 Okay, the meeting is live great. It looks like we have enough people to call the meeting to order is that right? Yes, okay. Thank you So I would like to to call the meeting to order and ask the recording secretary for roll call, please Chair Bailey here Vice chair minor here member Smith here member Hinnott here Here member Atkinson President member Holmes member Castan member Castan Here and okay, and did I hear member Holmes? I'm here. Oh, okay. Thank you Let the order reflect it all subcommittee members are present great. Thank you so much Welcome everyone is good to see the ones that I can see in for the rest of you I'm sure we'll see you in a bit um I'd like to remind the committee members to keep your audio on mute, please unless you're actually speaking The staff will remain muted until needing to speak and as members of the public join the meeting They will be able to participate as an attendee their microphone and camera will be muted only today's panelists will be viewed during the meeting If you were calling in from a telephone and choose to speak during the public comments Portion of today's agenda for privacy concern the host will we will be remaining Renaming excuse me your viewable phone number to resident and the last four digits of your phone number And I'd like to ask the recording secretary to explain the public comments and how they will be heard today At each agenda item the item is presented the chair will ask for committee members Comments and then open it up for public comment The host in zoom will be lowering all hands until public comment is open for the agenda item Once the chair has called for public comment The chair will announce for the public to raise their hand if they wish to speak on the specific agenda item If you were calling in to listen to the meeting audibly you can dial Star nine to raise your hand the host will then call on the public who have raised their hands Public comment will be limited to three minutes in a timer will appear on the screen for the committee members and public to see Once all live public comments have been heard the meeting host will read Email submitted if you provide a live public comment on an agenda item But also submitted an email your email comment will not be read during the meeting Additionally, there is one public comment period on today's agenda to speak on non agenda matters, which is item two This is the time when any person may address the committee on matters not listed on this agenda Ellen you are muted Ellen you are muted Thank you. I apologize We are now taking public comments on item two, which are non agenda item matters This is a time when any person may address the committee on matters not listed on this agenda If you wish to make a comment via zoom, please raise your hand if you are dialing in via telephone Please dial star nine to raise your hand And host we let me know if anyone's there I see no hands raised and no comments were received. Okay, great then. Let's continue to item three Which is approval of the minutes I'm having I'm hoping everyone had a chance to read the minutes from the last meeting Which was on a special meeting that was on april 20th 2022. And are there any changes to the minutes that are needed? Doesn't look like it So we would need a member of the committee to please make a motion to approve the minutes as they stand I'll move to approve the minutes as they stand And second Okay Did you get the Get that I wasn't sure who said both those things. It's recording secretary get those names and Who was the second? That oh, thank you that great. Thank you very much Okay, so now we'll move on to scheduled items number 4.1 the fiscal year report 2021 22 measure o annual report and I believe we'll be having a presentation Good evening chair bailey and members of the committee. My name is jason perish I'm the administrative services officer for the recreation and parks department And you're to start off the violence prevention section of the presentation if you could please advance the slide So this is a far more positive table than what we were reviewing a year ago The beginning fund balance for 21 22 was a little bit over half a million dollars Which was all told was far greater than what we are initially expecting it and With that and our program expenditures, we were just about in balance overall leaving us over $450,000 and remaining fund balance At this time last year We were looking at totals that might have required Over a quarter of a million dollars in program reductions within the violence prevention section, but um, thankfully counter-intuitively Or maybe it is coming out of cobit the sales tax really boosted the overall program If you could advance the slide, please And what you'll see here is the overall distribution of expenditures in 21 22 as we were coming out of cobit The choice grants in this case represented over 40 of the total program expenditures, which The the guidance that was developed after the adoption of the measure was initially saying 35 percent But what this represents is the additional grants that Megali will be talking about that have been put into the community to serve the nonprofits That work through the choice grant program So the second biggest expenditure is salaries and within the violence prevention section What that means is roughly one third of these Expenditures are for the regular positions supporting the violence prevention partnership One third of it is for the regular positions supporting the neighborhood services group That do the direct services in the community and the remaining third are the temporary salaries for the the Just dozens and dozens of kids that we employ to Provide the programs at the community centers and the neighborhood centers So and what you see on the administration line is the citywide cost allocation plan So that's $56,000 that the violence prevention both community engagement neighborhood services Pay for things like human resources and information technology and finance and the city council As well as the city manager and the city attorney So that is the overall expenditures for a little bit over 2.3 million dollars And so I'll ask for the slide to be advanced and I will be turning it over to deputy director of recreation jeff. Oh, excuse me one last slide what this shows is the The green is the expenditures the blue are the revenues for this and the difference between the two shows Our ability to predict revenue on a year-to-year basis. So as you can see In 14 or 15 14 15 We had a tremendous drop the following year and it's taken us almost that long to recover from that revenue dip But we have been able to accommodate With the overall programs changes to continue providing the high level of service so that now As you were able to see the sales tax has continued to rise in a way that allows us to instead have A fund balance that will give the programs A little bit of strategic breathing room for delivery of services in the community And so now I will turn it over to jeff tibet All right. Thank you jason And thank you citizens oversight committee. I will do my best. I know we've given you guys some updates throughout the year So I will do my best not to repeat myself too much and I will do my best to stay within the fiscal year It's always so hard for me to stay on track with that because obviously programming wise We're just out there doing things. So Obviously this last fiscal year, you know The same same story we've been you know all the updates to you have been talking a lot about Covid and the creativity of staff and and how to get services back out there and And how to be with the kids and do all those things And fortunately this fortunately this past year Was some of the efforts of getting back to service model the way that we've done it before and While I appreciate and commend the staff for all their creativity The reality is we we did things the way before covid because they are more efficient So as we can get back to doing it that way that that's a victory and definitely something to celebrate So some of the examples of programs the after school program model that we run having six bourbon housing sites and We also run the kindergarten program, which I've spoken about in previous updates Where again identifying what's going on in our community being able to adapt again staffed a great job with this program Realizing that right next to stealing community center at stealing elementary school The after school program school based after school program provider was not able to serve the kindergarten students That year during covid staffing shortages All the rules that they were navigating they just weren't able to provide that service so Our staff being being as as creative and and outgoing as they were said hey We've got stealing community center right here right next door. We can walk over we can pick up the kids We can walk them over and so again just one of those those huge programs to get those Young kids into a program a safe place after school Was very appreciated by the families and one of the big success stories of this past year So that's the after school model there you see the the total service hours As you'll see on this this sheet here They're reported a couple different ways on that one We've reported it weekly and that's just the nature of how after school programs work But it's a whole school year program nine month