Regular City Council Meeting November 17, 2020

0:00:15Hello Holly.

0:00:17Hi council member Abel send we can see and hear you.

0:00:20Very good.

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0:01:00Council member able thing here.

0:01:02Council member party Okamoto.

0:01:10Council member Brady Okamoto.

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0:01:20Thank you, Cathy member came to cheer.

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0:01:23We have a quorum.

0:01:25All right.

0:01:29Item one is teleconference and public comments

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0:03:03And finally, just a quick note for those of you

0:03:06who are joining us either viewing on Comcast

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0:03:12We have had some power flickering

0:03:14on and off at city hall today.

0:03:16And while we do have a generator, which

0:03:18will help us recover quickly.

0:03:20My staff has said that there may be some short, very

0:03:23short disruptions in those feeds,

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0:03:29that if we have any challenges with power

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0:03:34That concludes my announcements.

0:03:35Mayor we're ready to move on to the next item.

0:03:43That concludes item 1 teleconference and public

0:03:45comment instructions will now move on to item 2 council

0:03:49and staff communications.

0:03:52City manager do you have announcements.

0:03:55Yes your honor.

0:03:56Thank you so much.

0:03:57I'm campaigning city manager and I have three things

0:04:00to share with you tonight.

0:04:02The first is to the topic of the year

0:04:06report on our local emergency.

0:04:08With the COVID 19 pandemic as I'm sure

0:04:11its most people probably know as of yesterday Costa County

0:04:16has moved back to the most impressive proposal

0:04:20to hear from the state perspective as

0:04:23well as the county perspective.

0:04:25Last night the managers of contrast county

0:04:28met with the Contra Costa health officers and spoke with them.

0:04:32They are trying to count on you to keep us posted at this time.

0:04:36What the purple tour means for the city is city

0:04:40operations specifically is that nothing

0:04:43has changed at this point.

0:04:44So the tier does not restrict us from continuing thing.

0:04:48The programs that we're offering right now,

0:04:51we are still keeping all of our public buildings closed.

0:04:55It was one thing to note that the county health officer was

0:04:59saying that in the tier system that the state is looking

0:05:03at the data over the last eight months

0:05:05or whatever is clearly showing that it's

0:05:07the indoor types of activities that really

0:05:10are spreading this virus.

0:05:14The most obviously, health care facilities

0:05:18and certainly care houses and things like nursing homes

0:05:22are hugely susceptible.

0:05:24But that is why indoor dining movie theaters indoor gyms that

0:05:28and gatherings are being restricted right now because

0:05:31of the data showing that is what they're telling us

0:05:34that the county can be more restrictive than the state

0:05:38at this time.

0:05:39We are following the state guidelines.

0:05:41But that could change.

0:05:42They are going to be looking at that data on a weekly basis

0:05:46to continue to update us.

0:05:47So we're going to try to push out as much information

0:05:50as we can.

0:05:51We encourage people to go to our website at El bash Speedo

0:05:56or splash COVID 19.

0:05:58You should also go and check out the county website.

0:06:01They are really doing a great job

0:06:02updating it with as much information as possible at CDC

0:06:05help that or virus.

0:06:08They're encouraging everyone to get tested.

0:06:11Certainly encouraging people to really

0:06:13take a very close deep look at their Thanksgiving plans.

0:06:18They're advising against anything but essential travel.

0:06:21This is impacting even my own family.

0:06:23My father was going to come visit from Michigan

0:06:25but we determined that that would not be

0:06:27a good idea, which is a bummer.

0:06:30But at the same time, I would much rather have to put

0:06:33things on pause right now.

0:06:35And to try to save people's lives

0:06:36and try to keep people safe.

0:06:37And I know everyone understands that.

0:06:40So we just have to continue stay vigilant to mask up

0:06:43to distance.

0:06:45Ands and try to really avoid those types of gatherings.

0:06:49Even though it's hard to do during the holidays.

0:06:51But there is a light at the end of the tunnel, one

0:06:54of the other things the county said was that with a really

0:06:57positive vaccine news that I'm sure you've all heard

0:06:59on that nationally, there are actually already putting

0:07:03in place a plan for distribution of the vaccine when

0:07:06they receive it.

0:07:07So they're working on all of those factors right now.

0:07:11And so that's a really good sign.

0:07:12So again, I encourage you all to get tested and purge all of you

0:07:16to stay vigilant and please check out

0:07:18our website for information.

0:07:21Second thing I would like to share

0:07:23is a bit of sad news for those of you

0:07:26who have been patrons of our recreation department,

0:07:30particularly.

0:07:32We lost a former employee unfortunately last week.

0:07:36Sheila divall this sadly passed away of ovarian cancer

0:07:41at the age of 39.

0:07:44She worked with us in our recreation department

0:07:47from 2004 to 2009.

0:07:50She started as a part time preschool age.

0:07:52She was an art instructor and a summer camp counselor.

0:07:55She was then promoted to a full time registrar in a community

0:07:59services coordinator.

0:08:00She started a variety of programs

0:08:02and a variety of people across our city,

0:08:05including the senior center facility

0:08:07rentals enrichment programs specialty camps.

0:08:10Some of you may remember that her mom also worked

0:08:13with us Sheila divall senior.

0:08:16She at one point was also president of seiu.

0:08:19So some of you worked probably with her.

0:08:23So that's they said for.

0:08:25For all of us.

0:08:26But even after Sheila didn't work with us.

0:08:29She did remain part of our community

0:08:31by offering specialty art classes.

0:08:34She was a native of Rhode Island,

0:08:36a wonderful highly skilled artist and illustrator

0:08:39and graphic designer and she eventually

0:08:42turned her art degree into a really successful career.

0:08:47And it's just a horrible shame just lost way too young.

0:08:52So our thoughts are with Sheila's

0:08:53friends and our family.

0:08:55One who worked with her.

0:08:56I have some wonderful memories of her both her and her mom

0:09:00momma Sheila.

0:09:02So my heart is breaking for them.

0:09:04But we want everyone to see that on behalf of city staff.

0:09:08We offer our condolences to the family to all of our team

0:09:11who work there and know that our hearts are

0:09:14with you at this difficult and lastly, the last announcement

0:09:21that I would like actually, I will

0:09:22turn that over to our community development

0:09:25director Paul Newman.

0:09:27She's on the call.

0:09:29And I would like for her to inform the council

0:09:32and the public of what really truly

0:09:36is our largest economic development project that we're

0:09:39looking at right now.

0:09:40Coming up with a partnership with art.

0:09:43So Melanie can you please take that away.

0:09:48Hi can you hear me.

0:09:50Can I help.

0:09:51Oh here we go.

0:09:55Good evening council members and public as Karen

0:09:59said, and many of you have probably seen the news

0:10:01through various methods.

0:10:03But Bart the Bart board on Thursday

0:10:05will be considering an exclusive negotiating agreement, which

0:10:09is the first step is moving forward

0:10:12with the development of the Oswego plaza Bart station.

0:10:15It's interesting.

0:10:16I was actually in our pages today.

0:10:18And if I remember 19 would actually

0:10:19one year ago today on November 19 the council

0:10:24getting parents on the desk.

0:10:26So that was about a year process.

0:10:28And going forward once developers on board.

0:10:30We will be part and working with the developer

0:10:33to create community engagement opportunities.

0:10:36And it'll probably be next year, will be a busy one

0:10:40with a lot of analysis and lots of opportunities for community

0:10:43input into this project, which is Karen said, really, if you

0:10:46go back to policy documents all of our economic development

0:10:49general plan and various over the many decades

0:10:53have really focused on bringing life and redeveloping the Bart

0:10:58stations and El cerrito plaza both the respondents

0:11:02and talking to Bart considered a real fantastic site

0:11:06as people know it's really resource

0:11:07rich close to so many things.

0:11:10And really be an opportunity to build out a downtown.

