 We're all here. I'm calling the meeting to order today. I call this meeting to order on April 10, 2024, special meeting of Public Safety and Prevention Tax, Citizen Oversight Committee at 4 p.m. Madam. Post, may we have roll call? Chairminer. Here. Vice Chair, Mrs. Tom. Here. Member Atkinson. Here. Member Bailey. Here. Member Cosgrove. Here. Member Hinnick. Here. Member Holmes. Here. Let the order reflect that all the committee members are present or present. Thank you, Madam Post. Will you please explain how public comments will be handled today? Thank you, Chairminer. Welcome, committee members, panel members, and members of the public. Thank you for joining us today in person and via Zoom. This meeting is being recorded. As a reminder to all present, please set your cell phones so as not to disturb others. The City of Santa Rosa is committed to providing a safe and inclusive environment, free from disruption, and will not tolerate hateful speech or actions. 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Please complete the form and leave it in the basket. The staff leave and will address your questions appropriately prior to the next schedule. Our meeting format is integrated to allow members of the public who are using Zoom to view and listen to the meeting. Any e-mail comments that were received by the deadline will have been included and uploaded to the agenda from the start of today's meeting, and e-mails received are not read into the record. Okay. And so before we get started with non-agenda items, I'd like to just go ahead and do quick introductions because we're seeing reserved presenters. So if we can start here on this end and go down the line, I would greatly appreciate it. Hi, everybody. My name is Veronica Connor. I am the budget and financial analysis manager in the finance department, and I'm also going to stop liaison or the public safety and prevention tax oversight committee. Scott Westrow, Pirate Chief. John Brigham, Police Chief. Pam Lawrence, ASL for Police. Jeff Timmons, Deputy Director of Recreation. Danielle Gordunio, Violence Prevention Program Manager. Jelena Moore, Recreation Supervisor. Please not take lots and direct the recreation parts. And for the, if you guys would like to say any more, go ahead real quick. Jose Morales, financial analyst. Thank you for going financial analyst. Okay. Thank you for that. So with that being said, we're going to go ahead and do public comment on non-agenda items. If I may, I'm on Zoom today, video attorney, and I apologize for interrupting. I think my video is disabled, which is okay with me, but I'm happy to join you by video if someone would like to turn it on. I'm just here to facilitate, but wanted to introduce myself. It's very nice to see all of you. And I hope to be in person at the next one. My apologies. And with that being said, is there anyone else? Is there anyone else? Okay. Thank you for that. But that being said, we are now taking in person public comments on non-agenda items. Item number two. This is the time when any person may address the committee on matters not listed on the agenda, but which are within the subject matter of this jurisdiction. Are there any members of the public? Okay. And I did, I forgot to ask about emails. I checked and I didn't see any updates that were good on emails. Email comments. Okay. Thank you. So with that being said, we're moving on to agenda item three approval of minutes. Members of the committee that are present for our last special meeting. Are there any edits or corrections you would like to have to the minutes of November 8th. 2023. Yes. Oh, the line says presented. Second it. Okay. And with that, if there are no additional edits. It stands approved. Agenda item number four committee business. It is both an honor and a pleasure that I have been reappointed as chair of this committee. And now I would like to say it is time to move on to my second chair. And so I would like to open up. For any. Recommendations. Or vice chair. And I would like you to know that the nomination is for the vice chair. This position will serve. A term of one year. Which will end in February, 2025. Okay. So with that being said, Is it okay for it to nominate the same person? If they're interested in doing that. Is that. That's an approval. Yes, it is. I nominate. A second. Okay. Is there any further discussion? Any other recommendations? Okay. So with that, we're going to turn to public comment at this time. Are there any further discussions? Any other recommendations? Okay. I'm going to turn to public comment at this time. Are there any public comment for. Oh, sorry. Yeah. Thank you. With that is everybody in agreement. We'll start on the end with. Remember. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Okay. And at this time, are there any additional public comments for this item? No, for my, I see none. So we have a motion and it is approved. You have your motion. You have your first and your second. Okay. And that was all. Let the record reflect the vice chair by majority phone. Make member Nick. Into position. Agenda number five, schedule items. We are going into 5.1 for 24, 25 public safety and prevention tax, formerly measure open proposed budget, and we'll be turning it over to Veronica Cunnan. Thank you. Good afternoon. I'm here joined by the departments today to go over the fiscal year, 24, 25 proposed budget for the public safety and prevention tax. The departments have put together proposed budgets with the ordinance in mind, putting this funding source towards the permissible uses as set forth in the ordinance. And we're asking the citizens oversight committee today to review the budget, make sure we are putting funds to the right place, and hopefully make a recommendation. If approved and recommended today, this will go to council in June with the rest of the city's operating budget to be approved for next fiscal year. So with that, our agenda on the next slide, we're going to start with recreation and violence prevention. So I will turn it over to the department. Thank you. Thank you. Good afternoon. It's W director with recreation. I will be going over the presentation with you, but I've got my amazing team director Watson advisor, Joe and I. I'm the director of recreation and violence prevention program manager, Danielle. For when we get to the questions part, you guys stumpy. They'll jump in and help me out. Next slide, please. Before I jump into the budget, I do want to just kind of practice today's presentation for us with a little bit of background on the transition that we've been in. Violence prevention partnership 100% across the board is officially part of the of some aspects were or some aspects were not. So we are officially back together as one team, not just on paper, but also in practice. The violence prevention partnership this past year moved their offices back over to Steel and Community Center where this all began. And they're sitting in the same hallway as the neighborhood services team. And we're already seeing the benefits of that of, the teams always knew that they worked together and had a similar mission, but that day-to-day interaction and communication. And I think one of the first things where we really saw like, hey, this is the right direction, was joining and running around with our team, trying to get ready for our Halloween event and getting people to sponsor trunk or treat booths. And Danielle saying, all right, let me shoot that out to all of our partners. And just like that, Joe and his job got a lot easier as that filled up. So those types of efficiencies, collaboration are gonna make their jobs easier, but also gonna make it so that we're providing services to the community better. So we are very excited about that transition and continue to lean into it and see the benefits of it. So now getting back to the order of business today. So you see on the budget slide here for first going over the neighborhood services side, really nothing dramatic there changing. You might wonder across the city, it's generally practice at salaries and benefits are going up. We had a retirement at the supervisor level and we've had different feelings. So really those differences there are primarily gonna be the difference people have been in position for and are at top step of salary ranges and people who are recent promotions and starting there. So for really nothing dramatic to report out on the budget as far as the comparison from last year and the proposed budget or a year and proposed budget for next year. Next slide, please. Breakdown of the position. So we have a recreation supervisor, two recreation coordinators and a recreation specialist that are funded out of the, I got it funded out of the public safety and prevention tax. So my presentation is gonna be like eight minutes longer just me trying to figure it out. So those are the permanent positions that we have. Then we have our seasonal employees, those total hours over 15,000 hours, which is equivalent of an additional 8.3 full-time positions. A little bit of a title there. So there's additionally 50% of recreation supervisors, charge neighborhood services. To clarify that point is the supervisor while their position lives under their ESMP, charges half of their time to the general fund baseline. So it's not really in addition to that, it's a portion of their position is charged off to. At this point, we thank you all for continuing on the board. We have a regular board here. It's always nice to talk to people that you've already had conversations with. So you guys have pretty good sense what neighborhood services is doing and the programming that we're provided is I like to describe it. It's really that safety net, right? It's that primary prevention where we wanna serve as many kids as we can, keep them in pro-social activities, surround them with positive adult role models and do all those things in that type of programming do. So we're supporting youth and families during out-of-school time. We know out-of-school time is a critical time to keep kids engaged in positive activities. So after school, summer camps, break camps, providing extracurricular activities. So a lot of sports and dance and bringing STEM into our programs and then creating experiences. And this is really kind of, sometimes I think maybe I'm guilty of glossing over this little bit, but it's really a strong piece of what the program is when you do the family events and those gatherings and the field trips. And obviously that day-to-day interaction with the kids is critical, but often those are the memories that really last with the kids and take those relationships to the next level of just kind of a basic prevention program to where that kid really is invested in the experience that they're getting. So I wanted to highlight that a little more than we have in the past ones, that the field trips and those family events and those experiences that we're creating for our residents are really a key piece of what we're doing with neighborhood services. Next slide, please. As far as strategy is concerned, I wanted to cover a couple of points here. We continue to strive to really leverage the PSAP tax funds. We are very grateful for the support that the community. We know that we're shortly off them being very loud and boisterous and very supportive of it again, and we appreciate that. But we also know that there's a lot that needs to be done out there and we really need to leverage those funds. So we've been doing that for a long time. Obviously we have our general fund baseline that allows us to do more programming. But beyond that, with Burbank Housing, we've had a long partnership with them that allows us to provide after-school programs. We're also very excited next week at City Council we'll have a contract with Santa Rosa City Schools on consent item. And that's gonna allow us to recreation sensations the summer program that we've been doing for a long time, but it's really gonna solidify that partnership with Santa Rosa City Schools. We're gonna be getting some cost recovery from Santa Rosa City Schools as we're partnering with them with funding they've received to provide summer programming. And in addition to that, we'll be adding services because we'll also be providing a new, a reference at middle grades, which is confusing to me because I think of middle school that's fourth grade through eighth grade. And so fits right in line with a lot of the services that we do through Neighborhood Services and they're gonna offer, they'll be running a science camp in the morning. That's a nine hour total, nine hour program each day. They'll be running a science camp. We'll come in around lunchtime and transition into some of the recreation programs that we run. So really excited about that collaboration again. It puts more resources into the work that we're doing and it gives us more sustainability and continue to provide and serve more kids. So that's very exciting and we'll continue to look for those opportunities. I also wanted to touch, I know you guys don't necessarily get this detail but I want to give you a sense. We have some kudos to Joanna for a very long and tedious budget process this year. Our funding in Measure O and then matching general fund was kind of consolidated into those accounts. That's very tough on programming side. So to break it down, we built out some keys. There's also keys on the general fund side. Those are the Measure O side. I did it. Those are the PSAP side. But what that'll do is in the future as we present back to you as we look for efficiencies that we deal with things. It's just gonna be another tool for us to really be able to evaluate programming a little bit more closely and look at what we're getting out of programs, what the direct cost is without 100 other spreadsheets for us to try to get there. So it was a big project and really appreciate the time and stuff but into to that and we will definitely see the benefits as we report to you in the future of what we can present because of it. Next slide, please. Before I jump into the violence prevention again with this coming as a team, I just wanna kind of talk about what does this look like now? So as being one team, right? I like to use the phrase of the work that we do. It's critical that we have a continuum of services. If we do a great job with neighborhood services and we have the best prevention programs in the world obviously that's amazing. There's always gonna be some kids that for whatever reason slip through the cracks and if that's all that we provide then we're still gonna find problems down the road because we're not addressing the rest of it. So partnering with violence prevention partnerships that's why it's so key. That day-to-day interaction is what neighborhood services does is critical and they're building relationships but that's gonna feed into everything else that we do through violence prevention partnership and we're really seeing the benefits of that from that primary prevention, that safety net we then wanna lean into violence prevention partnership and the different ways that we're addressing secondary prevention into the intervention services. So there's a number of ways that we do that and I'll just kind of leave there as we lead into the BPP but kind of set the table for all this being aligned together. So next slide please. So again, salaries and benefits are carried over. There's a little bit of savings in salaries. We did change a couple of positions on the administrative side of violence prevention partnership and that was an admin analyst that we underfilled as a research and program coordinator and then a senior admin assistant that we overfilled as a admin secretary. And that was critical for operations for a couple of reasons. The policy team that we ever see is a Brown-acted board so it gives us that position that we're supposed to be at with the admin secretary to do that and with the BPP coming under the umbrella of operation and parks, having an ASO position for the department took some of the responsibility that we needed from that admin analyst. So it provides support administratively that we need to oversee what BPP does and it also bottom line gives us a little bit of savings on that line item. Obviously I think the one that's gonna stand out the most here is our choice grant program. So yes, if you look at it in terms of the budget it's a reduction of $114,000 towards the choice grant program