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Good evening, everyone. We've reached the hour six p.m. This is September 1st, 2026. And this is the meeting of the City Council of the City of Woodland. And Madam Clerk, would you please call the roll? Councilmember Lansberg? Councilmember Garcia-Kadena? Councilmember Moreno? Mayor Potem Vega? And Mayor Stollard? Here. And before we proceed any further, we have just come from closed session.

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and we do have a reportable action and I've asked our council to please indicate that reportable action.

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Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

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Yes, we do have a report election from our closed session regarding a liability claim received from Martin Brothers Construction.

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And in closed session, the council unanimously voted to deny the claim received.

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And that's the report of the election.

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Thank you.

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With that, we'll proceed to the Pledge of Allegiance, so I'd like to ask Mr. Jessie Ortiz

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to lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance.

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Jessie?

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The

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public will request that one nation under God in the visible, with liberty and justice

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for all of us.

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Thank you, Jessie.

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All right.

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This is the time for public comment and during public comment, it's for items not otherwise

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on the agenda.

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Speakers have three minutes.

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Hopefully they use that opportunity to sign up out in the lobby and our clerk will call any speakers who have indicated a desire to address us this evening. Madam Clerk.

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I have no speakers signed up to speak. All right, looking out. Anybody in the audience, wish to address the council tonight?

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On a night of not on the agenda? Is it not on the agenda tonight?

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I can't hear you. I'm sorry.

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Yes, you have. You have a right to come up for three minutes and speak. Yes, this will be the time.

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It would be nice if you could state your name clearly so the clerk could get it.

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Hi.

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Tammy Anderson.

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I'm a resident here.

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Thank you, Tammy.

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Welcome.

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Just bringing up the Comcast instruction that's going on.

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We had one of your people come out and I want to thank them for that.

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I haven't seen any changes yet.

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It's a little bit worse and I just wanted to, I'm concerned it's a little bit worse.

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We've had three power outages in a week because of them and now they're back in my neighborhood.

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So since today I was mowing my lawn and I tripped on one of their unfinished spots in my yard.

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I thought it would be good to attend the meeting again.

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In other words, the problem is still a problem.

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It's elevated.

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All right.

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Thank you.

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Well, our staff is following you, and I know I say our manager will take note, okay?

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Yeah.

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I think we need to have, it seems like they're going in stages with different companies.

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And so none of it, the problems start over again.

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It's repetitive because it's a different company.

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So now we've got more markings than we've ever had and nothing is stopping it's

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elevating. So I don't know when it ends. I'm looking forward to that but I came

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tonight to see if we could just kind of keep an eye on it some more and not lose

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interest in it because it's tough. It's tough to get through and one of the

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the individuals I talked to in the current crew said that there will be a night time crew

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coming in.

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Night time. Working at night? I just don't know when this ends. So I don't

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know what to expect. I just think we need to keep an eye on it.

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Well, thank you. The city is on alert and they are watching it and thank you for the additional

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input. The situation will be addressed. Okay, thank you.

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All right. Any additional comments? You know, we wouldn't want to turn our council meeting

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into a long discussion on a problem that's really going to be handled at the staff level. Is

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there more to add to what's been said? Yes.

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Well, come on up and say it then.

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On

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the City Council website, in relation to this Comcast

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debacle, it says that the residents will get notification.

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There's no notification.

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So you're not upholding your rules and regulations.

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It's just, it's insane.

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You made that point at our last council meeting.

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you are entitled to notice, staff is working with the company to make sure that they are providing notice.

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You've had no notice even since our last meeting I take it.

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Yes, sir.

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Okay.

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It's a problem.

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Thank you.

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All right.

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All right.

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We are in public comment.

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Candice did you wish to address us in public comment tonight?

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I knew you'd mentioned that.

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So come forward.

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please remember for our school boards with us tonight, Candace, we welcome you.

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Okay. Thank you guys for this moment. I recently got a text message from my

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first born who is attending CSU Monterey Bay and she was lamenting about what an

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awesome experience she's having, how her accommodations are getting met, and she

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said, and I walk around campus and I don't hear anybody using the N word.

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And that's

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Before she left for college, I wrote you guys all a note

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that she experienced being called the inward

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at the Woodland Library,

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where she was crafting to make a gesture's hat

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for the Renaissance Fair with her younger sister.

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And it wasn't just one time, it was repeatedly.

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And the staff at the library were so shocked

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they didn't know what to do.

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And this man walked past my two daughters,

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17 and 13, and made a point to say it repeatedly so that they could acknowledge that he was calling them the N word.

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This hurts my heart as a public servant, as a mother of three daughters who teach my daughters about black excellence.

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And that's a trauma response because black excellence is all about proving that you belong in spaces.

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And unfortunately, I've passed that on to my daughters as well, that they have to achieve,

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they have to do things, they have to be a part of the community, they have to be seen

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in order to feel protected.

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And that shouldn't be the case, especially in a place like our library, where our homeless

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population go to hang out and find a safe space, where our children who don't have safe spaces

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at home go to use as a refuge.

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So, I reached out to both City Council and the Library Board as well as Training Camping

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who I truly respect, which is why I allow my children to use that safe space without supervision

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because it is supposed to be a safe space.

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I got great responses, thank you all, I responded, I deeply appreciate that.

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But as I said in my message, I teach my daughters to be helpers and to find the helpers.

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And in this, I'm working with the library to find a way that we can train the staff to

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be helpers.

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And when they see something like that, to not freeze up, but to respond.

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And instead of taking into consideration how to respond to this person who is assaulting

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my daughters verbally, how to support those who are being assaulted and those people

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who are being harassed.

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I hope we can take stock and get the use involved in being a part of this change and being

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helpers, anything that I can do to help support this.

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I know we are taking our own steps within the school board to acknowledge our biases and address

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them as well.

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So thank you for this opportunity to come and speak to you guys about this incident.

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Candace, I can't thank you enough, both for addressing this issue in what I call such a mature and responsible way, and you know how terrible we all feel about this, and I'm grateful.

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Your daughters have a mom like you to build up their confidence, retain their confidence even in the face of such hatefulness. It's not acceptable. We don't tolerate it. And I'm glad things are happening. And hopefully we won't have a repeat of this situation ever again. I appreciate your response. Thank you. Thank you.

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All right. I believe that concludes public comment for this evening. So that allows us to move along.

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to communication from Council and our staff, and we're going to start off with David down here, David's Councilman, David Moreno.

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Thank you Mayor. I'm happy to announce the great work that the collaborative for

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Woodland News is doing as a subcommittee. We formed a new subcommittee within that group to address

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as children's literacy, as well as we got a highlight from the school district about the work that they're doing to bring in more inclusivity, particularly student representatives.

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They'll be taking a position on board meetings.

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They won't have voting power, but they'll be involved in agenda review and policy discussions, and will have the superintendent in as a resource.

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So I thought that was pretty neat and something to celebrate.

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Thank you.

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Thank you Councilman Moreno.

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Councilmember Garcia Cadena.

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Cadena.

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And nothing to report today.

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Thank you.

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And that means Mayor Pro Tem Vega.

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Thank you Mayor.

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Good evening everybody.

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So I just wanted to share my colleagues on the school board ask that I highlight

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the outreach that they're doing around the boundary redrawings around the school.

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So they're doing everything they can to try and get input from all of the areas in the city.

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So just encourage folks to participate.

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The more information they have around these various maps that they're entertaining and

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sharing and socializing, the better they will be informed in terms of what the community needs are.

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So, please, if you have children or no children or were a child.

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As we all know, the schools affect the whole neighborhood,

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and I think it's important that we help out our school district

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as we're making this important decision.

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And then also, back to school night was,

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it seemed like it's earlier every year,

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but I just wanted to acknowledge how much fun it is to be

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at those back to school nights and how the neighborhoods light up

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around the schools.

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So it's a great time, the Return to School

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and our community, so I very much enjoy it.

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That's all, Mayor.

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Thank you.

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Council Member Lansberg.

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Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

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Another reminder that this weekend

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is the C-10 intervention on Main Street.

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It's gonna be Saturday and Sunday.

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If you haven't been to it, you're missing a great event.

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It's Labor Day weekend and I know that you might have other plans but if you're not then

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it'll be out of town.

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Make a point to stop on Main Street and check out the C10 trucks.

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It's amazing what a guy, and sometimes the gals take a hunk of 10 and turn it into a

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jewel with a lot of time and it'll probably a lot of money, but it's worth taking a look

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at those.

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This important thing about this event is that it attracts about 15,000 people to our city.

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What that means to our city is that our hotels get full, our restaurants get busy, and

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our stores, other stores get busy as well.

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These kind of events are what make Woodland Woodland.

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Hope to see you there.

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Also remind everyone that this is campaign season, and I see that one of our local candidates

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is sure tonight.

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take the time to get to know your candidates before you vote.

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You actually have a voice as to who will sit up here next year.

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Take the time to find out who your candidates are, what they're about,

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because we have a couple good ones in my district that are running this year.

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So, take the time to do that.

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Lastly, as Commissioner of the Yolo County Housing Authority, I was informed recently

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that Yolo County Housing Authority has been selected by a famous actor, Andy Garcia,

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to spotlight Yolo housing on his nationally acclaimed show and it's going to be about strengthening

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communities about affordable housing.

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When Andy Garcia and his crew does, they come into your city and highlight a particular

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public setting like or improvement district like the housing authority or the city or

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a parks department and focus on the good work that these public entities are doing in

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an entire country.

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So, this national show, if we get filmed, which I think we are, it's going to be national.

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So, the city of Woodland, the Yellow County Housing, will be highlighted across the United

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States.

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And the purpose of doing that is to bring attention to the problem of affordable housing.

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And the goal, really, is to get people thinking about affordable housing and contribute to that

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policy. We need more affordable housing. There's no question about it. So thank you to Andy Garcia

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for selecting Yola County. Congratulations, Rich and congratulations to Yola County Housing

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Authority and the City of Woodlands, grateful to be partners with Housing Authority in the great

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work they're doing. Speaking of housing, Congressman Thompson also hosted a gathering of elected leaders

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in the county to talk about housing recently.

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Councilmember Garcia-Cadena and I attended and I can only say, it's very encouraging to hear the caring from all the agencies and the perspectives that we're shared.

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Right now, building costs would, I'd say, probably be at the top of the list of inhibitions between getting housing bill and not housing just for the low and very low income people, but even moderate priced housing is hard to come by.

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So, we're all working on it and we're grateful to have the Ola County Housing Authority.