0:11:14So on Thursday, the board's meeting to select the developer

0:11:19and if that August will be on board.

0:11:22It is holiday development is one of the main developers, which

0:11:25is also the developer that we selected for the make our site

0:11:29and for those of you who haven't been up there there is a crane

0:11:32site and they are setting small pools

0:11:35and within the next month, the modules will a six

0:11:39story building, and it will take about six months for

0:11:41that project to be completed.

0:11:44The one at the Plaza is bigger.

0:11:47It has more 2 will have more amenities and features,

0:11:50including things that are required by the specific plan,

0:11:52including retail on Fairmont.

0:11:55We will be studying and the city will have some decision

0:11:58to make around a library and inclusion of a library

0:12:02and all kinds of other open space in communities.

0:12:05So just excited to announce that that will be Thursday.

0:12:07If people want to continue to get updates on that project.

0:12:12You can go to the city's web page TMT

0:12:18transit oriented development.

0:12:19And we will create links both.

0:12:21We have a link there to the Bart board meeting on Thursday.

0:12:23But we will also continue to post things as it evolves

0:12:27and we'll get it out with various methods

0:12:29when there is opportunities for input.

0:12:32So it'll be a big project requires

0:12:35a lot of talk all of our parts.

0:12:36And so that's been something envisioned

0:12:38by many city councils.

0:12:40So I'm happy to report that that's moving forward.

0:12:48Great questions for Melanie because that

0:12:56concludes tough mutations.

0:12:58All right.

0:12:59Chiang Mai Mai Mai.

0:13:01Thank you.

0:13:03Rachelle go ahead.

0:13:06I'm sorry did you.

0:13:07Melanie, did you say how long the project

0:13:10may be going on asking.

0:13:12I'm asking.

0:13:13So obvious.

0:13:16Obviously with COVID and everything,

0:13:17there's a lot of the meat comes to development

0:13:19or maybe family development.

0:13:23The easy part.

0:13:24Estimates about three years, probably.

0:13:26And three years later said it could break

0:13:28ground one to two year planning process and kids being involved

0:13:34is great.

0:13:36Obviously there's been simple change that down there.

0:13:38And I know you're in that neighborhood.

0:13:40And so it'll be an amazing thing to be involved in

0:13:42and hope it goes forward.

0:13:44But three years until it breaks ground in kind of a best case

0:13:48scenario only one to two years of active planning,

0:13:52and then the developers and of course, get financing

0:13:55develop construction documents and then pull them out.

0:14:00OK next year.

0:14:01So they'll be cut to the next two years.

0:14:03If you talk about transportation and access and other issues.

0:14:08Well I'm excited about it, even though I

0:14:10know it'll be a lot of noise.

0:14:13I think.

0:14:13I think you do it.

0:14:15Yeah big banks plus a k.

0:14:18Great, thank you.

0:14:19Welcome input.

0:14:19I think that there's a lot of people concerns

0:14:22and a lot of excitement and so I think

0:14:24we'll be OK balance those two things

0:14:27and have resolved a lot of the issues

0:14:29and end up with something really great for us.

0:14:31The are they considering during the same construction method.

0:14:37Yes so factory Alaska the modules is definitely

0:14:40a big key component of this.

0:14:43Of course, anything could change.

0:14:44And it could be both different ways.

0:14:46But one of the really positive things about that.

0:14:48And I imagine people here tell mark is it really minimizes

0:14:51the amount of time that it's disruption in the neighborhood

0:14:55since the buildings being built off site the site

0:14:57where can happen.

0:14:58And then the modules come in pretty quickly.

0:15:01Obviously it'll be a lot larger.

0:15:02It's a much larger site.

0:15:04So a lot more buildings and walkways and different things.

0:15:07But Yeah the modules are again.

0:15:10And I know some of us are so mean

0:15:11you're going to be able to come out and them talk about it,

0:15:14but it's been an amazing process.

0:15:15When you go back on the freeway and see that crane

0:15:17it's incredible.

0:15:18But it's been pretty smooth.

0:15:20So that is a part of their ambition.

0:15:26It saves time and money for the development of housing as well.

0:15:28So for the neighborhood.

0:15:29The biggest benefit is that there's just a lot less impact

0:15:32a lot less being built right there in the middle

0:15:34of that busy part of town but then

0:15:37also it saves time and money.

0:15:40So that actually able to go for right at any reports

0:15:49from council members I'll be right back.

0:15:55OK, Paul did you raise your hand.

0:15:59Paul, I just want to report that I took

0:16:05part in the human relations truth and reconciliation

0:16:09conversation.

0:16:10They're having about racism last Wednesday.

0:16:14And there will be, I think many more Wednesdays in a row

0:16:18here with people talking about their experiences

0:16:21and also working out what it means to them

0:16:23and what it should mean to our city.

0:16:26And finally, if anyone has about this right stuff

0:16:29liberty heights have returned to downtown theater district.

0:16:32Thanks to the Chamber of Commerce.

0:16:35They will be turned to the plaza in a couple weeks

0:16:39and anything we do for our retail

0:16:43and our restaurants will be helpful

0:16:45and plus, they look great.

0:16:47Thank you.

0:16:51Great, thank you.

0:16:53Any other reports.

0:16:57All right.

0:16:58I will go ahead and do a couple reports of the November mayors

0:17:06conference had a presentation about adapting

0:17:09to sea level rise.

0:17:12It's an acronym a rt.

0:17:14Adapt to rising tides.

0:17:16And it is a.

0:17:18Organization here in the Bay Area

0:17:20that is tracking what communities are at risk

0:17:24associated with sea level rise.

0:17:27And so it's put on by there's a e Contra Costa adaptive seawall

0:17:35level rise report a tremendous amount of the Redwood area

0:17:43is actually vulnerable to.

0:17:45And in the delta area is vulnerable to sea

0:17:48level rise in Contra Costa.

0:17:50So we had a presentation on that.

0:17:53The other presentation or a lengthy discussion

0:17:57at the November mayors conference

0:17:59was the original housing needs assessment

0:18:02arena numbers are h and a.

0:18:05These numbers are how much housing is allocated

0:18:09to the various communities.

0:18:12And there's not necessarily a balanced distribution

0:18:18there's more housing being put into communities in places

0:18:24like Contra Costa and Sonoma.

0:18:25And Napa than there is necessarily

0:18:28being put into communities that have the employment

0:18:31centers most notably Santa Clara.

0:18:34So that's something that's an ongoing concern.

0:18:40However El Serino is with our mark stations with her.

0:18:48San Pablo Avenue complete street smarts plan.

0:18:53We are well into being able to satisfy all of our numbers

0:18:58up to this date as well as probably into the future.

0:19:01However we probably will need to make

0:19:03some additional adjustments to the future

0:19:05to satisfy the future numbers today we concluded

0:19:10our interviews for this cycle.

0:19:14So for boards and commissions and committees.

0:19:17I do want to encourage people to do the application process.

0:19:21We will be doing a new round of interviews in the new year

0:19:28as a result of vacancies that occur at in the new year.

0:19:34So our cycles are March to March.

0:19:38And so full four year terms typically and we

0:19:40have quite a few vacancies that are planned for March.

0:19:45So please look for new announcements for applications.

0:19:50We did a point to the planning commission Daniel Hamilton

0:19:57to the park and rec commission.

0:20:01Sean Purcell to the human record.

0:20:05Reese will the human relations commission Julia

0:20:09connect to the financial advisory board.

0:20:13William Kitson us and Debra Saunders and we

0:20:17extended the term of Kathy Lear.

0:20:19So those were actions we took today.

0:20:24And that concludes my announcements.

0:20:35Actually I'll go ahead and make one more

0:20:37community announcement in advance of potentially

0:20:40some of our speakers.

0:20:42The shopping holiday display.

0:20:45It is a well attended display on Mosher.

0:20:51It it's placed on PG&E property and visible from Mosher.