programming So the best way to capture it we felt was to show the weekly impact of those kids being in those programs Consistently every day throughout throughout the the entire school year The next area of programs that we group together there are the sports clinics the dance and the cheer and again These are programs. I've talked about in the past of how staff had to be creative and You have a chair program, but now you don't have any sports league So Where do they go cheer and and flipping that program around and offering a dance program? Again, we didn't couldn't offer the sports leagues um Whether it was the the rules of cohorts and those types of things or just the the The delay in the schools opening back up to those types of programming and be able to use the gym So starting new sports clinics and running that program through here And again, you can see over 300 participants and in those programs Which when you consider that all had to be reimagined as we went through the year Really quite an accomplishment for the staff to serve so many kids with these programs And one of the things I really want to highlight with with these programs I know I've spoken about it in the past. It's something I'm very passionate about Is the work that our staff are doing out there with the kids? Yes, we're we're giving kids a safe place to be we're giving them positive role models. We're you know working on self esteem We're we're trying to help close the the academic gap where so many different things that are a part of the program that we're doing That that our neighborhood services goals But as part of the bigger picture as part of the violence prevention partnership I think one of the key things that we do with the nature of the program we do is building relationships and I think Looking at that particular program area There's a story to be told as I kind of jump into this current this current fiscal year But we're starting to see the benefit of that that relationship and what it really does for us Sports clinics dance and shear programs that we're able to continue We had no problems filling right there. There was that relationship people knew about the programs We built trust they signed up for them bringing back some of the sports leagues and stuff. We've struggled a little bit But we were able to to get back out there But ironically when we started a program like junior lawyers I think most people who work with youth know it's a lot harder to get those 11 and 12 and 13 year olds than it is to get those eight nine ten year olds So when we start programs Usually the younger groups are very successful right off the bat and we build up and as we build those relationships And that's exactly what we saw is The reverse of that would show the importance of those relationships our junior warriors program coming back the older group filled first Um, and we were kind of scratching our heads saying well, how did that happen? Well, that older group had been in junior warriors as younger kids, you know, they'd been around for three four years So they knew the program. They were waiting for it to come back. They were looking for it They were excited the younger group didn't know the program. We had to go back out to The back to school nights and and those different things to engage those families and send flyers out and do those things to Engage the the families of the younger kids to say hey, here's a program and and get them in and again It's just a sign of the success that those programs are going to continue to have in the future And the great work that the staff are doing out there Not just with the kid who's in the program but with the family and building those relationships and the trust Move on to the last group there. We've put together the summer and break camps And again, one of the big accomplishments here is getting back to how we did Services in the past and one of the big things for us is partnering with the schools and using school campuses So as we see a a big increase in numbers there 639 participants registered through That is the fall camp winter camp spring camp and then the recreation sensation summer program Over 105,000 total service hours. You can calculate that as a child for an hour As a service hour part of the reason for that success is getting back out to the school campuses and so using the the break camps as an example with the Sorry I'm looking at the report numbers with the break camps. We had about 233 participants registered if you look at Our fall and our winter we were serving about 60 kids per camp and that's because we weren't able to use school campuses And then being able to go back to shepherd elementary school as one of our sites for for the spring camp We were able to serve over 100 kids with that with that camp Often using very similar types of resources Similar cost to measure. Oh and staffing and those types of things But again, just the the facility that we're at and what the facility can accommodate and the difference that that makes is Is really instrumental in how many kids that we can serve. So it was huge accomplishment for us to get back into the schools For that spring camp And get that model back up and running and then we saw that success carry over with 381 participants scheduled for recreation sensation Over the summer and again, that's that's the success of being at those school sites Helen layman elementary school Lincoln elementary school Meadow v elementary school and rosalie creek elementary school And those numbers Honestly as great as they were a little lower than we anticipate in future summers because one of the school sites There were some limitations with the amount of rooms that were available and some work that they were doing So as we continue to get back in the schools and continue to build those relationships with the schools and identify those sites That number from 380 can increase to 400 420 Students that we're serving every summer. So Again, it might seem like a small thing But it's really important and a big accomplishment this year to to deal with the covet protocols to deal with new agreements with The schools based off of covet and get insurances updated and check all those boxes to get back out to the schools Because again at the end of the day, it's it's not just where we're offering a program. It's 40 60 100 more kids that we're serving in these programs. And so it really doesn't make a big difference and was a big accomplishment for the staff this year With that, I will pass on to the next slide and pass on to deputy director Macaulay chaos Thanks, jeff. Um, I'm going to be here with the bounce prevention partnership Uh, just I wanted to give it a little recap For any community that that are joining us, but talk a little bit about our outreach The outreach that the balance prevention partnership has been doing Is been specific to providing information about the balance prevention partnership about measure o the choice grant program and resources for local using families We've had a number of events and these events have included large-scale community events like earth day synchro the myo Juneteenth, we've participated and been invited To many of these and some of these we've hosted or co-hosted In you know throughout the last fiscal year. We've attended community meetings town halls neighborhood specific meetings and events worked with our choice grantee events through the v pass Our crisis response to schools and and different presentations that we've been called to So as you can see on your screen in the last fiscal year, we attended or hosted Uh, we're invited to 54 events and we were able to outreach to almost 4500 community members one of those co-hosted events Was wildfire ready which was coordinated in partnership with the centers of fire department and the communications and intergovernmental relations office We had a total of 25 community partners who participated and there was a total of over 200 community members in attendance information was provided For individuals and families around preparedness A home and property preparedness emergency alerts and notifications evacuation zones mental health and other wellness resources around disaster preparedness For neighborhoods our crisis response team We're continuing to respond to community acts of violence and the crisis response team Was activated and we activate our protocols three times during the last fiscal year This protocol activates police the partnership and other city departments as appropriate along with community service organizations social service agencies and schools to respond prompt promptly To acts of violence by providing guidance resources and engagement opportunities The crisis response protocol aims to restore peace in the community and to assist family members relatives and those impacted by violent incidents school outreach school outreach pilot program Also in response to acts of violence in the community and a gap in services for youth ages 13 and 15 The partnership created the school outreach pilot program A 12 week life skills course which offered participating student classes in anger management conflict resolution and exposure to various violence prevention strategies and activities The pilot was implemented at santa rosa middle school An average of six youth participated in each weekly session each session followed a restorative circle format Where youth