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But more people can enter into the housing business if they're able to.

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We're grateful for the group from the faith community that helped bring the Freeman homes

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online.

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Just a few months ago, that's the 14 houses up at Freeman and Kentucky, we're happy to have

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them with us.

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I also want to congratulate the Opera House on another outstanding production, it was

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Greece, the musical, high school musical, they also held their annual Chesley's

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events. Both nights, the auditorium was filled. I want to thank the rotary clubs of

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Woodland, Sunrise and new clubs that listen to our city manager, give his excellent

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presentation on city operations and our finances. Appreciate their attention, kind

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to our needs.

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I also had a really unique opportunity Friday,

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Friday at the Tour of Beale Air Force Base

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with a group of other mayors and city managers

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in the region.

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It's really hard to appreciate how much is going on at Beale

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and it affects a lot.

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It affects all of us.

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They have the YouTube and Reconnaissance Aircraft

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there that's been in use since the 1950s

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and it's still a workhorse.

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that plane is so superb, so sophisticated, they are literally the eyes on the entire

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planet Earth and it's all being coordinated from Bel Air Force Base and it was so encouraging

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to me to talk to so many of the Airmen and women there and the experienced pilots that

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fly this U2 and just see how really committed they are to their mission and their confidence.

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it was very affirming so we can be proud to have

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be a layer for space and I suspect among our community

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or some people that work there as well.

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All right, Mr. Manager, it is your turn.

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Thank you Mayor, members of the council and Mayor,

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thank you for mentioning the rotary clubs.

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We're getting some mileage out of the state

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of the city presentation this year

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and been invited to sunrise and new and rotary

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will be attending as well tomorrow host lines

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for a similar presentation.

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So it seems to be resonating well and getting good feedback and a lot of good questions from those groups.

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Also Council Member Moreno has mentioned of the collaborative, I think it's worth noting Dr.

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Navarette, President of the Community College reported out that their enrollment for this fall semester is 20%

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up over the prior year, so they continue to soar to new levels.

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So congratulations to Dr. Navarette and the leadership there.

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So that's great to because the trend is otherwise most community colleges in California

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Absolutely, that's going the opposite direction. So

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So other than that just quick check long range calendar next meeting

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We'll have reports from both community services and community developments as part of their semi-annual reports

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So look forward to the great work both those departments are doing

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Thank you, Mr. Manager

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All right. That includes Council and staff reports. It brings us to item H, the consent calendar.

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This is items 4 through 10 on our agenda. And it's important to note that the agenda

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was amended earlier today for item H5 to align the recommended action language with the actions

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indicated in the staff report and proposed resolutions. So when we're voting today, we'll be with

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revisions as indicated, not as originally circulated with the agenda.

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So, members of the council, you have seen items 4 through 10.

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Is there any item that anyone wishes to discuss further?

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I see no indication to that effect.

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Does any member of the public indicate?

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I do have one comment.

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Okay, we're going to, we'll listen to your comment at first.

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The comment I have is, Mr. Mayor, is that our fire sheep, Eric, the audience today, and

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And I know how much time he spent working on the agreement regarding the spring light.

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So thank you, Eric, for all the work you've done and your staff.

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Here, here.

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I'll second that.

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All right, so we have no further comments from the council.

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We opened it up to the public first.

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Nothing from the public?

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I have no speakers.

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Nothing from anyone in the room.

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All right.

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All right, so we now have a motion from Council Member Landsberg to adopt items 4 through 10 with the corrections item 5 is indicated. Is there a second?

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Second.

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Thank you.

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Mayor Pro Tem Vega, second's the motion for the discussion.

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There being none, all in favour say aye.

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Opposed?

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Okay, motion carried.

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Thank you.

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That completes item H, and that brings us to our two remaining items of the evening, which are our public safety report.

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Starting with the police and I see our distinguished chief Brian Kenan coming forward.

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And he's going to fill us in. This is again twice a year report update. And after that,

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we'll hear from the fire folks. Chief Kenan.

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Good evening, Mayor. City Council members, Ryan Kenan, your chief of police. And yes,

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today, tonight, I get the opportunity to showcase the highlights of the first six months of

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of 2026 for the police department.

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As you'll see here, a lot of the great work,

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some of the challenges that we had to overcome,

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but I think I say that every time I have an opportunity

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to talk about our staff, your police department,

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is an extremely committed group of men and women

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that are absolutely committed to making this community safer.

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Many of them live here, their children go to school here,

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they have ties here, and they do want to do the best

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for this community and my showcase set tonight.

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So some of the things that report covers today

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Today was operating challenges, staffing, our response, and crime trends, quality of life

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for co-responder efforts, our ALPR usage, as well as community outreach, and our second

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half of the year priorities.

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Staffing for us, as you can see here, we're 28% of sworn positions were not fully deployable

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and I'll go over that a little bit later, but these are the challenges adapting to support

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new and outstanding technology quickly.

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It's outpacing our ability to actually do the job through our bandwidth.

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with repeat offenders, criminal justice system constraints,

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people not going to jail, not staying in jail.

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Some of the stuff that our community sees,

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it's what we live every day.

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And then you can see our success

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is we hire 10 officers during the reporting period,

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priority once times, response times went down.

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Reported offenses were broadly stable,

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and their homelessness related calls declined again.

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So this slide here talks about,

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really what our staffing challenges look like.

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Like hiring 10 people in one year is a huge burden, is a huge weight that not just the

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police department has to deal with, but one of my partners here, Kimma Kinney's back

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here.

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Her team is the one that is really carrying this heavy burden of helping us hire officers

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as well as professional staff.

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But on paper, it's fine that we show that we have zero vacancies which has today or next

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Monday rather.

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We'll have actually no sworn vacancies on paper.

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And that can quickly change for us, staffing for us is an absolute moving target.

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It can change quickly for us, but you're going to see there, on average, this first six

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months, I only had 52 officers that were actually deployable.

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And that's not counting vacations, sick time, everything else.

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On average, we had three vacancies the first six months, four in the academy, seven on field

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training.

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And we actually, at one point, had 10 officers on field training for a couple of months.

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and then six modified duties and injuries.

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So there's our workers' comps, the different leaves.

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Again, impacting other departments as well.

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But although we can get them on paper quickly,

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it does not get them on the street working fully deployable

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quickly.

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It takes four to six months to hire, takes six months

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to go to an academy, and then it takes us four to six months

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to go through a field training program.

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So people leave, it takes us 18 months to get them back on.

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To replace them. And then what's happening is we're actually not even replacing them one for one, because a three, five, six-year officer has three, five, six years of experience. And we're bringing on somebody that has zero experience. So we're losing years of experience with our officers. But this is where we are right now staffing, I can say quickly changes for us. But as of next Monday, we'll have another trainee who just graduated the academy today, starting on his field training journey.

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And then you have here priority ones.

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So we were able to see your prior to one's calls response time

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to drop from 607 this time last year to five minutes and two seconds.

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And then our prior two's dropped as well from only about 11 seconds.

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That's important to talk about, especially when we start looking at, again,

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how many officers we had actually work in the streets.

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During that time, we had 10 officers riding with FTOs.

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That's 20 officers essentially not doing full-time work because they're tied in with going to calls,

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training, paperwork, and all the other stuff that goes along with that.

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Calls for Service Total Calls, so this includes our community calls.

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The community calls this, generates a call for us, and then our proactive calls as well,

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so it's the officer's making traffic stops, pedestrian stops.

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And doing the extra is, so you can see we have a slight decline of about 8%.

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And when we get to proactive calls, I'll show you where the difference is.

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So again, the officer initiated calls, so we just talk about the traffic stops,

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follow-up, extra patrols, we dropped significantly 25%. Our traffic stops account for 46 of that,

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and throughout this period we were actually down most of it, we were down two out of our three

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traffic officers due to leaves and injuries.

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Following up on this, so you can see their traffic

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stops declined 25%. Our traffic officers write majority of the traffic, make the traffic stops,

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as well as right in the majority of the traffic citations and you can see there we had a decrease

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in our DOI arrests as well and our collisions saw decrease as well over the six months.

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It should be noted too. Some of this that helps us certainly with our overtime

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the coverage is our grants that we get through OTS, the Office of Traffic Safety and with that we

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during this reporting period we had a $70,000 grant majority of that was used for overtime and operations.

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I think we had eight DUI saturations, 11 distracted driving enforcement, as well as six additional traffic focused operations.

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So having the officers out there, not just the motors, but sometimes our patrol officers, other officers will also work traffic with them.

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Again, reported offenses relatively stable in the sense of we had a small increase in

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person's crimes, slight decrease in property crimes, crimes against society were up,

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again, proactive efforts on our officers' parts and their group B, things like vandalism

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and those types of things are included in group B. But in a little bit more detail here,

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so crimes against persons.

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and so he used to see a report called UCR Summary Reporting.

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So UCR Summary Reporting is if a crime,

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if a call for service in incident

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had three different crimes associated with it,

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UCR picked a hierarchy, so it was the most important one.

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So we had a sexual assault tied in with a domestic violence

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tied in with a burglary call.

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You would only see one

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and we would only report on one of those.

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Today in the last couple of years,

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we've done what we call National Incident Based

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reporting summary. So that actually for a call that has all three, all three are counted towards

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that. So here you'll see sexual assaults are down and aggravated assaults are down under crimes

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against persons. But one thing we've been going through as you noted on the highlight, they are

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higher counts in false imprisonment and domestic violence categories. So we saw an increase in intimidation

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cases as well as kidnapping. What reality under the kidnapping one is it's not the street kidnapping,

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what we're seeing is family violence.

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We're seeing our domestic violence,

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where actually officers are seeing

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that the victim is being locked in the home

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or moved from one room to another.

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So both of those are different offenses

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that are now being tracked.

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And that's what we're seeing.

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Crime is, it's property here.

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Overall property crime is down.

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You can see there, the highlight,

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the plus 60 possession of stolen properties,

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there's the largest increase.

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One of the reasons here is actually due

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to possession of stolen properties,

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actually some of our shopping carts. Some of our shopping carts are, depending on the circumstances,

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are deemed to be the felony like it is here, as opposed to our ordinance, which by the way,

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we have 47 shopping cart citations that we've issued. And then our vandalism is down as well.

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Crimes against society, I mentioned these are essentially the proactive efforts of our officers.

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This is drug equipment violations, drug possession, those types of things. So our officers are making

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car stops, pedestrian stops, and they're coming into contact people where they're making

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more drug and narcotic arrests, and DUI is incorporating this one through, so all those

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different numbers add up to this, and you'll see, again, an increase there.