0:20:56It attracts quite a number of people.

0:20:58And we have in the past, we've seen

0:21:03musical presentations that attract

0:21:05a large number of people.

0:21:07Unfortunately with the COVID situation,

0:21:13the shoddy holidays play is going back to its roots.

0:21:18You might say shoddy Mr shoddy put up a single star.

0:21:23His very first year.

0:21:25Over 50 years ago.

0:21:27And that is the single thing that will be placed this year.

0:21:32So if you are looking for the shoddy holiday display,

0:21:37it will be there.

0:21:39But it will be a single star similar to what Mr qaddafi

0:21:45did on his original first year.

0:21:51And that will unless someone else's.

0:21:55I can't see you guys unless somebody

0:21:57has another announcement.

0:21:58I'll move on to the next item.

0:22:01Janet Gabe.

0:22:04Janet first and then Gabe OK.

0:22:08The announcement that I attended the first committee

0:22:18meeting this month and being a lot of concern

0:22:25because their members were being turned out in

0:22:29droves not get replacements.

0:22:31And the things that their committee that's different

0:22:34perhaps than other committees is there

0:22:38is a lot of technical expertise.

0:22:41And so they were wondering if there could

0:22:45be an exception made for them.

0:22:48So that they could remain on the committee.

0:22:54I know when they started.

0:22:55Most of them had PhD in forestry for example.

0:23:01And so they asked me to bring that to your attention.

0:23:09I don't know if this is the right place.

0:23:11Maybe the agenda.

0:23:13But anyway, I wanted to bring it up to you.

0:23:17We can put that on a future agenda item.

0:23:21So we'll take that up in consideration either.

0:23:28I guess so.

0:23:30Bur first, I guess that's the next one.

0:23:36Great, thank you.

0:23:37OK that's really it.

0:23:40All right Gabe.

0:23:41OK, thank you, Mayor.

0:23:43I did attend the recycled war meeting last Thursday

0:23:48and the one thing that was agreed on.

0:23:52They did not support the option to that Mayor Lyman

0:23:59and I supported.

0:24:01They are supporting an option 3 to use our reserves to keep

0:24:10rates lower for next year.

0:24:13So that's what they will be doing.

0:24:16So once cragen died.

0:24:19We did not have enough votes and for option two.

0:24:24But the other cities prevailed.

0:24:27And also, I wanted to announce that I was appointed

0:24:32president of the East Bay division of the League

0:24:35of California cities.

0:24:37So I had a meeting with the executive board

0:24:41and with Sam Kegel and we are working on appointments

0:24:46for council members and mayors for Alameda County and Costa

0:24:51County and I look forward to working with my colleagues here

0:24:55and elsewhere rito and the other cities

0:24:58and Costa and Alameda County.

0:25:04Congratulations on that appointment.

0:25:06Thank you.

0:25:07And we have.

0:25:08Thank you.

0:25:09I was there for part of that meeting

0:25:11as I was recognized for my service.

0:25:14And I was a little disappointed with their decision

0:25:17about the funding for rates for this coming year.

0:25:22I will say it out loud.

0:25:24So that potentially staff can provide

0:25:26you the support in those situations

0:25:29where they're using reserves.

0:25:31We didn't necessarily contribute to the reserves

0:25:34in the same fashion as all the other cities because

0:25:37of our recycling center.

0:25:38We have a slightly different funding formula.

0:25:42And so I would certainly want to make sure that staff is looking

0:25:45at the use of reserves to make sure that Osorio is not being

0:25:52unfairly is not unfairly subsidizing other jurisdictions

0:26:00as a result of that decision.

0:26:02So I know sky bordering on discussion.

0:26:07But I wanted to take advantage of this opportunity

0:26:09to ask staff to support council member quito.

0:26:16Seeing no other discussion that will conclude.

0:26:19Item to council and staff communications.

0:26:24Item 3 is communications from the public remarks

0:26:29are typically limited to three minutes per person.

0:26:32I may reduce the time limit per speaker

0:26:34depending upon the number of speakers

0:26:36and may limit the total time for public comment

0:26:38to facilitate the completion of business on the agenda.

0:26:41Comments regarding non agenda presentation

0:26:44and consent calendar items will be heard first.

0:26:46Comments related to items prepared appearing

0:26:50on the public hearing or policy portions of the agenda

0:26:53will be heard prior to the city council

0:26:55taking action on those items.

0:26:58So this is the time for members of the public who

0:27:01wish to provide public comments regarding

0:27:03matters not only agenda.

0:27:05Our comments on the consent item or comments on the presentation

0:27:08items should use the Raise and feature to request

0:27:13speak and the city clerk has instructions

0:27:19or help guide to help you find those buttons

0:27:27and then mayor, why we are giving members of the public

0:27:29an opportunity to raise their hand.

0:27:31I can announce that the public comments received by the 4 PM

0:27:35deadline today were posted on our website,

0:27:37and provided directly to the council members.

0:27:40This includes items not on the agenda.

0:27:42Comments from Cordell Handler Diana Chen and Kathy anvil.

0:27:47Agenda item 5 a.

0:27:48From members of the ailsa Reid of fire safe group and agenda

0:27:52item 5.

0:27:53V from RL Dan Schulman Kathy Handel and Lisa Adam

0:27:59and at this time, it looks like we

0:28:00only have one member of the public who wishes to speak.

0:28:04Can you confirm the three minute time limit.

0:28:06Yes let's proceed with three minutes

0:28:08for the speaker Carol Brady.

0:28:13Thank you.

0:28:14Carol, you were I'm meeting can begin your time now.

0:28:17Great, thank you so much.

0:28:19Good evening mayor and council members and staff.

0:28:23So you probably most or all of you

0:28:26are aware that there was a power outage

0:28:28on Friday, then extended into Saturday, Saturday morning.

0:28:34It turns out that the origin of that

0:28:37was pulled right outside my house.

0:28:40That's the 7,000 block of Gladys Avenue

0:28:45that that event started with what sounded like an explosion.

0:28:50A little after 3:00 o'clock in the afternoon on Friday.

0:28:53And it turned out that the top of the pole was on fire.

0:28:57OK The LED or fire department did put it out.

0:29:02And then about four hours later, the contractors

0:29:06came and actually replaced the entire pole.

0:29:11The reason I'm talking to you tonight

0:29:14is because we've lived in RStudio

0:29:17for a little over 21 years.

0:29:19And by my best recollection I think

0:29:23there's been at least four major incidents

0:29:27and when I see a major incident.

0:29:29I'm talking about something like a fire

0:29:31or a power surge that's blown out appliances

0:29:39and so forth and so on.

0:29:40Lines cut live wires coming down and.

0:29:43I guess I would like to make a request

0:29:46of the city to actually request data from PG&E

0:29:52incident data going back.

0:29:55I don't know.

0:29:552020 years to find out if this block that I'm talking about.

0:30:02And Gladys where I live has a higher than expected number

0:30:06of incidents.

0:30:07I realize incidents don't happen every week or every month.

0:30:11Thank goodness.

0:30:13But would another block expect to have

0:30:16four or five major incidents in 20 years

0:30:20potentially life threatening.

0:30:23So I would like to request that the city look into this

0:30:29and get the data.

0:30:31And if it turns out that it is higher than expected.

0:30:34I would like to know what the risk mitigation plan is

0:30:38because it seems like we have an unexpectedly

0:30:43high number of incidents here.

0:30:45And I am concerned from the safety point of view.

0:30:49Thank you.

0:30:51Thank you, Carol.

0:30:51What was their block again.

0:30:53Uncle said Gladys correct.

0:30:55Yes the 7,000 block of Gladys.

0:30:58I'd be happy to speak to anybody from the city you know offline

0:31:05about the exact location.

0:31:06Show you the exact the pole is right outside my house.