were provided the opportunity to dialogue with one another about their feelings and experiences As well as journal and engage in interactive activities Centered around a weekly theme the pilot was modeled after the aggression replacement training program And included wraparound services provided to all participating youth and their families This program really was crucial and was born out of the Sort of unprecedented rise in violence that we were seeing across the middle schools in san rosa Not just middle schools, but high schools. So this is a program that the the team And developed so if we can go to the next slide, please So with funding leveraged by the sonoma accounting probation department the partnership continued implementation of the guiding people successfully Program many of you had already met our wonderful coordinator for that program The gps program provides critical funding for system level improvements to the partnerships referral system While also supporting evidence informed prevention and intervention programs Including services such as case management in home counseling Work readiness training and paid work experience Since its inception in january of 2015 376 youth have been enrolled in gps for fiscal year 2021 2022 This accounted for uh 48 non probationary youth and 12 youth on probation Totally in 60 youth This is an overall um, this could be an overall increase of 23 percent in total youth referred Both probationary and non probationary There was also a 40 increase in the number of non probationary youth referred And one of the reasons for this increase in numbers is the creation of the green spaces for all faces program To close the gap in services and to take a proactive approach to support you participating in the gps program The partnership created green spaces for all faces in partnership with sonoma county probation and sonoma county regional parks the goal of green spaces for all faces is to provide a space for high school issues to participate in pro social activities off campus in an outdoor setting Access accessing the health benefits of being outdoors To earn community service hours and learn more about local parks and violence prevention partnership services, of course Since the program launched in march of 2022 a total of 51 youth have uh participated We will go to the next slide please so with our choice cycle 10 uh year two we continued Working with our we continued working out with our 10 grantees implementing programs under the partnerships for pillars Which are school readiness to an engagement truancy prevention street outreach and mediation and workforce development The picture this picture here is of our youth working with conservation for north bay with their uh core members And we've continued to use our results based accountability. So the rba framework All community partners use specific performance measures to evaluate Their impact and at the close of each choice cycle. We ask ourselves How much should we do? How well did we do it? Is anyone better off? the county of sonomas human human services department Planning research evaluation and engagement also known as pre Uh unit was engaged by the partnership to provide Evaluation and scorecard development services So pre or also known as known as upstream investment Their staff provided training and technical assistance to the partnership staff and cycle 10 choice grantees on the clear impact scorecard This included development in the launch of the santa rosa violence prevention clear impact scorecard database Um, we we provided um input on how to access the scorecard How to enter the data development of choice uh program indicators and performance measures As well as the development and performance measures for each participating choice grantee All participating grantees began entering their own data into the clear impact scorecard in the fall of 2021 And moving forward staff will be training all future grantees including the current cycle loving grantees on how to enter this data Unfortunately, the evaluation of choice cycle 10 year two Was not completed due to the departure of the loss prevention program manager in in mid 2021 And multiple unexpected leaves of leaves of absence from key program staff A wild data was entered into the clear impact scorecard a full analysis was not conducted And recently the partnership staff, uh, we're in a current process of procuring and onboarding an evaluator So assist with these services moving forward Um a quick update on the choice mini grants. Uh, this program was suspended due to coven 19 and also our staffing shortages, but um, we are Trying to get it back in the queue um to be able to offer that Hopefully, um, not too long from now. So, uh, next slide, please And that is the end any questions comment Agali it's Ellen. Hi. Thank you. And it just sounds like well everyone appreciate the reports It's just been exciting to see things come back, right and and um, I really am impressed with how You know new things that you've created, especially the green spaces for all faces I think that's a really important one for that age group, particularly they're struggling with Social interaction at this point and being outdoors helps. I'm assuming that because you had that that these kids we had more um referrals because you had more contact with different organizations that We're helping them to connect went up with these services. So that's really Fabulous. So thank you for that. Um, I had one question here and I have looked put my glasses on so I can see what it was um Oh, I know you said that the the will the scorecard I know the scorecard's planning. I do second to be this fall that that's going to be coming out Or is that been delayed again because of the staff issues you've been having? Well, we are hoping to be able to align that with our new program manager. Um, And hoping that we'll be able to put the program manager position In at least by the beginning of next year Is is what seems to be pretty feasible. And so having that new staff person Really outline a vision in terms of, you know What the scorecard could look like now post everything we learned in 2020 Gotcha. So in and then so you're looking at putting hopefully in january Recruiting as the program manager But that would be nice for you. You've been running two At least two positions as far as that. I know so that'll be really okay. Thank you. And does anybody else have questions? Vice chair minor was next Yeah One suggestion going forward. Um, because I've been taking extensive notes is that when we have each um section Like neighborhood services violence for if we could stop for questions And so I've been jotting down my questions, but I don't want to forget by going through everybody and then going back So could we make that change going forward? So, um, I'm going back to neighborhood services And this is going to be a question for not only neighborhood services but violent prevention I want to find out is there anything in place where like there's like an exit Um survey for the kids that have been in these programs before Because what we're finding is that kids um entrance are changing like jeff said and so I wanted to find out Are we going back and talking to the kids to find out? What do they want to see in the programming because What worked last year may not work this year. So is there anything in place? Um like that jeff and then also migali So there is and it has fluctuated through the different years And it's certainly one of the aspects with with the reporting. That's my goal Within those programs that are offered through recreation And as the report card gets Reestablished is to really hold our programs at that same Same standard of doing that same recording as any of the choice grant agencies So there is information done. That's kind of been program specific But to I think the point of your question, there's definitely more to do with it more information to gather Um To to celebrate successes to find areas for improvement So we'll definitely be evaluating that within the the neighborhood services programs and More standards whether that's again lined up with with the new report card format Or you know, just surveying that we do Amongst again our our program area And same question migali. Yeah, thank you for that question because we actually are Implementing that now especially since we're doing You know our results based accountability And we have been doing that in our needs assessment But I can tell you for example with our school With our pilot program. We did do a pre and post assessment So we we were able to gather information after the program In terms of you know, if I could just give you some real quick items here So 50 of the students that reported That they knew they reported that they knew who to contact for support Before participating in the pilot after the pilot program 83 of the students reported They knew who to contact for support. So You know, the program was working Uh, the wraparound service portion of it was working and so we are going to be looking very deeply into How to how to better, you know, tell the story of the effectiveness of of these programs. So Yes, thank you And then one more question. This is back to Jeff. I know we have Surgeons going on as far as coven and flu and rsv. And so with the with the upcoming Programming are there any kind of protocols that are going