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And homeless related calls, so our homeless host team should operate at three officers for

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over almost two years now, they've been operating at two, this is a seven-day-week coverage

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In addition, we have our social service manager who continues to be, you know, all things in this realm helping out our staff.

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We've been down our community enhancement specialist for the last few months due to injuries.

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She has Kristen Klein, our social service manager, has done the best to pick up where he has left off in the sense of, you know, the debris working with two men in a truck.

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all of our services. She also runs a laundry program where she's getting these

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relationships, getting people into services, tons of success stories there. And you

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can see we continue to see a drop in homeless-related calls for service.

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Not perfect, we'll never get to zero. But you can see there the continued

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decrease. Our mental health holds with our two co-responders that we have. Again,

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significant resource that we have with the two of them because they're able to work with the

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officers and work with people and sometimes that means we don't have to take them to jail. They

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can get into services immediately and it gets them off the streets and it actually gets again helps

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to reduce calls for service that are being generated. You'll notice the highlight the 509-235

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of the services officer offered. For most of this time period, we are actually down to one

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the co-responder due to injuries. So the officers and the staff have continued to do a good job at

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reducing the impact to the community even though we've had disruptions in our services. And kind

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of up to date piece that we've been doing our supplemental point time count every quarter. In January

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we did a point time count. Our count had about 154 chronic illness that were living on the streets.

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We did another one in May of this year. We were down to 147. And then we just did one August 25th. We

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you're down to 136 point time count with people, 137, sorry.

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And what we found is, again, about 56 of them, the 136 are from out of town.

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But they all have, majority of them had a reason to come back to town.

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Family, friends, opportunities, maybe it was work.

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And then 18 of them have been homeless for a year or less.

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And so by doing this quarterly point time count, the supplemental count,

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we're actually able to start staying ahead of what our unhoused community needs.

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And coordinate those efforts along with the shelter has been running at about a 60 to 70 percent capacity during this time

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One of the things with the shelter though is and the officers of experience is that if there's really some of that needs to get into the shelter

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And even though there's no beds available, the shelter has actually made that possible. So we've seen success stories with that as well

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One of the things we probably don't talk about enough a lot of things that happen inside the department. This is property and evidence

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So proper evidence is a completely different beast that we have to contend with, but as you can see there right now

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we have about 20,000 items related to safe keeping, evidence for crimes, everything, all those things that are still in house, they're stored there.

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And then you see there we take in almost 22, 2300 items through the end of June, as are firearms, drugs, and then on top of that

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All the work that they have to coordinate with the DA's office, audio, video requests, DOJ.

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We have to go through and we actually destroy firearms, we have to destroy drugs,

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all the different other purging of items, and then work with people who come back

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to collect their safe keeping items and all those different things.

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That's a complicated business.

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ALPR.

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So, you see there, our officers internally did 5,647 searches of the database.

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The top five purposes are vehicle theft, assaults, stolen property, weapons, offenses,

453
00:39:31,060 --> 00:39:31,600
hit and runs.

454
00:39:32,360 --> 00:39:38,940
And what you can see there is the 2,000, 200,000 reads a day, that's what the license plate

455
00:39:38,940 --> 00:39:40,000
reader sees on plates.

456
00:39:40,160 --> 00:39:43,540
It's not what the officers are seeing, that is just the data that's being collected for

457
00:39:43,540 --> 00:39:44,240
that period of time.

458
00:39:44,840 --> 00:39:48,140
and then big conversation always is, so what about other agencies?

459
00:39:48,700 --> 00:39:52,340
You know, trust you, the Woodland Police Department, but what about everybody else?

460
00:39:53,160 --> 00:39:55,060
And as we talked before, we've adjusted our policy.

461
00:39:55,720 --> 00:39:58,300
One of our policies actually is we're doing our audits.

462
00:39:58,680 --> 00:40:03,100
Our policies says we'll do at least minimum of one audit a year.

463
00:40:03,740 --> 00:40:05,480
We have since changed that starting this year.

464
00:40:05,480 --> 00:40:09,740
We've done one audit per month to see what's happening.

465
00:40:09,860 --> 00:40:13,460
And we've been reviewing the different searches

466
00:40:13,460 --> 00:40:15,400
is that we've come through, that we've come across.

467
00:40:16,040 --> 00:40:17,920
So as you can see there, we are at searches conducted

468
00:40:17,920 --> 00:40:20,820
by our personnel, we also are at the outside agencies

469
00:40:20,820 --> 00:40:24,400
that are using our data and using the system.

470
00:40:25,060 --> 00:40:26,580
And what's happening is if we see a red flag,

471
00:40:26,580 --> 00:40:27,960
we review that a little bit deeper,

472
00:40:28,520 --> 00:40:32,340
and then we may restrict or suspend an agency from our system.

473
00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:35,780
I can share with the City Council, we have done that once.

474
00:40:36,280 --> 00:40:37,720
We have currently there's one agency

475
00:40:37,720 --> 00:40:40,060
that is suspended from accessing our data.

476
00:40:40,780 --> 00:40:42,360
We are, we follow it up with them,

477
00:40:42,360 --> 00:40:45,920
We're waiting for them to come back with corrective actions.

478
00:40:47,520 --> 00:40:50,860
But again, it's limited to use the legitimate public safety purposes.

479
00:40:51,400 --> 00:40:55,900
I well aware it's happening in the media across this country as it relates to ALPR.

480
00:40:57,340 --> 00:41:06,680
We have our approval authority as well as we created a new ALPR FAQ, which explains the system limits,

481
00:41:06,860 --> 00:41:12,000
the safeguards and that is now on the city's website that lays out all the potential questions

482
00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:16,320
that our community may have and how it's used for more information.

483
00:41:19,720 --> 00:41:22,620
We're sure, again, why does this system exist?

484
00:41:22,900 --> 00:41:23,620
How do we use it?

485
00:41:23,920 --> 00:41:26,920
Here's some of the, just a couple of the success stories we've had.

486
00:41:27,660 --> 00:41:31,800
It is absolutely a game changer when conducting investigations.

487
00:41:33,400 --> 00:41:37,580
You know, for a long time, the investigations for us,

488
00:41:37,580 --> 00:41:39,700
it was trying to find a needle and a haystack.

489
00:41:40,360 --> 00:41:41,880
And when someone gives you a vehicle description

490
00:41:42,410 --> 00:41:43,600
or even potential plate,

491
00:41:44,080 --> 00:41:45,620
You don't know where that vehicle is.

492
00:41:45,860 --> 00:41:47,920
You don't know what vehicle is related to the case.

493
00:41:48,300 --> 00:41:49,400
And now you're searching a lot of,

494
00:41:50,620 --> 00:41:52,700
following up a lot of things you don't actually have answers to.

495
00:41:53,460 --> 00:41:56,440
This system actually allows us to find out where a plate is,

496
00:41:56,520 --> 00:41:58,080
where a car at a time was.

497
00:41:58,660 --> 00:42:01,520
Maybe it was nearby, the crime that occurred,

498
00:42:02,200 --> 00:42:03,880
or it's a hit that says this vehicle

499
00:42:03,880 --> 00:42:06,160
just drove through this intersection headed westbound.

500
00:42:07,180 --> 00:42:09,140
That's where we're gonna have to go find a stolen vehicle

501
00:42:09,140 --> 00:42:10,340
or a kidnapping suspect.

502
00:42:11,040 --> 00:42:18,520
So you can see here some of the success stories we had, the officers located the suspect vehicle for an assault with the deadly weapon.

503
00:42:19,380 --> 00:42:28,500
We actually had a hit and run investigations the officers used the license plate reader camera for comparison before and after the collision was reported.

504
00:42:29,180 --> 00:42:35,560
So they found the car with no vehicle damage before and they found a picture of it with the vehicle damage after the hit and run was reported.

505
00:42:36,080 --> 00:42:37,800
That's how they tracked down the hit and run suspect.

506
00:42:37,800 --> 00:42:44,260
So on vehicle recovered, very common the officers are driving in town, somewhere a vehicle

507
00:42:44,260 --> 00:42:48,340
drives through a camera system, and then the officers know that maybe it's headed westbound.

508
00:42:48,540 --> 00:42:50,640
They can go look further down that direction.

509
00:42:51,180 --> 00:42:55,380
Again, another assault with a vehicle, a stolen U-Haul truck, and a restraining order violation.

510
00:42:56,360 --> 00:43:02,180
So these are just a number of success stories that go beyond, you know, just the normal stuff.

511
00:43:04,000 --> 00:43:08,500
Our outreach, our volunteer hours, our volunteers are actually having a potluck today,

512
00:43:09,080 --> 00:43:14,100
going over their plan of action, you can see here with 22 volunteers, 23 watch groups,

513
00:43:14,760 --> 00:43:18,940
and then they attended the Nationalite Out events, like many of us in this room,

514
00:43:19,560 --> 00:43:21,620
1,500 and 22 volunteer hours.

515
00:43:23,240 --> 00:43:29,600
There's a stat that talks about what the value of volunteer hours is, and you can see 52,950.

516
00:43:30,080 --> 00:43:36,820
Our positive satisfaction, so after community calls us, our officers go out, they handle

517
00:43:36,820 --> 00:43:41,440
the call, they get a survey, much like we do on social, you know, from a different business

518
00:43:41,440 --> 00:43:41,980
or whatnot.

519
00:43:42,780 --> 00:43:47,860
We have an 85% satisfaction rate with our community, a 6% negative, 9% neutral.

520
00:43:48,520 --> 00:43:52,240
But I'm going to tell you in this line of work, it's pretty hard to get an 85% satisfaction

521
00:43:52,240 --> 00:43:52,620
rate.

522
00:43:53,040 --> 00:43:53,440
Absolutely.

523
00:43:54,620 --> 00:44:00,780
3.5 million Instagram views, 658 Facebook, we have a great social media platform and

524
00:44:00,780 --> 00:44:04,160
so great social media team and it puts out a lot of great info.

525
00:44:05,420 --> 00:44:10,680
And then for four priorities of going up to this next six months, stabilize our staffing

526
00:44:10,680 --> 00:44:15,680
and deployable capacity, we're going to see some bumps in the roads in the next few months,

527
00:44:16,440 --> 00:44:19,480
improve emergency response performance so continue to get to calls quickly.

