to support more infrastructure and maintenance investments in parts of the city or we have more people of color. So when you look at street lights or maintenance of roads there was more money in this year's budget to do it in certain areas of the city and that's going to continue. One of the things we're looking at is is our level of investment our level of maintenance our levels of service equitably delivered in the city forward not equally delivered equitably delivered and that's a focus of the city and what the race and culture task force also pointed out. The current year budget we started the police monitor function out of the city manager's office and we're enhancing the upcoming budget and we're continuing to do the neighborhood improvements and that are one of the recommendations from the race and culture task force was to create this our new department we have in the city it's called diversity and inclusion that department will be working with all of the other businesses departments in the city to create equity plans to make sure we're doing what I just said that we're investing in provided services equitably throughout the city. Going back to the other businesses in the city these we call them enterprise funds they operate more like a business they charge rates so there's no public there's no general fund or property tax sales tax in these operations but you probably see these on your water bill if you get a water bill that's the biggest we have a storm water fee that'll be on your water bill we have solid waste that'll be on your water bill we also run airports and parking all these businesses make up 600 so million growing up by less than 1% one of the issues that the council will be wrestling with is on the solid waste fund we need to make it sustainable over a long period of time we have actually have a work session with the city council tomorrow and this will be one of the topic items and it's how do we make that fund sustainable over a long period of time one of the challenges is is that the residential fee is paying for almost the entirety of the fund but it's a fund that provides services not just for residents of the city. Jumping to special revenue funds the two largest I'll just talk about a little bit CCPD I won't spend a lot of time that's predominantly a half cent sales tax but the culture and tourism fund is our next largest and I want you to think about so this is what funds will Rogers but funds the convention center and most of that revenue stream comes from hotel tax revenue what has happened to hotel tax revenue since March plummeted so that fund is another topic for tomorrow so that we all understand how much that fund has tanked and what do we need to do to react to the drop-in we think about ticket tax hotel tax and so forth I'm gonna skip this one because you're gonna get a whole presentation on it but then the final goal and just to think about it and that's about preparing for a few resources the city has had a hiring freeze in place since March as soon as we asked people to stay home we knew revenues were gonna impacted and we've had a revenue excuse me hiring freeze in place we are reducing positions in the city of Fort Worth to bring our workforce cost in line with the new revenue picture and you to review service levels and positions throughout the next year I think next year when we're doing a budget will be harder than this year I have you think about it this way we know what the property tax values are for the upcoming budget year I've shown you that they they're still grow by less than 4% but if you're an owner of a hotel you're an owner of an office space that now has more vacancies you're an owner of retail space that is now not occupied you're an owner of a restaurant that is no longer operated or a bar I believe that those owners of those spaces are gonna be able to describe that the value of those properties should go down as much worry about residential values that I think there's a chance that act that commercial values actually go down next year when we're trying so back in February we showed the council that blue line that looks good I think we'll be dealing more with what the red line might look like so that we have to react a little bit differently as we talk about this year's budget and next year's budget going forward sales tax took a dive in March it's actually been starting to come back and so actually our June sales tax numbers were higher than even the previous year I think the sales tax was a drop-off for a while but I think it's coming back next we did reduce 50 net positions in the city one year to the next some departments are on both sides so they're adding positions and subtracting positions but overall it's a net reduction of 50 positions this is just again covering those six goals that we had in the budget and I think I have some slides on the capital real quick each year we talk about capital and that's infrastructure so think about roads parks libraries fire stations and we plan it out over multiple years because you can't think about capital in one-year increments you have to think about it over a longer period of time so every year we do a five-year capital plan we updated each year mostly it's funded either from cash like stuff you want to pay for infrastructure with both debt and cash and this just gives you an idea of how we pay for those things tax rate if you remember for the debt and the pays you go which is cash stayed the same so we're keeping our level of investment constant year over year and one of the things we also show the council every February is here's what our debt capacity looks like over time so when we think about the next bond program how big or small can that be based on a set of assumptions so we now updated the debt capacity with our current realities that's coming in February we told