 the podium. I need to raise that microphone a little bit. I'll get about two and a half. Good afternoon, everyone. Quick weather update. It's very hot outside. Where's the forecast? Hot. We're staying hydrated. All kidding aside, one of the things that we do is we put coolers and water in the car similar to the fire department when we're on runs and we interact with the public if somebody is in distress. We stand ready with our water and we certainly make sure our folks are staying hydrated. It really affects operations. So am I doing this, Erica? Okay. Thank you. So our first slide, I'm just going to go through these and you all can of course ask me questions you might have. This is a snapshot of our year to date numbers. We have many things we're happy with and a few things that were not. Our homicides has taken an unusual jump in the last 60 days. We're five over what we were this time last year. Ten of those. I'll talk a little bit more about that in a couple more slides. We're very pleased with our sexual assault rapes are down. Our aggravated assaults are down a little bit, and that's that's significant because most of our ag assaults involve some type of weapon, specifically a firearm. Our auto breakings are down. Our motor vehicle thefts are up, and we as we always do, we talk about people leaving their cars unlocked in the keys in or the fobs with more of our modern vehicles. The fobs are left in the console so people get in the car and they hit the button and it's like winning the lottery, I guess, if the vehicle starts. Overall, our total crime is down 2% from this time last year, and that's both in part one violent crime and property crimes. Chief, one of my pet peeves when I hear these reports, especially at the neighborhood meetings, when they get the auto breakings, they don't separate whether they're secured or insecure. I think we all make a point of putting the statistic in there under auto breakings, X percentage secured and X percentage unsecured. We do track at Mr. DeVall and we often share that at meetings. We can certainly include that moving forward. We also track if there's a gun in the vehicle, which is a frequent occurrence also, unfortunately. I believe I've stated in these public safety meetings, but to put some things in perspective, we know when people are looking to relocate a business or a family, they're looking at schools, taxes, and crime. What I talk about often is if we would just lock cars, secure weapons, we could affect our property crime numbers. Realistically, 50% just easily just by having some shared ownership with our citizens. We constantly do public service announcements and re-emphasize that at our community meetings. The next slide is our shooting update that I get every week. We look at a year-to-date, four-week, and then the previous week. Basically, what this slide is showing is we've had 69 people shot year-to-date, and that's a 4% decrease from last year. As I previously mentioned, our gun murders stand at 10, which is three more than we had last year. Where we've seen a decrease in people hit, which is positive, our gun murders have increased by three. The only other thing I would say is it's positive anytime we can discuss a decrease, but we're comparing it to last year where we had, if you remember, a mall shooting and multiple people non-fatally hit in an argument at a party in an apartment complex. So we had 15 victims of gunfire last year, which is an aberration because it falls into a category of having two mass shootings. So if we compare ourselves to ourselves, it's, I don't think it's anything that we need to be doing a touchdown dance for at all. We've got a lot of work to do when it comes to people hit shooting. If you look at the next slide, the reason I have this slide up is now we're trying to really educate our public and these next two slides depict a shooting dashboard that you can find on our website. So you can go, it's updated every week. You can go to our website and pull up data. This particular slide breaks the people hit by shootings down by region, age, race, and sex. You can click on the specific region that you live in and it will give you the data that's specific to that region. And it'll also give you what you're looking at there as a citywide breakdown. If you look at the next slide, it is the other dashboard that's available. And this is an overview of our shot spotter. Again, shot spotter is a gunshot detection technology in seven square miles of our city, primarily in North. So far this year, shot spotter has provided 900 alerts. That's 114 more than we had than this time last year. Of those 900 alerts, 579 registered multiple rounds fired. And I'll speak to that in a second. That's about 90 more than we had this time last year. So far of those 900 alerts, we've had over 4,000 rounds fired in that seven square miles. We've had 32 people hit. And that's 13 more people than we had this time last year. The days of the week where this is occurring to most is not surprisingly Saturday night into Sunday. And our incidents per week, meaning how many alerts that we would have in a week's period, is stands at 27. And that's about four more than we were at this time last year. When we talk about multiple shots being fired, the most recent that should jog your memory would be just a week or so ago in the downtown area in front of a nightclub where we had over 50 rounds fired. What we're seeing with these incidents, not just within the shot spotter territory, but throughout the city is we're seeing multiple weapons used in a single incident and we're seeing high capacity weapons being used. And we're also seeing in some instances the insertion of certain equipment into some of these guns that turn them into a fully automatic firearm. It's commonly referred to as a Glock switch. It's a very small piece of nomenclature that can easily, it could be purchased through various means and it can be put in the gun and it causes a gun to fire as an automatic weapon. And when we listen to shot spotter, we can hear the difference in how the pitch of a high caliber rifle and also how fast the rounds are being fired. You can tell that's being produced from an automatic weapon. Was the Washington Street shooting two shooters, two guns? Well, we haven't done it. It was multiple guns. Yes, sir. 50 rounds is a lot. The next slide is just a that's the cover sheet of our violent crime gun assessment and action plan. And if you remember, we produced that document for you almost two years