528
00:44:19,480 --> 00:44:23,880
Also, sustain our crime reduction and then continue to reduce our homeless related

529
00:44:23,880 --> 00:44:26,520
instance and repeat calls offender. Repeat calls.

530
00:44:27,420 --> 00:44:32,960
But again, despite all the stuff going on, 10 hires, 17 percent, decrease in response

531
00:44:32,960 --> 00:44:41,200
times, reported calls are stable and then our unhoused related calls are down 19 percent since

532
00:44:41,200 --> 00:44:46,400
2024. So even with all the staffing challenges, even with all the new, you know, staffing

533
00:44:46,400 --> 00:44:49,880
tapping is coming in, all the new officers, they're doing a great job.

534
00:44:51,400 --> 00:44:52,180
Any questions?

535
00:44:52,980 --> 00:44:56,000
That's no standing report, chief, colleagues.

536
00:45:01,920 --> 00:45:06,760
Okay, it's been suggested that we have public comment first. Is there any public comment tonight?

537
00:45:07,480 --> 00:45:10,900
I have no speakers. Anyone in the room wish to speak to this?

538
00:45:13,300 --> 00:45:18,520
Well, I could hardly imagine a better report. It's that good.

539
00:45:19,240 --> 00:45:29,780
The important numbers are down and nothing is dramatically up that we don't want to be up. And I just would like to say,

540
00:45:29,780 --> 00:45:34,120
If you haven't interacted with our officers, don't pass up an opportunity.

541
00:45:34,320 --> 00:45:51,100
Go to coffee with a cop or any of the other public events where our officers are present and just have a conversation and I think you'll feel as I do that we have a lot to be proud of here and we can be really confident that our officers are doing the job we want them to be doing.

542
00:45:51,100 --> 00:45:53,760
All right, colleagues, do you want to add any comments?

543
00:45:54,680 --> 00:45:55,460
Vice mayor?

544
00:45:56,080 --> 00:45:56,500
Thank you.

545
00:45:56,800 --> 00:45:57,220
Pro-Tam?

546
00:45:57,680 --> 00:45:58,980
Marvig, whatever.

547
00:46:00,640 --> 00:46:01,760
I respond to tours.

548
00:46:03,080 --> 00:46:04,100
Gee, thank you so much.

549
00:46:04,620 --> 00:46:09,140
You know, one of the things to add on to the mayor's comments is that I see the pictures

550
00:46:09,140 --> 00:46:14,160
of on these slides and I see you all everywhere.

551
00:46:14,640 --> 00:46:18,600
I mean, the volunteerism is amazing to have the number of volunteers and it really does

552
00:46:18,600 --> 00:46:24,220
make a difference, I mean, whether it be youth events or the farmer's market. And our

553
00:46:24,220 --> 00:46:29,320
fired, our police department is very well loved and respected in this community. And it's

554
00:46:29,320 --> 00:46:35,960
because of all of the work that you all put in and being out there. I've recently been talking

555
00:46:35,960 --> 00:46:42,560
to business owners that have restaurants on the west side of town. So La Superio Shopping Center.

556
00:46:42,560 --> 00:46:49,340
and Ray Lee's shopping center and you know I get questions around. Well, is there is the same

557
00:46:49,340 --> 00:46:56,980
effort and outrage that our police department does on the east side of town this for in terms of

558
00:46:56,980 --> 00:47:02,660
the homeless encampments and addressing those. Is it the same do they prioritize and I assured them

559
00:47:02,660 --> 00:47:08,860
that you all drive around because I see you and I drive around and you pay the same level of attention

560
00:47:08,860 --> 00:47:11,520
and care to all areas of the cities, right?

561
00:47:11,820 --> 00:47:14,980
There's just always more that can be done, right?

562
00:47:15,340 --> 00:47:18,400
So sharing that and thank you for looking

563
00:47:18,400 --> 00:47:21,840
and with limited resources still spreading the love

564
00:47:22,780 --> 00:47:23,800
throughout the community.

565
00:47:24,740 --> 00:47:28,000
I want to also go back to the the flock,

566
00:47:30,560 --> 00:47:31,840
the statistic.

567
00:47:32,160 --> 00:47:37,560
So one of the things, so I've made a comment around,

568
00:47:37,560 --> 00:47:43,540
And there was a business owner here downtown whose car was stolen and she shared with me

569
00:47:43,540 --> 00:47:50,020
that it was recovered shortly after it was taken before it was damaged beyond repair.

570
00:47:50,660 --> 00:47:54,480
And she said it was because of these cameras, right, that they were able to find them.

571
00:47:54,660 --> 00:48:00,740
So I hear stories about that and certainly having somebody, the car being stolen and damage

572
00:48:00,740 --> 00:48:02,860
is a significant impact to people.

573
00:48:02,860 --> 00:48:10,980
also. I like that you're sharing the positive stories. And then as we've had many conversations

574
00:48:10,980 --> 00:48:15,780
and we had some very active community group members that are also concerned about some of

575
00:48:15,780 --> 00:48:22,840
these red flags. So these audits that were conducted by community members, which I appreciated.

576
00:48:23,480 --> 00:48:28,920
And then I do appreciate changing the policy to have audits be more frequent.

577
00:48:28,920 --> 00:48:40,220
And I'm glad that there is now a process for the red flags and I have a question around the protocol you said there's been one agency that's been restricted.

578
00:48:41,060 --> 00:48:50,940
What is is there a documented process for for them or that the plan of action that you will take once that is flagged?

579
00:48:51,440 --> 00:48:56,280
So, once we flag it, our process is we notify that agency, let them know that we found,

580
00:48:56,920 --> 00:48:58,480
you know, let them know what we found, right?

581
00:48:58,780 --> 00:49:03,100
Maybe it's a, the search criteria was questionable because they have an opportunity to go back

582
00:49:03,100 --> 00:49:04,600
there and they may not know about it.

583
00:49:05,100 --> 00:49:10,260
And so they have an opportunity to review it and see, and maybe, maybe it was a legitimate

584
00:49:10,260 --> 00:49:13,820
search and it's all on the up and up and that's the corrective action that comes back.

585
00:49:13,900 --> 00:49:16,200
So, we reviewed these, the same criteria.

586
00:49:16,820 --> 00:49:20,040
This is what this award, these are legitimate operations, legitimate searches.

587
00:49:20,040 --> 00:49:26,060
and then once they show us you know are they taking creative action with personnel, then we would

588
00:49:26,660 --> 00:49:34,080
unsuspend their access. Does that make the answer that question? And so in that process is that

589
00:49:34,080 --> 00:49:40,020
documented in our in our policy or? It's documented in the audit that we do. So we do the monthly audits that

590
00:49:40,020 --> 00:49:44,440
we're doing right now. We would show in that audit if they were to come back with corrective action, we would

591
00:49:44,440 --> 00:49:55,380
notated in that audit. And are those audits available publicly or only via PRA? Right now

592
00:49:55,380 --> 00:49:59,620
we haven't put on them on the website to make them accessible to everybody, but certainly

593
00:49:59,620 --> 00:50:05,600
they would be accessible through a PRA. Well, and I just ask we have had, I think almost

594
00:50:06,180 --> 00:50:12,400
every other day I have somebody reach out to me, you know, and I appreciate and share

595
00:50:12,400 --> 00:50:18,920
some of the just concerned right I mean we have a diverse community here we have a lot of immigrants

596
00:50:18,920 --> 00:50:24,520
we have mixed status families and I love how our community comes together and they want to make

597
00:50:24,520 --> 00:50:28,960
sure that we're protecting our citizens you know spend some time talking to folks over the weekend and

598
00:50:29,700 --> 00:50:34,900
at least 10 people ask me what are you doing to protect our our migrant communities from these terrible

599
00:50:34,900 --> 00:50:41,260
targeted raids right and then each time there is a rumor of ice being in town which by the way

600
00:50:41,260 --> 00:50:46,620
really appreciate you and your team always being accessible when we hear those and you share what

601
00:50:46,620 --> 00:50:53,580
you know and if it's a fact or not and I appreciate that. So this is just a concern that exists

602
00:50:53,580 --> 00:51:01,720
and it's not about mistrust of the department it's just we I mean we all see the news and you watch

603
00:51:01,720 --> 00:51:07,440
YouTube and these things are scary right and how is surveillance happening and then also just people

604
00:51:07,440 --> 00:51:13,760
caring about our neighbors here so I would agree with that and I think we all believe in

605
00:51:13,760 --> 00:51:17,880
the same the thing about mass surveillance even as your police chief I don't want mass

606
00:51:17,880 --> 00:51:23,160
surveillance but what I do on is I want the tools to actually protect this community and recover

607
00:51:24,060 --> 00:51:29,740
kidnappers, you know youth that we've seen you know recover stolen vehicles and the like

608
00:51:29,740 --> 00:51:34,940
you know I too have seen the social media feeds that talk about the misinformation about how

609
00:51:34,940 --> 00:51:40,380
the system worked. I'm not a, you're talking about a, you know, a vendor themselves, but just

610
00:51:40,380 --> 00:51:45,740
the technology, the technology has allowed us to do things so much faster and so much quicker

611
00:51:45,740 --> 00:51:50,900
and more efficient than we ever have been before. And like I said earlier, this is, it allows us to

612
00:51:50,900 --> 00:51:55,880
actually find this needle in a haystack, and quickly, like the example of the stolen car.

613
00:51:56,760 --> 00:52:01,220
Our officers, certainly the old school way of things is you would go to a place where cars got dropped

614
00:52:01,220 --> 00:52:06,680
off, where every day you were taking a stolen vehicle report, well the graveyard team would

615
00:52:06,680 --> 00:52:09,860
go out there the night before that night and they would drive around until they found a stolen

616
00:52:09,860 --> 00:52:13,860
car that was reported. Today, we don't have to do that. As soon as that car gets reported,

617
00:52:14,240 --> 00:52:21,480
we get a flag on one of our 38 cameras. So out of our 15 square miles and I believe we have 320

618
00:52:21,480 --> 00:52:26,840
miles of roadway or something like that, we have 38 cameras that are not on every intersection.

619
00:52:27,720 --> 00:52:31,140
And I know the misinformation of selling these cameras will tell you where you're driving

620
00:52:31,140 --> 00:52:35,180
where you're going to eat, where you're going to church, they're not, they're not here.

621
00:52:36,220 --> 00:52:40,400
You might get a hit at one intersection and then another. We do not know where you stopped,

622
00:52:40,760 --> 00:52:44,820
where it drive way you pulled into, where you went to a fast food restaurant or church.