the city council based on the former assumptions that we could do probably 750 million in debt without raising taxes right but just those assumptions that we've changed based on that red line versus the blue line lost 250 million in debt capacity so it has a huge impact because it's a compounding effect over time when you change so when we show the capital improvement plan again it's for all our businesses and the general CIP they compete for the same dollars that waters got its own infrastructure needs and a way to finance it stormwater has its own way to pay for its infrastructure and finance it but the point I just want to share is the next slide we spend nearly three to four hundred million every year structure for all these different businesses the general plan and that number is about a hundred million a year that's mostly roads road maintenance think about water which is the largest capital plan that's for all the water and sewer lines that are being extended or replaced it's the new wastewater treatment plants or water plants that have to be built and the point simply being that infrastructure is a big component of our budget each and every year the city of Fort Worth is over nine hundred thousand in population and I have you think about and adding a hundred thousand every five to six years infrastructure needs that also drive the thing to talk about in the budget the budget meetings coming up some of these we've already checked off we have a budget meeting on CCPD with the city council next Tuesday we have public hearings on the budget the first one to be on September 1st second one on September 15th and if all goes well the city council will adopt the budget on the 22nd of September that concludes my part and be glad to answer any questions we have a few people who signed up to ask questions and if you could wait till you get the microphone so that we can we can hear it the first person the first person is mr. Lopez hello my name is Aramita Lopez I'm at 1704 Oakland Boulevard and I was just talking about the parks as a point for both mental and physical wellness during this COVID time and I live to where I can see the park from my house but the bridge has been closed on Oakland Park for about over six months and it's my wife doesn't feel safe there so we go come to Trinity Park and take up my daughter there but I just like to see more resources put into the local parks that we already have and we love it it's close but like I said with we just don't feel safe and comfortable there I do think the council believes the parks are important they're a big component of each bond program the council is also approved moving forward with what we're gonna call an open space plan how do we protect more open spaces so people can also enjoy those and we had our first purchase in that open space program broadcast Hill it had to come to me but so I do believe there's a agreement with your thought there that we ought to be doing more parks and open space next is mr. Hostler well I didn't think you'd get to me this quickly but my comment is good directed at Kelly and this goes back to about a year ago and I know all things considered when you talk about budgets and the impact that pandemics have on those kinds of things regardless I think we still need to be concerned about the quality of life that we have here in Fort Worth and if we want tax revenue then I think we need to continue to look towards the future in making Fort Worth a place that people want to come back to and live and not leave and to think we don't have that problem is would be inaccurate so what I'm gonna ask you about is not the thing that I would expect to go to the top of the list of priorities when we have big serious problems that are very important to solve but it's in regards to Medebrook golf course I live in north central Medebrook down the street and have been involved with that golf course since I was 10 years old and I still play I'm 65 years old and I played a one-handy cap I am an advocate and a supporter of municipal golf and of Fort Worth municipal golf because if you go back in our history the reason Fort Worth was a great place to live was very family friendly very kid friendly and civic leaders back decades ago said they wanted to bring golf to the masses they didn't want it to be an elitist activity they wanted regardless of where you were on the socioeconomic ladder you could have access to this great game and what we've got at Medebrook is it's landmarks that particular part of the city and top of that it's it's historic and you wouldn't know that unless you were sort of involved in the game but it was from a golf perspective it's a it's a a diamond in the rough to coin a phrase and I think it's been ignored for far too long in terms of its value to Fort Worth and what it could mean not only to our neighborhood in the community but to Fort Worth as a place that would make people want to come to live or visit Kelly you said about a little over a year ago I happened to catch a work session on video because I was interested in the gaming issue but also on the agenda was you were talking about Sycamore golf course and what was going to be done with that were you going to close the course turns out that that's what's happened it was probably a good decision because I think David Creek was the fellow's name pointed out that that golf course had lost four million dollars over its history and it was time to do something else my question is is there anything in the future for for Meadowbrook because to quote you you said you know if I'm gonna agree to close Sycamore then we're gonna need to see some improvement over here at Meadowbrook because we can't have the Taj Mahal Rockwood across town and have what we have over here it needs to be equitable so long-winded up to my question is there anything in the future