into place to make sure that we, you know, keep our little Kittles safe or is it just every man for himself? So, yeah, I mean Unfortunately our new reality right we say we're gonna. Oh, we're gonna get back to Back to to normal. Um, and I think the the reality is realizing that that that's a new normal. Um And so I think the the differences were much more equipped to handle that now We've learned so much over the last years. We've implemented so many things So while there has not been mandates and and we have not had to implement anything specific Um at this point I think, you know one we hire a lot of staff out of these programs First jobs a lot of times so along young staff Um So you're talking about people that have this is kind of what they've grown up with And so I think our greatest resource is them and the fact that this isn't just like, oh How do we run this program or something? It's kind of become a way of life and and they're very good at it Um And I think everyone, you know, we continue to remind parents, you know, not that, you know Habits that we probably should have always been in even before the pandemic. You're not feeling well Stay home Do some less saying so A lot of things have just changed in the way that we offer programs Agreements with schools are a little bit different now and and so if the schools Implement certain procedures then we know with our use agreements We're gonna have to implement similar procedures with how we operate programming So there's a lot of balances and checks and and again, it's it's a constant evaluation of what's going on with programs and I don't remember the last time but we've we have still recently done some cohort shutdowns when we're like Oh, wait a second something's happened in here So it's again continued communication with the parents knowing what's going on reminders And those things We got a through the summer program. We were able to provide a lot of tests to families because we got a Test provided through a grant That helped us, you know, identify and and deal with those things. So there's constantly things going on We're constantly addressing it and monitoring it and evaluating what new procedures should be What old procedures we should go back to and juggling with all of that Okay, thank you so much and I do appreciate that uh The hours that is put on for each activity how much hours is being spent to that that helps me to Capture, you know, how much time and effort is being put into that. So well done. Thank you now definitely look to uh To evaluate those the the results and surveys and feedback from from participants more and have that included with the next one as well member castan Thank you. Um, so deputy director, uh, tibet says I'm gonna make sure I'm reading these numbers right for Parks and Rec. There's four fte and that's the Recreation Supervisor the two recreation coordinators the recreation specialist An equivalent of 10 fte and those are the the youth that are employed within your programs Correct Those are the budgeted positions within the measure o program There is the neighborhood services in the general fund which does provide another two positions and Roughly the same amount of temporary services And do we leverage other Funding sources besides the general fund and measure o is are there grants or anything else that comes in as a part of these programs? Uh, we do jeff can tell you uh, extensively about our change for kids program Which is a a kind of a partner program with this Yeah, so change for kids is a roundup of utility bills That is money that comes in and supports these programs as well The biggest matching fund that we have is that is that contract continues to grow is with burbank housing And so those after school programs the really the the measure o contribution to those programs are our permanent staff for the most part There's a lot of details to the contract number of sites and different things, but for the most part those are cost recovery in terms of Money received from burbank housing to pay the staffing that are at the site and everything so it's more the oversight that measure o supporting so that's definitely the the The best cost matching fund example that we have and and as other things come up with certainly look into i mean That's different over the years at one point when we were doing after school programs more school based That was a huge matching fund was grants received from the school district Um, so that's changed over the years, but right now it's it's primarily the change for kids and the burbank housing agreement With the burbank housing agreement. Do we say see that continuing as current size or growing over the you know in the future so um right now it it's probably at its Roughly capacity And again, it's I think there's some opportunity with burbank housing to grow But it's not funding that the oversight the permanent positions That are the ones, you know hiring the the staff at the sites and and developing curriculum and working with Organizations to bring in stem programming and planning field trips and all that other work that goes into it Although we do have a Limited term position that that we've funded for a couple of years and so For the next couple of years as we evaluate again right now. It's it's really tricky What we're looking at bringing back junior giants baseball We receive not funds from junior giants organization, but a ton of supplies and everything where we can offer that program very cheap So we're bringing back a lot of stuff We we really want to try to bring back our middle school soccer program That's been gone for a few years because we know that age needs services and that was such a Efficient model of serving a lot of kids of that age um So balancing that with with workloads with you know This this limited term position will that allow us for a couple years to increase With burbank housing and unfortunately we have a great relationship with them Um where we really can constantly evaluate and go back and forth one of the sites we started for this current fiscal year We went out there for about the first month and and there just wasn't the need that You know, both parties thought there would be more need there And so We we reassessed and we decided to move that location to another burbank housing site And that site's done very well with registration. So it's a great relationship that we're able to To constantly you know, obviously we go through contract periods and that whole mess of the legalities and everything But fortunately at the bottom end when it gets to getting the work done It's a great relationship that both parties are really interested in and serving the families and and doing whatever we can So it changes a lot I think right now we're we're kind of maxed out where we are but as we evaluate programs coming back and stuff There could be some potential for growth Excellent. Thank you Last question for you is um as we're hopefully looking for this transition to measure age What can the public expect is it going to be consistent with what we've been doing or the changes on the horizon? should age And so being a little bit new I want to see I don't know I believe the city attorney was going to be jumping on and I just want to see what I'm in a staff role allowed to answer Regarding that question not and just want to make sure Is the city attorney able to to make the meeting? Yes, one moment. Let me unmute her. Okay. Thank you. Oh good afternoon. Um, yes I am here. I did miss the question. So if I could get the question repeated, that would be great Yeah, thank you. So the question was um programmatically should age pass What would the public expect if there's difference if there's any differences or if it would be Very similar to what's happened under oh Um, I am going to have to turn up my sound. I could not hear you clearly I'm sorry. Let me see what I can do here Okay, um, can we try again? I'm sorry Yeah, no worries. So just programmatically because there are language differences between the two measures Would there be any? What can the public expect in during a transition time? Um, should each pass Once each passes and is in in effect That new language will Will apply so So that expands the areas That expands the uses permissible uses of measure o That includes for the mental health response services Some extensions of prioritization into roseland and southwest center And a couple of other things So for the Yeah, for the purposes of um Parks and recs the program the programs that are happening Would be continuing. Yes, there'll be no interruption and services. Um The measure extends it for an additional 20 years after 2024 So it remains in effect, but those changes into the allowable uses Uh take place immediately so But all of the existing programs Can continue. There's no change in the measure That would eliminate or reduce any of the existing programs And sue or magali are myself able to expand on You know strategy towards programming depending The outcome of the measure I'm also perfectly happy to have conversation after next week Okay Magali, I do have questions for you on this report So if For the let me get back to that page for the gps program Your reference that were I believe it's 48 and report but 51 youth from probation Have been engaged through it What's that total population That that are available to be served through probation in the