but I like to stress there is in actual programming we're proposing to maintain. So of that in our current funding cycle we are granting out $750,000 and then the evaluation is a $50,000 contract so 800,000 total. So we are maintaining that by proposing 800,000 and then you'll see there's an increase in services and supplies. And so again this leads into the how are we providing our services? There are certain services where the grant agencies are great partners and they're doing great work out there but there's also areas where we felt that with the resources we have in the city there were the guiding people successful successfully GPS referral program that we needed to take some things into house as well. And so we've been working on that with our community outreach specialists. What the services and supplies money will do is it's building them some actual operational budget. So when they're going to this partnering with the schools and they're leading groups with the teenagers and they're doing those types of works. They can bring food to those events. They can take these kids on field trips, those types of things, right? We can have family gatherings or those types of things. So that movement of money is really because of some of those services are coming in house to the violence prevention partnership that's to create an operational budget for them to do. If you have the people and not the operational budget then what do the people do? So next slide please. So again, a breakdown of the staff on the violence prevention partnership it's the program manager to community outreach specialists one research and program coordinator and one administrative secretary. Again, those are the two positions that we reclassified as part of this budget. The one community outreach specialist position is reimbursed through the Sonoma County probation to implement the RGPS. So that position is limited term. So while two community outreach specialists positions are technically allocated to our public safety and prevention tax, one of those positions is reimbursed through that grant. Additionally, we have one community outreach specialist position that is budgeted somewhere else and those funds are coming from still the PG&E settlement. So obviously that's not an ongoing funding source either so that is a limited term position as well. And then what our funds are used for so developing and implementing our intervention programs. So safe campus intervention program this is an area where we are starting to do a little bit more. But again, looking for other funding sources, grants partners that we can collaborate with to expand. But that's some of the work that our community outreach specialists have started doing and leading groups on school campuses while also managing the GPS program. But certainly that is not a checkup we are done. That is something that we are working on and planning to find and develop as we move forward this year. The Clean Slate Tattoo Removal Program. Exciting news there is we've identified some local businesses that want to participate in it. The negotiations have been done for how that's going to look and work. The not so exciting news is that agreement is in the legal and it's in the contract phase and all those types of things. So fortunately there's always that last obstacle to get through but we're very excited to see that program start here hopefully soon and get up and running and start having the tattoo removal program back. And then hospital-based intervention program I should throw on there, hospital-based and street outreach. That is still a target that we are shooting for. That is still ahead of us. So we are looking at through the choice grant. Again, we're heading into a new cycle. So really trying to get people to apply for that area of higher level intervention is an area where it starts getting past what the city can do in-house. And so we'll be looking for partners to continue to build that back and establish that and the money that we've budgeted for that was French and partnership. So again, a lot of that tied into implementing the choice grant program. And I should say that that is currently open for cycle 12. So we are taking applications for grant applications for the choice grant program right now and that will be closing on May 9th. Implementing those funds will be for, will be issuing those funds and for programming starting January 1st, 2025. So we are out ahead, find out who we're gonna be partnering with so that we can get everything lined up for January 2025, the current fund it's programs run through them. Implementing community awareness campaign and professional development for staff and community partners. I believe some of you were at our last October, the seminar that we held, which was very exciting to hold again because it had been a number of years with COVID and all those things. So that type of outreach and awareness team does a lot of presentations, different avenues through the community. So trying to keep people aware and inform them what's going on. And then again, facilitating the policy and operational team. So I get that policy team being our Brown Act Board and then operational team, being a closed-door meeting where they really can dive into some of the case management of our referral program and talk specifics of the youth and families that we're serving and make sure that we're with them, the services that they need. Next slide, please. So next steps, we are in strategic plan update, right? We completed the strategic plan update. We're wrapping up first year of implementation. I think everyone here understands that what we listed certain things is year one that didn't mean that they were gonna be done and the 100% yay we got there. But again, having some of those updates that we presented on the last slide, kudos to the team. They've really done a great job of implementing and this budget is setting us up to continue that work and make sure that we get success out of the progress that we've made and continue to make progress in things like hospital-based intervention, street outreach and those types of programs. So again, we've talked about choice cycle 12 coming up. Currently open, violence prevention awareness seminar. So it's already planned. So you can mark your calendars, October 10th, 2024. We'll be our next seminar. And then again, a big piece leveraging this mind, right? This is a resource. It's an amazing resource that we have, but for it to really do the work we need, we need to leverage that. So identifying other funding sources outside of the public safety. So they even typed it wrong. So it's not just me. Public safety information, special tax. Or maybe I typed it at all. Anything's possible, right? For sure. Yes. So again, that's the importance of doing that and additional intervention staff to effectively address the needs to the youth and family. So what we can build in-house, what we can build up with the choice grant program. And again, the referral program with our case management, our referrals, our one-circle and power bank groups that we're running in the hospital-based and street intervention programming and then the ongoing tattoo removal services. So a little bit different there because there are updates of where we are, but again, it's on our radar that we need to continue to make progress in those areas. So with that said, next slide please. And the whole team here, in case you got any questions or comments for us. Okay. Does anyone have questions? I got a whole bunch of questions. So if anybody wants to go first, they can go. That's okay, you go first. Okay. First, I'd like to thank you and your team for deserving to do this period. It's also, I think there's an economic relationship to it because of these app school programs, parents can don't have to worry about picking their kids up. So they can continue to work in, you're actually helping to stimulate the economy in some sense. A couple of questions for you here. You had, on your budget, a decrease in salary of about 6,000, 8,000, that's one of the next slide again, but there was a, and I mentioned this last time, I was here, there was a reduction in the 100,000, 114,000 reduction in the amount of money that you allocated towards the choice grant. So what's up with that? Okay. As Deputy Director Tibbets had mentioned, we actually, it looks like on paper that we reduced it quite drastically, but in practice, we were only using 800,000 for the implementation of the choice grant program. So that was my next question. So the money that 800,000 is enough to reach the goals that you want and isn't the same goals that you had the prior year? So our prior year, so we're in a transition phase right now. So last year, we developed our five-year strategic plan. That actually is different from the original choice cycle 11 goals and strategic focus areas. So what we're doing with the choice grant program now is we're aligning the choice, we've revised it to align it with our current strategic plan so we can meet our goals and objectives of the new strategic plan. Awesome. I'd also like to add how you've done a magnificent job of including STEM into the big challenges of athletic stuff. Cause all the kids, they're not going to be athletic superstars, right? They're going to have to make their income some other way. So that gives them another option. Here's another question for you. Are the programs that you offer free to the youth or are they subsidized? So the majority is free to the youth. We do generally we'll charge like, to attend the entire summer program and it won't be $20 for the child. If there's any situation where we need to cover that, we will. Really the $20 is not about any cost recovery or revenue, same thing for like our sports leagues and stuff. Unfortunately, what we found over the years is if it's completely free, mom and dad will sign anything and turn it in. And then you start a program and 20% of your kids don't show up because they signed the paper, but they weren't really committed. Whereas if we have some type of fee associated with it, well now I'm actually going to read the piece of paper, right? We're going to sign up for basketball and then realize, oh, you already have soccer practice at that time. And so we're going to keep taking you to soccer. So it's really just an operation for us to make sure that we don't waste two weeks of programming where kids aren't in the program while we go to wait list to get kids in and those types of things that, well. You can tell us tax payers, good tax payers of Santa Rosa. Why is that we're paying for tattoo rooms? Tattoo removal is a key component to do no gang prevention. So what it does is if you have someone that has gang tattoos that are visible, that can be impeding to them successfully leaving the gang lifestyle as well as obtaining employment. And also there's a self-consciousness thing too. And also from the community at large, this discriminatory practice that comes with that from other community members that see those tattoos and are automatically like, oh, you're a gang member, I want nothing to do with you. You're not part of this community. And it really helps with their own sense of identity and sense of place in the community. And so having this particular program will remove any visible tattoos. So gang related, hate related and human trafficking tattoos with the human trafficking. Human trafficking tattoos. So human trafficking is directly tied into gang activity. For just a real brief piece of education here, we are seeing a substantial increase in the number of females, young girls, I should say, starting as young as 10 or 11 coming our way, who are showing signs of gang involvement. And with gang involvement for females, there is the element of human trafficking. And that can be sex trafficking, drug trafficking, holding the weapons, driving the getaway car. Those are whole forms of trafficking. And we are seeing that more and more in our young girls and young women here in our community. Just last month, we had three girls who were caught trying to leave the area with a man from LA who had spent time here to groom them and they were caught as they were on their way out of the area. So this is a real problem. It's not unique to Santa Rosa. It's happening all over California. So with the Back to the Clean Slate program, human trafficking can be related to gangs. We want to be able to help the victim of human trafficking remove that. So it's not something that they have to work with. That sounds like a great program. As long as we're doing tattoos, the only thing related to that, not just, I don't know, butterflies, how are we going to do that? No, no, no, a Shakira or whoever you got that's another. No, just gang related, gang related or... I think the people sounds like they'll paint that. Yeah. Can I add one more question to that? Thank you. Since when that's 100? It's okay. I was just thinking if it's helpful, I think for people to understand how, what requirements they have to have the tattoos removed because it's an expensive long process. So I wonder if you just give them an idea about that. So what we have developed for our program, we based it off of other programs that exist throughout California because we are paying for that service. There will be several requirements. One is 20 hours of community service. And the other is participation in four life skills, at least four life skills courses. In order to have their first appointment scheduled, they will have to have to complete their first life skills course. And we'll have a menu of different options for them to choose from things like healthy communication and healthy relationships to financial literacy, how to fill out a job application and create a resume. So those types of things will be available in the life skills courses. And then in order to finish off their last session, they'll have to complete their 20 hours of community services as well. And then there'll be a graduation and for that cohort of folks. So we're hoping to do this on a, bring in a new cohort on a quarterly basis so we can have those ongoing graduation ceremonies as well. Thanks. Yeah, I just want to highlight the staff real quick. It's true that they pulled a lot from other models that are going on, but it's selling the team a little short for the creativity that they came up with to problem solve. There are partnerships like this that exist. It's usually through medical fields and stuff. We had some obstacles in that. And so the partnering with local businesses here that said, hey, you know, and negotiating what those rates would be so that it's a sustainable model that we can keep going was a great job by the team. Again, out of box thinking. And I'm pretty confident a model that others, as those types of shops become more normal as a business and an operation of beauty type businesses, or, you know, for the, yes, I want to get rid of this butterfly and stuff, but not for what our program is doing is that there's an opportunity to work with those businesses that are in our community who want to contribute, except by myself. My last question. Can we go to slide seven, please? I think it was slide seven, right there. I'm going to preface what I'm about to say with this. I teach a class. It's called SSU. It's called racism and sexism in science. And we, I saw at the class, we, one of the first thing we introduced is an experiment is called draw scientists. Draw scientists. And how that experiment works is you give anybody a pencil or some pens and you tell them, draw scientists, draw doctor, draw whoever, right? And what they'll do is they'll draw what they perceive that person to be or to look like. And from 1966, in 1977, these experiments were 4,800 experiments were conducted on kids from the first, from kindergarten to the twelfth grade. And from these draw science experiments, only 28 out of the 4,000 sciences that were drawn by these kids were depicted as women. So the problem with that is if all these students are drawn, the men, how can they believe themselves that they can, they can accomplish what it is that they put down in that paper? There could be some trepidation if you will. Now, I look at this. So that's what I'm teaching. I teach implicit bias. So I'm looking at this and you got violence prevention. So I'm only seeing people probably up there. Why people don't commit crimes? I'm only saying this because of the of the subconscious