623
00:52:45,380 --> 00:52:49,960
It's just this is a one snapshot and that's trying to just educate people on actually how the system

624
00:52:49,960 --> 00:52:55,580
works and I know we're very slow at that. We're not as good as getting all the public relations

625
00:52:55,580 --> 00:53:00,040
information out but this is why it's important I think to continue to educate the community on what

626
00:53:00,040 --> 00:53:02,580
But we're using this for and how we're using this here in women.

627
00:53:05,250 --> 00:53:05,330
Good.

628
00:53:06,070 --> 00:53:09,510
You know, and just I appreciate an advance your participation in the forum.

629
00:53:10,090 --> 00:53:14,210
That is being done with all yellow County agencies around the immigration.

630
00:53:15,050 --> 00:53:15,630
What's the title?

631
00:53:15,950 --> 00:53:17,230
I had it up and I closed it.

632
00:53:17,690 --> 00:53:20,290
I do know it's on September 23rd, though, I don't remember the title.

633
00:53:22,780 --> 00:53:25,040
What is the title, Jesse, of the event?

634
00:53:30,840 --> 00:53:35,040
No, no, I appreciate it's all of our law enforcement agencies coming together to speak

635
00:53:35,040 --> 00:53:37,920
about the topic of immigration.

636
00:53:37,920 --> 00:53:40,200
So thank you for participating that.

637
00:53:40,200 --> 00:53:42,190
Absolutely, looking forward to it.

638
00:53:42,800 --> 00:53:43,080
Thank you.

639
00:53:43,080 --> 00:53:43,660
That'll be all mayor.

640
00:53:44,420 --> 00:53:44,700
Thank you.

641
00:53:46,860 --> 00:53:47,500
Thank you.

642
00:53:47,600 --> 00:53:51,540
I just wanted to piggyback on what our mayor was saying about having the community attend

643
00:53:51,540 --> 00:53:55,060
the coffee with the cops or whatever is going on.

644
00:53:55,740 --> 00:54:02,560
I have a longtime friend who has a special needs son and she has had, as he's grown into

645
00:54:02,560 --> 00:54:07,160
adulthood, had concerns about if he ever has an interaction with the police, how he would

646
00:54:07,160 --> 00:54:10,720
And how we would react or how that would go.

647
00:54:11,120 --> 00:54:15,040
And it wasn't this last one at the chamber, but there was something previously.

648
00:54:15,300 --> 00:54:17,080
And she had an opportunity to speak with some officers.

649
00:54:17,600 --> 00:54:19,940
And it really eased her mind.

650
00:54:20,140 --> 00:54:27,400
It gave her a lot of assurance on how our officers have been trained to work with a broad range

651
00:54:27,400 --> 00:54:28,440
of community members.

652
00:54:28,740 --> 00:54:35,580
And I think it really helped her give a good set of sense of satisfaction.

653
00:54:35,580 --> 00:54:42,160
So, I do appreciate when our community is able to interact with you, I think sometimes

654
00:54:42,160 --> 00:54:45,220
people see people in uniform and kind of get intimidated.

655
00:54:45,500 --> 00:54:48,040
So, it's really nice to be able to interact that way.

656
00:54:48,220 --> 00:54:48,580
So, thank you.

657
00:54:48,980 --> 00:54:49,260
Thank you.

658
00:54:49,500 --> 00:54:49,940
I would agree.

659
00:54:50,620 --> 00:54:54,160
Having a chance for our officers to talk to our community, once you get to actually talk

660
00:54:54,160 --> 00:54:56,320
to them, you see that we're just people.

661
00:54:56,840 --> 00:54:57,580
We have families.

662
00:54:57,800 --> 00:54:58,400
We're coaches.

663
00:54:58,540 --> 00:55:00,120
We do all the same thing that everybody else does.

664
00:55:00,520 --> 00:55:03,020
We just happen to wear uniforms and carry guns as a job.

665
00:55:03,020 --> 00:55:08,340
But as soon as they get to know, get to talk to them, I believe, and it works in our favor just about every time.

666
00:55:10,610 --> 00:55:11,350
Thank you.

667
00:55:11,890 --> 00:55:13,690
David, did you have any questions or comments?

668
00:55:16,950 --> 00:55:34,670
Chief, I just want to say a special thank you for highlighting the fact that it's through these special grants like the OTS grant that you're able to pay for the overtime and have these special operations where you make our streets safer and it allows our community to feel like there's.

669
00:55:34,670 --> 00:55:39,330
There's work being done to look for outside revenues to support our mission here

670
00:55:40,790 --> 00:55:41,830
highlighting the

671
00:55:42,610 --> 00:55:48,790
Presentation that you did here. I wanted to ask can you highlight can you talk a little bit more about the duration that it takes for a

672
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graduate of the Academy

673
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Like the duration from the Academy graduation to being a

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Solo officer like out of field training. What's the duration of that?

675
00:55:58,510 --> 00:56:05,790
They feel training typically lasts about four to six months, but that can be extended right like for if we needed to we could

676
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extend them and a lot of times it's making sure we're giving people the opportunity to develop.

677
00:56:11,110 --> 00:56:16,230
You know, we don't we hire good people. We invest in good people. We want to see these good people be successful.

678
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This job brings a wide variety of experiences. You're not going to know everything in four to six months.

679
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And so we absolutely give people an opportunity to extend it. We've done that with a number of individuals.

680
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We might send them to additional training, one of the challenges of a lot of new hires is actually report writing and so having to write reports and you know that we're going to go to the DA's office and everything else so it often becomes a challenge and so we'll send them to report writing school and given them that experience to get them past that.

681
00:56:45,450 --> 00:56:50,590
I'm glad those resources are available because it's a whole different change in how you

682
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present the information, right?

683
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Like I've seen friends that have absolutely benefited from that level of training and

684
00:56:57,950 --> 00:57:04,010
also even from our national night out talking to one of your officers talking about how they

685
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were especially drawn to coming back to the community because of the resources that were available

686
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the extra time that your officers took in community members to recruit and so to speak,

687
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to have people say this is what the job is, it's no mystery and this is what it's going to take.

688
00:57:20,930 --> 00:57:25,770
I just want to highlight that because what we're seeing here in these numbers is this long effort

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of investment into the future, into our officers and making sure that our cities being covered.

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So, I want to highlight that in continuation to the conversations about flock.

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The conversations with the community are all valid and the concerns are there, especially

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being scrutinized through outside of actors, right, that have nothing to do with woodland,

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but just the tools that you're using.

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I want to know, can you identify what would be considered a red flag?

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Is it two violations, questionable violations?

696
00:57:58,810 --> 00:58:01,910
Because my understanding with flock is that it's changing, right?

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people have found out that you know with state laws changing of not helping or

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are complying to federal investigations right away in California. There's

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other tools, there's other aspects of the flock technology that's changing

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with the legislation. So can you talk to me about what are some, what does it take

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00:58:23,850 --> 00:58:30,710
for it to be a red flag? Yeah so the the ALPR question with with flock. So they

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00:58:30,710 --> 00:58:38,750
They have, as of April, they have a new audit assistant that they're using, that when you use algorithms to see, maybe a plate has been run multiple times.

703
00:58:39,210 --> 00:58:47,370
That's what we're seeing across this country. It's in the East Coast, in some places, like a plate has been run a significant amount of times in a short order, right?

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00:58:47,990 --> 00:58:57,750
And so that would be a red flag. And that's some of these auditing tools will allow us to track that stuff faster as opposed to trying to hand counter it or use an Excel spreadsheet to do that.

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00:58:57,750 --> 00:59:00,450
Also, what is their search criteria?

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What's their reasoning?

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Obviously, the crime is associated with that,

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but then there's a reason for that.

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And what we've seen is things like XOXO,

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that's a red flag.

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And so that's what we've seen.

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And again, the auditing tool that we'll see

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in the ALPR technology will help us as well.

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00:59:19,670 --> 00:59:22,010
Well, I appreciate the effort that's been done

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to keep up with the trust in the public

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and for the sake of transparency, having these monthly reports.

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I want to ask one last question about, do we currently have WPD policy regarding an abuse

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of systems, not specifically flock, but if an officer were to, you know, take advantage

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of the tools that are offered to them, right, flock is just one of the tools.

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Do we currently have a policy in place of a consequence?

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We do, it's actually state law too.

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So if someone was to violate, say,

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a CLETS, a California law enforcement telecommunications system.

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Using that data to access that license, again, license plate or driver's license location, it is already state law that says they've learned violation of along with our policy that sets that. So they evaluate any of our technology programs. They're not only just the PD policy, city policy, state law and rising those, you know, each one of those different violations would lead to termination if not prosecution. Well, thank you. I want to congratulate you and your team.

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and the high percentage of satisfaction in public opinion and the efforts that are done to connect with the community.

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01:00:36,880 --> 01:00:37,240
Thank you.

727
01:00:39,240 --> 01:00:40,660
Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

728
01:00:43,820 --> 01:00:46,340
Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

729
01:00:46,820 --> 01:00:50,820
Thank you, Chief, for the great report that you provided to us.

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01:00:51,500 --> 01:00:54,920
If I had a hat, I would tip it to you and your staff.

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01:00:55,580 --> 01:01:03,640
because I'm amazed the work that you accomplished in the six months being down so many people, having been there, I know what it's like.

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So, again, gradually at your staff, all members of the City Council, I'm sure they don't join me, make sure that they know they'll be

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appreciate what they do in day in and day out. I sleep better knowing that you're out there.

734
01:01:18,240 --> 01:01:20,640
Why not you personally look at your staff?

735
01:01:21,540 --> 01:01:24,200
I sleep better, too, and they're out there.

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01:01:24,780 --> 01:01:25,240
Not me.

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01:01:26,820 --> 01:01:36,040
The other thing I want to mention is I want to thank you for the flock FAQ is well written.

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01:01:36,700 --> 01:01:37,980
Well, it's informative.

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01:01:38,780 --> 01:01:43,600
And I'm glad you put it on the public website so people can take a look at it because you're right.

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01:01:43,800 --> 01:01:48,680
There's a lot of misinformation out there about flock, but we have to look at, you know,

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01:01:48,680 --> 01:01:56,340
the benefits versus the risk. And I think that your council is behind you. And we'll keep it up

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01:01:56,920 --> 01:02:02,340
and protect our community as well as protect the information on the flock.