city? So it's is it 48 or 51? Youth out of how many? That is a great question. I want to get you an exact number Uh, so if it's okay, I can come back with that information. Um But I don't want to give you a wrong Wrong number And I guess what's our intent for growing that because it seems like a really good transition Program So is the intent to kind of grow to where the population or resources? You know tap or how is that conversation with the probation department involving? Yeah, the probation department has been incredibly supportive. I think love working with edamite and and provision of getting used outdoors and also bringing in Various partners. Um, so other partner agencies because we are limited in our staffing Um, you know, what we've really benefited from is bringing other nonprofits who are serving The population bringing them in assisting. Um, they're assisting with resources Uh, so because as of now the that gps Position is Just funded By probation it was on a year-to-year, but now we're on a three-year We're we're going to be taking it to council. I should say To to be put um for us to be able to hire and have the coordinator position for on three-year contracts versus year-to-year But I guess having said that, um There we are working on allocating a budget to be able to to grow That program is as much as is feasible given the the staff capacity that we have and then given You know the position can leverage other partners to help us What's the measurements for success here like how are we Pracking with this population. What what makes this program successful? That is a great question And I know that edamite is working on You know, what are the indicators that that she's going to be using as we uh, really kind of lock in the formula For for the program, um, you know how she wants to navigate this because we haven't really been I mean it hasn't been ongoing long enough. So We do want to make sure that we're intentional, but we want that we want the end goal to be That youth and their families Can enjoy this outdoor space can enjoy doing a pro-social activity You know with family with with our agencies and also ultimately Get connected to the various choice Agencies that that also Give a service give our youth and family services Through the choice grants Thank you. Um, I just want to say I'm really happy to hear Throughout both the both parts of this first part of the presentation the Ability to leverage these funds to bring in other funds from other agencies Um, I think it's it's such a great use and good stewardship of Funding and um, yeah, so thank you Any other questions or shall we move on to fire? I think man's I had his name raised or a hand raised. I just don't see him on my screen Did this his yeah, it looks like he lowered it. He lowered it. Okay, great I just had one quick question for Magali Magali And I think Jason mentioned it that there was a five percent increase in in the money that was given to grantees this year Um, normally it's a 35 percent of the budget and it was 40 percent this time. Can you tell us about that? Jason do you want to That has actually more to do with the overall cash flow uh with it during the uh during the second half of dealing with cobit and so uh, typically we will budget for uh, the 35 percent as it goes in but it's especially during 21 22, uh because of the non-profits themselves as well as um, you know with some of the turnover and staff just making sure we have the granting process Continuing to go smoothly. And so we ended up having the 40 percent of what our total expenditures are Do you expect that to happen again? I would expect that to be more of a cash flow blip Um, and to be more peculiar particular to uh, 21 22 But um, we'll we'll have to see with the fund balance being far better than we were expecting it to It means jeff and magali will be able to look at like a Mention more of their strategic visions and what they can do to help move those forward Thank you And it looks like we need to move on to the next presentation Good afternoon chair bailey and members of the committee scott west rope fire chief of the city of san aroza next slide, please We have the next slide, please Thank you So i'll go over the budget and the operational side of major o Hopefully this is the last time you have to hear me get through the budget portion We finally hired a finance analyst who started about a month ago And I didn't think it was fair to have sarah go through this this early on in her tenure here But um, you'll be hearing from her in the future So just got to tolerate me for uh for one more presentation. So Looking at the high-level overview of measure o Our beginning fund balance started about 3.3 million dollars As you can see the revenues totaled about 4.6, which is a little bit higher than we had expected And then expenditures were about 4.1 million The 665 thousand dollar Um, uh, encumbrance that you see there is for the motorola portable. I'm sorry mobile radios and mobile repeater sites That this committee approved last year Um, those are in our possession and they're being installed, but it still shows as an encumbrance. So At the end of the day, we're left with about a 3.1 million dollar reserve fund balance for the fire department Next slide, please A little bit more detailed look at our expenditures. Um over fiscal year 21 22 About 3.5 million dollars of the measure o fund went towards salaries and benefits for about 86 percent Which is very much in line with what we look like across all of our funds We're about 86 percent salaries and benefits And then we had a service and supply line of about 114 thousand dollars in administrative costs of 112 thousand dollars And then the 367 thousand dollar lease payment on station five which comes out of the fund annually Next slide, please This is just looking at the revenues and expenditure lines over the course of the entire measure I'm going back to fiscal year 0506 And you can see in last fiscal year There was an increase in the uh in the Revenue line It's really picked back up since the the dip in 2019 2020 And you can see our expenditures have remained pretty much static, but it's below the the revenue line, which is a good thing Next slide, please Talking about our positions that are tied to measure o. We have 10.25 fte assigned to measure o We have three fire captain paramedics One fire captain who's assigned to our training division three fire engineer paramedics Three firefighter paramedics and then 25 of our ems or emergency medical services division chief's time is paid for measure o And it also provides the incentive pay for six paramedics that are assigned to our two truck companies Next slide, please The impacts of measure o for the fire department since release since inception is it's provided nine firefighters and a training captain It's supplied three engines and two trucks or a total of five units as paramedic or advanced life support equipped and staffed It's enhanced our emergency medical services management through partial funding of our division chief And as I said before that's about 65 percent of what we do on a daily basis So it's very important that we have that oversight and management in place It's improved our response times dramatically with our deployment of resources throughout the city Which reduces fire loss and improves ems patient outcomes and increases community outreach And then as we know and we'll talk about in the upcoming slides. It's financed the construction of fire station five Next slide, please So for the fire stations that measure o built fire station 10 where i'm located now was constructed in 2008 fire station 11 on lewis road in the jc district was open in 2009 And as we know fire station five, which was open in 2016 and we lost during the tubs was also funded via measure o next slide, please As far as the equipment added We have the two type one fire engines that were purchased via measure o one type three fire engine Which is used in the wildland Environment was purchased measure o four of our command vehicles Our swift water rescue trailer and then most recently in this fiscal year We purchased 55 mobile radios and eight mobile repeaters that was approved by again by this committee Those are onsite and being installed on our apparatus in our vehicles as we speak So a great enhancement to our communications capabilities throughout the city Both on and off incidents. So i'm really appreciated to the committee for that It's a it's a huge huge enhancement to our organization. So With that that was our last slide and i will turn it over to the committee for any questions you may have Go ahead monta I was just going to say ma'am sorry. Would you like to make Yeah Thank you for your service to the community to have one question for you um, you mentioned that You lease We we leased one of the one of the buildings. Is that where that 367 000 is going to? Yeah, so fire station five which was on newgate court was purchased via lease And so that was the financing mechanism to build that fire station And when we continue to make those payments and well until 2020 june of 2025 will continue to make those payments okay, okay, so We are looking to purchase the building. We're not Okay We're looking to pay off. We're looking to pay off the lease essentially We we have terms of a lease that we have to pay off and so I just had a discussion with finance about this today. And