0:31:12Yeah, I don't think the city clerk will reach out to you

0:31:17through the chat function to get your contact information,

0:31:21and we'll pass that on.

0:31:22So thank you.

0:31:23Thank you.

0:31:24Thank you.

0:31:26Sit will help Ar thank you he so I am the resident

0:31:40of sorry at ATL as well.

0:31:42I actually live on Central Avenue

0:31:45and unfortunately, this is bored.

0:31:49Well, fortunately or unfortunately,

0:31:51this is bordering Richmond.

0:31:53So that's the Richmond annex neighborhood.

0:31:57I'm not sure if you guys know, there is an empty lot that

0:32:01was supposed to be built. And I'm not

0:32:04sure if the project is going.

0:32:08The location is Central Avenue and some detail

0:32:12between cemetery on Belmont.

0:32:15Now that empty lot had had had some issues lately.

0:32:21I've been here only for a year actually.

0:32:24And there was some homeless camping

0:32:28there where fire had started.

0:32:33Unfortunately I was looking for the name somebody

0:32:35help me it also read to a city.

0:32:39They got the word, and they cleaned up the place.

0:32:42And they dated the lot.

0:32:45What had happened.

0:32:46Now people are dumping stuff.

0:32:50So it has become an illegal dumping place.

0:32:56I wasn't sure if there is a name number for all three though.

0:32:59But they had tried to call Richmond.

0:33:02They have a hotline that goes to voicemail

0:33:06and but nothing happened.

0:33:09And the situation is getting worse and worse, which reflect

0:33:14adversely on this neighborhood.

0:33:17So I was just wondering what can also read to do about this.

0:33:23And interestingly, that the blog is shared by L3 2 and Richmond

0:33:32let me see.

0:33:33It is the southern side of Central

0:33:37Avenue near the Albany hill.

0:33:41So if you can guys do something about it.

0:33:46It will help a lot.

0:33:47This this amazing neighborhood.

0:33:49And this is the interests of all three

0:33:51though Mary, thank you for your comment.

0:33:57That is the former Dolan lumber site

0:34:00and it is predominantly in Richmond.

0:34:04So the we will do our best to take action where we can.

0:34:12And we will work with Richmond as well.

0:34:16The city manager, I think I can see me if I scroll.

0:34:20I think I can.

0:34:21We're on the diet.

0:34:22I'd be able to look at you, Karen.

0:34:23And see that you were nodding your head that you

0:34:25would take some action on this.

0:34:28I mean, if I may.

0:34:29To our community development Director Melanie

0:34:33did let me know that they do have

0:34:34their neighborhood Preservation Office are looking into it.

0:34:37Most of the property is in return.

0:34:39But they are working on coordinating it.

0:34:41And then I did let them know that she

0:34:42can send me the details to make sure it

0:34:44gets into the right hands.

0:34:46Great, thank you.

0:34:49And the next speaker.

0:34:51I see is Margaret Hassan and hope.

0:34:54Margaret, I hope I pronounced your last name correctly.

0:34:57Yes you did.

0:34:58And I needed that.

0:35:00Yes you are.

0:35:01Oh yes of course.

0:35:03I'm Margaret Hudson and I'm representing tonight,

0:35:06the ultra progressives and we're just reiterating a community

0:35:13initiative on citizen community policing operations

0:35:20and cooperation in the city of El cerrito

0:35:24to help citizens understand the importance of policing

0:35:29and the reasons for policing to help citizens understand

0:35:34and see what's happening with policing

0:35:39and have police department and police to police themselves.

0:35:45Explain some of the requirements and some of the actions

0:35:50that are happening with police.

0:35:52We've noticed informally some reports

0:35:58from certain citizens and visitors

0:36:02to Elsa retail of police profiling.

0:36:04And I think that an outreach from the police to schools

0:36:09and young people and to citizens in general

0:36:16will help these cities and police cooperation

0:36:20and also read out and absolve some of the misunderstandings

0:36:24happening here.

0:36:25I know that Elsa to you to progressives and chief keef

0:36:32teeth along with the LSAT riedl city council

0:36:36have discussed this previously.

0:36:38And we'd like to continue on the discussion.

0:36:42And that's about my time.

0:36:43That's all I have to say.

0:36:46Great, thank you, Margaret, for your comment.

0:36:47I know the police chief is here tonight

0:36:50and did hear your comments.

0:36:52So thank you, Mayor did that does conclude

0:36:57public comment at this time.

0:36:59All right.

0:37:00That concludes item 3 comment communications from the public.

0:37:04We'll now move on to item 4, which

0:37:07is a adoption of the consent Hollander and I'm pausing.

0:37:17We do not have an item tonight.

0:37:21I mean, all we have has time since I've been here.

0:37:24That's that's Yeah.

0:37:25That's that's why I'm stumbling.

0:37:27We have no ID.

0:37:28We have no consent items on an item four.

0:37:35And that concludes item for adoption

0:37:37of the consent calendar.

0:37:38There was none.

0:37:40Item five as presentations we have two presentations tonight.

0:37:44One is item 5 a proclamation honoring

0:37:47Dave Gibson in retirement and the other is item 5.

0:37:51Oswego police department 20 in review and for a five day

0:38:00proclamation.

0:38:02I am looking to see areas Mr begonia has joined us.

0:38:07So And Dave couldn't seem to you.

0:38:13I think there's a presentation here.

0:38:16Yes good evening mayor and council

0:38:18members Michael or fire chief.

0:38:22And I'm honored to be here before you tonight to have

0:38:25this opportunity to recognize battalion chief Dave

0:38:28Gibson known as 35 years of service

0:38:32and the dedication to the city of El Salvador and the fire

0:38:35department and even more so on his upcoming retirement

0:38:39from the fire department.

0:38:40Next month, the proclamation before you.

0:38:43Tonight it lists many of Dave's accomplishments,

0:38:47but it would be much longer than the one page.

0:38:49If we were to try and list every accomplishment

0:38:52that Dave has achieved over these 35 years.

0:38:55It's important to know that Dave's fire career actually

0:38:58started 37 years ago when Dave was

0:39:01a reserve firefighter for the city at a very young age.

0:39:05And this provided him the training and the experience

0:39:09that prepared him to transition into a full time

0:39:13firefighter in 1985.

0:39:17Throughout his career Dave has always

0:39:18been looking for ways to improve the service that the fire

0:39:21department provided.

0:39:23Dave was instrumental after the Loma Prieta earthquake in 1989

0:39:28and developing and creating our original neighborhood

0:39:32emergency assistance team.

0:39:34Otherwise known as neat.

0:39:37This neighborhood team was the precursor to the cert program

0:39:42that we know today.

0:39:44And basically the devastation that he saw from the Loma

0:39:48Prieta earthquake and the need for neighborhoods

0:39:51to be able to bind together led him into this.

0:39:55And in the future that it developed when

0:39:57it became cert after the 99 or after the 1999

0:40:02one Oakland Hills fire.

0:40:05At this point Dave being promoted to a captain.

0:40:09He worked with the fire Marshal and developed the sea

0:40:12or the city's weed abatement program

0:40:15and set up the vegetation management that we know today

0:40:19as the weed abatement program, as well as the fire prevention

0:40:23office of which he served as the first officer in this capacity.

0:40:28Some of some of the many positions

0:40:30and the assignments that Dave has held

0:40:33are not necessarily in order.

0:40:35But it was the firefighter who began he promoted

0:40:38from firefighter to captain and which initially,

0:40:42he was a fire prevention officer.

0:40:44He became a battalion chief.

0:40:46You also served as our fire Marshal a training officer.

0:40:50He was our emergency medical service officer, the night

0:40:54coordinator as well as an instructor,

0:40:57as well as with the cert coordinator

0:40:59and being one of the main instructor for that program.