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01:02:03,560 --> 01:02:08,740
The third thing I think you said that you're hiring a lot of local people. I'm glad you're doing

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01:02:08,740 --> 01:02:15,060
that because that's what makes our city successful. People invested in our community are going to stay

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01:02:15,060 --> 01:02:18,180
here, they're going to work here, they're going to raise your kids, they're going to go

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01:02:18,180 --> 01:02:20,860
to nugget and raise all those other good things.

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So I appreciate the effort on hiring local.

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01:02:26,680 --> 01:02:33,460
The last question I have is, comment I have is, I thought there was a time we had a top

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01:02:33,460 --> 01:02:42,440
10 homeless thing, I hate to use that term, but we focus on certain groups or certain individuals

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01:02:42,440 --> 01:02:54,880
those who really need the work who are creating the work that you required to do, are we still doing that or not doing that?

751
01:02:54,960 --> 01:02:57,740
So we still have something similar, so it is our top offenders.

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01:02:58,340 --> 01:03:01,780
It's the ones that are generating the calls for service for us, maybe the more arrests.

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01:03:02,840 --> 01:03:09,160
And we consider our top offenders that need more attention in the sense of not just us making more arrests,

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01:03:09,160 --> 01:03:14,080
But working with our different partners, whether it's the sheriff's office is the DA's office

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01:03:14,080 --> 01:03:19,340
It's you know a nonprofit all those different things to get them the resources that they need and so yes

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01:03:19,340 --> 01:03:25,260
We have our top offenders that the officers are made aware of kind of every month during our leadership meetings

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01:03:27,180 --> 01:03:34,880
Keep that up. Thank you. All right. Well, thank you so much chief. I have no further questions

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01:03:34,880 --> 01:03:38,980
I feel the report was comprehensive and very nicely delivered.

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01:03:39,300 --> 01:03:40,740
I thank you on behalf of all of us.

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01:03:41,180 --> 01:03:45,320
Thank you, and I just thank my staff for when they put this presentation together.

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01:03:45,500 --> 01:03:46,620
They're the ones that they're doing the work.

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01:03:46,860 --> 01:03:47,960
They're working graveyard's weekends.

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01:03:48,680 --> 01:03:51,200
And we would not have the success if it wasn't for all of them.

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So I appreciate your support for the men and women of the police department.

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01:03:56,060 --> 01:04:00,400
And again, like I said earlier, they are committed to this organization and this community.

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So thank you.

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01:04:01,260 --> 01:04:13,660
All right. All right. Well, there's no this was an information item. So we have no actions. I have a question for you. Do you think I might have something to do with leadership to do what you think you might have something to do with leadership? Oh, it just might.

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01:04:16,360 --> 01:04:19,220
Well, the manager gets some credit to because he hired him.

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01:04:19,220 --> 01:04:30,420
And now we return to our fire department for the semi-annual report and coming forward is our locally grown fire chief, Eric Zane.

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Eric.

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01:04:31,600 --> 01:04:32,180
Well, good evening.

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01:04:32,360 --> 01:04:36,880
Thank you, Mayor Stuller and council members for having me here this evening, Eric Zane, your fire chief.

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01:04:37,340 --> 01:04:41,580
Our semi-annual report also represents the first six months of this year.

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and it also kind of really highlights the work that our staff are doing day in and day out to protect our community.

775
01:04:50,340 --> 01:04:54,580
And why did you mention also the invitation to come on September 11th?

776
01:04:55,460 --> 01:04:57,040
Was that going to be part of your presentation?

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01:04:57,580 --> 01:04:59,160
It was not, but yeah, that's very true.

778
01:04:59,160 --> 01:05:01,500
Why don't you announce to the public what you're doing?

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01:05:01,780 --> 01:05:08,520
Yes, so September 11th, we'll at 6.50 in the morning at Fire Station 3, 15.50, Springlight Court,

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work. Both the Woodland Fire Department and Police Department will be hosting a joint memorial

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01:05:15,660 --> 01:05:22,340
that we've done every year, kind of memorializing the 25th anniversary of the tax at the World

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01:05:22,340 --> 01:05:29,200
Trade Center. So we hope that you'll come out and join us and just kind of really be together

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01:05:29,200 --> 01:05:32,460
the morning of and remember those that lost their lives.

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01:05:33,020 --> 01:05:33,600
Thank you, Chief.

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01:05:33,600 --> 01:05:40,460
Thank you so for the you know operations at a glance for the first six months of

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01:05:40,460 --> 01:05:47,100
this year we handled 4,300 calls for service with an average response time of

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four minutes and 26 seconds that's 11 seconds faster than the previous six

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months some of that can be attributed to the fact that we now have response

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corridors along East Main Street and Gibson Road which include the

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01:06:03,160 --> 01:06:06,600
make out trans-controlled intersections that are now utilizing GPS.

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What it does is when we're going lights and sirens down the road, I turn my turn signal

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01:06:14,040 --> 01:06:14,300
on.

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It knows that I'm going to head westbound on East Main Street.

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It's going to start to open up those intersections with green lights.

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Clear's the traffic, reduces the amount of time that we have to take, oncoming traffic,

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01:06:26,080 --> 01:06:32,100
making a safer response corridor, making a quicker response corridor, and that was a joint

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01:06:32,100 --> 01:06:38,360
effort between community development and our traffic folks, as long as public works and staff

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01:06:38,360 --> 01:06:45,040
with the fire department as well as cow trans. And so that's been quite the effort to coordinate,

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01:06:45,260 --> 01:06:52,300
especially when you start involving other state agencies. But we've gotten there and we're

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01:06:52,300 --> 01:06:58,640
definitely seeing a positive impact in those corridors. So as we start to identify additional

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01:06:58,640 --> 01:07:06,300
intersection that we struggle to gain control of while responding to emergencies will work with our public works to prioritize those intersections as well.

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01:07:07,820 --> 01:07:14,980
The the 4300 calls for service that is a slight decrease from the July to December time frame, not unusual.

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We tend to get pretty busy in the winter time with vehicle accidents and we tend to have a little bit of a lull in the spring time before fire season kind of hits.

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As you can see, we received aid 49 times and provided aid 51 times.

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That's a pretty good balance there for the resources that we've been sharing.

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01:07:37,300 --> 01:07:44,680
So this graph represents the calls for service that we typically see in our community.

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The blue line represents this past six months and you can see that we've had in most areas

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some decreases. In the false alarms category, you'll see a pretty significant increase.

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01:07:59,200 --> 01:08:02,420
Some of that has to do with the way we're reporting. We have a new reporting system that

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we had to step off into. And we're learning how to best identify those incidents in the

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reporting system and software and working with our company officers who are completing

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those reports to make sure that it's best categorized. But the federal government did require

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this change as of January. So we are starting to report out slightly differently.

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In a correlation there you see good intention calls, good intention calls or calls where people

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01:08:34,400 --> 01:08:40,740
calls with good intentions could be they see smoke and it happens to be a barbecue or they see

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01:08:40,740 --> 01:08:45,940
someone down in a park and they happen to be taking an app. So you know people

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01:08:45,940 --> 01:08:52,060
we utilize 911 for all sorts of reasons and those do generate calls for service for our department.

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So, fire outcomes and properties saved. So, we do have a goal of containing room of origin,

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80% of the time. The first six months, we saw that at 70%. And that is a little bit of a dip,

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01:09:09,780 --> 01:09:16,020
but we also, again, are reporting differently in this new software and things are categorized

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differently. So we've been working with staff, but we're also not talking about huge percentages,

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01:09:22,560 --> 01:09:28,480
right? These are, we're talking about structure fires where homes or businesses are actually

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01:09:28,480 --> 01:09:36,820
burning. And, you know, three or four outcomes can really change those metrics. But again,

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what I do want to highlight is the $71 million in property saved in this first half of

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01:09:45,920 --> 01:09:52,680
year. Last year alone we saved about $56 million in property. So the first half of the year

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this year we've had some very significant incidents. One of those incidents was a large vegetation

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01:09:58,560 --> 01:10:08,340
fire out on the Pioneer Avenue where we had fires that almost got into some lumber yards.

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So these numbers reflect some of that wood that could have been lost would have been revenue for

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these companies and also jobs.

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So priority called travel times. Again, the try to get from the time

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we go on route when we get on scene, four minutes, 90% of the time. We do that about 50% of the time.

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We can get on scene within a full five minutes, almost 90% of the time. So we start creeping towards

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01:10:43,870 --> 01:10:48,630
those numbers. And again, why is four minutes so important? That's really when brain death starts

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01:10:48,630 --> 01:10:54,150
to occur in folks that are start of oxygen. So think about holding your breath for four minutes,

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what kind of position would you be in after that four minutes? Those are some of the metrics that

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01:10:58,750 --> 01:11:04,750
we look at. We do have really good CPR survival rates, and I'll be at the next semi-owner report

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01:11:04,750 --> 01:11:13,570
reporting out on what this year looks like. So far with the efforts that we've made, seven individuals

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01:11:13,570 --> 01:11:18,410
have walked out of the hospital and gone home completely neurologically intact

839
01:11:18,410 --> 01:11:24,910
this year alone and those are some pretty incredible outcomes even from the

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01:11:24,910 --> 01:11:29,050
county's perspective you know we're doing really good really really good work

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01:11:29,050 --> 01:11:38,550
out there cause of origin cause of origin or cause of ignition as you can see

842
01:11:38,550 --> 01:11:43,990
intentional fires. We had about 60 intentional fires that we could confirm

843
01:11:43,990 --> 01:11:49,590
were caused or were started by people intentionally. Equal to that are

844
01:11:49,590 --> 01:11:53,850
undetermined fires and so why are those numbers kind of equal? Well fires are

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01:11:53,850 --> 01:11:58,810
constantly as they're burning they're destroying their own evidence and so if we

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01:11:58,810 --> 01:12:05,790
aren't able to find a really solid cause or we don't have good camera footage, we

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01:12:05,790 --> 01:12:14,630
can't really make it a termination. So we continue to refine this. We have a very strong

848
01:12:14,630 --> 01:12:20,990
investigations team, especially our two inspectors that work for the community risk reduction

849
01:12:21,890 --> 01:12:27,990
division of the department. They are fire investigators. They do a great job. We've actually had

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01:12:27,990 --> 01:12:32,430
some arrests this year that fire that I talked about on Pioneer Avenue that resulted in arrests and

851
01:12:32,430 --> 01:12:39,630
believe that that individual still may be in jail awaiting trial for the damages that they caused.