ago. And this is an update to that with the current trends. And it just emphasizes a renewed strategic focus. Since our last one, we've had several offender call ends, our prolific offender call ends about 60 people. Our recidivism rates still remains very low. We're happy about that. We have just recently rehired our special assistant U. S. Attorney. It's a city position city funded that reports to legal department, but is embedded in U. S. Attorney's office and they focus on violent crime investigation. We previously had that position filled and that person transitioned to full time at the U. S. Attorney's office with again a focus on the city of Columbia, Richmond County, violent crime prosecutions. Since the we rolled out the action plan a couple years ago, we also have now introduced over 160 locations that have our upgraded cameras and our LPR systems. And we've when it's all said and done, we'll have 200 camera locations throughout our city. So we're advancing pretty quickly on that. And then, of course, the probably one of the biggest advancements that we've had since this last publication was the standing up of our real time crime center. That's proven to be extremely effective so far. And I think as we continue to add capacity to that, we're going to continue to see positive results. Recently, we had a shooting in one of our coverage areas. They were able to instantly pull it up on the camera. They saw the person that had been shot. They also saw someone pick up a gun that was used, carried into a nearby house, and officers were able to arrive. They provided first aid to the person that was hit. They secured a search warrant on the residents and secured a gun. So it happens, just like we all happened in real time. The folks that were watching the video were able to direct the officer's right to where important evidence was located. Another thing that we have done as we rely on data and analysis, we have our analysts have done a really good job identifying our hotspots, but beyond just hotspots, pathways and cuts that people often traverse from neighborhood to stores and to other parts of the city where we have our libraries. We have identified those cuts and the times that it's most likely that these crimes occur, and we've partnered with the state law enforcement division. They're providing air support for us Thursday, Fridays and Saturdays, and as needed. I'm not just saying we're only doing it those nights, but those are our particular nights that data suggests to us that there's the most frequency of our violent crime. We've had numerous success stories. We recently had one where a shot spotter alert. They happened to be right near the alert. They were able to use some of their technology that's on the aircraft to actually locate a gun and direct the officers to the gun. So again, helping us take trigger pullers and firearms off the street. We're very pleased with that partnership. Is that drone or is that fixed wing or helicopter? That is a helicopter. Two person helicopter. Next slide. Just some initiatives to mention that are underway. Obviously, Operation Hope and Order is one that's gained a lot of attention over the last several months. Through phase one of that, we've made 203 arrests and that's since May 31. Phase two included 15 drug warrants. In conjunction with our presence and our strict enforcement in the Elmwood corridor, we also had our organized crime and narcotics folks do some buys and they executed 15 drug warrants. We're in the third phase now, which is incorporating private security into some property checks and some other duties and that's we're still working the logistics out on that. But we hope that that will be operational in the very near future. And I look forward to reporting that out to you. Operation Welcome Back is what we refer to the school starting again. Primarily USC, Allen and Benedict are back. Classes start have started or start this week. The is gone very smoothly. We've had a fairly uneventful first weekend and five points and we are seeing more crowds in the Vista, lots more activity in the Vista, especially some of the student housing. And that's been very positive. So far, one of the things we do during Operation Welcome Back is we try to set expectations, share information. We do a lot of engagement and give a lot of warnings. Enforcement is not the goal during the first week. We try to again really set the tone of what our expectations is. And then enforcement will follow, but it's really about creating a safe environment for our for our students. That kind of dovetails into the USC campus Village Public Safety Initiative. And that's the expansion of the campus. We have our code enforcement officers that are working with USC to supplement some of the public safety efforts there. That is underway. This this past week was the first weekend that that was up and going. They issued dozens of parking tickets. They addressed some expired tags front front yard parking, made a number of very positive group contacts. Kids, that's a fancy way of saying talk to some kids that were partying. And it went well. Nothing was out of line. What did the first football game? They also noted some code violations and address those and and we had no most important we had no house parties or after hour calls to that's that after hours number that USC's manning. So that's gone pretty well. We're continuing to to communicate internally to make sure we're addressing the right issues. One of the initiatives in the campus Village was for USC to fund three code enforcement officers, supervisor and two two others from I think it's 10 to two on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. My question is do those three officers that are working 10 to two? Does that take away from the time that they were working for the city? Those number of hours? No, sir. That would be extra duty. So that would they would work all day and then work 10 to two for the university? Correct. Or it could be on a day off, but it's it's a duty above and beyond their work hours. The the last initiative is is what I refer to as our alternate response model and we've really looked at if we think about some of the conversations we've had in our budget meetings and our as we address staffing challenges. We have tried to look at a number of calls for services that we might be able to take off our plate or just change the way we respond to them and to give you some examples of what we've done. A natural death, for example, a death that is