 So good afternoon. I'd like to call the meeting of the licensing hearings of Public Safety Committee to order Item 1.1 is roll call. Alderperson, Felvey Present Alderperson, Decker Here Alderperson, Laster is excused and Alderperson, Amanda Salislaw Here All right, since we are all here, would everybody please rise of the Pledge of Allegiance? Congratulations to the flying of the United States of America. to the republic for which it stands. One nation under him, indivisible with liberty and justice. We can skip introductions as we all know each other. If that's what you mean? It's not a few thousand, but we can. Oh Hi You're gonna stand up cuz Barb can't see you, so you haven't come in today. I'm sorry. I didn't see you guys there. I'm sorry, it was second. I'm January, my generalist of the city. Yes. And I'm Nicole Gashby, the other HR generalist of the city. It's nice to have you guys here. Absolutely. Thank you. All right. So item 2.1 is the approval of the minutes from the October 13th meeting. I will make a motion to approve. Second. We have a motion and a second. Any discussion? All those in favor of approving the minutes, please say aye. Aye. Aye. I'm opposed. Chair votes aye. That motion has approved. Moving on to item 3.1, our own member 94-21-22 by Fire Chief Eric Montalana, submitting the Fire Department's quarterly report of benchmark measurements for the period commencing on July 1, 2021, and ending September 30, 2021. Thank you all very actively. So just real quick, some of the highlights for 2021, everybody should have the packet. Our calls were down a little bit compared to last year, just the fire calls. But ultimately, year to date, we are higher. So we're kind of on track. So it just goes through little phases. So we're actually on track to be a little higher than last year. The EMS calls were also, these were up 12% from last year. So that's what brings our total call volume up. Due to the fewer fire calls for the quarter, a lot of our formal fire investigations also were impacted. So those are down about 44%. But again, those are at fires. So that's a good thing. Just means we haven't been having a lot of fires. So Fire Station 2 and usually Fire Station 1 is our busiest station. Fire Station 2 this quarter had the largest increase in volume, which is unique. So they increased 34% alone in their area. So we installed about 36 detectors doing our inspections and stuff. And they found about 23 non-compliant buildings or businesses. So we're on track, normal pace. So that's it unless you guys have any questions. Questions or comments? You're back in the schools, which is good. Yeah, we're actually wrapping up our last couple this week and next week. We'll be in school. So yeah, it was good to get back in. Anybody else? I'm looking for a motion to accept and file the envelope. We'll do something final. Second. All those in favor, please take a five at the stating aye. Aye. Opposed? You're about to say aye. Moving on to item 3.2, RO number 93-21-22 by the Chief of Police, Christopher Dunn-Magalski, submitting the police quarterly report of benchmark measurements for the period committing July 1, 2021, and ending September 30th, 2020. Good afternoon. You have the report in front of you. The IFC has the highlights on it. I didn't ruin that, but I can get them for the most part anyway. Part one crimes, violent crime is down year to date versus both last year and 2019 and property crime. It's the same thing. It's down in comparison to both years. Traffic accidents were up slightly versus last year, 2020 at 1039, comparison to 984 last year, but that's significantly ahead of 2019. It's the last year you have to remember during that period of COVID traffic was really, really down for about three months. So we're really making good progress there. I extrapolate that out to about 1,300 accidents, which is in comparison from the lowest that we've had is about 1,500 all the way up to over 2,000. So we're, lots of issues still with distractive and aggressive driving out there, but I would say we are having some progress at least on the accident. So that's positive. And then the other thing that I put on there that I think is significant that we have to keep watching is the mental health commitments. So it really continues to drive our call volume, and we were doing a pretty decent job with all of the partners of driving down the number of involuntary commitments, which in past meetings I've told you is good because that means we're finding other services really to deal with those issues rather than locking people up at, I say that loosely at Memorial and going that route, but it's significantly up this year again at 107 versus about 80 last year at this point. So a lot of stress in the system there still. And then one of the things I would just mention is one of the things that we've been working on with the county that I'm hopeful will come to fruition and it looks like it's positive that we step this point is the possibility of us developing a co-responder program with the county where they would cover 16 hours a day of having a social worker available and embedded at the police department to respond to crisis type of calls with us so that we can try to provide different services and make more appropriate referrals