0:41:04He was our emergency preparedness coordinator,

0:41:07which dealt with obviously teaching many of our city

0:41:11staff the isis program, as well as being

0:41:14instrumental in our emergency operation plan

0:41:18and being a bit in awe and would have been instrumental

0:41:24in mercy operations center.

0:41:26In the event of a major incident within the city.

0:41:29On Dave was also one of the incident

0:41:31commanders of the East Bay incident management team.

0:41:35He was the strike team leader and as well as he was the state

0:41:38fire Marshal instructor or the state

0:41:40the Office of State fire Marshal instructor

0:41:43for the city of California.

0:41:45And the list goes on and on.

0:41:48Dave was also very instrumental over the years

0:41:50in obtaining billions of in federal and state grants

0:41:54for the purchase of vitally needed equipment.

0:41:57Dave is going to be missed billing

0:41:59issues is going to be very difficult

0:42:00job for the fire department.

0:42:02Not only is the city losing their most

0:42:05senior full time employee the state or the fire department.

0:42:09We're losing a vital part of our institutional knowledge

0:42:12and experience, as well as a friend to all of us

0:42:16with that Mayor.

0:42:17I will turn his back to you and the council for your thoughts

0:42:20on, which is and the presentation

0:42:22of the proclamation.

0:42:24And thank you very much.

0:42:28Sure I'll bring it back.

0:42:29I'm Dave.

0:42:30I've known you for many years.

0:42:33And I have to say that you are your selfless

0:42:38dedication to our city is really remarkable.

0:42:40And as far as the two just rattle off your commitment

0:42:46to protecting us through neat and certificate

0:42:50is commendable and will be a living

0:42:54legacy of your time with us.

0:42:56So I truly appreciate your making our city safer

0:42:59and how much time you spent in El rito

0:43:05over the last 35 years or more.

0:43:09Given your training career.

0:43:11So I personally want to thank you very much.

0:43:14And we'll miss you.

0:43:16I will because I've seen you in many different environments.

0:43:21And I will miss.

0:43:22I'll be looking for you to come back

0:43:24on those certain days you know I think,

0:43:27which ones I'm thinking of.

0:43:30I know Janet.

0:43:31You probably would like to go next.

0:43:34So we'll go to you.

0:43:36OK, Dave, I've known you quite a long time.

0:43:41And I've worked with you on many, many different projects.

0:43:47And it's been such a pleasure working with you.

0:43:51And I'm really going to miss you.

0:43:55I know that you will look forward to your retirement.

0:44:00And I give you.

0:44:06I don't quite know how much to say how much.

0:44:09I really truly appreciate all the different things.

0:44:13And all the different things that you've

0:44:15done because they're fast.

0:44:18And you know it's like we need somebody you're always there.

0:44:24And I will miss that.

0:44:26But I celebrate you and your retirement.

0:44:31And I hope you enjoy it and have a very

0:44:35long and happy retirement.

0:44:37Dave, thank you for all you've done.

0:44:44Any other council members would like to make comments.

0:44:46I see.

0:44:47Game went to his.

0:44:49But before you waste your finger Paul.

0:44:51So we'll go game.

0:44:52Paul Rochelle.

0:44:55Chief said, I wanted to say congratulations and wish

0:45:00you a long, long retirement.

0:45:03And I just want to say thank you on behalf of our residents

0:45:07here and also to Rita.

0:45:08I took your start class as a number of years ago.

0:45:12So I know how much you are appreciated by me

0:45:17and many of our council members and former mayors

0:45:20through the years.

0:45:22So again, congratulations and all the best

0:45:25to you and your family.

0:45:31Paul Mr Gibson thank you for 3 and 1/2 decades of keeping

0:45:35El Serino safe even when I didn't know you

0:45:38you were keeping also Serino state.

0:45:41So that's the test of it.

0:45:42And that kind of work doesn't get less.

0:45:45As you know the work gets more longer in our Serino and here

0:45:50during the fire seasons.

0:45:52You've given your life to saving people and saving communities.

0:45:55And we really appreciate that.

0:45:57I also love your creativity with neat and how

0:46:01you worked all the way through to the abatement process

0:46:04that we care.

0:46:05So much about now.

0:46:06It's the cornerstone of our fire Protection Program.

0:46:10And finally, I've been to many, many events with you.

0:46:14And what I love about what you've done for us

0:46:16Reno is you've brought a folksiness to your events

0:46:20even through all the people that have come to the events

0:46:23and I've brought them to the point of realizing that they

0:46:26need to be a part of the community

0:46:27and the part of chipping in to keeping our community safe.

0:46:31So congratulations.

0:46:32If I could toast you with champagne now I'd do that.

0:46:35Thank you, David.

0:46:40And Rochelle.

0:46:42I'd like to say congratulations chief.

0:46:44Gibson I know that 35 years is a long time

0:46:48to work for any place.

0:46:50And so the city of Elsa rito really appreciates you

0:46:54and like council member Keith.

0:46:57I also went through cert training.

0:47:00And it was my introduction to the city.

0:47:02So you didn't know that you were also just swanning off

0:47:06to activism and participation and civic duty

0:47:10within the city by doing the neat insert program.

0:47:14But that's how I got started.

0:47:16So thank you so much for working on that program

0:47:19and thank you for the lead abatement program.

0:47:21I know that you have made our city safer all this time

0:47:26and in your absence, you will continue to make it safe.

0:47:28So thank you gave it in a normal situation.

0:47:37I will be holding a nice, beautiful piece of paper

0:47:39up here and saying, this is for you.

0:47:44Thank you for your service.

0:47:45We would shake your hand.

0:47:47Take a photo opportunity.

0:47:49Unfortunately it has got to take a picture

0:47:51of your computer screen.

0:47:52That's as close as we're going to get.

0:47:55However, I do want to give you an opportunity

0:47:58to speak to us both recognize your time here and here

0:48:05and maybe you can tell us what your most memorable Mr Mayor

0:48:13or members of the council chief oogonia men

0:48:15and women of the Wall Street fire department

0:48:17and members of the public.

0:48:19I thank you very much for this proclamation.

0:48:23In 1985, I was given the opportunity of a lifetime

0:48:27as a 22-year-old young man and as a coming in as a firefighter

0:48:33in the city of El cerrito was just

0:48:35there was the opportunity of a lifetime.

0:48:38Throughout my 35 years, I've had the opportunity to serve

0:48:42the Department and the community in many different ways

0:48:45that I hope have made the community

0:48:48a safer place to live.

0:48:51I want to thank my wife, my family, my friends,

0:48:55my colleagues, all of us have supported

0:48:57me throughout my career.

0:48:59And it has truly been an honor and a pleasure

0:49:01to serve the community.

0:49:03And I thank you all very much.

0:49:15Here we go.

0:49:15Sorry I just have a hard time finding my butt.

0:49:19Dave, thank you very much.

0:49:21You can see everyone clapping their hands.

0:49:24You know we did take public comment earlier on this item.

0:49:29However I will if there's any members of the public or staff

0:49:34who would like to speak at this time,

0:49:37I certainly would encourage you to raise your hand we'll

0:49:39give you an opportunity to say such nice things about Mr

0:49:44Gibson.

0:49:48Stacey cornett.

0:49:53Stacey, you can go ahead.

0:49:55You are an immediate congratulations brother-in-law.

0:49:59Love you very much, and I'm very proud of you.

0:50:01Thank you for your service.

0:50:05Thank you for those kind words.

0:50:06Jerry short are you are an immediate.

0:50:12You can go ahead and speak Jerry go ahead.

0:50:26Jerry short you are able to speak.

0:50:28Go ahead.

0:50:31We're having technical difficulties hearing you

0:50:36apparently Jerry is saying very nice things about you,

0:50:38Dave Paul Keith chief.

0:50:43Gibson I just want to say that you're a true professional

0:50:45and we're really going to miss your expertise and

0:50:48a great sense of cooperation.

0:50:50So we had a really great time working with you.