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01:12:42,910 --> 01:12:49,530
So some community service highlights. So we've had in the first six months, almost 500 contacts

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01:12:49,530 --> 01:12:54,390
within a housed individuals. These are all opportunities in which we can share what we know about

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01:12:54,390 --> 01:12:59,830
the services that Chief Kanan and his staff can provide or the services that Fourth and Hope can

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01:12:59,830 --> 01:13:03,410
provide to our on-housed individuals in our community.

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01:13:04,450 --> 01:13:13,470
Canceled and non-emergent incidents, you know, 330 times in the first half of this year,

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01:13:13,710 --> 01:13:20,210
we canceled to calls for service at doctor's offices or skilled nursing facilities where

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01:13:20,210 --> 01:13:22,030
there's already medical staff on site.

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01:13:22,950 --> 01:13:32,890
This isn't just, this is actually really important to us, call shedding and an organization like ours.

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We've staffed for apparatus in the city of Woodland since the 1980s.

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The configurations of that apparatus have changed slightly, but

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01:13:41,250 --> 01:13:43,430
there's still only for apparatus available.

863
01:13:43,430 --> 01:13:54,630
Call volumes have gone from roughly 18 to 2000 calls in 1983 to roughly 9,500 calls in 2025.

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01:13:55,470 --> 01:14:00,530
We have to stop responding to certain calls where our assistance isn't required.

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So the company officers are given the authority to cancel to non-emergent calls.

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01:14:07,070 --> 01:14:12,710
So code two incidents at skilled nursing and doctor's offices where there's already a physician on scene.

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01:14:12,710 --> 01:14:19,790
there's already nurses on scene, really what they're looking for is an ambulance to transport someone to the hospital that needs a higher level of care,

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01:14:20,130 --> 01:14:24,790
that that clinic or that skilled nursing facility can't provide.

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01:14:25,230 --> 01:14:27,930
It doesn't necessarily require the assistance of the fire department.

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That's a good plan.

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01:14:30,210 --> 01:14:36,610
Engine company inspections, you know, our folks are busy, but they're getting out and they're making contact with our business owners.

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01:14:37,310 --> 01:14:42,290
They're inspecting their businesses, making recommendations to make sure that they're safe.

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01:14:42,290 --> 01:14:51,590
that they're not, you know, going to have issues with electrical, wiring, exits are clear.

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01:14:51,950 --> 01:14:59,690
Just really the basics, but they do a great job and it's a really good opportunity for our staff to interact with our business owners.

875
01:15:02,640 --> 01:15:30,020
So some personnel updates, you know, like the police department, the first six months of this year, we onboarded five new firefighters. That's a lot for an organization our size. It takes a lot of effort. Our human resources department, a mighty two in that department. They do a fantastic job of assisting us through the hiring and onboarding process are firefighters. We onboarded our first lateral firefighter during this time frame.

876
01:15:31,520 --> 01:15:34,660
That's significant because we have so many new and young firefighters.

877
01:15:34,840 --> 01:15:39,880
We're actually bringing in some folks that have a little bit of experience that can kind of fill a gap for us.

878
01:15:40,640 --> 01:15:45,020
We did hire four new firefighters, sent them through the Academy.

879
01:15:45,020 --> 01:15:46,420
The Academy is six months long.

880
01:15:46,920 --> 01:15:55,760
They are paid as recruits through the Sacramento City Fire Academy and they were brought in.

881
01:15:55,840 --> 01:15:58,580
They started their first shifts back in June.

882
01:16:01,140 --> 01:16:14,340
We're seeing a reduction in our overtime expenses because we have these folks on, so we have less vacancies, but we still have two current vacancies, and we're currently recruiting for two lateral firefighter positions right now.

883
01:16:14,460 --> 01:16:16,300
That would bring us to 100% staffing.

884
01:16:17,440 --> 01:16:19,220
So we're really excited.

885
01:16:19,680 --> 01:16:21,960
We have interviews coming up this next week.

886
01:16:22,360 --> 01:16:24,440
We're hoping to find, you know,

887
01:16:24,600 --> 01:16:26,600
two worthy candidates to come serve our community

888
01:16:27,420 --> 01:16:29,460
and join our department.

889
01:16:30,280 --> 01:16:34,240
This also, we did have a retirement in that

890
01:16:34,240 --> 01:16:36,900
and so that also brings about promotions,

891
01:16:36,920 --> 01:16:39,880
which is really great moral booster for the organization.

892
01:16:40,600 --> 01:16:42,840
But we did lose some firefighters to other agencies

893
01:16:43,480 --> 01:16:46,020
and, you know, we do struggle in that area

894
01:16:46,020 --> 01:16:50,080
to compete with other agencies that are also hiring laterals.

895
01:16:51,060 --> 01:16:57,900
And some of these folks can go find positions that just quite frankly pay more

896
01:16:57,900 --> 01:17:02,960
and we can't necessarily compete with some of these Bay Area agencies that they're going to.

897
01:17:03,600 --> 01:17:08,180
But we try to do everything else in our power to make sure that the environment that they work in

898
01:17:08,840 --> 01:17:11,440
is one that promotes growth and opportunity.

899
01:17:11,440 --> 01:17:18,080
and we really hope that this is the community they want to stay in and serve, and so we also do

900
01:17:18,080 --> 01:17:24,120
really look for local candidates that want to serve their community in which they grew up in,

901
01:17:24,580 --> 01:17:27,940
like myself and Battalion Chief Cormula, who's sitting in the back with me this evening.

902
01:17:30,530 --> 01:17:38,230
So, fire prevention, our staff of three, the fire marshal and two inspectors, they also do a fantastic

903
01:17:38,230 --> 01:17:44,810
That's a job of attending community events on our behalf, providing safety demos for our

904
01:17:44,810 --> 01:17:45,770
business community.

905
01:17:47,130 --> 01:17:54,970
We have seen a reduction in plan reviews and new construction inspections, but that

906
01:17:54,970 --> 01:17:59,330
has given them the opportunity to increase the amount of inspections that they're conducting.

907
01:18:00,070 --> 01:18:06,050
We did have a third half-time temporary employee that is no longer with us.

908
01:18:06,050 --> 01:18:20,250
So we're, you know, we shrunk our staffing based off of the need currently, and they're able to meet the needs of the risk reduction division with the three of them currently.

909
01:18:21,390 --> 01:18:27,150
And, you know, they're a powerhouse group of folks that do a great job of representing the department.

910
01:18:27,670 --> 01:18:41,530
They handle the majority of our social media, and they work closely with the Community Development Department on, you know, approving new plans and looking at, you know, new projects in the city.

911
01:18:43,760 --> 01:18:48,900
And then again, just a highlight and, you know, thank you for recognizing the efforts regarding Elcorn.

912
01:18:48,900 --> 01:18:57,600
that was a significant effort that took a lot of agencies, not just the City of Woodland

913
01:18:57,600 --> 01:19:00,060
and the Woodland Fire Department and the City of West Sacramento and the West Sacramento

914
01:19:00,060 --> 01:19:05,580
Fire Department but learning all about Lafko and that process and being involved with the

915
01:19:05,580 --> 01:19:05,940
county.

916
01:19:08,120 --> 01:19:12,620
It was quite the effort, I learned a lot, I'd appreciate having that opportunity

917
01:19:12,620 --> 01:19:19,320
in my career to work on an annexation. It doesn't go without, you know, some

918
01:19:19,320 --> 01:19:25,600
hurt feelings out in some of our rural areas, but I can confidently say that

919
01:19:25,600 --> 01:19:29,400
we're providing very good services to the residents of the Elcorn District,

920
01:19:29,740 --> 01:19:34,300
and that, more importantly, that the city's being reimbursed for its costs to

921
01:19:34,300 --> 01:19:40,080
provide those services. And then also, Engineer Ed, you guys all know him and

922
01:19:40,080 --> 01:19:45,100
and building that pool, but working with our engineer

923
01:19:45,100 --> 01:19:49,440
Edwasnowski on Fire Station 4 project.

924
01:19:49,860 --> 01:19:53,300
We have surpassed kind of the initial phase,

925
01:19:53,300 --> 01:19:58,640
which is the kind of general scope of a station program

926
01:19:58,640 --> 01:19:59,700
and in its elements.

927
01:20:00,320 --> 01:20:03,560
And now we're gonna be moving into site design and engineering,

928
01:20:03,580 --> 01:20:05,800
which is also exciting for a fire chief

929
01:20:05,800 --> 01:20:08,600
to have the opportunity to build a new facility

930
01:20:08,600 --> 01:20:14,080
that's going to further reduce response times in our community and spread out our resources

931
01:20:14,080 --> 01:20:20,640
and just provide a safer city for us to all live and work in and that's it.

932
01:20:21,440 --> 01:20:26,460
Well that's a lot thank you Chief and we're also grateful to you and your team.

933
01:20:27,020 --> 01:20:32,500
I think the citizens can feel comfortable knowing that we have a wonderful public safety team

934
01:20:32,500 --> 01:20:39,260
here between fire and police, and how exciting we have 10 new police, we have five new firefighters,

935
01:20:40,040 --> 01:20:47,640
and it's also important to recognize that the time we spend here is important, learning

936
01:20:47,640 --> 01:20:53,440
more about this, going through this, because between police, which is about $30 million of

937
01:20:53,440 --> 01:21:00,120
our city budget, and fire, which is almost $17 million, I mean, that's $47 million out of

938
01:21:00,120 --> 01:21:02,780
But 77 or more, we are more now.

939
01:21:04,780 --> 01:21:10,360
So you realize it's almost two thirds of our budget is represented by these two operations.

940
01:21:10,580 --> 01:21:15,260
Which, that's why cities exist is to provide for safe environments for

941
01:21:15,260 --> 01:21:17,180
their people among the other things we do.

942
01:21:17,340 --> 01:21:23,880
But this is our most costly area, and how wonderful for us to have chiefs like you to

943
01:21:23,880 --> 01:21:28,020
to provide these services, manage these operations,

944
01:21:28,420 --> 01:21:31,600
and bring us the good people you have brought to us

945
01:21:31,600 --> 01:21:32,980
to fulfill this mission.

946
01:21:33,540 --> 01:21:34,080
I thank you.

947
01:21:34,560 --> 01:21:35,520
Colleagues, do you have questions?

948
01:21:38,470 --> 01:21:40,510
You know, you don't have flocked cameras,

949
01:21:40,650 --> 01:21:43,610
so there's not a big many questions here.

950
01:21:44,490 --> 01:21:46,630
So don't be offended if there's not as many questions.

951
01:21:46,630 --> 01:21:47,850
I've not offended, not at all.