unaccompanied, no signs of trauma or any nefarious action or activities. We would not respond to that. That will leave that up to the medical experts and if there is any question of the suspicious in any way or to request of the corner, we would then respond to it. What we were seeing with in the past, we were responding to all death calls for service, no matter what the circumstances were. And oftentimes, we would be tied up for two to three hours waiting on medical staff to arrive. So this is this has kind of been a shot in the arm for us. We're so far so good. We haven't seen any any issues. We, you know, talk to all of our partnering agencies that this would touch in some way and so far so good is the best I can report on that. So I think it was a good good move. Another area that was a frequent for us was responding to dog complaints, dog DOG and to the tune of over a thousand calls for service. We have changed that protocol to now we'll only respond if there's been an attack or if animal control was called call enough for assistance that they need our help. But we're relying on animal control to do what their subject matter experts are trained at in safely being able to apprehend or deal with the, you know, the complaint or the situation. We were finding ourselves simply responding and standing by for for animal control or or some other intervention. We've, you know, unfortunately, we've only got a few options and a few tools in our toolbox for dealing with an aggressive animal and one of them is not the one that's preferred. So again, we communicated with our partners internally with this and and, you know, by all reports so far it's gone very well. Quick question. Do people automatically call 911 for dog issues or do they know to call our animal control folks? I think it's a combination. I think, you know, and 911 has been a very supportive partner in this because obviously their messaging is important. So there is a direct number. There's a non-emergency number and then there's just 911 and I think they treat. Chief one question about operation. Welcome back. Do you see much of a difference between the student population and any incidents between five points in the Vista? That that's I haven't answered that. Mr. Brown, I'm saying that's kind of to be determined. What we are seeing already is there is definitely there's more kids in the Vista now without question. We've we've even with, you know, kids being away this summer, we started seeing just a kind of a shift in behavior a little bit from what we're used to seeing and there's no question about it. There are more kids that live in close proximity to the Vista now. So, you know, I think we will see some some patterns change there. Hopefully it's all positive. But we, you know, we it's going to be really important that we stay on on top of, you know, problem establishments underage serving, over serving, or creating an environment that is inviting to criminal element. Those are really the three things that we have to look for some of our alcohol establishments, both in five points and and in the Vista. Real-time cameras working in the Vista too? Yes, sir, they are. And and USC has also acquired ShotSpotter and they have a coverage that is now contiguous with our coverage that actually came to just the edge of five points. So, they now cover, it catches five points and it comes up into the Vista. So, we're really pleased with that. Across the University Hill? We don't have much gunfire in the University Hill. Peaceful neighborhood. Right. No, it cuts it cuts that out. But it does give us some some additional coverage that we think is is important and we're really pleased with that partnership. Does the ShotSpotter alert go to our offices or their offices? Both. We do agreements and of course, you know, Richland County has also acquired it now and they they have their own hot spots. But we also have some shared geographic areas where where our our zones of butt up to theirs and they we also share that those alerts we've ever since we've had ours we've always included Richland County and those those region deputies. So, we've just continued that agreement with their expansion of it too. So, it's very much a partner approach to this and it's you know, it's a it's a great use of technology. Do you know we had seven miles seven square miles? Do you know how many miles we have covered now in Richland County? It's if I'm not mistaken, they got about eight miles. Well, they always got up one up. So, the University's got how many miles? I think around one and the fairgrounds are also included. So, so we got 16, 16 miles at least. That's that's significant. It is significant for a metropolitan area our size. I'd like to see a map of the total thing if you walk across the street to the real-time crime center anytime and it is waiting for an invitation. I've only got three months left, you better hurry. A couple other worth mentioning changes in responses that you need to have awareness of because you could potentially hear from constituents. One is and this is literally days just a few days out. One is us responding to private property property damage only crashes, meaning you're at the grocery store. You back into somebody there's minor damage. We will not be responding to those. If there is a disagreement, if there is injury, if there's alcohol, if it's a hit and run we will respond but property damage only there won't be a response. We've worked with our 911 center to help message this. PIO has done a video that will be on our website. They will be directed to our website or to the Department of Motor Vehicles website where they will click on the link and it will give them the form that they need to fill out for their insurance which is the whole point. We're just responding to do a report for insurance and it's something that they can self-initiate. This is very similar to what we do with our shoplifting reports. You may not realize this but several years ago we transitioned to online reporting only for shoplifting reports where there's nobody there meaning we no longer respond and act as a loss prevention reporting system for our stores. If there's somebody in custody we will respond but if they're just reporting the theft and there's nobody there they can report online and they can also upload video. So we're really advancing on technology and creating these portals for our citizens to be able to provide us information. And then the last one that is probably another month or two away is a