for for Meadowbrook golf course in terms of renovating that course and and bringing it up to a standard that the city can be proud of let me start jump right in so I'll tell you that just remind that in the 2014 bond program was the redo of Rockwood 2018 bond program was the clubhouse for Rockwood we are now preparing the 2022 bond program and I know Meadowbrook is one of those projects that is being prioritized within the Parks and Recreation program if it shows up on the next bond program now what will happen is we will go to the community after we get that list of projects and get community input to see what gets on the final list of projects for the 2022 bond yes there's a conversation about it we're a year or so away from finalizing it but I would say I'd encourage you to stay involved and there will be public meetings to vet those projects we're good not unless you have something else you want me to say thank you okay we've had some questions come in through I'm text and on Facebook the first one I'm will the city be funding transit at 100% I'm a restaurant owner and my employees need reliable transit service let me start with tomorrow we'll talk about transit the training Metro made a request from the city for an additional $10 million over the current fiscal year we currently provide some funding to training Metro and the amount of money that's in the recommended budget for next year is the same amount that's in this year so it's not funded at the level requested by Trinity Metro okay we have two questions from the Glen Park Neighborhood Association will more money be put into funding bus stops in the neighborhoods that need benches and shelters some of the funding that is in our budget for Trinity Metro relates to sidewalks bus stops and bus stops sidewalks ADA improvements so some of that money is in the budget to improve that bus stops inside and these this next question has to do with the police monitor program first thank you for the live feed on Facebook when is the enhanced police monitor program going to roll out and what is the budget for that let me do this way so in the current year's budget we started with two positions monitor whose Kim Neil has been with us since March we had such a great applicant pool that we talked another person from that pool to join us so we actually found a way to add three into the current year so Cam and Denise who are the two people doing the police monitor function right now are doing a number of things when they're working with the police department and setting up procedures and also evaluating policies setting up a consistent we'll call it a complaint system so it doesn't matter where a complaint goes they're all being reviewed by the police monitor function it's also done a survey of the community and a survey within the police department filing those now and we'll share those I think sometime by the end of September if not before in the next year's budget are two additional positions to help out that office so that office will go from three to five and again it's an office that will still evolve and identify staffing needs along the way because of what workload requirements or demands put on that office then we'll look at additional staffing over time I would like to add to that on the city's website we have our gov delivery newsletter and one of the subjects that people can now sign up for is the police monitor office and if they want to get regular updates from that staff so I would encourage them to do that as well this is a really a comment to increase funding for after-school programs they're more they're needed more now to respond to the COVID-19 challenges how do people find out more about neighborhood improvement programs and when will the funding be announced for next year I would encourage if you're interested in the neighborhood improvement program to contact our neighborhood services department they're the ones that administer that program and we usually make that assessment and announcement I want to say in November December timeframe let me address the after-school program there's more money in the CCPD program for after-school program the chief might cover that we also we also talk today about using CARES Act funding to help with after-school programs at rec centers and neighborhood centers there are a few more and Trinity Metro comments but with the update tomorrow I think a lot of those questions will be answered and then I think someone from Parks and in a comment the Meadowbrook Golf Course irrigation pump house was replaced this year with at a total cost of three hundred and ninety thousand dollars those are all the questions I have right now I'm sorry y'all we are going to welcome our police chief at CARES to come and talk about the CCPD budget and then if you can give me your email information will you please allow me to send you the information on FOSTIK Dam and everything that's going on around Oakland Park we'd like to do that so I'm gonna turn it over to Chief Kraus and thank you David and oh before I do this while they're still getting ready let me say thank you to all of the city staff who is here thank you all for being with us this evening and to the marshals and to Chief Aldridge who was here I just appreciate you all taking time out of your evening and coming to spend this evening with us so that we can make sure that the citizens of Fort Worth actually know what's going on so thank you thank you as the CCPD came up for election this year we got a lot of questions with the national narrative going on local narrative going on about defunding police and what that means we had a lot of inquiries about why can't you fund this instead of what you're funding what we realized a lot of people didn't realize what we were funding with the CCPD so as we looked at proposing a budget for the next fiscal