so we continue to make those payments, but essentially, yeah, we have to meet the terms of our agreement and Even though we lost that fire station we continue to make those payments until Its term is expired in june of 2025 And and we've so we've built two fire stations from from measurer funding bill three three Those are not under under a lease The the first two were not the third one station five was built under a lease Oh, okay Okay, so the other two or the other two are Completed and outright um station five is the only one we continue to make a lease payment on So All right Thank you Nick caston do you have a question or comment? Just a question on the fire stations. Um, how how much money Going into the reserve each year is for future fire station? construction It's a great question. Thank you So essentially all of the the funds that are going into the reserve fund right now are towards fire stations and As we've talked about before um, you know the in 2004 when the tax measure was passed for you know, $3 million was plenty to build a fire station at the time. We built those three other stations for less than that Unfortunately construction costs of fire outpaced um, the revenue of the tax measure so Well, we're not saving up enough on an annual basis to build a fire station per se right now We're you know, our target is about 15 million dollars to build a fire station What it does do it allows us to go out and do things like buy properties So for instance, the new fire station a property was purchased with partial measure actually wasn't measure of funds It was through a cff funds but we have that ability to partially build fire stations or to finance them or whatever the case may be so All of the money that goes on the reserve fund The the intent is to save up enough to build a fire station We're not going to see it out with the current pace of the revenue However, it does open up the opportunities to help us build stations and help us purchase properties So there certainly still is a huge benefit to the infrastructure with measure out Right and as you're looking at probably and together the funding for the future fire stations. Can you just assess kind of the strategy and Benefit for service of what you're looking at in the future Sure, absolutely. So we have a couple of documents that we use all written by third party entities The first one is a strategic plan The second one is deployment analysis and the third one is a staffing plan All these plans are the roadmap that we use to Figure out where we're going to build fire stations and how they're going to strategic strategically impact The community to the best of our ability. So essentially what we look at more than anything is response time So there's two different factors to the response times Number one is our day-to-day response time for emergency medical aids Or the first due unit to a structural vegetation fire The second number we look at is what it takes to get an entire complement of firefighting resources there via NFPA 1710 To the scene so for us, that's three engines a ladder truck and a battalion chief So we look at really those two times the first due and the full complement or the full ensemble arrival And that's what we really base all of our strategy on building fire stations on Is that and then we couple it with obviously with future growth and potential growth And looking at where we need to put fire stations to better serve the community and with the infill and growth We're seeing now I wouldn't be surprised that our next strategic plan and deploy and deployment analysis shows that we need to build more than the current two Move to and build two new fire stations. We have on our list. So I think we're going to need to grow even more, but we'll have that coming out in the next year or so And this briefly for I believe station eight that's going in on her Can you talk about the Probably innovative that Mind funding with library project is I think it's really important to See how we're bringing digital dollars into the community with measure. Oh Yeah, so for those who haven't heard about this what we've done is We were able to purchase six acres of property at hernin dot. E for the fire department What that showed was that's where we needed to build a fire station to replace the current station eight on Burbank Avenue But it was such a large property. We looked at different partnership opportunities And how we can turn that area into something very useful for the community for a fire station We only need about an acre And so it opened up a lot of conversations and so with The library district looking to build a new fire station in the southwest We immediately looked to partner with them. And so it started out It was going to be a fire station and a library combination We really thought this was a great asset to the community. It really tied into a lot of the work We're doing as far as our recruitment and diversity plan And then it's really expanded from there and now we're looking at things like a Cultural center and park space and pools and things like that. So there's a very Deep process being run by the Office of Community Engagement right now To look at what the community wants out of that space But there's funding opportunities there But more importantly, there's a community benefit there that we're really excited about in the future And I really hope that this type of space is the future model for How we build civic space in the future in Santa Rosa and beyond quite frankly Excellent. Thank you so much chief. Thank you I don't see any other hands, but I wanted to say to chief that sounds really exciting I hadn't heard about that that that's really wonderful. Thank you for asking the question Nick so that we could hear about it. That's um, I'll be really interested to see how it all turns out You know, there's a there's always this long process, but um, there's such a need in that community and they've been wanting special spaces there for a long time so Kudos to you for being creative. Thank you. Thank you. It's a definitely team effort, but I appreciate it Does anyone else have a hand raised and I just don't see them on my screen So let's move on. Thank you very much Thank you chair Bailey and committee members I'm John Cregan the chief of police here for the police department And I'm going to partner this presentation with our administrative services officer Pam All right, so I'll have her Pam can if we go to the next slide and Pam will start off with the financial part of our presentation Great. Thanks chief. Good afternoon everybody And as chief said I'll go over the financial slides have been handed over to him and to follow up So this slide shows our beginning fund balance of 958,000 We had a higher than expected revenues of 4.6 million Then a small fair loss revenue of 27,000 and our expenditures were 3.6 million We had reduced those expenditures in anticipation of a lower revenue, but I'm happy to report that was not the case So that leads our ending fund balance at 1.9 million and next slide please This just breaks down our expenditures by category as you can see the majority of our expenses are for salaries and benefits for our 16 staff members that makes up about 93 of our overall budget Then we spent about 210,000 on services and supplies This covers our downtown enforcement team office or at least for that station Maintenance on our vehicles. We have three motorcycles funded with Mejaro and three Three SUVs patrol officers Use and we also pay for the fuel for those vehicles as well as some insurance costs Then we spent 112 on general fund administration with just the overhead for the city Next slide please This graph shows our overall revenue and expenditures since the beginning of Mejaro funding as you can see on this last year or I'm sorry as you can see over time we've been Trending upward on our expenditures. This is due mostly to staff increased costs This last year it dipped down slightly because we reduced our expenses by cutting the three police officer positions in anticipation of reduced revenues Next slide please G And I'll take over here. Thank you Pam so much So as Pam outlined with 93 of our budget from Mejaro going toward these full-time Employee positions with salary and benefits and it breaks down to 16 employees here at the police department And 11 of those are sworn positions in our police officer rank and those are broken down To a police lieutenant, which is a mid-level manager and that lieutenant is for Traffic special events and some of our downtown enforcement services and teams We have one sergeant and that sergeant is a first-line supervisor In charge of our motorcycle traffic officers and our accident investigator and dui Officers and then we have nine different police officers and five of those are assigned to enhance our patrol services Two of those are signed specifically with our downtown enforcement team and two of them are signed to our traffic division As motorcycle officers and that makes up the total of nine officers Then for we have five of our 16 positions are for our civilian or non sworn Employees and we have two of those as filled in evidence technicians And this team plays a very critical role and they go out to all of our major crime scenes process the crime scenes gather the evidence gather dna evidence blood evidence photographs And ensure that we're able to have