follow-up to the fossil alarm ordinance that you all passed and we're working with our vendor and our IT department to successfully I guess integrate that with our current system to where it does you know it notes the false alarms as they're reported and does the billing and so forth. That's what's being worked out the logistics of that but that's well underway. So that'll happen automatically. It will happen automatically and we will certainly let you know when that starts to happen too and again the most important takeaway from that ordinance is it is not to be punitive it is to change the behavior. We want people to make sure their alarms are working well or make sure they're educating their workforce on not to set off hold up alarms and and entry alarms accidentally that causes police to respond in an emergency fashion. Chief, going back to the minor property damage only remind me of what situations you will go out for an injury impairment if there's an argument like if there is a dispute between the parties. Yeah we will and part of the part of the notification that the 911 center will help us with is we don't want them to be burdened with having to explain or debate situations. If there's any question they're going to refer our supervisors to make a phone call to them. We're going to kind of cut them out of the loop as soon as we can so we don't tie them up. A few just mentions and I'll be done if they can take any question you might have. I already mentioned class starting for our universities and colleges. We have the Latin Festival this Saturday 10 to 11 street closures will be in six o'clock Friday and that's 13 to 1400 block of Maine and 1100 block of Washington. There was some graffiti and five points. I don't know if that got got to you all but that's been abated that happened over the weekend. Our alcohol unit has already reviewed 270 alcohol applications this year so that's that review process is alive and well and I think it's incredibly important with these events and our issues we see with bars and also our convenience stores so that that review process is very alive and well. There's a back to school event at MLK Park and the last thing I would say is is you all graciously funded our transition to axon body cameras and that's that's underway that also include that's our the officers body cameras that's the cameras in the vehicles and that's our interview in the interrogation rooms. Right now in this heat my IT department with our fleet staff and axon representatives they're they're upfitting eight to ten cars a day on the third floor of the parking deck. It is just an incredible site to see what they do and it's extremely hot but I just I can't tell you how appreciative we are of the team effort in the sport we've had from IT they've just done an incredible job there is so much equipment that goes in these vehicles now and I'm we literally are as state-of-the-art as we can be in my opinion it's just it's a great investment and we very much appreciate it and then the last thing I'll mention Mr. DeVall is you had wanted us to discuss vehicle for hire. So currently any vehicle for hire operating in the city of Columbia is required to obtain a chauffeur's permit through the police department. Once this is obtained the permit must be displayed in the vehicle for hire that's easily visible by the passenger. We've all been in a taxi and you see the permits that are in them. The permit will not be granted to a person meeting certain criminal offenses and that's outlined in our section of 24-72 of our code of ordinances. Our code also requires a physical examination by a physician but the things that our code requires is a driver's license with a 10-year clean record a sled criminal report a negative panel from a drug test two recent photographs an application fee of $200 and any new first-time renewal applicant has to participate in the famous famously hot hospitality class issuance of the permit and fee applies an additional 10% or $10 fee for the issuance every three years every three years it's pretty nominal fee you have to reapply the our traffic safety unit which does the inspections their recommendation is that we continue this effort the regulation of the drivers is based on most importantly drivers history and criminal history and it's a strong assurance that citizens are offered a safe mode of transportation the what prompted this was a someone a constituent contacted you mr. Deval about this being over regulation maybe there also i will tell you was part of the the issue was what we would call a rogue um taxi service and and we are actively trying to locate that person and we will take the appropriate enforcement action when we find them we have we have them identified and what they're driving and we're hopefully we'll come across them soon yeah i think they gave gave us a picture and a license plate on the thing how how does our regulation here compare if you are a uber or a lift driver or something like that what do they have to do they don't they don't go through anything they're um they're kind of standalone they have their own um regulations that are specific to that that um that service do they have any qualifications for their drivers yes but i'm not i'm not going to build or recite those to you but they do they do um um driver i know they do drivers history checks and um and you know a uh probably what would be referred to as a minimal background check um the lady that spoke at the council meeting is here and i think we need to probably give her an opportunity to speak um would you like to address the council thank you for giving opportunity to pull that mic down a little bit you know as tall as the chief thank you for giving opportunity to speak to the safety meeting today uh my concern is can you hear me yes uh my concern is all the taxi companies uh have the proper uh license uh inspection chauffeurs everything but one of the taxi company operating in the city without having any of these uh requirements and we have given to we given those things to the chief and traffic units but they are working on that one but i have request if anyone driving inside the city look like taxi they put a sticker on the window but no any decal or anything on the taxi no number or anything uh if something happened to the customers or anyone they do not uh police department does not have any information if they have chauffeurs they have all the biographic information of the drivers police department has all those things but this driver and