year what we wanted to do was highlight exactly what programs are in there and to make a clear delineation between what or traditional policing programs and what are the enhancements offered through the CCPD so we put a 40 of our community-based services into CCPD and out of the general fund and more of our traditional police services into the general fund we reduce budgets for equipment and enhanced enforcement because we were able to and increase budgets for crime prevention of recruitment training community partnerships take this opportunity to expand some successful programs and create some new so the CCPD is made up of five funding categories or initiatives enhanced enforcement we'll go through all these in more detail in just a minute neighborhood crime prevention partners with the shared mission recruitment and training equipment technology and infrastructure on the slide here last year's adjusted budget and those budget for fiscal year reduction in overall funding because of the reduction in sales some of the new or expanded programs is our crisis intervention team this is a program we started a couple years ago it's a dual response model or co-responder model where one of our officers who's trained as a mental health peace officer and has expanded training in that field teams up with a mental health provider and they go out and answer calls for people in mental distress and they also do follow-ups follow-up visits with people who have been in mental distress make sure those individuals are taking their medications have access to their medications have access to their doctors and that they are getting the help that they need one of the other issues or one of the other programs we want to start is a community service professionals program a crime response unit if you will made up of members from the community that go out and answer nonviolent calls in the community or by freeing up a police officer to be on available for more emergency calls one of the things that was brought up just a moment ago in at David's presentation with the question was expansion for hours or after-school programs that into that initiative falls under the partners with a shared mission and we are opponents within that are going to get a contract increased by 15% and then more funding to be available through competitive solicitation price and centervention team I talked about just a moment ago we currently have one team of six officers a corporal and a sergeant the to do that work they were housed in the general fund that allowed only for day shift coverage Monday through Friday what we are proposing is to expand that to two teams of ten each eight officers a corporal and a sergeant again paired with the mental health professional that allow us to coverage seven days a week throughout two shifts the capacity to build out the third shift third of our three shifts is the overnight shift and you know that's where the program will be able to expand it some of the other things we're doing with mental health is to partner with a local foundation that's agree fund all of our officers getting trained up as mental health peace officers and certified as such give them training so if they have to respond to somebody mental crisis that we better suit all getting a mental health advisory board with some nonprofits and some service providers to help guide us in our policy and how we respond to those calls our goal is actually to get guidance on which calls we can divert from ever coming to the police department divert to those service providers that we want to get the professionals that the opportunity crisis and not the police office you know the business because they're gonna be called where people have crisis and they needed police fonts and then when we encounter somebody with mental health crisis that requires police action right now we have a one option and that is if we can't get a health service provider we have to take them with partnering with Taren County and some of the area agencies as a third alternative which is to health crisis diversion center where they're at that location of staff with professionals and doctors that can give them the help they can or somebody who's involved in a low-level offense non-violent offense will be here instead of taking them okay I'm happy to the community response unit that I talked about is that the pilot program of ten ten non-sworn employees that are gonna answer calls in the community there's several similar programs in several different cities but kind of calls they would respond to a report calls where the suspects not on scene anymore loose livestock welfare checks stranded motorists abandoned property that kind of thing we have a large number of those priority three and four calls that come in they tend to sit in the queue for a long time because more urgent calls come requiring it the response of a police officer so these calls can hold for some of some for several hours while officers deal with emergency calls this program here would allow us to deal with these calls in a quicker fashion and also keep the police officers available for emergency calls and to work their beats as the beat officers we want them to be though to accomplish some of the stuff we're talking about moving the the software programs the enhanced programs into the ccpd and the other more traditional programs into the general fund these the numbers in parentheses are the number of full-time employees that are actually moving between the two funds so the SWAT the criminal tracking unit and the special response teams on the left are moving into the general fund and the ccpd additions are the crisis intervention team some of our administrators of community programs our bike units and the cadet program which we started this past year is a recommendation from the racing culture task force and that