952
01:21:48,870 --> 01:21:52,510
If you do, okay, we'll start with 10 there,

953
01:21:52,590 --> 01:21:53,310
or see a cadena.

954
01:21:53,310 --> 01:22:02,770
Thank you Chief. I did have a question you had mentioned that one person who is possibly sitting in jail right now and it looked if I was

955
01:22:02,770 --> 01:22:12,730
understanding correctly there were nearly 60 intentional fires that were set were the majority of those people prosecuted or did I see that wrong?

956
01:22:13,270 --> 01:22:20,230
No, so even though we can tell that these are intentionally set doesn't always mean that we have a suspect.

957
01:22:21,330 --> 01:22:28,430
So I believe we've affected between three and four arrests in the last six months that

958
01:22:28,430 --> 01:22:33,070
have resulted in people going through the judicial system, just this one individual because

959
01:22:33,070 --> 01:22:38,150
of the egregious nature of the fires that they set on a red flag day, they're currently

960
01:22:38,150 --> 01:22:38,830
still being held.

961
01:22:39,690 --> 01:22:40,310
All right.

962
01:22:40,470 --> 01:22:41,030
Thank you.

963
01:22:41,030 --> 01:22:45,470
It is important to remember too that some of them are serial fire setters too, so it's not

964
01:22:45,470 --> 01:22:48,130
That's certainly 60 in 60.

965
01:22:48,390 --> 01:22:49,790
Yes, that's correct.

966
01:22:50,130 --> 01:22:50,370
Thank you.

967
01:22:50,510 --> 01:22:50,630
Okay.

968
01:22:50,830 --> 01:22:51,950
Thank you.

969
01:22:51,950 --> 01:22:54,530
Our mayor pros down.

970
01:22:55,130 --> 01:22:55,690
Thank you.

971
01:22:55,870 --> 01:22:56,370
Thank you.

972
01:22:56,370 --> 01:22:57,890
Thank you for a great presentation.

973
01:22:58,450 --> 01:23:00,570
It's always a joy to see to see you.

974
01:23:00,730 --> 01:23:05,690
Enter firefighters out there doing all the good work and I always remind it so I represent

975
01:23:05,690 --> 01:23:08,770
spring lake and I live in spring lake and all that area, all that growth.

976
01:23:09,650 --> 01:23:14,570
Everything we have throughout the city and your agencies remains the same size.

977
01:23:14,570 --> 01:23:22,350
and I always just I really appreciate the positive attitude that your staff has all the time when

978
01:23:22,350 --> 01:23:26,350
they're doing so many things. I mean I think about the shelter it wasn't there you know a few

979
01:23:26,350 --> 01:23:30,970
years ago and you're providing the services there in the columns and so you're doing a lot

980
01:23:30,970 --> 01:23:38,170
with with with not enough resources but the culture that you have throughout the department is you

981
01:23:38,170 --> 01:23:44,110
can feel it right in the joy and then you see the fire trucks out in the community and people are

982
01:23:44,110 --> 01:23:49,270
are just very happy, so there's, I just wanted to commend you for the culture that you have

983
01:23:49,270 --> 01:23:55,230
and that the camaraderie and the expectation that you have of yourself and throughout the

984
01:23:55,230 --> 01:24:01,170
Fire Department of professionalism. You can see it in its felt in the community. I have a question

985
01:24:01,170 --> 01:24:10,030
around the calls for service to the Eastbymer way. I know it was, they were becoming a problem and

986
01:24:10,030 --> 01:24:18,230
really kind of a waste of resources similar to the non-emergency transport calls that you mentioned.

987
01:24:18,230 --> 01:24:22,850
Can you share a little bit more about how that's improving or not?

988
01:24:23,750 --> 01:24:32,530
Yeah, that definitely ebbs and flows. As the emergency shelter increases or decreases their capacity,

989
01:24:33,250 --> 01:24:38,650
we may see an increase or decrease in calls for service. We do work closely with the shelter

990
01:24:38,650 --> 01:24:43,290
to mitigate some of those calls for service,

991
01:24:43,550 --> 01:24:45,730
or maybe the high system users

992
01:24:45,730 --> 01:24:49,150
to help provide additional wraparound resources

993
01:24:49,150 --> 01:24:50,270
for those individuals.

994
01:24:52,910 --> 01:24:56,910
Some of the calls have just quite frankly migrated

995
01:24:56,910 --> 01:24:59,870
from their facility here on Court Street

996
01:24:59,870 --> 01:25:03,630
and fourth, just out to East Bimmer Way.

997
01:25:04,970 --> 01:25:25,330
And the staff are doing a good job of trying to manage kind of the expectations of the folks utilizing the shelter in the services and living in the tiny homes, but they also have free will so they have access to us and we'll call us for services and if we need to follow up with staff we will.

998
01:25:26,510 --> 01:25:30,790
There has not been a significant increase in calls out there recently.

999
01:25:30,790 --> 01:25:46,350
It's been fairly kind of normalized and leveled out a little bit and I think that's as they provide additional services and provide on-site medical services, some of the needs of those residents are being met on site.

1000
01:25:46,350 --> 01:25:53,310
No, thank you for that, and I appreciate your efforts and also Chief Canand's efforts to work

1001
01:25:53,870 --> 01:26:00,550
with our hospital to make sure that we are not overly burdening them because they are also

1002
01:26:00,550 --> 01:26:07,050
strapped for services or emergency room nurses or have their hands full so just making sure that

1003
01:26:07,050 --> 01:26:11,550
we all work together. So I know you all do that and I appreciate that, I think that helps everybody

1004
01:26:12,570 --> 01:26:24,150
provide the level of service that they're intended to provide and not more, so I know that's extra time, but that coordination is important, so thank you for that.

1005
01:26:24,430 --> 01:26:25,010
Of course, thank you.

1006
01:26:25,950 --> 01:26:29,030
Thank you. Any additional questions?

1007
01:26:32,560 --> 01:26:34,460
Just a comment, Mr. Mayor.

1008
01:26:34,460 --> 01:26:41,480
There just recently my wife and I had to call the fire department because our gamma

1009
01:26:41,480 --> 01:26:42,660
alarms are going off again.

1010
01:26:42,840 --> 01:26:51,060
It was a four o'clock in the morning and the fire department responded, but and I thank

1011
01:26:51,060 --> 01:26:51,600
him for that.

1012
01:26:51,680 --> 01:26:57,040
But what's amazing about their staff, his to Eric staff, is there a jack of all traits?

1013
01:26:57,700 --> 01:27:04,440
These guys and these ladies know a lot of stuff, I'm amazed about how much they actually

1014
01:27:04,440 --> 01:27:20,980
the toolbox is huge, I think it's almost larger than law enforcement, they're toolbox is pretty damn big, and I appreciate the knowledge that your staff has and the compassionate they have for your constituents. Thank you.

1015
01:27:21,860 --> 01:27:23,620
Appreciate that we are just problem solvers.

1016
01:27:24,340 --> 01:27:25,180
Yeah, that's great.

1017
01:27:27,530 --> 01:27:30,050
I'm not seeing any additional expressions from the council.

1018
01:27:30,050 --> 01:27:33,650
any member of the public that wishes to comment on this report?

1019
01:27:33,930 --> 01:27:34,690
I have no speakers.

1020
01:27:35,650 --> 01:27:40,950
All right. Well, it is an informational item, so there's no action needed.

1021
01:27:41,190 --> 01:27:41,790
Thank you, Chief.

1022
01:27:42,690 --> 01:27:47,410
We're going to turn in a moment, but I just want to emphasize, as our manager said today,

1023
01:27:48,010 --> 01:27:52,990
if you have questions or concerns about city operations, please speak up.

1024
01:27:53,290 --> 01:27:58,230
We are committed to doing the best possible job we can, consistent with available resources.

1025
01:27:58,230 --> 01:28:01,950
So we can't solve or work on a problem if we don't know about it.

1026
01:28:02,290 --> 01:28:04,690
Three ladies came tonight, they were here last week.

1027
01:28:05,090 --> 01:28:07,970
They have legitimate concerns, we're working on that problem.

1028
01:28:08,450 --> 01:28:16,450
And I would recommend these ladies perhaps to be invited to a meeting with representatives of that company to talk out some of those things.

1029
01:28:16,890 --> 01:28:22,570
Because it's been two weeks now, and obviously they're not satisfied that enough is being done.

1030
01:28:23,310 --> 01:28:26,730
So with that, we come to memorial adjournments, are there any tonight?

1031
01:28:28,690 --> 01:28:29,750
Okay, Tania.

1032
01:28:30,570 --> 01:28:30,770
Yes.

1033
01:28:31,410 --> 01:28:38,290
So, I wanted to recognize my aunt Judy Aidan who recently passed away.

1034
01:28:38,730 --> 01:28:39,470
She was 85.

1035
01:28:39,890 --> 01:28:44,450
She lived her entire life in Woodland and was very involved with the community

1036
01:28:44,450 --> 01:28:47,030
worked at Blue Shield for I think 35 years.

1037
01:28:48,410 --> 01:28:50,490
And so, she will be greatly missed.

1038
01:28:51,410 --> 01:28:52,050
Well, thank you.

1039
01:28:52,430 --> 01:28:56,690
I would also like to recognize a Davis resident, John Mont Smith.

1040
01:28:56,690 --> 01:29:00,190
And the reason I do so is because he did so much for

1041
01:29:00,190 --> 01:29:02,650
Yolo County and the cause of climate action.

1042
01:29:03,270 --> 01:29:06,370
He formed the climate compact at Yolo County,

1043
01:29:06,930 --> 01:29:10,210
convened all the cities and interested parties on,

1044
01:29:10,590 --> 01:29:14,570
for whatever things we could do to lift our environmental

1045
01:29:14,570 --> 01:29:17,950
responses here in the communities of Yolo County.

1046
01:29:18,450 --> 01:29:21,430
He just cared passionately about it, it was a no nonsense guy.

1047
01:29:21,430 --> 01:29:32,570
Everything was fact-based, you know, and he wasn't, he didn't want just happy talk, he wanted effective work, and he helped us with our climate action plan for the city of Woodland.

1048
01:29:33,210 --> 01:29:41,050
So we, we regret the passing of both Judy Egan and also John Mott Smith and we adjourned in their memory this evening.

1049
01:29:41,490 --> 01:29:49,110
We will reconvene in two weeks on Tuesday, September 15, right here at 6 p.m. with that adjourned.

1050
01:29:53,020 --> 01:29:55,120
Alright.