things that could happen when you're looking at this. And just showing this to the city, somebody's going to be sitting in their living room thinking unknowingly, thinking, man, violence must be only associated with those people there. I don't know what are they, Mexican, I don't know them. What about these kids over here in the driver's seat? Violence is only connected to them. So that's my only comment about this. It can potentially, for me, that's what it's inducing right now. That's what it's inducing. And when recently, I go with Marstapp, you know Marstapp, Councilman Stapp, he and I go down to San Quentin to play basketball. You know what San Quentin looks like? It looks like everybody, everybody's there. Everybody, white, black, Mexican, Venezuelan, who have everybody's there? It's not just those folks. I guarantee you go down to the jail house right now. Is it just those people of color in there? No, it's not. So for next meeting, I think this should be more representative of what your program actually looks like. Let's not give people the wrong idea and think that only people of color associated with violence, so those people want to prevent it. Hello? How many circumstances you got folks like Columbine running up into the school, right? So this should be more representative of, this should reflect a little bit more than just one group. Let's not fool everybody. I appreciate the feedback. We'll be more cognitive about that. I actually have a question to follow up on that concept. And even I talked about this a little bit earlier this week, but how the measure doesn't acknowledge economic need as a part of our targeting for violence prevention. Could you explain a little bit about how it's targeted and in geography, across the city, economic need and how are the services are being provided targeted outside of demographics? Yeah, I mean, June, do you want to touch on some of the qualifications? And just before June touches on that, there's also always, I mean, no matter what qualifications we put on it, it's not going to cover everything, right, that's impossible. We all have different backgrounds and needs and those types of things. So there's also in addition to this, there's always the element of a situation, right, the referral program, how they come through, you know, we have a lot of partnerships. And so there's always that option outside of this as well to make sure that we get continue the services in the program. Yeah, so our goal is to reach, so in neighborhood services, we have to look at, so this is members in order to, they're primarily based around income or receiving any type of assistance through the city or the county. But we also have extenuating circumstances. So that's anything we actually speak to the person or they say, we don't qualify, then we have a certain set of questions that we ask. And if they answer a certain way with those questions, then we qualify under extenuating circumstances. And basically, extenuating circumstances is just like anything where the child is at risk or going through a lot in their life. So it could be a course or a bus or a parent or being bullied at school, having a learning disability, those types of things. And then also there's the neighborhoods that we'd like to provide. And I guess, we're going off to the previous point, we're providing services, right? I think that is targeting that violence is occurring in neighborhoods regardless of the economic standing. And some of our most high profile violence is that on the east side, on the west side as well. So I feel, I don't know what that feeling is like of what our side means versus so, like violence is going to happen everywhere. And we're cognizant of that and actively in all areas working. Yeah. And just to touch a little bit more like you said, the financial barrier is not specifically called out. But again, when you're talking about primary prevention, there are a lot of ways, recreation and parks department, sports leagues, all sorts of different things in the community. But financial is often a barrier to participate in, right? Some of these soccer leagues might cost $1,000 a month to participate in and so most types of things, right? So that's why it's one of the factors that we can consider quite a bit is because we know that there are a lot of kids who aren't having the opportunity to have those pro-social and early prevention programs. So for that reason, it's one of the factors for us to make sure that all the kids in our community have an opportunity to find. New reference, primary prevention, can you walk through your three layers of prevention, how it ties in from the tattoos to the neighborhood services to the violence prevention? So different models, right? I mean, the kind of one that stuck with kids to have primary prevention, which again, I kind of correlate to the safety net. So neighborhood services is providing a certain aspect of that. But again, there's, right? I mean, there's after-school programs that we aren't providing. There's sports leagues that aren't through us. There are all those types of things in the community or your primary prevention. And it's basically, let's put kids in a safe place, doing a positive activity around positive role models and I think something that everybody agrees to, right? Secondary prevention starts to get as you start identifying some of the kids in those programs that are gonna need additional services. Those could be things like mental health services or some of those types of things that say, okay, we've identified this kid through our safety net and there's concern that they're gonna slip through the cracks. So let's get them some additional resources. Community groups, those types of things. And parents, course kids, they all. Yeah, yeah, because then it can leave a band of resources, right? Then it generally is discussed as intervention after that. I kind of like the idea of splitting intervention into two as well. And that's the area where that you have that earlier, like, okay, now it's not that we have some concerns that they might be slipping through the cracks. It's, we're starting to get in trouble. They've started to slip through the cracks and you're starting to do the intervention work. And again, that's where our furrow program, the community outreach specialist in the program that we're building for, it's really that one-on-one work, right? Case management work with those kids. But then there's also the next layer piece of that more intense intervention. The street outreach, the hospital-based intervention, we build those relationships. And that is a partner in the past we had with California Youth Outreach. And that is a service that we've been missing in Santa Rosa for quite a while. It took a while to show up because we had so many weird things going on with COVID and those types of things. And now it's a very glaring hole in our services that we have here. And so the team is working diligently to identify agencies that can provide some of those services for us. Okay, I have my questions. So my question has to deal with the street outreach. It said that it has a limited term. So, and you said it's reimbursed through other monies. So for that particular position, is it just for a particular time? Is there something that's gonna be continued? And is there a timeframe of when that could possibly fall off of your monies in budget? Yeah. So two of those positions are limited to travel. One is the one funded through probation. That's funded through next year. June 30th, 2020. And typically we do three year ML use of probation. So there's no indication that they will not do another three year overview. I haven't heard anything other than this. The PGME settlement funds also limited term and that's set to inspire also next June. And so are you doing something to kind of fill that hole? You're advocating very heavily to city council that we need these positions, but also looking for other funding sources. One just came across our desk last week and we'll be in hopes of being successful this time. Okay. And I have a comment in relation to recreation cessation and the collaboration with Santa Rosa City School. Considering what we have going on in our city, I think that's a really great way to use resources we have to fill in the gaps. And then one of the things I happen to be at is still laying when the kids were coming in for their cheerleading practice. And so I was like, oh, let me ask some questions. So I asked them, hey, what do you guys think of this? And, you know, do you like it? And so to see the expression on their face says it all. That's what it's about. So, you know, if anybody ever have an opportunity to just, you know, meet with the kids and have that conversation, it's not for naught. And so it's important that we continue to be very diligent in what we're doing to make sure that we're filling those gaps that is missing out of maybe our homes and maybe our schools. It's very important that we, you know, continue to fill that gap. And with, you know, nonprofits closing and, you know, things are going on with nonprofits, there is continuing to be additional holes in our city and our county. So thank you for supporting that and thank the citizens of Santa Rosa for saying yes to the initiative. I don't know why that story reminded me, but again, with the bringing these services together, I know, you know, the cheerleading, right? And they're enjoying that experience. They're also building relationships. And the key to bringing relationships is, again, we know with those services, still some kids are gonna, for different reasons, are gonna slip through the cracks. And we had a child through the referral program come into the VPP side and the name got shared with Neighborhood Services and there were multiple staffs. So instead of Danielle's staff member who didn't have a relationship with the kid yet, he was able to reach out to that child with someone from Neighborhood Services who already had a relationship. And so that referral process now started here instead of starting with the- Ground zero. You don't know me. You don't care about me, right? It was instantly like, oh, okay. Like you have my respect. You know, I have a relationship with you. So there's so many different layers to why that type of programming really is important. And any further questions? Oh, yeah, a question. Yeah, great presentation. Definitely appreciate you all for doing the great work that, you know, we're talking about this, but yeah, you know, definitely I was part of y'all program and I was younger, a lot of fun. So Joe, crazy basketball tournaments, we said. Yeah. So, yeah, just two questions I had. I remember last time we were talking about, you know, certain areas like the Valley of Department to other areas where we're like, all continue to expand into, you know, I wanted to see if there was like, maybe any progress in there. And then like the second question was, I was interested in like the representation of different racial groups, particularly Black youth. And I remember you all were saying, you're gonna be beginning to like, ask kids like their race and stuff like that. So I wanted to see if, yeah, any, if those numbers have been collected on missing the proper cylinder process. And if they are, I was gonna ask maybe in the next presentation, we meet, it'd be nice if you all concluded if you're still in the process of that, if you are doing that. So those are mine. So yesterday account to address that last part, yesterday at council, they approved, it was on consent for the next contract for the evaluation process. So we'll be working on setting all that. So we're kind of mid evaluation when we talked about that last time. So we'll be setting that up as part of the new evaluation. I know back when I was with Neighborhood Services, all the reporting I had to do, so I'm sorry, Joanna, it's coming to you and your team. Pulling Neighborhood Services in line with what we're asking of our funded agencies as well. So that is something I'll be getting built into this, this next phase of evaluation. But we have started to collect the demographic data for the choice grant program. So our print teams are reporting on that now. We won't have that data until year two is over and year two before that. Yes. And then the internal piece will be catching up as we continue to make that. You have, so when you say then, so you're saying it's gonna be when you get evaluated by like other funders? Pretty much. Or so, yeah, I would just ask you first, in regards to this thing, when would we know how many like African-American youth are in services? So with the choice evaluator, when they come in for Cycles 12, starting January 1st, we will incorporate Neighborhood Services back into the evaluation process. Previous decisions were made to not include them. I don't know why, because I wasn't aware of that. But we are rectifying that. And so they will be part of the evaluation moving forward. So we'll be able to collect that data and have an interest. And now, again, last night, that was approved to the evaluator OB. So now it's in the process of, what do we need to change in registration forms or those types of things to start collecting the data surveys, all that type of stuff. So that we'll be able to present as we're doing that. Yeah, because right now it's just kind of under the Recreation, as far as Recreation of Park is concerned, we do not collect any of that demographic data. So it's just able to be switching them from that bottle into the BBB bottle. Oh, okay. Oh, nice. Well, you're already kind of in a ripple fix. That's great that you're already together. Which, oh yeah, I just wanted to comment on that. That's like really amazing for our city that you all are all under one roof. That's just super great. And then the last thing about the whole, like the value of carrier, has there been any? So, no, I mean, we used to have a program there. Unfortunately, some of it's something that we were at. We weren't able to offer the program because of accessibility loss. It was, you know, upstairs in the elevator and those types of things. So we do have some other, you know, we do programming in that area, not in the apartment complex specifically, but a lot of the programs that we offer at the Comstock Middle School Gym, and we have the after-school program at the Apple Valley trailer, although I'm fully aware that that's not the same. So we do have services there to be perfectly honest. That's one of the areas that we're really looking to identify in this next year through some of our prevention programming is the MLK South Park neighborhood area. There's certainly as a whole there of how programming was provided in the past. So that program haven't gone away and really think that there's a strong need for the city to step in about there. So that's one of the areas that we're really looking at. We've been meeting with the community and some of the groups that are already, you know, there are people there that were doing amazing work. We want to make sure that we step in the right way so that we step in and support, don't step in and step on toes because there's great community work that's taking place out there. And then, but yeah, I think they, with our support, they could do more. But that's great. That area does receive our block class that has all of our information and programming that we offer. And we do see a lot of, I don't know also about that, once we get our street out which we don't have, that would be a fair one. That's great. Yeah. And I know it's always hard to get to, you know, all the areas because you all do so many different programs, you know, all year round. So I don't want it yet. Please don't take it as criticism. Just obviously we'll expand it. And I think the fact that you're like, including race into your things, it'll just naturally show certain areas, you know, because like you said, South Park, I'm part of their like community garden they have there in South Park. And obviously you can see like the different, you know, ethnic groups and racial groups and just different groups. So it's great that we're all going in all the same direction. So give it up to you all for giving it. I said a question about partnerships with school districts. I know we have eight school districts on my bank account, Kenwood. And I'm wondering, I know you go to a partnership with Senator State School. Do you partner with any of the other