is hiring young people in a part-time position as a pipeline to get them into the police department also get them familiar with the police department and the the top program there is the hope or the homeless team that homeless outreach team has been established for about a year and a half now and it is shown great promise in the homeless corridor especially in dealing with people who are in camping out in the open people who are experiencing homelessness and they're able to direct them to services we started a partnership with our fire department where they put a paramedic with our officer and a mental health service provider to deal with those individuals and it's been very successful and very well received in the homeless community. The different five funding initiatives we'll go through those quickly here the enhanced enforcement is what we just talked about moving the personnel from SWAT criminal tracking unit SRT out of the CCPD and into the general fund those are the first three blue highlighted categories and then at the bottom the bike units are moving into the CCPD since they are a softer unit and also the cops hiring grant match as Mr. Cook pointed out we are not able to do a lot of hiring right now the matrix staffing study that was completed in January 2019 indicated that we had a long way to go to hire up to the number of officers needed for the size of our city and to provide the service levels our residents are accustomed to they said we need 157 officers immediately within additional 181 in the next decade because of COVID we are simply unable to fund that what we had started last year which was a hiring of 35 officers we're not able to accommodate that this year but we were able to leverage a United States Department justice cops hiring grant to hire 13 that has been approved by the council and so we will be hiring 13 officers and it's not 35 but it's a lot better than nothing a neighborhood crime prevention is the next funding initiative we moved a lot of the programs the crisis intervention team the homeless team and then that new group of civilian response unit office or civilian sands or the non-emergency calls all moving into CCPD partners with a shared mission so this is the one dealing with the after-school program and some of the other programs like that that we fund each of the funding categories up here got a 15% bump they hadn't had an increase in many years so we decided to increase each of those standing partnerships the after-school program alliance for children coming up gang intervention crime prevention agency family justice center all within a 15% increase the line item second to bottom that says program expansion and enhancement is a program we started last year mr. Cook allowed us to put a quarter million dollars into the budget last year designated specifically for a new program to fight violent crime it was actually recommended by councilmember gray that program has been developed as VIP Fort Worth violence intervention program Fort Worth and they deal specifically with intervening with individuals who are likely to be involved in shootings either as a victim or as a suspect that project is up and running and we're increasing it based on the performance this year by 15% also so they're getting an increase in their program as well the highlighted program is community-based programs that is an initiative where we solicit programs through an RFP process those programs can request funding through the CCC PD to get their programs up and running and off the ground it has been funding for that has been stuck at $250,000 for many many years what we realize is there are a lot of programs that can't apply for that because they can't get the funding stream they need to either make their program sustainable over a couple years or that they need more than the $50,000 we generally give each program each year so we're increasing that from 250,000 to two million dollars recruitment training is one of the funding programs that we are actually decreasing and that's not because we're not needing to recruit more officers it we simply are only having one recruit class planned for this fiscal year the current fiscal year we ran four classes through three of those are still in session now but most of the funding for those it's already been paid for so we're having to run one recruitment class and in fiscal year 2021 there may be an opportunity or a need to run a second class to keep up with attrition but since we're not expanding the number of officers on the department we do not have to find a full recruit officer training program equipment tech and infrastructure is where we put most of the equipment for the police officers including vehicles there's some significant funding decreases in this category which allow us to increase the programs in the prior prior funding initiatives are the first highlighted line is technology infrastructure program we are decreasing that by two million dollars one of that is a one million dollar one time it decrease that we do not need for capital projects the other million dollars is simply taking the money out of there and putting it into the city-wide camera program creating in its own initiative because of that that is a program that is proven to be very successful we want to take that out make it its own line item so we can better report on on the success we were having with that and needs to increase or decrease the number of cameras in the city facility requirement program is two point four million dollars that we've been paying for each of the last five years to help fund the building of the Bob Boland public safety complex on the south side of town we took a loan out from the solid waste department for ten million dollars and have paid that back each of the five last five years that loan is now satisfied so going into this