and do some follow-ups to try to really, yeah, just help out the people better in the community so that they're not spiraling into crisis all of the time. So that's what I got for you. If you have any questions, let me know. Can I have any questions? I like that idea though. Yeah, we just mentioned the other thing that we've asked them to try to do that we've talked to them probably for about two years. We've been talking about this. It's really the same kind of concept but trying to get a... So we have people that man crisis call a phone, essentially, so that when people are in crisis, they can call that number. So we're trying to get the county to take that service and take some of those workers and actually put them in the dispatch center so that when those calls are coming into the dispatch center rather than transferring that call outside of the dispatch center, there's somebody right there that can deal with it before they try to send a cop to it that they just might be able to handle it when they're on the phone rather than sending us or they can start to do that and if they need a different response, they can switch to that there. So that's something that's starting to go on nationally and so it looks like there might be some energy to experiment with that too. Do you have a launch date for that or are you hoping? I think I have to be careful what I say. So I think if it gets approved, what we would like to happen would be January 1st, but I think based on the labor market, one of the biggest concerns of everybody is are they going to be able to hire people to do this actually? That seems to be the biggest concern at this point. Anybody else have any questions? It looks like I am looking for a motion to accept and file the RO. Motion to accept and file. Second. We have a motion and I can't call those who are in favor of accepting and filing the RO. Please decide by stating aye. Aye. And your votes aye. That motion is approved. All right, so now we are moving on to resolution number 792122, a resolution authorizing the appropriate city officials to execute the Joint Powers Agreement for Chevrogan County and the city of Chevrogan 9-1-1 emergency systems. I can take it, sure, I guess. So this is an agreement that by statute where because of the 9-1-1 system and how it operates in the county, we're required to have an agreement that Chuck has approved with the county just to ensure that we respond to the calls. So primarily what it covers is if we would get a call that's not in the city, we would still provide service there rather than stopping and saying, we're going to check on ours and then have to wait for the county to respond to it. Any questions? Discussion, nothing? How do you handle it? Do you handle the whole call in or do you just handle the situation until the sheriff gets there? I think it really would depend on the type of situation and the resources are available. Okay. Any other questions? Comments? I am looking for a motion to recommend adoption. Motion to recommend adoption. Second. We have a motion and a second. All those who are in favor be signified by stating aye. Aye. Opposed? Which are votes aye? That motion is approved. Next item is item 3.4. Resolution number 782122, a resolution authorizing expenditure offense received as part of the criminal justice law enforcement drug trafficking response 2022 grant solicitation. That's a mouthful. Hello guys. Yeah. So a little bit about the law enforcement drug trafficking 2022 grant. The Sheboyin County MAG unit was awarded this grant. We've actually been awarded it in the past as well. In the past we were able to utilize it to replace some vehicles that were in need of getting replaced. This time we would be looking to use those funds to replace one vehicle. We'd also be looking to upgrade some of the equipment that we use during the course of our investigations. And I guess the primary purchase, which would be the biggest one, is an item that would allow us to test the substances that we're coming into contact with in a more safer manner than the pouches that we've been using in the past. So that would be the item along with the vehicles and upgrading some of our equipment that we'd be looking to use that money for. Any questions, concerns, comments? I am looking for a motion to recommend adoption. Motion to recommend adoption. Give a second. So all those who are in favor please signify by stating aye. Opposed? Your votes aye. That resolution is approved. So now we're at item 3.5, our own member, 95-21-22 by the city clerk submitting various license applications. We're recommending granting all of the applications on the arrow. I am looking for a motion. Do we have any questions, comments? No? I'm looking for a motion to grant the applications on the arrow. The motion to recommend granting the applications on the arrow. We have a motion and a second. All those who are in favor please signify by stating aye. Opposed? Your votes aye. That motion is approved. Item 4.1, our next meeting date will be November 10, 2021. So I am looking for a motion to adjourn. I believe you. A motion to adjourn. Second. A motion and a second. I adjourn. All those in favor please signify by stating aye. Opposed? Your votes aye. We now adjourn. Thank you for your time everybody.