company does not have any any information with this police department but they drive inside the city of columbia and this this is very very serious concern look like a taxi like something happened to the student few years ago looked like uber she get into the car this is same situation like we are not going to tell is another situation is going to be happened but look like a taxi people think it's safe they get into the taxi but it's not the regular taxi it is is it more than one vehicle the chief we we have a picture of one that you took a picture so far one but that driver company says they bring more well i think we would be receptive if you if you help us look at at other uh occasions where people are trying to mimic what a taxi does if you will turn it into the police department they'll certainly help you do that help you clean them out making sure they follow their the rules for being a taxi if they're going to look like a taxi yeah they look like a taxi means she put a sticker like a not only charter and taxi together like and not only taxi but she work as a taxi that person work as a taxi so what would you have us do i request authority to stop and ask to do the regular taxi rules follow those things get the shoppers and get the license like like we do because it's effect to our reputation because no regulation no seal meter they can charge anything normally customers come to us they ask for the average price we know how much it cost but this taxi does not have the seal meter normally a calibrate when we do the calibration for this department check the meter then everybody charge the same price and your price is regulated by the council i believe yeah and is that the one we're is that the same one that we're already aware of well i think they're more than one so far one you think there's one the chief is already okay you've given that information yeah well we're looking for the one if the one if if our people find one and you find more let us know okay so far one but is a tune to the fact that you need help getting the illegal ones off the road and so we'll leave it at that until you if you find others that you want to apprehend let us know that yeah so far one but that company says they bring more to the city okay then i have another request when when someone start the business in the city like public transportation at least make a rule they should have at least one one year city of columbia or lexington county or richland county kc new uh west columbia like address one year old address not like someone coming from another state because uh you said do the background check they only check the sled sled means only south kalline background check only do for sled that means the any crime in south kalline if someone start the public transportation business at least they should have one year old address in richlands lexington city of columbia 15 miles of radius of the city of columbia then it it gives some safety for the city chief can you uh help us with that anybody in your department uh in charge of taxicabs captain major roberts back there probably volunteering okay let us work on on on that situation and if you have any other calves that you think are fake taxes you can let me know like you did the first time or you're directed to i will i will i will definitely do that okay then because i'm a student of usc also i was a student then i really concerned about their safety also okay i think that is a good safety thank you very much thank you for coming thank you for that good report and uh now we're going to hear from the fire department and chief albury Jenkins uh chief you have the floor miss it all it's already Jenkins thank you uh uh mr ball miss herbert mr brown you know mr palin um for opportunity to bring an update that's basically what it's going to be an update we know we're getting a lot of numbers we'll update you from uh what we got this year up to this point and uh then we'll go from there what i like you to start it off is never talked about doing our first do and i'd like to get uh chief bro just come and give you a brief um of what we've done with them okay thank you good afternoon so as chief mentioned we'll do a brief update at first do if you can recall first do is our records management system as part of our daily fire operations management system as a total and so we were able to implement that uh july 1st the original goal was june 1st but with the line of duty death we suffered um what we ended up doing was just delaying that another month just to kind of give some folks some downtime so we've been up for about a month um it has been uh extremely helpful and making sure that we have everything that we need and making sure that the system is is working very well as long with pmo um first do reports that this is the smoothest uh implementation that they've seen as a department our size and that's a testament to the teamwork here at columbia city and within the fire department as as a whole so that's phase one um now we'll start moving into phase two a phase two will consist of a few things one is to start uh looking at putting a communication system in all the fire stations live monitor so as calls come in the folks will get that information on a monitor and also does something uh called turnout time count and so it's basically a more modern swim clock we want our folks out the door within 80 seconds and 90 of the time and we use 90 of the time because we know that there will be some instances to where they they won't be able to get out of the station within that time frame so 90 seconds or 90 of the time is the is the goal there um with that also we'll be able to monitor some of the highway traffic as well so uh when we see major incidents occur on the highway again our folks may be able to gain plan before they leave out of the door because it should be tied into the highway cameras another layer of safety for our responders so that's phase two we'll also start with our pre-incident planning local businesses we're partnering with the university of south carolina richland county fire marshals as well we'll have accounts uh that will link with our city fire marshals as well and so when they go out and they do their pre-incident planning which ties into our iso score and our iso points uh also keeps our firefighters safe so for example a fire marshal goes into a building he identifies a hazard they log it into the system at time of dispatch our firefighters will receive that information they can make tactical decisions