districts? And if you don't, curious about like logistically why if there's a lot of work behind it? So we do, we've been with Santa Rosa State Schools for a very long time as well. The transition and why we highlighted it is a lot of those agreements are, we're just a user group, right? So we go in and the schools work with us and because they know the type of program that we're doing, right? They're not necessarily holding us to the same fees and stuff. So it's not just a, you know, it's not completely, but we go in, we do the user agreement. Hey, where can we fit? This new agreement with Santa Rosa City Schools is actually, it's Santa Rosa City Schools program technically and they're contracting with us to provide services. And so it just changes the relationship one, it brings in some money to help do more services, which is always a good thing. But also just kind of establishes that relationship and builds a little more sustainability in the program where we're not as much at the will of, of that school that we want to do it at now is construction. And, you know, last summer we were down one site, we increased enrollment at one of the sites, but we couldn't get to our fourth location. So we worked with one of our three locations that we had an increased number so we could try to serve in the same number of kids, but this is formalizing that relationship. I would love, you know, it's kind of a pilot program in a number of different ways. I would love to take the success of this and go to other school districts and say, hey, like, you know, here's the value in seeing this as a partnership instead of as a user group. So yeah, hopefully this will be a model that we could replicate with other districts. But we're already doing a lot of things on other campuses through the other means. Thank you. Yeah, you also work with roles in quite a bit as well, right? Yeah. I asked because I teach at RVSD and I live in RVSD in Ring and Valley. And the thing that we constantly see is we have students who have benefited from all of the services that you get to provide but because they're a low percentage over on our side of town, they tend to kind of like you mentioned and slip to the cracks. The district itself is like, hey, aren't these students to really provide the services we should be providing? And then you get it in the same calculation and then those kids are the ones that are kind of forgotten in a way. So I'd love to see your success in San Francisco schools replicating with other schools. I also understand you have limited time and money. So going for the biggest thing first makes sense. But I think the second biggest thing is probably just current role in numbers. But obviously not the same. I just need a lot of it, right? I will say not recreation programming related but violence prevention would happen out there quite a bit this last couple of months because gang activity and song rise in Valley too. Thank you. There are a few programs that we're doing. I'm sorry, it's a new term I haven't memorized yet but with some of these smaller group circles. And so that is a program model that's more of a mobile program. Like if you're gonna run a basketball program you have to have a gym you have to be able to center it out of somewhere. And I think some of these other programs that we're creating now in the teams since staff are training to line the curriculum be leaders of these groups and stuff. Give us a little bit more flexibility to do some of that outreach beyond the... Hey, we know that there's a need of 10 kids somewhere. Right, perfect. Let's do a run up program. Okay, thank you. You're okay. Thank you. So that was the DVT in good services and next steps. Right, we'll go through. John Griggin, our chief of police and our administrative service officer, Pam Moore, it's gonna go through our first slide. Thank you, good afternoon. So the first... So this slide shows where our budget was this last year where we're proposing our budget to be next year. It's a small change in salaries and benefits keeping the 17 positions that we had in there this last year and the two interim positions. She will talk more about that in the next slide. Our services and supplies went down slightly by $20,000. That includes our acts on fleet contract, maintenance on all the vehicles that major oil funds as well as some motorcycles fuel for those vehicles and computers and that sort of thing. Administration went down just a very little bit. That's the overhead, the city charges for up to us as well as insurance costs. And then we have our lease. It includes the DET lease and the Roseland substation lease. Sorry, I thought I changed that on there. And we are actually leasing a new site in Roseland. We started that just about two months ago. And then the Roseland substation, the bottom line there that 2.6, that was for the purchase of the Roseland substation, which we purchased, I believe in July of this year for 2.2 million. Next slide. Now we're gonna go highlighting some of the positions we have in here. We have the same amount of staff with the 17 full-time employee positions and our two student interns. And that really came back from some feedback right here in this room about engaging more in the community, getting students involved. And we've been really excited with that program. Our lieutenant is our special events lieutenant. So manages our traffic division, our downtown enforcement team, and then any special events. So any of the big events that we have at the fairground like country summer, those are the fair and literally there's events there every weekend and courthouse square and any of these events across the city of Appalachian it manages. It's very critical and important for the state in making sure that we organize and have a response for any of those events. The two sergeants, we have one sergeants that's dedicated to our traffic team. We have six motorcycle officers on that team that do nothing but traffic enforcement. And the other sergeant is one that we had at last year, which is the new gang crime team sergeant. Those are our two positions there. Nine police officers, five of those are dedicated to our patrol and they're toward enhancing our services throughout the city and really focused on the quality of service, but also reducing our priority one response times by having those additional officers patrol. Two other officers are assigned to the downtown enforcement team, which is one of our core areas that was built into the public safety and prevention tax of downtown and specifically Frenchmore Greenway and Reverend Square and any other downtown areas. The last two of those nine officers are dedicated to our traffic team and that's two of the six motorcycle officers that we have. And we're talking next slide some of the progress they've made. One police technician and that works in our front records area and they help process the literally thousands of police reports and citations and other information that comes in and helps with our community members who come in seeking services at the police department to fill the neveness technicians. And this is two out of our total 10 and they're really focused. They process all of our crime scene. So last year we had 10 homicides in the city 361 reported shootings in the city and every single one of these scenes is processed by these hand-filled evidence technicians they go to court, test advice experts and make sure that we're collecting evidence that's able to be presented to court in a non-biased and really professional way to make sure that anyone has a fair trial here from a Santa Rosa case that we investigate. Our last one is our communication supervisor and we have three communication supervisors and they're helping us for those of big events whether they be wildfires or side shows or shootings or whatever the event may be managing our dispatch center. Last year we had over 234,000 calls that came into our 911 Dispatch Center that team so they're incredibly busy. Our community service officer and this is a civilian position and they're going out, they're taking like non-injury collisions, burglary reports with no suspects doing a lot of community engagement efforts and that's really helping free some of our officers. So they're available for those priority one responses and to help drive down our response time. And lastly, our community outreach student interns and this has been so cool to be able to come out there to events that we're tabling and help it organize and supplement our staff and what they're doing. And it's been a real enhancement to what we're doing. And also it's been an incredible way that we're able to bring some of our college students into the police department and what we're hoping to be able to use that as an incredible recruitment tool to better see that they can be part of the great work that we're doing here in the city of Santa Rosa. Next slide, please. So these are some of the quick highlights of how go over what we accomplished with these 17 staff members and the two interns really been focused with our downtown enforcement team about these key areas that we have here that tie directly into the tax measure of downtown, Reverend Square, Rosalind, Prince Monroe, Greenway, the smart track area. And we've really seen a lot of progress. One of the things we're able to do with the incredible support of our city council this year is we now have eight full time downtown enforcement officers with a sergeant and they now have seven day a week coverage. So seven days a week, they're addressing and they're providing services. We work very closely with Catholic charities and their host team and really the focus is getting people into services. And these are the experts for our entire department of that and we've seen really incredible results across the city of Santa Rosa with the enhancements we're able to use through the public safety and prevention tax. Also really focused on expanding our community engagement and outreach efforts. And I was meeting with our team when we're talking about it, we went to over 60 community engagement events that the police department was lead on last year. And we did so many. We did two tacos with a cops events. We did ice cream with a cop. We did coffee with a cop. And we've jumped before like, if you eat it in Santa Rosa, we'll be there with you. Enjoy cops love to eat. And, but we did so many other things working with some of our local elementary schools. And there's a picture at the end of the slide that we did with some of our Rosin Unified School District and we did an art contest with Rosin Elementary, Rosalind Creek and Shepherd Elementary. And the winners of the contest, we bought lunch for them and I went and had lunch with them. For each one of them, there were five or six students at each one of the schools and we're able to have lunch together. And it was a fun experience for me and for the kids to get to kind of know each other and be able to highlight some of their incredible art. We hung up their art in the police department lobby for several months. So they got to bring their family and be able to see there was highlighted to our community. And that's some of the fun community engagement events that our team's able to create. We have our community police experience is starting just next week. So we have up to 30 community members that could be a part of an eight week program of really getting to know everything. And we still have a couple spots available if anyone's interested in that contact me, I can get you in there for increasing traffic safety and enforcement. And that was a key thing in 2022 we had eight fatal collisions across the city of Santa Rosa. Really put a focus on that. And that was one of our big focus points for 2023 and really proud of the work of our team. We reduced that by 75% fatal collisions going from eight to two fatal collisions. That's still two tragedies that occurred in our community. We're continually put the focus but really proud of the work and our tax here is able to help and respond that. Improved response to our priority one calls in 2022 we averaged seven minutes and seven seconds to a 911 emergency call. That's a long time when you're waiting at the other end of a 911 call still need to see a lot of progress in this in 2023 that was down to six minutes and 57 seconds. So marginal improvement but quite honestly still have a long way to go and that's one of our focuses in 2024. The in-car cameras, we're really excited about that. All 75 of our Mark police cars have the full week three program through Axon. So that's three different camera lenses going that on the outside of the car and anyone who sits in the rear passenger of our police car both audio and video. And that really like we've talked before is three prong for accountability of our staff to make sure that I can more clearly see what's going on and if there's a problem that can hold someone accountable for the transparency to our community about now you get a much broader view about what's going on because the body weren't cameras rather limiting in some situations and third for the liability for working with our city attorney's office and be able to reduce the liability because overwhelmingly you're seeing positive work by our officers that captured on those videos. And then the Lisa the downtown substation we talked about that we have the dedicated our eight downtown enforcement officers work out of the transit ball the small substation on there and that's funded through here and that's helping us have a more increased presence downtown and especially at the transit mall where we've had some issues over the last year with juveniles and some gang activity things like that and we've been focused on that and their presence is really something that we're continuing to focus on. Next slide please. One of our crowning accomplishments for this last year through our tax measure here is the purges of the Roseland Library here and we had budgeted for 2.6 million our incredible team Jill Scott and her team work together was able to go shut down to 2.2 million. So we had a small savings there which we were happy about. Now one of the things as excited as we are to be owners of this property we really wanted to work with our Roseland community he'd work so hard to bring this library. So our agreement is that we were not gonna kick the Roseland library out of their building until they have their new spot for the Roseland Community Hub that has actually been obviously a labor of love for the city of Santa Rosa and is moving through the processes here and we hope to see that library built in the years to come. Hopefully sometime around that 2026 range or so it's still working through that through the city process. In the meantime though we continue the existing lease that the Roseland library had. So it's approximately $11,000 a month that we're getting lease which is their existing lease they had it that money is coming back to measure O so it's coming back and replacing. So every month you're seeing a net increase of $11,000 through that. And then as soon as that building is available it's 4,500 square feet. My vision is to be able to build like a public facing lobby in there to work with our city leaders to get some police technicians that are dedicated there. And my overall vision and hope is that we would have a bilingual bi-cultural record staff that would be there be able to take reports community members could come in it would greatly drive down response time with officers working out of this area. And this building is big enough that we have a community space area that we can have community meetings there from the police department that work with some of our local nonprofits. So this is really like something that really focused in the years to come anxious to get in there when the new building can be built. In the meantime, we leased a small substation just down the road here in the 1200 block of Sebastopol Road much smaller as 800 square feet and officers are working out of there currently we just opened those doors approximately eight weeks ago or so that we're in there. So a lot to come on this and I'll be keeping the team in there. Another big thing this year that we added through the public safety and prevention tax is our gang time sergeant. So we added that sergeant position and I reallocated existing staff for the four effective positions. So we launched on December 3rd of 2023 with