0:50:53Sorry sorry to see you go anyone else at this time,

0:51:03just like to say Dave I'm really going to miss you.

0:51:05You have been like a big brother to me for my entire time here.

0:51:09I am just so happy thrilled for you,

0:51:12and I wish you only the best.

0:51:13And I will just very much miss you.

0:51:15But thank you so much for everything you've got for us.

0:51:23Thank you very much, Dave, for everything you've done.

0:51:25And I really appreciate it.

0:51:27Thank you.

0:51:31I will.

0:51:32I will mute myself.

0:51:38All right.

0:51:39That concludes item 5 a presentation

0:51:43honoring Dave Gibson in retirement of 35

0:51:46years of service to El Reno.

0:51:49He is the founder of our neat programs

0:51:52that became our biggest cert.

0:51:54So Mr Gibson thank you very much.

0:51:59And mayor, if I made it it is on the agenda to pass

0:52:02a motion to approve that.

0:52:03Oh, that's right.

0:52:04It is on there.

0:52:04Thank you.

0:52:05I see.

0:52:06So that's it.

0:52:07I'll make sure I've got the motion.

0:52:10Andi we have a motion in recognition

0:52:14of battalion chief Dave Gibson.

0:52:17And it begins with.

0:52:18Whereas Dave Gibson battalion chief has served this community

0:52:20with dedication compassion and upon the occasion

0:52:22of his upcoming retirement is deserving of recognition.

0:52:26And it concludes with now therefore,

0:52:28the city council, the city of El cerrito

0:52:30takes great pride and pleasure in drawing

0:52:32special public attention to Dave Gibson for his record

0:52:35of service to the local community

0:52:37and extends to him their sincere appreciation

0:52:40and best wishes for continued happiness

0:52:42and success in his retirement.

0:52:45Smart move of Babe Wilson seconded by Purdue Okamoto.

0:52:50All those in favor.

0:52:51Oh sorry.

0:52:52Roll call, please me a lineman.

0:52:54Yes may I pretend fidelity.

0:52:56Yes I'm a member of.

0:52:59Yes can some member patty Okamoto.

0:53:02Yes can member King too.

0:53:04Yes I think.

0:53:06Right thank you for that.

0:53:08Now that concludes.

0:53:09Item five a proclamation honoring you, Dave.

0:53:13And we'll now move on to item 5.

0:53:15Be real police department 2019 in review.

0:53:20We're going to receive and file a department update

0:53:23and review of our 2019 data.

0:53:25This typically occurs in the spring.

0:53:27But our spring was a little different this year.

0:53:32So chief.

0:53:34It's good to see you.

0:53:35And I know you have a presentation.

0:53:40And there was actually even that changed.

0:53:42Was it to slide 20.

0:53:43Is that what I saw.

0:53:45That's correct, sir.

0:53:46Great, thank you.

0:53:47It's all yours.

0:53:49Good evening counsel I'm Paul Keith your chief of police.

0:53:52So I'm here tonight to give you a presentation on the year 2019

0:53:56in review.

0:53:57So as the mayor said, we typically

0:53:59do this presentation around May of each year

0:54:03after we publish our annual report.

0:54:05And this year, we did publish our annual report in 2020

0:54:07but we had other things like COVID

0:54:10and the budget that took precedence in May and June

0:54:13that we want to focus on instead.

0:54:15So I'm going to share this presentation here.

0:54:25I almost have it.

0:54:26All right.

0:54:26There we go.

0:54:27I'm John.

0:54:31OK So to start with the mission of the LSU police

0:54:33department is to protect our community

0:54:35solve crime and pursue justice.

0:54:37And I think you're going to see these themes

0:54:39repeated as we talk about the different challenges.

0:54:42We face in 2019.

0:54:44And we're also going to play a bit

0:54:45of talking about the year 2020 and also

0:54:47looking forward into 2021.

0:54:49I want to give you a heads up, I'm about to show some images.

0:54:53There's going to be a few slides of them.

0:54:55And I want you to note that all of these photos

0:54:57were taken in 2019 so you're going

0:54:58to see cops without masks in close proximity to each other.

0:55:03And a members of the public.

0:55:04And it's because it happened last year.

0:55:07These are some shots taking of our graduates

0:55:10from the inner perspectives program.

0:55:12So in two perspectives as a regional leadership program

0:55:14designed for line level staff last year

0:55:18detective Ryan track and corporal

0:55:20Stephanie where were the two representatives we've

0:55:23sent from the El Reno police department courses

0:55:25about five sessions spread out over five

0:55:28months where they cover a variety of leadership topics.

0:55:31So that's the goal being that the participants come back

0:55:35to their agencies and become leaders in their organizations

0:55:38from the line level up.

0:55:42So we're very proud that both Detective track and corporal

0:55:45wear completed the program just some shots of our Explorer post

0:55:49because I love to show off shots of our Explorer post.

0:55:53They're very motivated dedicated young men

0:55:56and women who spend a lot of time getting

0:55:58back to their communities.

0:56:00Shop on your left is from 4th of July

0:56:03celebration of its retail based apart from 2019,

0:56:06where they helped staff up a dunk

0:56:07booth where I got yours truly got dunked a lot of times.

0:56:11Some of the writers from one of their training sessions

0:56:14up at the recycle yard where they were working on traffic

0:56:16stops scenarios.

0:56:20I like the shot from 2019.

0:56:22I think it really represents our officers do their community.

0:56:25Well Was this from Halloween.

0:56:27So our officers came across this young man dressed up

0:56:29in an appropriate police attire and took a second

0:56:32to take a photo with them and make sure that his mom

0:56:35got a picture of it too.

0:56:38Here's a shot from tri city safety day.

0:56:40This is one of our time safety related

0:56:43events in RStudio every year.

0:56:45This is where we go back one space police officer

0:56:48April is on the left an officer told

0:56:50him you're seeing on the right.

0:56:53And this is a traffic officer Philip rein.

0:56:55He's showing the young man how a radar gun works.

0:56:59And you can see the youngsters got

0:57:02some sunglasses and a mustache.

0:57:05We provided those who didn't come with us.

0:57:08All right.

0:57:08So let's move into some of things

0:57:10we can focus on for 2019.

0:57:13So 2019, our main areas of focus were

0:57:15disaster preparedness violent crime safety

0:57:18on the Ohlone Greenway automobile burglaries community

0:57:21outrage and continuing on our deployment

0:57:24and enforcement strategy.

0:57:26So let's talk about disaster preparedness first.

0:57:29So 2019, we collaborated with the Alfredo

0:57:33and Kensington fire departments to put out a wildfire guide.

0:57:37We also had a big push to get people

0:57:39signed up for the community Warning system.

0:57:41Every public event when we're putting out

0:57:43flyers to encourage people to sign up.

0:57:44So that they have their numbers registered with the county

0:57:47in the event of an emergency.

0:57:49We also did some tabletop exercises internally

0:57:51at the police department to plan for wildfire evacuations

0:57:56and earthquake evacuations in the realm of violent crime

0:58:01by criminals Reno primarily consists

0:58:03of assaults and robberies.

0:58:05And our main focus for violent crime reduction

0:58:08was in the areas of our commercial districts

0:58:10and our pedestrian walkways which

0:58:13is also where the Albany Greenway

0:58:15safety project came in.

0:58:17So for these three items for violent crime

0:58:21alone Greenway safety and automobile burglaries

0:58:23we really leaned heavily on our volunteer Corps.

0:58:26So we have over 20 volunteers most of them

0:58:29are residents of El cerrito.

0:58:31They're all a lot of people that like

0:58:32to give back to their community and serve their community.

0:58:35So we use our volunteers a lot in these areas.

0:58:39We had them.

0:58:40They put together some programs for us

0:58:43community awareness about crime for automobile burglaries.

0:58:47They targeted the areas where I don't feel burglaries

0:58:50were most common.