year in future years we do not have to pay that back our high mileage vehicle program is decreasing that is mainly due the fact that our fleet is in such good shape right now it's in the best shape I've ever seen it my 28 years and we're able to not need to replace the high mileage vehicles quite as often this is just the proposed budget by category salaries and benefits make up the most the big bulk of the money that comes in through the CCPD services equipment and utilities repairs make up a big chunk of that as well so there you go got some questions all right okay what is the benefit purpose of switching funds from CCPD budget to the general fund just just putting more traditional services into the general fund just because we had so many questions about what CCPD funded and a lack of knowledge of some of the enhanced services that are provided by CCPD by switching them and we're not even put all traditional services into general fund it ideally we I think we would put vehicles in there too because they're essential police essential to police services but I think it better delineates what is a traditional police service and what is an enhancement provided by CCPD I believe you already spoke to this but will the VIP program that Pastor McIntosh proposed last Friday be funded yes it's gonna continue be funded this fiscal year and it is increased by 15% in the CCPD budget what falls under neighborhood crime prevention neighborhood crime prevention the the funding initiative I don't know that was the question and it might have come in before you covered that part okay so this has all our volunteer programs are highlighted under the code blue program that is our citizens on on patrol volunteers that is our ministers against crime volunteers our clergy and police alliance our community emergency response teams they are all citizen volunteers that devote their time and efforts to the police department to help prepare for emergencies to help fight crime and to help improve relationships between the department and the community crime prevention unit is just exactly what it says we have crime prevention specialists that interact with the community they go to neighborhood association meetings homeowner association meetings they're the ones who are out there doing the kid ID and the crime prevention tips the crime prevention through environmental design surveys to see if there's ways to improve security around businesses or residential areas the NPO program is the neighborhood policing officer program every beat in the city with very few exceptions has their own neighborhood police officer that individual is not subject to calls for service but instead is more of a beat organizer beat coordinator and is there to solve some of the routine problems that occur on a beat whether it's neighbor neighbors disputing with each other street lights out you know broken windows theory addressing those issues on the beat that may invite crime patrol support program is basically it is maintenance for the patrol facilities and some overtime police storefront program is just that we have several storefronts throughout the city where officers can go spend some time they're not the police sectors but they're actually out in the community typically we don't pay for these except for a little bit of utilities it's usually the locations where these are staffed those locations open up the area to us and pay for the the don't charge us rent to be there and then the community programs CIT hope and community service professionals are just the those individuals that we are moving into the CCPD those programs we talked about and are the officers who respond to mental health calls to greed in social work or are they police officers first with a little extra training yes they are police officers that's why we staff them with somebody service provider that is trained and can take the lead on those calls what specifically falls under the category community based programs the community based programs are the ones that are open for solicitation that we put out a solicitation and say if you want CCPD funding you can apply for it and so I don't have the list of this year's funded programs but there are five of them that were funded a different dollar amounts there were four additional ones that were not funded however with this increase we're going to be able to provide at least partial funding for them and then we will have another solicitation probably in January of this year where other programs can apply for CCPD funding and that's the category that went from 250,000 to just over two million dollars how can people find out information about the grant RFP and what determines the amount that's funded so we will put out a solicitation for that we will put out the RFP believe we are scheduled for an October release with evaluations occurring in November December and the program starting in January the funding amount is based on the need of the program the people responding to the RFP they make the ask we do believe there are going to be caps on it because we want to be able to be fair and not give all the funding to one particular program and we will not always be able to fund and we have not always been able to fund to the degree that people or organizations have asked for but we are able to provide that supplementary money for those organizations to start up and sometimes we can fund exactly what they're asking that's all the questions I've gotten well we have no more questions and unless somebody here has something they want a question they'd like to ask if not I want to say thank you all for spending your evening with us and we we're hosting meetings through the 22nd and so it does not have to be your district meeting all of the meetings are open to the public they are 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