based off the hazards within that and within that building same thing with usc they have a lot of hazardous buildings especially in their chemical lab we took a tour of that um so they'll be assisting us with this as well so collaboration throughout the city and county between columbia fire department and our and our local partners do they give you a map yes sir it works off our gis um map of the building it does but it's live so it works off of a tablet a cell phone or a pc device i'm using arc gis mapping software so again another collaboration between city gis and and the fire department as well and then helping us make sure we have these things called layers so if you remember the old projectors in school where the teacher would write and they would move a piece of plastic um your mapping software works very similar those are just layers they add another layer so there's a layer that shows the districts of the fire marshals there's a layer that shows the districts of the fire stations there's a layer that shows these types of responses and so you can toggle those things and again help you make tactical decisions so that's that's the update on first due so phase one success i think right chief smiles that means a success and we're moving into phase two um so we look forward to that and we'll keep pushing it's turn out time one or the thing iso rates uh similar so turnout time goes into total response time and that's what that's what iso is looking at total response time so you've got your your response time from the station to the incident then you've got your turnout time how long did it take us to get dressed and then we've got our dispatch center which is also accredited where they are monitoring their their times as well so their call taking time from the time they took the call you've called 911 to the time they process it get a dispatch to the firefighters the firefighters get the call get out of the station into the truck and then onto the scene and we start taking action all those numbers play up impacting iso our accreditation as well as dispatches accreditation as well and excellent very good thank you sir okay that kind of brings us up to um our fleet our fire fleet so we'll continue working with uh with fleet management our current needs and improve efficiencies make sure we get our trucks turned around fixing all the good stuff so we'll continue to work with them on that i do want to mention about the uh the personal protection equipment that you also graciously funded for us uh all our folks have been sized and fitted and we expect to receive those at the end of the year that second set of gear so we appreciate you all funding that and i think that's going to be a tremendous help for our folks that's the mcdowell turnout that's the mcdowell turnout project uh with all facilities um the city you know has acquired the land for the new uh the firehouse so we're moving with that right we're moving forward with that so hopefully we can start that construction as quickly as possible um looking forward to that spent a long time coming so we appreciate that as well also the procurement as burned through the uh afq for the uh replacement of our training burn building it's very important as we are do so many burns per year as well you know in accordance with our iso requirements so so it's pretty important to make sure we stick out our burn building in operation um just want to just talk just a little about about our total training hours looking at about up to date for this year about um 3,388 hours to date um our direct higher recruit uh school program um to onboard qualifier firefighters which we're working with that and what we've done actually um we made a conditional office 23 new firefighters so currently they started this this is their third week however we did lose one prior to the start of the school um due to a commitment that he had a family obligation um which he could not help so as of yesterday so there are certain tests that they have to pass so we lost four um to that first test um so we're we're at about 18 right now but at the same time we made some offers to we're going to have about 10 direct hires these are folks that got experience they do they do not have to go through the full recruit class um they only have to go through like six weeks and we can do an additional three weeks with them to get if they got the qualification get them up um to a what's called a singing firefighter position so we're excited about that so if everything stayed a course course we know we're we're going to lose some more in the recruit class we we realized that but we're hoping to at least graduate 25 people at least on that graduation day um in our fire inspections we we've done about um about 3300 63 fire inspection completed public education events we had about 800 and 80 demonstrations completed 252 smoke alarms installed and checked plans with you because you know the city is doing a lot of that right now uh so plans through about 589 and special events about 145 um um special events so um our total calls for service so far is about 23,000 over 23,000 our units as to perform CPR about 122 times for unresponsive and postless patients so those um the majority of those were saves so that that's a good thing and specialized equipment for technical rescue we talk about built expressions um stuff in that nature about 300 and um 36 times and we all for a minister Narcan about about nine three times for um suspected opiate overdoses that's kind of it in a nutshell for what we did last time i do want to um um go to something else you got that here and this is just a for your information only i'm going to give you a there y'all i'm not i'm not going to spend a lot of time on i just want to just let you know that this is all in your program uh 2022 it's something i i wanted wanted to present uh and just kind of give you overview of 2022 so you just you just flip it and it just got a lot of information in it um i really can't see this but we talk about it it just got a lot of information that i would add that and that's why i want to give you a printout so you can go through that your leisure uh it's just events that we did talks about stuff that we did last year uh it talks about our annual parade which we did in the neighborhood and this year we're going to be actually it talks about public information from our public information office also but this year we're actually doing the indy woodlands we're going to do it in the woodlands part so what