Minutes: Public Safety: March 2013

Public Safety Committee Wednesday, March 6, 2013 6:30 P.M. Regular Meeting Evansville City Hall Council Room 31 S Madison Street MINUTES 1. Chairperson Jacobson called meeting to order at 6:30 p.m. 2. Roll call of committee and staff members present was: Chairperson Jacobson, Alderperson Hayes and Fuchs (arrived @ 6:31), and Mayor Decker, Chief Scott McElroy, and EMS Chief/Coordinator Mary Beaver. Others in attendance were: Pam Ascencio, Carol Endres, John Decker and Kari Myrland. 3. Motion by Jacobson, second by Fuchs, to approve the agenda as printed. Motion passed. 4. Motion by Hayes, second by Jacobson, to approve the February 6, 2013 regular meeting minutes as printed. Motion passed. 5. Citizen appearances other than agenda items listed Pam Ascencio was in attendance regarding the nuisance dog barking complaint. Resident would like to know if they need two complaints or is video good enough. Chief McElroy will check on this and get back to Ms. Ascencio. Carol Endres representing Friends of the Library informed the committee of the Ice Cream Social scheduled for June 28, 2013. The Friends would like to have the street from the Post Office to West Main Street be closed for the event. Kari Myrland, 2117 Caine Road, Oregon was in attendance to present information for the July 4th Fun Run/Walk. She distributed a hand out with information about last year’s run and this year’s event. 6. Old Business-None 7. New Business a. Motion to approve the Operator’s License application(s) for: None b. John Decker was in attendance to update the committee regarding the street closure on East Main Street at the Allen Creek Bridge for Thursday, May 30, 2013 for the dedication ceremony for the installation of the Historical Plaque. The event is being scheduled for 3:30 p.m. and should only last about 15 minutes. Mayor Decker spoke about having a public hearing for the street closure or just blocking it off as it will be for a very short period. Chief McElroy stated that his office will shut down the area for that span of time. May 18th will also be the rededication of the cannon at City Hall. This will be a bigger event scheduled for 1 p.m. and lasting about half an hour. Chief McElroy will check out the closure because of State Highway closure. 8. Evansville Police Report Call for service is unknown at the time of the meeting as the new system has not been programmed yet. Total license plate transactions were 54. The Evansville Girl Scouts visited the police department and were given a brief presentation and tour. Evansville and Edgerton Police Departments spoke with college students reference the effects of drugs, etc. As of 3/1/13, we have completed all the required police review of Chapters 1-14 for Accreditation updates. We are currently reviewing Chapter 15 and some additional policies to add. Chief McElroy reminded the committee that EPD will be required to make accommodations to complete, install and purchase items for the accreditation process. The accreditation account will be utilized for the purchase of these future items. Our goal is to have all the proofs for each chapter located by April 1, 2013. On-site evaluation is set for November, 2013. The Sergeant position was posted March 1, 2013 and we hope to have this position filled by May 1, 2013. We plan to fill part-time officer positions after the Sergeant is promoted. Officers Job, Nankee and Mahan-Strupp will be updating the Field Training Officer Manual, with Officer Job in charge of the updating. Advanced Patrol tactics training was attended by Officer Job and Mahan-Strupp, In March, training for Salvage Vehicle Inspection will be attended by Officer Schmidt; Officers Job and Reese will attend EVOC instructor training; and Officers Job, Mahan-Strupp and Nankee completed FTO training at BTC. All staff will complete Standard Field Sobriety Testing and Rapid Response/Active Shooter Training in March. In April, all staff has or will be attending the SFST Instructor training at Madison PD for the Spillman Records Management system. The squad video cameras were installed on February 12-14. We have transitioned to the new CAD/LRMS (Rock County Records Management System). However, we are not able to retrieve monthly activity reports. Rock County IT is working on the programming issues and we should be able to access the reports next month. We continue training on the system. Lieutenant Koehler is spending a significant amount of time with set-up, training, etc. There is a lot to learn and it is extremely time consuming. We are back using the digital system and are experiencing minimal problems. Rock County computer Services and General Communications continue to assist with Hot Spot technology in keeping the systems working smoothly. Files continued to be scanned on a daily basis and we continue to update the police website with information. 9. Evansville Medical Service Report There were 51 calls for service in the month of February, 2013. Mary has interviewed a licensed EMT that will be starting with the service sometime this month. Mary is in the process of training them along with reviewing our policies. In the upcoming months, we will be conducting EVOC (emergency vehicle operations course), CPR class for all EMS personnel and fit testing. Mary will be teaching a CPR class this month for a daycare out of Stoughton. All of the radios have been reprogrammed for the last time. The old analog channels have been removed. Hopefully, this is signaling the end of the radio upgrades. 10. Motion by Hayes, second by Jacobson, to adjourn the meeting at 6:54 p.m. Respectfully submitted, Barbara Jacobson, Chairperson These minutes are not official until approved by Public Safety at their next regular meeting