fair trials that proceed for any defendant arrested here in a santa rosa case We also have one community service officer and this community service officer Works for taking collision reports non injury collision reports No suspect burglary reports and parking citations and other administrative duties here with the police department One communication dispatch supervisor We have a team of 24 dispatchers and so we uh, this supervisor is one of our team of supervisors that helps Uh with some of the 911 calls that are coming in and this this team and dispatch Handles many traumatic incidents in our city involving some of the shootings the wildfires earthquakes Whatever it may be for the supervision is really critical to our dispatch team and then one police technician and this is uh an individual who works in our records division and is Works in our front lobby when community members come in for assistance Whether it be getting reports or getting advice and they take some No suspect information reports that are able to handle right there and they're in the front counter or lobby and also administer our Our automatic report writing system where people can turn in reports and do online reporting And the police technicians manage that and the addition of this police technician allowed us now that we're back up the full staff In our records division to go back to a saturday service, which we had lost due to some staffing shortages next slide please So what here are some of the things talking about what we're doing with those 16 Funded positions directly from measure o versus enhancing those patrol services And that's those five additional officers in patrol Those officers are helping us with some of our rising crime that we're seeing here in the city of santa rosa We'll talk about in some of the future slides They help with our wildfire evacuation planning that we have and help with so many other areas and we also talked about the two Additionally, we have in our downtown enforcement team and with our traffic Motor team and this has been a busy year for our traffic team. We've had seven fatal collisions In our year so far this year and we had five fatal collisions last year So it's an important part of our services that dedicated the lieutenant that's directly out of measure o Overseas some of the special events and we have some large ones here in the city of santa rosa like the country summer Event at the fairgrounds obviously our county fair that comes every Year the wednesday night market and that's just one of the many events They're having downtown and courthouse square and our fairgrounds and other Establishments throughout our city This lieutenant also oversees our incident management team and that team plays a key role In these major events and on some of the emergencies whether it be the wildfires earthquakes floods So, uh, we have an own our own department operation center here at the police department that our incident management team operates at And they're directly supervised by this measure of lieutenant and he plays a key part Right now lieutenant josh blood he's blood key who's in that position with our citywide homeless response It works with kelly keikendall and megan bassinger and others from our community and housing services with the city Also our team here with some of the enhancements and our patrol continue to work with our critical partners at the violence prevention partnership And we have officers who attend both the monthly operational meeting And then we have some of our command staff members of myself who attend the Every other month of policy team meetings And we're working more regularly with the crisis response team that Miguel Utea has talked about and we continue to be able to integrate with our team To work with some of the upstream approaches with some of the prevention and intervention So we can help divert some of our youth and our adults From ever being introduced to the criminal justice system in the first place We talked about the expanded hours and records and we also some of the things that our dispatch supervisor Is helps us to do is to manage a tactical dispatch team And this is a team that's able to respond out in the field With a tactical dispatch team or a mobile dispatch team for some of the critical incidents that we may face here in our city Next slide, please So some of the other things that uh, we're continuing to look at for the future of mejaro and what we're seeing We launched in january 11th of this year with a partnership with santa rosa fire department are in response mental health support team And this is a team that's built with the license our associate license mental health clinician single roll fire paramedic And a homeless outreach specialist backed by an incredible team of system navigators who help support and provide mental health Acute intervention in our community. We're also working towards some of the increased community engagement events So that's some of the feedback we've received from our community Oversight committee in the past about being more involved And we're really proud this year for this mejaro fiscal year to be able to hold an eight week community police experience we held Community a youth police experience and we're really looking toward other things whether it be coffee with a cop Whether it be some of the other programs National night out and so many of the dozens of programs that our officers were able to Work with our city's community engagement team and really get out there in the community And start making some of the connections with those in our community who want to build more Trust with our local law enforcement and we're proud of the work. We're able to do this year in that We've seen some of the expansion of our downtown enforcement team And one of the things that we're able to start last year with our special enforcement team Which is really working towards some of the things with the Taking some of these illegal ghost guns and helping reduce some of the violence in our street Helping us with the side shows that we're having and none of these teams will be possible If it wasn't for the support of mejaro to be able to reduce some of the violence the side shows and taking some of these Legal guns off the streets of santa rosa next slide, please So this talks about for in the fiscal year For this mejaro is some of the things that we've seen here We saw in 2024 reported homicides and three of those related To a firearm in 2021 six homicides and four of those were related to a homicide And we're seeing that continue to progress so far just so far in this year in 2022 We've had 10 homicides in the city of santa rosa and six of those were involved with firearms So it's something that we're continuing to see the need to put resources in to reduce some of this violence in our community We're also seeing a significant uptick with some of the illegal guns seized in the streets of santa rosa And you see right here in 2021 of a hundred and 70 firearms seized off the streets of santa rosa and 44 Those were ghost guns and we've seen that go up dramatically in the first nine months here of 2022 is the data that I have so far Next slide, please For looking back at a glance at some of the calls for service about what we're putting these mejaro dollars and these 16 officers And positions in the police department of what they're doing We saw over 241 calls come into our 911 dispatch center for the calendar year of 2021 And out of those over 109,000 times an officer actually responded to one of those calls And contacted a community member in the field another thing that we talked about here with the mejaro oversight Is our priority one response times and that's something that we watch very carefully Our goal is to have the priority one response times under six minutes And that's when someone calls 911 for an emergency occurring and we want to have an officer respond there at under six minutes For last year we saw it at Just over seven minutes at seven minutes and three seconds was our average response time to priority one calls We've seen that slowly creep up and currently right now We're seeing that at seven minutes and seven seconds. That's where it's averaging Currently, so that's something that we're continuing to monitor, but I feel very confident that these mejaro Officers are helping to reduce that with having more officers available to go to these calls for service Help reducing some of the violence on our street and are going to be a critical part in bringing that number down to a more manageable number at six minutes next slide, please So we went through that information very quickly, but we really wanted to save the time to hear any questions From our committee members. So I'll turn it back over to you vice chair So, um, I have a question in regards to um gang awareness week if Magali are you can remind me what happened during that week because I can't quite remember What was some of the activities from that? Um, yes, and we we are working with this new are you talking about the last cycle? So cycle 10, which just passed um, some of those were kind of postponed and or they were modified because of shell train in place Uh, but I'm happy to send over a list of how the agency's provided kind of made the pivot and provided that resource either through a drive-through event or Something online Yeah, I would like to see those and then