 let's go ahead and call the meeting to order roll call um Alder Ackley here um Alder Dean here Alder person Heidemann is excused and Alder person Felde is excused Alder Salazar I'm here we can all stand for the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge allegiance to the light of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands my nation under God indivisible with the liberty and justice of all great let's give agenda item number four since we all really know each other um agenda item number five approval approval of minutes for the january 10 2024 meeting looking for a motion second great any discussion all those in favor please say aye any opposed chair votes aye motion carries that's okay agenda item number six just in time ro number 90 23 24 by police chief Christopher demigowski pursuant to section 50 dash or 30 dash 50 of the municipal code submitting a quarterly report showing the benchmark measurements of the police department for the period commencing october 1 of 2023 and ending december 31st of 2023 good afternoon hi so you have to report in front of you the highlights are as follows part one crime there was a decrease in part one crime for the year today in comparison to the same period last year 856 to 888 crimes against persons less flat 177 this year 176 the year before and there was a decrease in crimes against property 679 in 2023 verse 712 in 2022 traffic accidents for the year 2023 around slightly 1390 versus 1418 in 2022 and then a decrease in involuntary commitments again 110 to 138 um i would also um just point out a couple things traffic accidents our our goal has really been over the last 10 years to try to keep them under 1500 historically um they've been as high as 2500 um and about 1900 when i first got here so although um aggressive driving and um people not paying attention distracted driving are i think problems everywhere um we're we're still doing okay as far as the accident rate i think we'd like to have them lower and i would say if um i'm going to tell you this we're not able to get anywhere close to the kind of deployments around that that we would like to do um yes matt i think matt would remember in 2010 1112 we did a whole lot of um deployments around traffic using our our ddax approach so um talked about that before it's essentially where we identify hot spots in the city both crime-wise and traffic-wise and later them over each other and um deploy people to those areas so that we can affect all um we still do a lot of that but nowhere near um the amount that we would like just because we don't have the unobligated time so that's always a goal to keep doing that the fact that involuntary commitments are are down somewhat significantly shows that we're making some progress there we hope that keep having success with both the co-responder program and with some of the changes that the county is making that that hopefully that will free up sometimes so we can do some more of um deployments around traffic um and then the crime stuff i would just point out that um some of the numbers there are are breathtaking to some degree if i can use that term um if we look at some of these numbers um prior to 2010 um burglaries were in uh 300s sometimes 420 i think in like 2007 so to have 65 of them is quite an accomplishment our thefts were over 2000 prior to 2010 this year they're at 585 so really the same thing motor vehicle thefts we had a really good year 19 this past year again if you look back and but there are 60 70 those were the kind of numbers that we saw in the early 2000s in shabuigan and when you look at all the other communities it's it's quite the opposite so you've seen in most most city really um large increases in motor vehicle thefts a lot of it tied to the ignition issues kias and andis and that but but still for for what we're seeing um and of these i didn't look at these 19 but i would bet you it's the same thing probably 15 of them are people left their keys in the car or a friend or a family member is the one taking it so in the year prior in 2022 we had nine 29 motor vehicle thefts 27 of those were people leaving their keys in the car or a friend or family member stealing that car so um yeah of course i know like accepted is that somewhat too a little bit better a better educating the public is that someone doing it i think it's a combination of things some of it um i think is um i don't really see this changes in some of the crime that's going on you see more white color crime going on now but i think a lot of it is the awareness that we've tried to create working with neighborhood organizations pushing stuff out in social media and then the yeah the efforts that we made around locking your cars and and those programs that we put in in place so we still see spikes so i haven't checked in in the office yet but i can see from my ring notifications that we had um two or three um entries to autos on the near north side last night and i know last week we had a couple maybe one one on the west end of the city but the county had a couple okay but when we're seeing those we're seeing two or three and then we're responding and getting people in the right areas quick enough that that it's stopping where in 2010 we would get 20 30 um so so it's a combination of things i think recognizing patterns quicker and citizens doing their part better and that's even i need some wood to knock on here but even the package that a lot of communities are seeing we're not seeing them to that level we have some most of ours are happening like in apartments where they have a common area where they're getting dumped and somebody else in here the apartment is stealing up we're not having the significant what i would call porch pirate issue that that a lot of communities are having and there ain't much that we can do about that again really just bad business practices in my view if you think about when we were all kids you couldn't get a package from ups without answering or in signing for it otherwise you got that that note that you missed it now it's just all dumped out there where it's free for the taken so also it's like there's not a lot of places where you can go pick up packages like the ups storefronts of clothes so like if you had now if you get a package through you because you just get it like that you can't there's nowhere to pick it up yeah i think amazon arrangements so you can make arrangements with ups and amazon you can arrange to be only on a specific day so that helps but also with ups you're allowed to tell them please put it on my you know backboards or by my garage or whatever you want them to do yeah i think i saw an advertisement last week that amazon's trying to set up some places in chavoid or you can have it delivered there yeah that'll be nice yeah that's right so amazon pickup locker sometimes they're stopping when depending when you get in the box oh gosh i guess you know the only other thing that i would add because we don't talk about it much i know we shared it a couple times but really the issues at the border are affecting us us here in the amount of fentanyl and methamphetamine that gets across the border and we've had some very major cases essentially where chavoigan is the hub that it's coming into directly from mexico and then getting distributed to other communities in northeast wisconsin so we've done some