we try to do is take it to different sessions of the city go ahead uh talks about accreditation uh it talks about our occupation and health and safety uh administration uh you can just keep flipping until i tell you stop um it also what it does also it kind of tells you about the the calls for service that we had last year as well as it talks about um the amount of calls they eat that well i think we got the top 10 amount of calls for for our trucks on it yes you have the top 10 we also got the top whatever as far as the station that ran calls so you can kind of see what our station we're doing and what each truck was doing uh the amount of calls that ran so i just want to kind of give you all that uh for your viewing so you have a copy of our annual report i got one for each council member also for um miss wilson as well so i'll leave that stack with you all um are there any questions uh chief when you're talking about like spoke of arms and equipment and is there some opportunities for the city to look at some public private partnerships like with businesses and try to get the community the business community more involved in some of these initiatives as far as uh donating yeah being involved in feeling the you know i think i think one of the things that i really want to try to do in columbia is is promote this team concept and it's not the fire department the police department it's us you know so so how do i so one thing you'll see in that report is that we partnered with red cross last year and we actually canvas the neighborhood it's called a smoke alarm bliss they provided um the smoke alarms we also get donations from like um we've got them from um lows home depot we've got those type of uh donations so so so they are very active in helping us out but i think that that nizzy can go a lot further than it's because they're national they're national brands i would i like to really do is work with the local the local businesses and brands to to try to develop this partnership because i attended that one it was in my district that's right it was a good district so the way that it works is that um the donations that you need are for the actual equipment the the fire alarms that you're putting in yeah the fire alarm i just had fire alarm fire what are you right you didn't say smoke detector you ain't got to put no money but that's amazing for me but okay yeah so um but i think that is a being able to give some local businesses you know can i hear people all the time people all the time say to me what what what can i do to help and and and so i really do think and i think it's i think it's helpful not just from a you know it's purposeful in two ways number one it it does tie us all together number two it actually accomplishes something too which is pretty good um so i think i would love to to have this committee work with both the police and the fire and or ems and really try to look at some opportunities to to bring the business community and maybe even some of the uh you know neighborhood communities involved in some of these things i think it's just a great way of getting us to to to feel you know how how impactful it is a you can make a difference and be you can you can um you know have this feeling of togetherness that i think is also important so the one initiative that we launched years ago that i like to encourage state is um it's called adopt the fire station and these initiatives like just what you're talking about would be great for folks to adopt it doesn't necessarily be the fire station itself but just what you're talking about we had all these initiatives in there so i love it already i'd like to go ahead and and re-gird you say that because not only does would it help programs like this but you know you think about i'll give you a prime example station seven dying cotton time town they have adopted that fire station and they really they really use it all yes and we want to partner with the neighbors we want them to be we want to be a part of the neighbor we want you better use it when we build station two i can guarantee you that station two is going to be a full-blown part of olympia area down there which they are right now but i just think even on divine street i was gonna say that's my fire station you know i think they come down surely street like they're coming right at my house um so uh so but i think and i think it's so important for local businesses and neighborhoods to feel that connection to the firehouse i love that idea yeah so we're going to be we're going to be you know i use real regurgitate but that's that's the only thing i can thank her right now but we want to be uh bringing that back and really hitting it pretty hard so we're going to revive a very good yeah okay but you know one of the things jeff we talked about you know i gave you that uh you know like a donation bin you know we can we can do you know if you think about you can do a donation bin within local businesses in different areas and have a you know uh put in a fire detector is that what we call it a smoke alarm smoke alarm so you said detector so that means you got to put a dollar in the okay all right but anyway we can do things like that we can have these periodic you know challenges for the business community and and put a donation yeah and it just different just no yeah i'm going i'll go ahead ahead against tina and uh we'll do district four versus uh one that's great that's great i'm gonna get some of your district i'm gonna make how it works lady i'm really surprised we hadn't had the laurel stream trucks come by you missed a big opportunity i know i got to tell them they was they were late today there was no budgetary discussion today so there was none evil out of nowhere thank you chief okay thank you all and now we have uh emergency management department with director harry tensley giving us enough i'm gonna let you just only a couple good afternoon is this can you hear me good good afternoon chairman devol councilwoman herbert councilman brown assistant city manager palin thank you all for your time i will be brief just throwing some highlights up on some of the stuff that we're continuing to do over at the uh merchant operation center section of the eoc and the real-time crime center roll out also the security camera project throughout the city i think at our last uh january meeting we were at 51 sites that were operational now we're 137 but those sites uh actually there are a few more this is last week's data we get a weekly uh wednesday