that team to arrest or to address some of the rising gang crime across our city in 2023 we had 10 homicides following 12 homicides in 2022 five of the 10 homicides in 2023 had a direct access to gangs. So it's undisputably an issue in our community and something that we want to continue to work with then valuable partners to have the biosphere partnership at our side and really focus not just on enforcement and there's four problems of our gang crimes team enforcement is one of them but equally important are prevention efforts intervention efforts of helping young people get out of gangs and education to our community to parents to teachers to other leaders here in our community and even to other law enforcement staff across the county to be able to know not just some of the enforcement thing to educate though our law enforcement officers on some of the prevention and intervention tools that are available. And last we talked about our two student interns one of the things and this was a great success story that we had a student intern who came to us and said had interest and they were working with missing persons we see hundreds of missing persons to the Santa Rosa police department every year the student intern had the idea to go through some long lasting missing person cases that had been for years been on the books and we've been able to locate them and created these social media posts highlighting 30 different cases and out of those 30 different cases we're able to locate three of them that had returned home or got leads from that and have viable leads on two more of them. So that's pretty impressive and that all came from an intern we highlighted her social media for her work we're really proud of her and it was an exciting moment for us and for our intern program and we're going to continue that in the years to come. Next slide please. Lastly we'll talk about how we're going to continue with some of these services and our focus is on the violence reduction the traffic safety and some of the public safety innovation and how we can use this tax measure and this is one of our lunches we did at I believe this one was at Robson Creek that we're able to meet with some of our students and have fun time together. Next slide please. And we went through that quickly because I wanted to be able to leave time for a question for you. I'm trying to be able to ask anything like that so I'll turn it back over to you, Chairmire. Okay, who would like to start? The Robson, what? The sub station building that we purchased that were leasing to the library we assumed the existing lease did we do anything to confirm the existing lease with market rate? ASO Lawrence might be able to add we did work very closely with Jill Scott who handles all our real estate transactions for the city and met and felt that it was appropriate. We were also trying to also work really closely with our Robson library to make sure that we were able to make sure that we had existing library stands. Stay there at that location and we're doing everything within my power to make sure that the Robson community hub is on track and we can move into that building in a timely manner. Excellent, dovetail is my second question. What happens if we're not on track? What's the lease term and what's our intent? And I'm saying it from the perspective is a big chunk of money reserves in our encounter depleted through this expenditure. And so the time delay to seeing the full benefit is the question. Yeah, absolutely. And it's something that we'll continue to be monitoring our team. I don't act as the actual lease with me today to be able to have the terms. I'm not sure if you have the least of the years that we I don't know what the years are but I can follow up. Okay. Yeah, but it's something that we're going to continue to monitor. We've had numerous conversations with our library management staff and they're very optimistic of this roughly 26 to 2027 at the latest timeline to be able to move into their building. But there's a lot of variables and we know that may that goal may change with that. But those are things that we're working toward and they're still actively working on that. And but if it gets to that position then we'll sit out and have frank conversations with the library about what their next plans are for that because ultimately we want to make sure that we're honoring the tax measure here and that we're using that for opening up police substation but making sure that we balance that with the community needs for a library. I don't think we'll get to this but what I would argue that a library is violent prevention and public safety in the same way that your guys programs are and like creating a safe place that is free to go to and like all the service of the library but I'm like trying to quickly look through the text and see if there's something like specific spot for that. But I would say it sure seems like that to me. Like when I think of what a library ever seems like community, it represents the community and gangs are kind of an alternative in the form of community. And if you're part of that original you don't need to join a gang. But did I understand? Did I get anywhere to get it? Though, even while it's delayed you're receiving money back into measure. Correct. You don't know you paid you're also receiving money in that room. Yeah, so we're getting $11,000 a month and that has some tiered steps that it'll continue to go up the $11,000 and it was spelled out in the lease. So we are at least getting returning revenue from that with it and keep in the library. And keep in the Bible. And it's really a beacon of education and hope they're that way. It's a beautiful library. And our staff obviously have access to it and we've talked about small things about, hey, could we put like a desk or something there for an officer to engage the community? So those are things like as this goes on that we're gonna look at some of the things that we can partner with the library for that location. And with the eight weeks of data on the other substation opening have any deduction and time for response times or anything like that just in the first eight weeks of having that out operational. It's early to have any true like empirical data but anecdotally you're seeing more officers in that area like that. So there's four desks there, there's a kitchen there for them like a small kitchen they could eat their lunches and things like that. But that's what I want. I don't want them driving all the way back to the Santa Rosa main in Sonoma for lunches, for booking evidence, for writing reports. So you're seeing officers who are now staying there working on processing evidence reports eating their lunches and available. And then we were very strategic of wanting a location that was visible from the basketball road. So I want you to drive an ounce of basketball road to see the marked cars there. We have parking spaces that are right there. And that's not only for visibility in the community but also an access in the community that anyone can pull in there and see that police car knock in the door, be able to access an officer with it and I believe that's a big step forward and we've been just welcomed with open arms in the Roseland community. So we're really excited about that. Great having you. And my last question is to go back to the funding that we use for the purchase of the station. And I'm going just from the ordinance to confirm my understanding, but we specifically do this out of the funds allocated for section one law enforcement release of public safety and specifically for subsection which is for public safety services in Roseland area. Correct. And I think it would also enhance some of the other ones like that when you're talking about law enforcement and this would be subsection A. So D is 100% off because it's simply called Roseland. But when you're talking about A, which is the law enforcement and police patrol services, now it's enhancing patrol services in response times in that area. You're also seeing traffic safety. So our traffic officers were able to utilize that. So it really gets several of those, specifically D is right on. And specifically when the bucket of funds and the reserves will be built up over the years, was that bucket of funds to be allocated the money for? Yes. And E also includes specifically facilities like that. So please support services, including facilities, equipment and financing thereof. So it directly, it's up most of these products actually. Thank you. Is there, yeah, it's good. What's the name of the location? What's the library going to be? It's over there. And Chief Westrup really has a lot of expertise over there, and so the Herne, the Herne side there. So the city was able to buy, I believe it was about six acres of property there. And ultimately you're going to see the new firehouse there and the one transitioning over from Burbank and then the library. And then there's still plans down there for a community center. And there's a lot more grand plans as that expands over the years. Can you remind me? Is that too? So like Southwest Community Park and it runs parallel, like to Sevastopol Road, but separated by about a mile there and it intersects, like it intersects with Corby. And then it turns out, it goes down to Sevastopol. Yeah, so it would be like between. Correct, yes, exactly. Yeah. You mentioned that these stations are going to be visible and everybody's going to see it, and you're going to try and see it. But I'm wondering, because remember, I didn't care, we haven't met yet. Cosgrove? Cosgrove? Yeah. Cosgrove. I mentioned something about the library. You got me thinking about my wife's experience. Cosgrove. Yeah, I would like for the library to also be visible too. Cosgrove. And for the reasons he mentioned, I'll tell you about my wife's experience. Okay. She grew up in Mexico. I won't say everything because it's being recorded, but her father was not good to a mother. Kind of excessive alcohol. And so he also told her things about her that wouldn't be motivating for a kid. So her way of dealing with the circumstances was to go to the library because she didn't have to deal with that at home. And number two, she can prove to him through her studies that I'm not going to be more than what you say I'm going to be. But that time, had she not had that public library there in a place where she can go away from everybody, where it was quiet, where she can escape that house? No. I don't know. I don't know when she's a physician now and she still struggles with what her father told her. But that library was a saving race for her soul. In terms of visibility, that library should be as visible as your police station because it can also serve as a task by this premeditation. Yeah. And I think and I don't want to speak for the library, but that's why they're heavily investing in this firm community hub and being a part of it, which is going to be, this is going to be a big establishment and beacon there in the Rosalind community they are heard. And it's close by, it's roughly about a mile or so away from the existing library they'll be moving to. And I have a bigger space that I think could even enhance more of the services for our Rosalind community. Ideally, I don't live in Rosalind. I live close on the West side. But I, I think the best role. I'd be his 255 size, the best role is the highlight, Rosalind. So my MTA drives this best role, seems like the best role would be the best visible and sometimes it's building the buses or whatnot. Seems like that would be the best location to make it as visible as the police station. Yeah, that'd be something for the library staff to continue. But I know they put a lot of thought into that location and I believe they'll have a bigger facility. And hopefully with the building, maybe in the future community center there, that there's gonna be a lot of activity in there. So it'll be more accessible to our youth and families here in the Rosalyn area. Thanks. Absolutely. Any additional questions? Okay, so my questions are, for the, you mentioned a public face and lobby. And so you talked about bilingual staff. And so I think it's very important that we invest in our community. So while you still have time to start laring that out and possibly bringing in community members from the area to be a part of that, while we piece and whatever that's gonna look like, I think if people see themselves in that space, it can bring a different field to the community. And then the other thing is the game crime scene. So that's the actual name of it is the games crime team. That's the official name of? Yeah, so, and I always make sure I direct away from some people calling it a gang task force. It's not a task force, it's our gang crime team. These are plain flows, detectives who work of any violent gang crime that we have across our city, we're able to bring those resources. And what we're really hoping that we're gonna see a higher closure rate and bring closure, basically bring closure to victims of violent gang crime across the city of Santa Rosa. Okay. And that's amazing work with the missing people. I really appreciate that because I'm in some conversations with other entities in relation to that. So I know that is a vital part of bringing people home. And then one of the other things for the substation, one of the things I definitely want to be able to track as we're moving forward is that data piece. What is it? What is the benefit of that being in Roseland? So definitely for next time, whenever we meet, I would like to definitely see some numbers on that. Absolutely. You're scot-free. Oh yeah, great question, yeah, think back on that. Thanks for the presentation. That's really great that that young student answer. Well, that's exciting. But yeah, implementing the things that folks were talking about, that's really great. I wanted to ask, in what ways would you say your officers are engaging with the at-risk youth to steer them away from gang involvement, particularly in the hotspot areas we've discussed on the last Metro meeting? So yeah, that's my first question. Well, we started with over those 60s. So we have a small like community engagement team that we have. So we went to over 60 community events. And what we really do is work very closely with our key partner for the city as a bio-financial partnership and working with Danielle and her team and working really closely. And we both piggyback off at each other's events and get out there and support. We've worked really closely with the Boys and Girls Club on Sebastopol Road. And I've gone there and we have officers who go in and play basketball with the youth, have interactions with the youth, but not just started there. That we're really trying to focus all over our community and be able to do things. And that's like the one event that was so exciting. We did two tacos with the cop. We did the first one at Matote Food Court there and it was great. But we had a lot of like executive leaders from different nonprofits and some city leaders that came out. So we kind of rethought it. We're like, how do we get more like in the community with our next one? So we worked and we did it on Apple Valley and we brought a taco truck out there. We bought just over $1,200 of tacos and it was like anyone wants. And we had hundreds of kids and family members from the Apple Valley neighborhood coming out. We partnered with Danielle and the Von Strencher partnership. And we brought about 15 different local nonprofits that they were to provide resources when we used the community building there. And it was such a fun, incredible night. I'd be able to get to hang out. And those are the things where we had just like fun conversations where we could just sit out at picnic table and have a taco with some of the youth at Apple Valley. And those are some of the things that we're really trying to work on this year. Like how do we get in the community? We're already talking about doing one. There was one that we talked about doing out there in Valley Oak. We talked about another one out on Sunset in West doing that, some of those things. But we've had other ideas from our community about how can we get out there and really connect with our youth. Also one of our focuses has been for officers to get out of their car and connect with the community. And whether that be walking through parks, shopping centers, neighborhood, downtown, they'd be able to