um, my next question is in regards to this um response time in the report itself you have The priority one calls But in this one you go over the priority two calls and priority three And so do we have numbers for the previous years? So when the report is then I would like to see this additional information added to that Because now you're saying that measure O funding help with that process So we have the current numbers, but we don't know what the previous numbers look like So we we need to see if there's an increase or decrease and then kind of find out. Why is that happening? And so in response to that seven You know average time 707 is it because there's What's causing that number to fluctuate? If you have a response Yeah, so I wanted to make sure I'm clear. So in the actual measure report it lists in 2021 We saw the seven minute three seconds to priority one calls in 2020. It was six minutes 44 And uh then in 2019 it was 648. So that's the progression over those three years That I have were you looking for additional years past the 2019? Well, no the additional um for priority two calls and priority three On the slide you have that on the slide that you're presenting to us But in the report itself that is not in there And so if there's measure O funding that is being utilized for that I think that's something that should be put in the report as well So that we can monitor if it's increasing decrease and then try to figure out why is that happening And I know it has to do with you know loss of you know Officers and so far, but you know, there could be some other reason that or something else that can be done to fix that with the measure O funding Oh, absolutely Yeah, and so the priority one calls are the emergency 911s the really what the priority two would be Someone like a staff that just occurred or our middle of the ground and then the priority three would be like A parking complaint in those but we could make sure that we incorporate it also shows the full picture on all right and especially if Money coming from measure O because I do hear from the community as a whole Well, I call them call the officers and they never come So that's a commentary that we do here in out in the community So then why is that and then what is it that could be done? Maybe possibly other than measure O funds that can help alleviate that number And so it's something that we should really you know take a look at You know considering we're right now and the precipice of determining if we're going to have You know measure eight going forward. So this is something that will be new services To the community as a whole so that's something that should be put in the report Great, that's five old feedback. We'll make sure we include that next year. Okay. Thank you I don't see any more hands raised. Does that mean we have no more questions or comments? Um, I have a couple questions Chief can you for the 2021 at a glance? Slides related to the crime Mostly increases some decreases and keep it that in the context of are these national state trends or are these localized trains? Yeah, so these numbers specifically are talking about the city of Santa Rosa But when you compare it to national trends, we're seeing across the united states So this isn't just a phenomenon here in Santa Rosa We're seeing some of the violent crimes and we're seeing shooting offenses going up So it isn't a Santa Rosa issue. It's a it's a california certainly issue but across the nation So it's something that we're examining some of the causes and there's not one thing that's causing it and we're seeing One of the biggest trends that i'm seeing is specifically here in california Is access to these ghost guns and these are ghost guns or the unserialized like 3d printed polymer guns That are very accessible on the streets of throughout california right now And I think that has one of the biggest causes of seeing a rise in violence seeing a rise in some of these things is access to these Firearms and we're working with our state legislators and we're working with our enforcement And that's another key part of working with community our violence pension partnership about doing parental and student education classes So those are some of the things that we're doing to hopefully start seeing an increase in that and so far this year We're we're proud to see that we are seeing an increase in firearms seized off the streets of the Santa Rosa And we're starting to slowly see a decrease in some of the shootings reported in the city of Santa Rosa So I think collectively the work between the partnership and the police department is making a difference Thank you. The ending from balance of 1.9 million in question for On the Florence is that because of unfilled positions that had been budgeted? so that's mostly due to the increased revenue we had held the and reduced the Expenses last year in anticipation that the revenue would be decreased and then we cut the three police officer positions last year And making our overall expenses less So that that did increase our fund balance by a lot more than expected We do have plans for that funding. Um, I I don't know if chief cregan wants to address that a little bit more We would like to To build out a roseland substation ideally with this funding Yeah, absolutely. And that's been some of the strong community feedback We received about having more of a police presence in roseland and more of a community engagement arm in there So we're actively right now working with our city realtor looking for space into basketball in the heart of rosa in the open a police substation have In a in a perfect world We're going to have spanish-speaking staff there in a public facing lobby where individuals could come in Be able to file reports and also we're going to have more police resources that stay in the rosin community instead of coming all the way to the Santa Rosa main station On sonoma avenue So we're actively working for that and that's what we plan to use These funds for and we talked about before to about using funds that are going to go into will be the first in sonoma county With the full axon fleet program that all of our mark vehicles will have If cameras in them both forward-facing cameras and in the rear passenger areas So anyone who's transporting a police vehicle So those are things that are really important for the accountability for transparency and for liability So those are things that we're excited and that's what some of these funds are going to be coming But the rosin substation is in our goal and and ultimately my goal is to be in one by july of 2023 But it's dependent upon us finding a building that meets our needs and fits within our budget Excellent, I think that bull is um, it would be a very tangible delivery on the commitment that we made when we annex roseland and um, it is incredibly important to following through on that Uh going back to the response times. Can you just talk about the in fact of um open positions recruitment and where we're at and How that may help affect the response times going forward That certainly plays a key part and uh, we spent right now We we were for several months at 21 police officer vacancies. We just hired three So we're 18 sworn vacancies right now But we're seeing some progress and we're seeing some strong investment With our recruitment team and some of the things we're doing We're hoping to send 10 police officer trainees to the upcoming academy in january and be able to slash Those vacancies and are already working on a next academy class in april So I think that help is on the way But there has been impacts of being down 21 police officer positions in the city of san rosa And it's been impactful on our staff and quite honestly I'm proud of our police officers and our civilian staff members who are quite frankly doing a lot more with less right now And going to more calls and not having off time as much off between those calls So they're really doing everything they can but there's certainly been an impact on our streets Excellent. Thank you for the information chief Thank you I don't see any more hands raised if anyone has a question now's your chance um Okay, so then I think what we need to do is go to the public do we have any of the public listening in at the moment It doesn't appear so okay, so um We would take public comment if there were public people here to to ask that but since we don't let's move on to what we need to do which is to Make a motion. I'd like someone to make a motion that to approve the annual report I'll move to approve the annual report And we need a second second Thank you. So we just approved and it looks like then our meeting is We've accomplished what we were here to do so I think the meeting can be I can call the meeting to an end Thank you everyone the staff. I know all the work that you're doing to prepare for these meetings as well as the work you do um every day so thank you for that and thank you to the committee for The hard work that you do to make sure that the public trusts what we do with the money And I look forward to seeing you again soon and fingers and toes are crossed that we pass measure age I'm probably not supposed to say that so sue tell me if I need to be quiet but It's uh, if you haven't voted, please vote and encourage your friends to do the same And thank you very much. We'll see you again sometime in the near future. Stay well