call so we'll get updated again tomorrow um those those sites can be we're monitoring those remotely as the chief talked about uh we were we were what happened to be his analysts was happened to be in um in the eoc when that call he was referring to uh went out and they went right to that camera and was able to push that information right out to the officers on the scene so that is uh turning out to be a a game changer it's definitely a forced multiplier our safety and risk management department moved up last week to the third floor uh that opened up some space we provided some space for the cpd real-time crime center folks working in the eoc around the clock there so we are continuing also part of the motorola security camera project is we're working with city it police department and motorola to configure the servers for the command center aware platform that is a motorola platform that is going to really leverage a lot of uh uh resource and technology for the police department i'll just give you a couple examples once that system is up all the vigil on cameras and new boxes that are being replaced out out throughout the city um we will be able to use video analytics to enhance like that situation that she referred to um if you get a description of a vehicle uh those analysts once that call comes from and i'm on one center those that analysts can can go right there and push that information out it's also going to integrate shot spotter technology um the chief talked about west columbian case he's already rolling out shot spotter as well i'd love to show you a map give you a tour whenever you have some time to take your 10 15 minutes just step over there and we'll you just call me or text me and i'll give you a tour uh that's going to come in um into play we're already uh uh getting ready to do some training to some folks in that we continue with the allostar working group expanding the usage of that platform the key thing about that platform is um all of us are using it around us lexington recent county city columbia dnr sled a bureau protective services highway patrol so anytime uh a critical incident or something happens even a planned event um we we communicate together and develop what's called an incident action plan and that's one iap so everybody's working off the same cd music they're synchronized and they can collaborate and coordinate response efforts together and then on the consequent side of that we can help manage that from the eoc also within that allostar component and some preparedness activities are developing incident action plans these are templates for severe weather winter weather tropical cyclones um public events critical incidents active shooter things of that nature that we preload into that database and then if something were to happen we launched that into the platform and it develops these swim lanes where folks can can know exactly what's happening uh you can go to the next slide as far as some uh other activities i just wanted to highlight on a few back in february we participated with midlands health care coalition tabletop exercise that was a virtual a tabletop but it was uh all the midlands health care providers um which includes richland lexington fairfield achon um edgefield all that swath of the midlands area um we participated in that medical surge and it was a scenario designed around our soda city where it created a situation there was an emergency and it created surge capacity issues for the hospitals and they were immediately able to go in and make decisions so that was a good good exercise in march we also participated in the vc summer uh nuclear uh full-scale it's a graded exercise for the 50 mile e pz that's the emergency protection zone from that uh nuclear site up in fairfield county and it encompasses the 50 mile e pz encompasses uh all of the city of columbia pretty much um and that's a FEMA graded event and that was at state level in counties and all of us uh went through a couple days of that exercise um also participated with columbia water with the columbia hydroelectric uh eap functional exercise in march um and then hurricane workshop some of the other things we do we did um first net we did a performance review after the five points festival in march uh because we had some data capacity issues so i reached out to them and i said can we do a review so we looked at that um they they worked out some solutions on that so we got that rectified um and that's the first responder data uh network that they used for their uh voice and data um and then we also participated in the westing house which is the awful bluff road through richmond county emergency management we participated with their exercise in june um and then we uh also participated at the uh directors uh emd at state seahawk some of the other you can go next slide some of the other things you know we uh participated in the lodd investigation uh through the merge operation center we continue with our active intruder training as chief uh holbrook said uh the axon cpd body one camera uh rolled out uh is ongoing it's just uh pretty it's almost complete now yes ma'am have all members of council had the active intruder training no ma'am um we had it on the schedule and i think it was a conflict with somebody on the council uh i've been working with miss belton to get that and reschedules uh we're looking at y'all's calendars and try to do that um we'd love to get it done before the end of the year if we could but i'll still work that process you've done it before you don't need to do it again right if you you don't have to but there's been a couple slight changes um and it's uh pretty pretty interesting presentation i'm gonna be working with shinny to set this up to go with a group of several y'all one time cool and then you know we just like uh the fire department too we assisted with helping them with their rollout their new records management training and just a couple tours we did right there um and pretty much that's just a highlight of some of the things you've been doing so if you have any questions just let me know you can go to the next slide eric thank you thank y'all for your time i really appreciate it here i'm gonna call you to come look at your bit yeah so some of that training will be some of it will be focused on stairs well you don't have your security while we're here what's that remember the committee you got any questions that important you might show that the committee has a germ without objection thank you sir thank you