0:58:50These were front of gyms and also in front of businesses

0:58:55that people would tend to go in and out of very quickly.

0:58:59So things like cafes for people were getting coffee stores

0:59:04where somebody might be going on just for a minute like CBS

0:59:06to go get something and come right back out.

0:59:09And what we found from looking at cases

0:59:11is that typically when we were having on burglaries it

0:59:15was because people were leaving things in their car

0:59:17because they thought they're going to be gone for a moment.

0:59:20And the thieves are targeting these cars we're targeting

0:59:23those areas because they knew people were only going in

0:59:26for a minute and they have a higher

0:59:28likelihood of leaving things in their vehicle

0:59:30when they do that.

0:59:31So our volunteers got out in our commercial districts

0:59:34and passed out flyers on burglary awareness.

0:59:38They would look at people's cars and as people

0:59:40were leaving their cars.

0:59:41They would they would check and see

0:59:42that this person lost their car and they

0:59:44leave things out in the open.

0:59:45If they did, they would contact the person and say,

0:59:47hey, can I talk to you about how you just left your car you

0:59:50notice your purse is on the person's on the seat

0:59:53you notice your laptop still in the back seat.

0:59:55This is why that's a problem.

0:59:57Our volunteers also did some similar events

0:59:59on your own and Greenway.

1:00:01They would contact people that were

1:00:03out walking, biking or commuting to work or out for exercise.

1:00:09We had some flyers to pass out.

1:00:10We did some in-person interaction.

1:00:12And when our volunteers are also looking for our people

1:00:14that were displaying signs that they weren't paying

1:00:17attention to the surroundings.

1:00:18So they talked to people who were face down in their cell

1:00:21phone or they were walking and say, hey,

1:00:24just so being aware of your surroundings

1:00:27is one of the best ways to keep from being a victim of a crime.

1:00:30Give them some crime tips.

1:00:32So our volunteers are really great because they're

1:00:34just normal people.

1:00:35I mean, just like me, I'm a normal person.

1:00:37I swear badge.

1:00:37But are they really don't kill people.

1:00:39And we're looking after their own neighbors.

1:00:43So we also focused on community outreach at our events

1:00:47and also through our volunteers.

1:00:49We did some community police academies and also took

1:00:53these opportunities to do outreach with members

1:00:56of our community from police officers

1:00:58to our community members.

1:01:00In 2018 we also continue to focus on honing our deployment

1:01:05and enforcement strategy.

1:01:07This is something I previously talked

1:01:08about at a council meeting.

1:01:10But just to do a quick summary in 2018

1:01:15we took a close look at how we conduct traffic enforcement

1:01:18in the city of El cerrito and we saw that when our officers

1:01:23focused enforcement on things like license plate violations

1:01:27and registration violations.

1:01:29We saw that there would be a disparate outcome

1:01:32disparate racial outcome and the people who receive tickets

1:01:35for those types of violations.

1:01:37So we reduced our emphasis on that type of enforcement

1:01:41and instead asked officers to focus predominantly

1:01:45on moving violations.

1:01:46These are things that are unsafe driving.

1:01:49So there are violations like stop

1:01:50running a stop sign running a red light

1:01:53making unsafe turns speeding.

1:01:57We asked our officers are folks on these unsafe violations

1:01:59instead in the belief that they would have their outcomes.

1:02:06The racial outcomes from those traffic stops

1:02:09would more closely match the demographics of our community.

1:02:12So we focused on that really on the laser focus in 2019

1:02:19and there's going to be some slides coming up.

1:02:21It's going to show some of the results

1:02:22that we achieved from changing that enforcement focus.

1:02:26We also changed how we responded to calls for service.

1:02:31We deemphasize some low level responses.

1:02:33It didn't mean that we did go to low level criminal incidents,

1:02:37but we didn't entirely focus on low level crimes.

1:02:41And we also tried to focus on empowering our businesses

1:02:46and the managers that run our businesses to take

1:02:49the lead role and being responsible for the safety

1:02:51and security of our businesses.

1:02:54So instead of having the police department be the problem

1:02:58solver for every issue that came up at a business,

1:03:01we would bring the managers and the store owners

1:03:05into the problem solving loop.

1:03:09So that they would be the ones ultimately

1:03:11responsible for how crimes were enforced in their businesses.

1:03:16And how their businesses are going to be

1:03:17safe and secure going forward.

1:03:20Some examples of this.

1:03:22I'll give you an example from Philadelphia

1:03:25and an example from Ilse rito actually changed our focus

1:03:28in Philadelphia around 2017.

1:03:31Gentleman came into the business.

1:03:33He wanted to use the bathroom.

1:03:35Ultimately the store manager wanted him to leave because he

1:03:38had an order to drink.

1:03:40The manager called the police department.

1:03:41The police department came there and place the guy

1:03:44under arrest for trespassing.

1:03:47So that I want to compare that now to Elsa rito post

1:03:53this deployment change.

1:03:55We also got a call to a cafe shortly

1:03:57after we started doing things differently in that call.

1:04:01We we showed up at the business.

1:04:03They said, we have an unwanted person here.

1:04:05We would like you to tell that person

1:04:07to either turn down their music or leave the business.

1:04:13And so we told the manager that that is not our responsibility.

1:04:17Whether or not you want a customer in your business

1:04:19is your responsibility.

1:04:21Having loud music in a cafe is not against the law.

1:04:25So you are perfectly allowed to make decisions

1:04:28about who are your customers.

1:04:30If you need us because a crime has occurred.

1:04:32You can call us and we'll come back.

1:04:34But this is not a criminal incident

1:04:36and we didn't even talk to the customer

1:04:38because it was not a criminal incident.

1:04:40So those are two examples.

1:04:42One of how we looked at what another police

1:04:44department did and saw ways that we could improve it.

1:04:48And to how we really are focusing on not taking

1:04:53in police and government action in instances

1:04:56where a crime has not occurred.

1:05:00And we will talk a bit more about some crimes in a moment.

1:05:07There we go.

1:05:08OK So this is a slide that talks about some

1:05:11of our outreach stats and kind of as

1:05:13a companion piece to our community outreach efforts.

1:05:17So we use three primary platforms

1:05:20for getting the word out about what the police department does

1:05:23and what types of crimes are happening

1:05:25in people's communities.

1:05:27Nick so Twitter and Instagram.

1:05:29So most people are pretty familiar with Twitter

1:05:32and Instagram.

1:05:33Our officers tend to use Instagram

1:05:36for photo friendly things at the police department is doing.

1:05:42And we tend to use Nick's on Twitter

1:05:43for breaking police actions that we really want

1:05:47people to pay attention to.

1:05:49So Nick so it is our preferred platform for official releases

1:05:53from the police department.

1:05:54That's where we put our crime blotters.

1:05:57That's where we post information like street closures

1:06:00due to criminal activity.

1:06:02That's where we put out our press releases.

1:06:05Nick soul is followed pretty religiously by the media

1:06:08organizations in the Bay Area.

1:06:10And we put something down on Nick so we usually

1:06:12get a pretty quick response.

1:06:13If the media is interested in it.

1:06:16And it gives us an opportunity to connect with them

1:06:18and give them more information about a story.

1:06:21So last year, we saw a really large increase

1:06:23in our Nick so following.

1:06:24And we think that had a lot to do with getting the word out

1:06:27about wildfires and putting out the evacuation guide and people

1:06:31getting more information from us about Nixon and Twitter

1:06:34and Instagram are kind of naturally

1:06:35growing over the years.

1:06:37But we are really happy to see that there's a lot of people

1:06:39tune into Nick so the big difference between Twitter Nick

1:06:42so Twitter and Instagram is that Twitter

1:06:44and Instagram have a feed.

1:06:46And so if you're not paying attention to the feed

1:06:48or if you follow a lot of things things will tend to scroll down

1:06:52or if you have a lot of people you follow.