get out. And now with this beautiful weather coming back, that's really gonna be one of our focuses and specifically engaging with our youth and our community. Interesting. Yeah, absolutely. Because we, the chief has connected us with this game crime scene and we've built relationships there, we are now having more officers referring youth directly to us too through our reform program rather than arresting and incarcerating us. It's really positive that we're going in that direction too. Oh, that's really great. That's great to hear. Seeing, that's yeah, that's a great collaboration. I've seen like, in the spirit of this, it's amazing how so many fun, like people that are being funded by this grant are like working together. And in the spirit of collaboration, I know you have voiced earlier how some of the big grants that you are, that's funding maybe is kind of drying up a little bit, you know, I wanted to ask, and then how you all work in collaboration, you know, very closely to each other, have you all like ever considered like seeing how they can work together and have you all ever considered like using like an MOU maybe to help subsidize some of the staff of BPP in regards to their gang prevention efforts? Cause I'm not even gonna lie, I really love that outreach, you know, I feel like you are, you're in the community, you know, I know this was like a big thing when you took over from chief, you're like, I want to be everywhere, I want everybody to know, man. And like, and even the young youth that I stood up like, yeah, I see the chief at the thing, you know, like you're, you've done an amazing job of like, you know, I guess reducing the barriers between young youth, the community and officers and with that taking it a step further with gang prevention, you know, really like steering a young, you know, young man, woman, whatever that identifies away from joining, you know, the neighborhood gang and seeing how you work closely with BPP so much. I wanted to ask with the gang prevention, the team that you called it, what was it called? I have it right here. Gangs crime team? The gang crime scene, yeah. And how that essentially is, I'm assuming it's not necessarily like gang prevention for a second, as we talked about, it's more detectives to help solve some of the cases. Yeah, but that's what I would say is that four equally important pillars, enforcement is one of them, but equally important is prevention. So they are going out there doing things. Yeah, could you elaborate on what, and also what are the metrics in which you're using to track that progress that the gang prevention piece, that's what I'm mostly... Certainly, and so the metrics are easier to track on the enforcement side because it builds into our records management system, but that's one of the things that we do want to capture better is like the prevention. So some of the things are working like what Danielle mentioned, of just going out and partnering. So just last week we had our gang crime detectives were partnered with Danielle and her team when they went out to Roseland to do a Spanish speaking gang seminar and Danielle and her team led that effort, but we joined, we had our gang detectives go there and they're talking to parents about some of the subjects our gang detectives talked about are signs that you may see on your youth cell phone related to gang activity or to ghost guns and these things and like what are some of the things that you can do to intercede. They also really work and I'm a huge supporter of that Clean Slate Tattoo Program used it many times when I was a gang detective before about helping and this is the intervention that we work with gang impacted youth who have gang tattoos and maybe be on their face or very visible and they want to get out of that gang lifestyle and we can help them like getting them into this Clean Slate Program. We've helped work toward relocating people out of the area when maybe they're considered no good anymore in the gang lifestyle and they're getting attacked and they're getting assaulted. So we work to them and that's the intervention part. We've also worked with our, with the over 50 nonprofits that we have on the Von Zwitsch and partnership about helping some of these youth get gang or get lifestyles or get jobs and get back on their feet. So that's some of the intervention and prevention side. But to your point, I think what we can do is do a better job of how are we tracking that? How are we tracking the number of these successful interventions that we've had? And the preventions, that one's a little bit harder to quantify of how many people did you really prevent from getting involved in the gang lifestyle? We've done program before like the great program which is gang resistance, education and training where you go on the fifth grade elementary. I taught at Lincoln Elementary School for over five years at the fifth grade classes there and was able to work with them. So those are some of the programs that we're really looking, we're just getting. So the gang team started just four months ago. So they're getting back on their feet, getting some of these new detectives to training but they're really work like closely at the hip with Danielle and her team. And I think that's one of the things that we're even looking to explore more. And just today, Danielle and I had a conversation about our team going with her to Oakland to look at some of the prevention efforts they're doing in Oakland. And we want, it can't be just the partnership of doing this, the police department needs to be really focused on the strategies of prevention and intervention. And those are some of the ways that we're going to put our money where our mouth is. It's great. Now thank you for that. If you can highlight those things in the presentation. Okay. I know you did do that a lot with, which was heavy outreach. But like you said, you know, I know we talked about last time with like, as like law enforcement is usually like, almost like, you know, firefighters like, you know, you won't respond to the fires, you know? And with this, I know many people when they voted on this was like, the game prevention intervention before the fires happened. So it's great to hear that you are working so closely together. So yeah. Thank you. Thank you. I forget what month it is, but the other presentation, that's more of the update on information. I confirm with Danielle that when we were reported out on GPS that we could report out on numbers of where those referrals came from as well. So yeah, from the schools, from that game crimes team from the organizations and stuff. So we'll build out that information a little bit for the update presentation we do later in the year. Anybody else? So a quick question about traffic enforcement. So like it's, we, the officers that are in traffic enforcement, they create some revenue, I'm wondering if we get their two people pickets and stuff like that. And so when they like, for each officer who is involved in traffic enforcement, like what percentage of their salary comes back in the form of a beginning or is it a wash like? It's, you would think it's more, it's actually a pretty small, I don't have the exact percentage. The state and the county overwhelmingly get the largest chunk of that with it. So there is small, but it doesn't come back to the police department or go back to general fund with it like that, who then reallocate those things like that. But I don't have the exact figure, but it's relatively small with that really our enforcement that we're doing is more about reducing some of the traffic facilities and collisions. And it's focused more on that. Certainly revenue is not a driver for us, what sort of whatsoever with it. Is it such a small percentage? Right. I have a conversation with my students where the perception is that people in centers are almost always speeding. I can tell you, it's like a serial speeder myself. It was like a year ago after I got a speeding ticket, there was like a year where I did not speed because I was like, oh, it's being enforced. Like we're having this in school with kind of the idea that like, you know, as many rules as you want about shouting out, but if you don't do anything and someone shouts out, they're just gonna keep doing it, right? Yeah. So there is a perception, at least some of the casual drivers are not, it's being shared with the police chief that you can speed pretty much wherever you want in Santa Rosa. And you're probably gonna be good about 99.9% of the time. And we're trying to change that perception because I hear that quite a bit. So I have some of the stats here for you because it was a big focus for us in 2023 after we saw eight fatal collisions and literally hundreds of other collisions. So in 2023, we had over 22,000 traffic stops conducted by Santa Rosa police officer. That was a 60% increase from 2022 because it was a focus on there. So it went from 22,000 up from just about 14,000 the year before. Traffic citations went up 139% in 2023 and they went up to 8,200 from 3400 the year before. So those were something that were really focused. And for us, I was a prior motorcycle officer and there's three E's they consider in traffic. And like enforcement is one of them, but it's just like gangs. You're not gonna fix it all with enforcement. So the other ones are education of getting out there in our community, educating about the thing. And the third is engineering of working with our traffic and engineers about fixing roadways, looking at speed limits, looking at signs, looking at shrubbery, lighting, all these things like that. So what's in my control right now is for really focusing on this community education and getting out there using our speed radar trailers, working with neighborhood groups, but is really getting this enforcement. And for us, as you saw 22,000 traffic stops, we're trying to make these educational experience. For me, and I tell our officers all the time, I don't care if you write a citation. I want you out there making proactive contacts and using it to educate our community because the revenue is a non-factor. For me, I would all agree with that, but it's not a whole lot that comes in with it. But it's getting out there and like addressing that in our community. I'm really proud of the work and we're continuing to do that this year with the traffic enforcement and make sure it's a priority. And in January, we were able to add that sixth motorcycle officer, that which has been unfilled for quite a bit. We did that with our general fund positions, but that's going to be part of our continued focus. So six motorcycle officers, four DUI and accident investigators who work like nighttime shifts. So there's 10 of them total that are doing nothing but traffic enforcement. And then we want all of our patrol officers working toward that when they can between their calls for service. And then just follow up to that. I never spend one. I was gonna show you it because they have cameras everywhere. Looks like they're gonna get caught. And so my question is, why don't we have cameras? And if you're wondering why, it's like kind of like a lot of fun. Yeah, I do see that quite frankly. It's like the future of law enforcement. You're going to see more of this. And actually the state just this year passed a law about putting some of those and you're seeing some of the freeways in the Bay Area. So that's part of it. Many years ago, we had three of the red light cameras in Santa Rosa. It was over 20 years ago probably that we had those. I remember being scared of those when I was a teenager and driving in Santa Rosa. So it does have an impact. But what we're doing right now was working on some of those enforcement. But some of those things I think that you could see in the years to come. We have no concrete steps to doing that right now. But we're examining just today. We talked to there was an article on the President about our real-time crime center that we're launching and that's focused on automated license plate reader surveillance cameras and gunshot detection sensors. But in the future, you could see some more traffic enforcement things as part of that as we basically learned how to police smarter and be more effective and efficient with our resources. And you're talking about giving ticket through the camera, running red light. Yes. Yeah. And there's some problems with those programs. I don't know. Like that. A lot of bad things about those programs. Yeah. So that was something that we would have to get a lot of robust community feedback before we did. So right now, we're not even really examining those things, but I could see in the future, we could look forward there with the focus. Yeah, man, we've got it. We've got it. It's here. It's right here. So we're not coming out of the public safety of prevention. Yeah, that's right. And we're talking about it in this room. We're not talking about it like a busier thing. I know that. You'll let us know where they're at. Fall, could someone fall if their husband drives like what has been learned to drive in Boston? Yeah. And he just continues to drive that way. Yeah. Just awesome. And say, did you follow the doctor? Yeah, I did. Well, with our increased focus on traffic safety, you may be seeing some more of that. Let's jump to that. I asked on this increased focus, the bike lane school drop off zone issue that was covered recently. Is that a increased focus? We are working in towards, so school safety, and I've met with Anna Trinnell, our Santa Rosa school superintendent at multiple times, and they really are requesting more increased forcements on the drop off and pickup time. So our motor officers who are due specifically traffic are rotating around with it. And they've been trying to do one day a week, specifically that they dedicate the schools and going around, and we're going to all the districts across the city of Santa Rosa and putting that. We've done several crosswalk operations there with the schools too, because obviously we've seen some pretty tragic cases with our youth here getting struck in crosswalks. So that's something we do. It just comes to a capacity issue. So that's where we're continuing to work when there's 42 square miles of streets in Santa Rosa to patrol. But it's something that we're certainly working. And I've met with the bicycle coalition as emails me regularly over concerns. So we're trying to address some of those things. I have a heart attack every day with our safe routes to school on the crossing's past full road and folks speaking to them. So I'm glad that's a part of my focus. One last question on my end, that you had a new authorization for mental health response teams within the Measure H language. Are you looking at, and within this year, any of the current funds being out here to support those teams? Or is that a future concept? We added in very strategically as for the future because in response, our mental health support team is really important for me and our city as a whole. Right now we're good. We have Pam Lawrence and I meet with this regularly. We have ARPA fund from the American Rescue Plan Act that's gonna fund us through at least the end of 2025. We also are working very closely with the county's measure. Last year we got 512,000 for this. This year I put in a request of 1.5 million for that because that tax specifically is addressing the mental health and homeless component of that. That still is yet to be approved to go to the board of supervisors. So I'm hoping between the county measure of funding, the remaining ARPA funds and us aggressively seeking state and federal grant funds that we're gonna be able to bridge that for the years to come. And then that's certainly been a conversation that we're gonna have to have with our city leaders about the percentage that our general fund will have to absorb at that point and that will be something that we'll have conversations on. But I'm confident that we have the upcoming years handled right now for this. And so you have the ARPA funds and then we're about to hear, I assume in some way context about ARPA funds being used for the fast response or federal funds being used for the fast response on fire side for the smaller units. Is there any support or collaboration between in response and that effort? Well, with the fire department dedicates and has our medics. So we have six medic positions and a fire captain that are part of our in response team but