very good work around that the department received an award last year at the international associations of chiefs of police conference for criminal investigations based on a case that we have related to that and i shared with i think the city administrator and the department heads that two weeks ago we had a case where we recovered 3000 fentanyl pills so wow it's out there and there's a lot of it but generally i think we're doing a pretty good job you know i noticed something on the drive down to visit family in texas and on the drive there i noticed a lot of billboards of fentanyl strips in missouri and in illinois sort of big billboards of saying you know tested here's the local government yeah like here's here's the free strips tested and i was like oh that i've never seen that and they were like all along the highway coming coming up here and going down there so that's quite interesting so something i had noticed i was like hmm that's weird you're talking about the invalidary commitments and how has that um the right along with the uh the mental health experts how has that worked out is it is it is it positive negative visit been good that's kind of my baby going really well they have two shifts one co-responder starts at 10 a.m and goes to 6 p.m and rides with a pretty much a first shift officer and then a second shift officer takes the next person from 6 p.m until 2 a.m and it's going really well in fact i just met with the program coordinator at 3 o'clock um that my officers really like it um because a lot officers even you know that's their office they prefer to ride alone generally sure and they get a ride a lot a lot of ride logs um and so it's a bit of an inconvenience they don't complain at all it's serving the community very very well um the goal of the program really is to reduce the impact on the health care system and um reduce involuntary commitments people you know have bad days and sometimes say stupid stuff and that doesn't mean that they want to kill themselves they need to be left the way in the hospital and so it's going really well on both ends it's really been an exciting time it's wonderful for a follow-up on that is there so we that's money supported through it's ARPA funds the city and I put funds towards how long do we have funding for that program so the end of 2025 do we have a plan for after that or I know I'm asking a question should that be my our job well I think the plan is is to really gather data here so that's that's part of it there's certain data that both us and elevate have to collect and provide to the county so that we can evaluate it um and then I think it's it's determining what value it does bring and if it's going to be continued when it should really be in place do we need do we need them 16 hours a day do we need them 24 hours a day can we get by with 10 hours a day what does the data really show to make it and um for the metrics of like I guess the measurement of what is successful is that something that the county has said or is that something we're setting or we all set it together we did okay prior to starting it okay got it yep and then we provided for for our metrics we provided at least it's either a year or two years cal pulled and provided that kind of as a baseline before it started and do we feel that it's um the metrics will read well I hope so okay that's a hard question to answer yeah okay any other questions okay um I need to am I looking for hold on one second do I I'm sorry do we need to do anything I make a motion to approve and file second great any other discussion all right all those in favor please say aye hi any opposed right chair votes aye great thank you okay agenda item number nine ro number 91 23 24 by fire chief pursuant to section 24 495 of the municipal code submitting a quarterly report of benchmark measurements for the fire department for the period commencing october 1 of 23 and ending december 31st of 2023 thank you chair so everybody has to report um so uh if there's any questions I just want to point out some highlights uh we were down our total call volume for the year of 23 was down only because if you recall in 22 we had that storm that that came through and I mean we ran over 100 call that was like 130 or so calls that that one day alone so we're about a hundred and change lower so it all plays and we're still increasing it's still on the trend uh we're increasing up about 15 but we're down for last year that makes sense uh fire calls uh so we are still under 90 which is good um you know we're hitting the fire prevention program quite hard so I think it's doing some good but we shall see how this year it turns out the fire inspection is something that to note and be proud of is it's actually down uh which is great because the more we do the inspections the more they're maintaining and correcting violations so in essence the calls or the inspections go down so we hope that trend will continue so you should see a decrease in the number of reinspection so that's good uh training hours uh continues to increase our vector solution program that we implemented is doing great uh for us tracking wise and it's allowing us to really truly track how our training hours are so we're already over 17,000 uh training hours uh the total of last year from the previous year which is great so be glad to answer any questions yeah it's going um on the non-compliance install smoke alarms so like you had 56 so so in other words there were you installed like 79 so that's more so the multiple units in a home or yeah so we the 79 are the number that we installed okay we found 56 not necessarily tied to that 79 56 non-compliance okay so yes ultimately what we're trying to do is bring everybody up to the safe safe so like one on first floor one on the second floor so yeah okay we're very limited again when we go into apartments we can't go into personal apartments right sure we could just do common areas but businesses the same thing we try to keep them up to comply or if we go if you call for a residence we'll go assist so that's really where that is and when you mean residence you're home because someone can call you to oh yeah yeah if you um obviously we're encouraging spoke launch right so we want them out there so um if an elderly person or even if you couldn't reach something and you couldn't you didn't have a drill on that we can help you install it or even if you didn't have one we bring one and install it for you it's wonderful service yeah yeah any other questions make a motion to uh through the file second great any other discussion all those in favor please say aye aye and you pose share both side motion carries all right agenda item number eight ro number 89 23 24 the city clerk submitting various license applications recommend and granting the licenses contingent on clerk approval of the premises description it may have already happened but I was but as soon as they approve it it should be good and this is for the um just the two that are on here the community and the sea yeah they're both the same place so it's really yeah great um all those in favor please say aye aye any opposed share one side motion carries all right our next uh meeting date will be on February 14th 2024 we'll be giving each other's valentines a motion to adjourn second great all those in favor please say aye meeting is adjourned at 449