it's a separate budget that's coming out of that specifically for this. But Chief Westerop and I collaborate on public safety issues on a regular basis. But this provision in here with the mental health response could give you flexibility in the future to work together on mutations? Yeah, we did put it and that was another thing strategically we talked about. So it's in both of our, it's allowable expense under both of our buckets under this tax. But right now we're focused on some of the other funding opportunities that we have that are very specific to mental health. And there's a lot of available grants out there. So that's what really focused. And the county has been an incredible partner with us. So we're really appreciative of their support not only with giving us in kind for free mental health clinicians on that team but for the hundreds of thousands of dollars that they've dedicated to our team. Thank you. And you want us? Okay. Thank you, please. Your final department. Next slide. All right. Thank you. Good evening, Chair Miner. And to the committee, Scott Westerop, Fire Chief. Normally I have Sarah Roberts here who's our finance analyst with me. She couldn't be here tonight. So you have to separate for me. Go. So for the budget for the upcoming year, you'll see on the right that we have a decrease in salaries. This is attributed to a decrease in our holiday overtime payout. And most markedly a decrease in our contract overtime. Contract overtime is tied to strike team deployments. And it's based off the previous year's reimbursement from the state or federal government. We didn't deploy on a lot of strike teams last year or so, both in the general fund and PSAP, our budget went down for contract overtime. See a slight increase in benefits is just to minister it to what you'll see in the general fund based on increase in benefits across the board. And in service and supplies, we have a pretty marked increase, but I'll talk about that in the next slide and what that's about. A slight decrease in administration, which is our internal services as Pam described. We have a one-time allocation for specialized transport vehicles, which I'll talk about in the next slide. And you'll see in the transfer out, the debt service, that's the debt service on fire station five. You see there's a decrease there. And the good news is it's a decrease there because it's the last payment. So as of April 1st to 2025, we send off the last payment on the debt service on a burned down fire station. Next slide, please. So there's two programs that we would like to add to the PSAP this year. And I'm gonna take just a minute to describe them, what they're about, so you understand what we're getting into here. So overall, this year, there'll be an $80,000 increase into allocations. $55,000 of that is ongoing expenses. $25,000 is one-time startup expense. And I'll start with the why. The why is we need to hire firefighters. And one of the provisions of this sales access to hire firefighters. Right now we need to hire 13 firefighters with 13 short, with county measure H passing, we need to hire 35. What we're seeing though across the industry and certainly within the city of Santa Rosa as a decrease in interest in coming into the fire service, coming into law enforcement, coming into the public sector in general. Also attributed to that is that we're seeing a major decrease or a lack of diversity within the talent pool. So in 2015, we went through and we wrote a recruitment and diversity strategy plan. And the recruitment and diversity strategy plan was aimed at handling both those topics of how do we bring more local youth into the fire service and how do we increase the diversity and match the diversity of our community? So at the end, the leader's intent of the plan is to make an upstream investment in our community. And we want to engage the youth of our community from early on, all the way through getting a job in the fire service in Santa Rosa. So historically what you've seen is a terrible job by the fire service as an industry of recruiting people into this fire service. We have not educated the community on what it takes to be a firefighter. I've gone out with a VPP team when they bring in at-risk youth and you start talking about what do you think it takes to become a firefighter? You need to be a doctor, you need to go to college, you need this, that and the other thing. And then, okay, what do you think a job in the fire service is? Well, I think it's the Tubbs Fire, I think it's the Nuns Fire, whatever the case may be. And then ultimately, what do you think the Coltruth Fire Service is? Well, I don't know. Okay, well, it's much like your family. What are the cultural, what are the values that your family instills in you? Let's take care of each other, take care of other people first, service above self, all these things. Okay, Gray, and I always end with this, what do you think you start making as a firefighter? I remember one kid, I was with Gustavo, and one kid goes for what, 4,000, 4,000 what? So then you show them at the end, like, no, there is value in these jobs and it's not that hard to get there. Sometimes I make the mistake of sharing my high school grades with them. But the point is, is we have not educated the youth of our community what it takes to become a firefighter. And then we have all of the resources available here in our community to be successful in that endeavor. And it's very lucrative, particularly those that are at risk or underserved. It's very lucrative, and we will support them through the entire process. So what you've also seen, and most of you remember this, you might see a fire engine show up at Stop, Drop, and Rolling Kindergarten. And then you may see them at a career fair in high school, maybe. And so our goal is to be engaged with the youth of our community all the way through kindergarten, all the way through graduation. You're gonna see a fire engine and know that the fire department supports you, no matter what, all the way through your education. So in our strategic plan, we came up with six strategies and we went through and we wrote it on our own. And then when the SEED Collaborative came in, they came through and helped us make some changes to it. So we have six strategies and largely it's about community engagement and community education. So with this and what it ties to these programs are, is that we're gonna start an Explorer Post, which is essentially being able to come in at 14 to 20 years old or so and experience the firehouse lifestyle. You get some training, you have a drill night, and in your part of that environment, you see what the culture is and you can now go out and share with your friends and your family what the culture of the fire service is. And it's a great segue into once you are old and have to become a volunteer, which we don't have, but we're surrounded by volunteer fire departments who are going into the fire or police academy. So we've never historically had one here in Santa Rosa because we're a career department. There's a lot that surround us and a lot of our members are currently graduates of an Explorer Post. So that's one of the opportunities that we're creating here. So for that, we're asking for $25,000 in one-time startup costs and $25,000 ongoing operating costs. The other part of this is Women in Public Safety Day. This year will be the third year that we've hosted Women in Public Safety Day. It started out as Women in the Fire Service and it blew up with interest into Women in Public Safety Day. So the first year we hosted about 350 participants. Last year we hosted about 400 participants. And if you're interested, this year's event is Saturday, April 27th from 10 to two in our training facility. But it was really focused and targeted on high school age kids and early college age kids. And what we've seen is we've literally had little girls showing up in princess dresses and wearing their helmet and running around fire tackles. All the way to people that are already in college interested in coming into the fire service. So, and everybody in between. So it's really turned into one of my favorite days of the year. The Fire Foundation is very involved in that. And we have this year, we have over 20 agencies being represented. So we have ambulances, helicopters, law enforcement, anything you can imagine the public safety sector we have there as a resource. So this is some ongoing funding for them. We've been able to, through our Fire Foundation and other contributions, been able to keep it afloat or using some general fund money to insubmit. Donations to keep it going. But this gives this team ongoing funding to be able to really blow this event out of the water. We also have a mentorship program that's currently unfunded about how our organization is signed up to be a mentor. So when we go out to community events, we have a sign up sheet for future interest in the explorers and to have a mentor assigned to you. The way I look at the mentorship program is, you know, it's really all a car based on who's signing up for the mentorship program. It could be, what do I need to do to get into the fire service? What classes should I be taking? I'm struggling in school, I'm struggling at home. Or it could be that a person you call in crisis to say, I'm having a serious issue at home. I'm having a serious issue with, you know, getting shoulder tapped to, you know, become a gang member whatever the case may be. And our personnel will say, hey, no, we have a better option for you here. Just come join part of our, be part of our family. And we will guide you through that process and help the environment. So we have, I forget how many, I haven't gotten an update for the last year, but we have had about 80 kids enrolled in our mentorship program. So there's money set aside for the mentorship program to really expand and give them resources. And then we have a veteran recruitment program working with the junior colleges veteran program. We hosted, on Veterans Day last year, we hosted about 15 veterans that were interested in coming into the fire service. I'm gonna give them some money for ongoing expenses and then school engagement. Captain Corey Rickert, who's our training captain is in charge of the school programs and she works very closely with Anna Trinnell in all the schools throughout Santa Rosa to make sure that we're engaged. He gives her those resources to go out and educate the youth of our community. So at the end of this, what we're looking for is we're not just looking to hire firefighters, we're looking to hire firefighters who come from within our community to protect our community. There's, particularly after the tubs and the glass and the other fires that we've had for this uptick in interest in joining the fire service to protect home. And we really lean into that if that's what we want, we want people who are vested in this community to protect this community. So now we have the opportunity with these programs to take the youth in our community who doesn't really know what a job in this industry looks like and we can say to them, okay, here's the education, here's what it looks like. We can say, now I'm also gonna assign you a mentor to guide you through the educational, the familial, whatever the process is to be successful in life and be successful in this career. And now we're gonna go ahead and give you an explorer post which gives you the opportunity to experience this and figure out is this really for me or not. And then lastly, we have the opportunity through the Santa Rosa Fire Foundation to now give you a scholarship to attend the fire academy or the paramedic academy. So we're able to take sort of, for lack of a term, cradle to grave, beginning to end kindergarten to a career, we're able to take the youth of our community and hire them to be effective members of our workforce. So that's the vision, it's a long-term strategy. I know everybody's gonna wanna see data sets on this. The data sets will probably outlive me and my career here because we're starting out and the youth of our community obviously have to grow and you really can't get in until you're 2021, 22. But we are seeing benefits of this already. The work that we've done, we had a firefighter who grew up in Roseland. He was working for Central Marin Fire and we asked him, why are you leaving Central Marin to come here? And he said, I heard about this program. I wanna give back to Roseland. So that's why he came back to our fire department's lateral firefighter. He's been a huge, huge benefit to us and really outpeaked the trauma on this. So that's really the nuts and bolts of, we wanna hire firefighters from Santa Rosa for San Juan Center. And so that's what the first expenditures are for. The second piece is funding for two transport capable squad units, which are way more expensive than I thought. I gave Veronica a number at first. So to member Kaston's point or Christier Kaston's point, we received a federal grant last year that we're actually in the current performance for now. It's a $2.36 million grant for three years. And what that does is it gives us the ability to hire 12 additional firefighters, which we have hired. They just finished, well, we're just graduating the Academy before graduating next month. I'm sorry, six graduate next month. What we're gonna do with that, we're gonna create two squads, which is a very old concept. A lot of big departments still use it. We actually have squads back in the 70s, but it's a two-person light unit that responds to calls and they're gonna respond to calls within essentially the Mendocino Avenue Santa Rosa Avenue corridor or busiest. Part of it is to increase our response times. Part of it is to take the pressure off for our engine companies. And the equipment that goes out there is to get there quick with paramedics that are able to render that medical care, particularly medical care, because that's about 65% of what we do in the last calendar. We ran about 3,000 calls for service. So we have the federal grant for the people. The Santa Rosa Fire Foundation purchased two pickups through a grant. Then we're actually at the shop right now getting retrofitted to a code three response model. We're gonna start the pickup trucks and hopefully we're slated to operationalize this July one. One of the things we need to do though is looking at the future is we need to be able to have the ability to transport patients for a couple of different reasons. Number one is we can surge into the system. So right now if the ambulance system is extremely busy or there's a multi-continental incident, we need to be able to surge in and provide transport capable services. But frankly, if one of our firefighters goes down into scene or I broke in my office, I want our own firefighters transporting me to the hospital because we're family, we take care of each other like that. But long-term, once we have transport capable units, which is a fancy way of saying ambulances, once we have that ability, it starts the clock on what we call two on rights. Two on rights are part of California Health and Safety Code. The California Health and Safety Code says you have to provide that service for 20 years before you're right now codified as having the ability to provide that service. So if in 20 years, the city of Santa Rosa, I'll be retired. But if in 20 years, the city of Santa Rosa wants to bid on the ambulance contract and provide transport services to give us the governmental legal right to be able to do so. So it's sort of a long-term strategy to be able to do so. Because specialized equipment falls in PSAP, that's where we wanted to purchase the vehicles from. They're just exceedingly expensive as is anything else in the fire service right now. Last time we authorized a $2.5 million lighter truck purchase. Everything's just decreasing in cost dramatically, so. So that's sort of the long and short of the major budget changes, the long, sorry, of the major budget changes in the Y behind it. Next slide, please. So just to review what the PSAP currently pays for is essentially an entire engine company. It takes nine people to staff an engine company and that's three per day for three shifts. So it pays for an entire engine company with three captains, three engineers and three firefighters who are all program-trained. It pays for our training captains or training facilities. So it pays for captain Rickards position. In addition, 25% of the division chief of VMS's position is paid for as well as the paramedic incentive on the truck company. So all of our current equipment of 10 inches is two Travis Advanced Life Support. Next slide, please. And sort of the special equipment piece, this body authorized to purchase an installation of two 55 dual dam radios, able work heaters that work is done. Two type one fire engines previously and actually measure out has, has encumbered to purchase a third fire engine that we ordered in fiscal year 2021, I believe we have nine fire engines on order and some of them are dating back almost four years at this point. So, so the new measure of engine has not arrived yet but once it is, we'll make sure it is marketed as such. It purchased a type three wildland fire engine for command vehicles and our swift water rescue trailer. So as far as the people, the facilities and the equipment, we work within those veins and it's been very, very beneficial for the fire department and thankful for the re-institution that measure each piece. Let's give them my presentation and then we can prepare any questions or comments. I sense, well, let's go. Thanks a lot for the presentation, I learned a lot. I wanted to ask, what's the, we just said like the racial breakdown of our fire department. Our fire department. I don't have those stats with me. Okay, it's something we track from the yoga which is our HR process. Fortunately, when we pull the data initially for our recruitment or diversity strategic plan, it's sort of, you know, it's just like anything in it's data and data out. And so if people didn't select something that came up as, you know, undecided or whatever. And so the data is not great but that's part of the process through our recruitment or diversity strategic plan is to actually have a live dashboard of that and a strong look at that at all times. So we can track it, but it changes very constantly with the amount of retirements and the intern over that we have. It's sort of always a moving target. Okay. Okay, yeah, good. I really, like no idea. You know, obviously besides the fire department that's the nearest to my butt. Like, well, I mean, even with the racial breakdown of our city, it just seems to seem like we'll be majority white. Yes. I'll pay that for sure. I'm just gonna say, I think that's great that y'all are increasing their recruitment. And I know, like the fire foundry program, I know sometimes it's where you probably heard that program and with the conservation corp. Nice, yeah. So I see there's a lot of young people of color there, you know, diverse backgrounds that are really interested in becoming a firefighter. No, a lot of them, it's so great that you're creating a program here because I have heard a lot of the youth want to become firefighters but the closest fire foundry program like Explore Program is in Marin. So they gotta pack up their stuff and go live at a firehouse in Marin where they can, you know, kind of get this exercise. It's great that it's happening here. And I would say with the population of our city, obviously is ever increasing with, you know, majority Latino population, you know, black, Polynesian, et cetera. I think, you know, in order to meaningfully recruit the diverse population to become firefighters, I know it'll become a lot easier if the current department has, you know, people of color and visible and powerful or not just visible and powerful. I think that will definitely help with prevention, which, you know, probably, I mean, with non-prevention, with recruitment, but also is a key part of like gang prevention because I know a big part of, you know, gang prevention is if we're able to provide an economically viable alternative. That isn't just, you know, no other vibe, you know, but like you said, firefighting is such a, it's active, you know, a lot of like, it's not say, you know, convenient, you know, go have, leave, you know, leave the game room and go to your office and system or something. You know, that, you know, it's completely two different worlds, you know, but like a firefighter, it is, you know, high intensity, you know, a lot of the young men that I used to work with, I know they gravitate towards those type of professions and with firefighting is so, like you said, it's amazing benefits, you're helping your community. It's like, it's a perfect, you saw, it's really exciting to hear that, that you're doing it. And hopefully when the numbers do get down, we'd love to see the presentation like that, Rachel, and see how it'll ever increase in diverse ways. Absolutely. And one thing I'll add is that as part of the Hernd Hub, what we've done is we've actually allocated space and added space to the new Fire Station 8 Roseland that will be the Explorer post. And so we're placing it in Roseland to make sure that it's the youth of our community, particularly those that are underserved at that rapid access and it's easier to get to. And so we're placing it in Roseland. Hey, because it's a station we can actually build the space into because we have the ability to drive new friends. But also it's just the best place we can do. Okay. First off, Chiefs, everyone was going to see in Cesar Chavez Day of CCLA. I think everyone had those set up in that sort of community. My son has renewed his internal debate of which one you'd want to work for. And I said, it's a daily challenge for him. For the firefighter recruitment, one of the odd exposure to a lot of the firefighting families in my life, several of the younger firefighters I know are hopping through different stations, trying to get experience, have a big challenge in actually running into more current placements. But you're saying that we're actually more in a challenge of actually doing recruitment. Yeah, so it's really, it shifted. As the generations change, what I started it was, there was 20,000 people taking a job for one position or taking a test for one position. Early when I was in, even in training and safety 10 years ago here, we had opened a recruitment for, you say we're gonna max out at 1,000 applicants and that would be filled up within 30 minutes. And then it went to 500 and that would fill up within 10 minutes. We're just not seeing that now. I'm right at our active list. We have 31 people. And there's just, there's a new one of jobs right now. And so what we're seeing, we're actually getting people kind of saying like, well, this is what I have offered from this other department. So what do you want? Well, that's my office door and you can walk. So there's just the underlying demand is to be probably a decade or months ago to where now there is a lot of jobs out there. And so it's just a matter of getting them through the education and the training. We're seeing people come through very little experience. I don't know if we might have that experience. So very entry level employees, but very well trained. So I'd say that that's pivoted a little bit. Now there's definitely a supply of jobs out there. And you can kind of go wherever you want. So making us attractive and having things like county measure H and squads and trying to show that we're being progressive and we're doing a lot of good changes here and we're making a good disabled. And really I call it, and maybe I've shared it with this body before, but sort of the 9-11 effect, we get people who are coming here and they say, whether it's a lateral or entry level, I saw what this community did. I saw what this fire department did for this community and how you banded together. I want to be part of that. And so we're still, I'd say relatively speaking, we're very strong in the recruitment front, you know what? Earlier today, so mechanic fire chiefs, I'm sure we have 31 people on our lateral list and they're like, what? All the other departments within Snowman County are seeing those numbers, but you go to big cities that they have, five, six, seven hundred of vacancies. So we're still able to attract people and get people to come to Santa Rosa. It's just, it's a great help. Within that context, we're about, so we're going to have 1,800 of firefighting jobs across the county. So with county measure age, there's about 200 firefighter jobs that are going to be opening up. We have 35 of those while we, and about 33 of those actually, two are going to be fire inspectors. So there's a consolidated effort to coordinate and work together to try to recruit that many firefighters into Snowman County. For Santa Rosa has advantages, you know, our tempo, how busy we are, how progressive we are in our, and our pay and benefits are much better than the department. So, and so the expenditures that we're doing today, that's helping us for long-term competitiveness and feel confident about competitive, absolutely fine. And then I was really happy to see the transport vehicles up there. As I'm thinking two and a half years down the road when federal funding evaporates because we're making this expansion out at the beginning of the program, we're going to be a part of this at the base beginning level in three years if you needed it to keep the program going. This means you'd be able to use PSAP funds for other aspects of this transport program. Great question. So at the end of the period of performance on the federal grant, the only really federal requirement is you don't lay the employees on. So, you know, worst case scenario with employees is we have absorbed them by attrition. We've done it twice before. I really want to keep the squads in service and so there's a couple of different opportunities there. Number one is we've built in a funding mechanism that we're currently building as part of the ambulance contract to actually fund those positions in perpetuity. With the goal being, you know, the discussion was this is what I want to pay for. Let's build this revenue stream to pay for those programs. That's part of it. So if that turns out to be successful and the revenue that we think we can bring in through it, great. But PSAP is a backup to that. We're very intentional when we wrote the new ordinance to make sure that the ability to have mental health services or other paramedic services as part of PSAP was something that the sales tax bill was reliable to pay for. So it certainly could be that. It's just going to be a heavy cost at that point. I want to say is if you are interested in women's public safety, I found out this week I'm a charge of protest registry and I need volunteers. So it's an amazing day. And I do a lot of community work. It's one of my favorite days. So I didn't know I was in charge of it until the women who were planning to told me this week. So I would love it if I wanted to. You can see it all in action. It's a pretty humbling and an amazing experience to see how many people come that are interested. Anyone else? April 27th. Contended to lots of ones. You're welcome. I just found out. So I'm recruiting at this time. So I do have a couple of questions and you made a comment about cradle to death and I kind of eek. So I kind of like cradle to success. Oh, great. Just let's kind of think about that in a more positive light. You just saw my words for me. And then also you mentioned, you know, the piece about the grades. I think it's important that people do understand that you can be an okay student and still make it and be successful. So even though we're joking about it, but I think it's important that students know that you can be in a place in your life where you're here, but it doesn't dictate your success. So I appreciate them learning about your grades. And so, yeah, you did graduate, but it shows that, but that's the point. That's what we're trying to do in this room is to show you may have some challenges in your life, but it doesn't dictate your future and where you can be, right? So that's, I give you kudos for that. And then also for, you know, we're talking about all these vehicles and these things that are coming in. And so I wanted to figure out, you know, before we would have stickers and things that would say, man, here, oh, so how are we gonna be creative and put this information on the vehicles and things we have coming in? Are we gonna say PSAP? And then people's like, what's PSAP? So to the teams out here, definitely start thinking about how we're gonna pub that and what is that gonna look like? Like it's easy to put on a flyer, but like the truck, if we have to put this whole name, they're gonna be like, what is this? You know, so start thinking creatively how we're gonna pub and let people know that this is coming from our measure which is now public safety and prevention tax. And so that we can make sure that the community knows where their money is going. So to all of you really start thinking about that. So when we have our next meeting, that would be something I would love to hear how that's gonna play out. And we can work with our marketing team, which is this office here, I'm figuring out the best way to do that because they're much more creative than I am. We are. I was just gonna add that I seen on the buses, I see the stuff on the buses all the time about what's going on with the city. I can't remember the last one, but that's the last place that I seen buses all the time. They did it in response was on the buses. Yeah, so I mean, there's ways again and now, but you know, again, we said we wanna see the sticker or the, you know, on the vehicles. And so they got a different. The same message so that people know it's consistent message between the different programs. Somehow. Especially our grantees programs. And then lastly, you did mention the breakdowns that you're putting the dashboard together. So with that dashboard, is that something that's gonna be on the website for people to consume the information or is it just gonna be internal? I believe the intent is to be external. Facing it's the technology piece is one of our strategies and it's just a matter of working through everything else and prioritizing our work. This will certainly help to be able to have funds set aside. It's not personnel funds, it's resources and services, supplies, funds, but to be able to have those opportunities for us to work on those tools. And we've just been trying to string it together with what we have and so now having dedicated resource to all those programs will be very helpful with the entirety of the plan. Okay, and I'm very grateful to the pathway that is being developed because again, not everyone is school ready or college ready. So this is an avenue for other students and people to see that, hey, this might be a pathway for me to go. And so I appreciate that being a thoughtful way to bring that into our community so people can see there's different ways of being successful in life. Are you connected with the CTE Foundation at all? The CTE Foundation, yeah, okay. So we historically hadn't been except for at LC and so now that's part of this revamp is making sure that we run all the CTE programs and so that records working with Anna through all the superintendents to make sure that we're all the CTE programs throughout the community. Okay. I would move that we recommend the cycle. Are we still gonna do public comment? We're on motion. Okay. So all of the bikes turn up. So yeah, it's public comment on something. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You do this. So right now we're gonna move to public comment on this item, 5.1. Are there any public comments in this then? Okay, with that, there are none. So now. I would move that we make a recommendation to present the 20.4.25 public safety and prevention tax budget to council. Yes, I am. Okay. And all those in favor? Or should we, will the roll call? Yes. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. We'll say carried with all eyes. And the bike. Are we good? Okay. So now we're moving on to agenda item six, future agenda items. Does anyone have anything they would like to add for future agenda? So I'm just gonna recap some of the things we did say. One is the data from the substation. So that's one. Then also data coming back from the gang crime teams as well. And then also how does it look with the hotspots that we have going on in our community with us that look like with these new things coming into place? So those are the topics I would like to see. Anybody else? All right. We'll take a breath, y'all. So we're going into adjournment. If there's nothing else, I adjourn the meeting at 6.15. Thanks, Sarah. Thank you. Thank you.