1:06:54You may not even see information from one of the people

1:06:56you're following Nixon on the other hand primarily

1:07:00communicates through email.

1:07:01So it's a much better guarantee that people are going

1:07:04to get the information from Nick Solak they may still make

1:07:08the decision in their email that I

1:07:09don't want to open that email.

1:07:11But they're going to see that there is something

1:07:12from the police department.

1:07:13And if it says community important.

1:07:15We think that there's a higher chance

1:07:16of people actually open it up.

1:07:19All right.

1:07:20So we talk about the areas of focus.

1:07:23We also saw that there were some trends

1:07:24in 2019 that really stood out from the areas

1:07:28that we focused on.

1:07:29The first one was catalytic converter theft

1:07:31and this is something that continues into 2020.

1:07:33It is a constant background.

1:07:37Crime is happening not just in El Serino

1:07:39but in most of the agencies in the Bay Area.

1:07:43So 2019, our detectives got some leads

1:07:48on a Cadillac converter theft ring that

1:07:50was working in the Bay Area.

1:07:53We really face an epidemic of catalytic converter thefts.

1:07:57We have ID identifying a primary trafficker

1:07:59of catalytic converters.

1:08:01This is a person who was buying these catalytic converters

1:08:05from people that were cutting them off of cars stockpiling

1:08:08piling up a large amount of them.

1:08:09And then taking them out of the Bay Area

1:08:11to recycle them and get money for all these Cali converters.

1:08:15And it is a pretty lucrative business.

1:08:18Our detectives have identified a person they authored a series

1:08:21of search warrants at residential and storage

1:08:23locations arresting two people for the case.

1:08:27In the process or we confiscated 785 catalytic converters that

1:08:32have been loaded up and we're ready to be transported

1:08:34to a recycling center.

1:08:35The total value of that, if we were

1:08:37to take them to a recycling place was around $350,000.

1:08:42So catalytic converters are quite valuable on the recycling

1:08:46market and the real tragedy is while somebody might get 500

1:08:51or $800,800 for a stolen Prius catalytic converter

1:08:57it costs that owner in the realm of $3,000

1:09:01to get their catalytic converter replaced.

1:09:04So some of the things that we did last year

1:09:07to try to increase awareness is we put

1:09:09things out on our social media.

1:09:11We gave people tips on how they can install

1:09:13security devices on their cars.

1:09:15I will tell you that if you have a Prius

1:09:17I highly recommend that you look into some ways

1:09:20to secure your catalytic converter because it's not just

1:09:23no street overnight where your Cadillac

1:09:25inverter might be at risk.

1:09:26It's anywhere you might park it going shopping in the Bay Area

1:09:30really are a hot commodity on the criminal market.

1:09:36So we made an impact in that case.

1:09:38We continue to try to apprehend people

1:09:40when we can and we arrest people for catalytic converters

1:09:43from time to time.

1:09:44One of the challenging parts is we confiscated

1:09:48785 highlight converters.

1:09:50It's a tremendous number of Catholic converters

1:09:52but it is very hard to try to match up those individual car

1:09:56parts with a victim vehicle.

1:09:59These things are not serialized to match

1:10:02up with any particular cars.

1:10:04They're just a part that gets put on a car.

1:10:06So linking those actual catalytic converters up

1:10:10to a victim is a very hard challenge,

1:10:13and it's something that's not easy.

1:10:15So a couple of years ago that state legislature

1:10:19made some real changes about how recyclers accept these parts.

1:10:23I'm hoping that as this trend continues that the state

1:10:26legislature might take on some additional actions

1:10:29require the carmakers serialize these things

1:10:32and connect them to specific cars.

1:10:34So that when we come across stolen calico murder.

1:10:36We can actually link it to a victim

1:10:38and complete the element of the crime.

1:10:42Also homeless.

1:10:43Homeless victimization was also a trend in 2019

1:10:46a very unfortunate trend.

1:10:48In particular, we had three violent crimes

1:10:52they targeted homeless people and some of the perpetrators

1:10:55for the crimes were also people that were potentially suffering

1:10:59from elements of homelessness or definitely housing insecurity.

1:11:03So we investigated a stabbing that occurred on San Pablo

1:11:06Avenue of a homeless man at the old Taco Bell a lot,

1:11:12which is looking at the North end of town near the city limit

1:11:15with Richman a homeless woman was

1:11:18sleeping in her car at night when somebody lit it on fire.

1:11:21She luckily survived as well as the gentleman who was stabbed.

1:11:26And we also had a murder that happened on San Pablo Avenue

1:11:28a homeless gentleman was murdered on Central

1:11:30Avenue near metro Avenue so in two of those incidents

1:11:35we identified the suspects and we're able to arrest

1:11:38them and pursue charges.

1:11:41The fire incident is still under investigation.

1:11:43And we don't have great leads on that.

1:11:45But our detectives still work on that in this.

1:11:49When I say homelessness these are just three instances

1:11:51happen in those rito but there is a greater trend

1:11:54of homelessness victimization that is occurring

1:11:57in neighboring cities as well.

1:11:58So it wasn't just homeless people that resided

1:12:01in and around our streets.

1:12:03It was also a significant trend that was happening in Richmond

1:12:08and San Pablo as well 2019 auto burglaries were also

1:12:13a definite increasing trend.

1:12:16So every year, we have a meeting of department supervisory

1:12:23and management leadership, where we talk about the areas

1:12:25that we want to focus on for the year.

1:12:27And we decided we focus on not only our burglaries

1:12:30and almost immediately saw a significant uptick

1:12:33in automobile burglaries.

1:12:35So some of the ways that we try to combat auto works

1:12:39was through our education efforts

1:12:41that already talked about using our department volunteers

1:12:43and officers and also through really doing

1:12:46targeted surveillance and patrol in those parts of the city

1:12:51where car burglaries were prevalent.

1:12:53So we spent a lot of time in coffee shop parking lots

1:12:56both doing surveillance and doing visible patrol

1:13:00around the gyms and also rito and in

1:13:03or around our big commercial parking lots

1:13:06to try to make an impact overall as the year went on.

1:13:10They tended to trend Downward.

1:13:12However we did see a 20% increase in automobile

1:13:14burglaries last year.

1:13:16We had 256 in 2018 we had 307 and 2019.

1:13:20So it's a lot of people who had things stolen their vehicle

1:13:24and had windows broken.

1:13:27All right.

1:13:27I'm going to switch gears a little bit

1:13:29to some information on ticket trends

1:13:33arrest trends and use of force trends.

1:13:35So to start out with, I'd like to talk

1:13:38a little about some regional demographics.

1:13:40So one of the challenges to looking at arrest rates

1:13:44and ticket rates unless Reno is trying to figure out what

1:13:48are exempt far demographics should be.

1:13:53So these photographs represent the demographics.

1:13:58And this is kind of big group demographics

1:14:00is not completely split up.

1:14:02But I wanted to show you some general numbers.

1:14:05So that we could have a discussion about it.

1:14:08So these are regional demographics

1:14:09for four different entities.

1:14:10The first one is the city of El cerrito.

1:14:12So these are people that reside in El cerrito

1:14:15lay their heads down streets at night.

1:14:17These statistics are from the Census Bureau

1:14:19and these are all as of population.

1:14:22The second number is the population of students

1:14:24at the National high school.

1:14:25And this is from the school accountability report card

1:14:27for 2018 to 2019, which was the most recent one that

1:14:30was up on the district website.

1:14:33The next chart is for the West Contra Costa Unified

1:14:36School district student body.

1:14:41And this is from their numbers for 2018 2019.

1:14:45And the last chart is a modern day El street OPD.

1:14:48As of last week when I made this chart.

1:14:52So when I try to tackle the idea of figuring

1:14:56out what our demographic breakdown should look like.

1:15:01I tend to prefer looking at the population for our high school

1:15:04because the community that we serve as the El street police

1:15:07department is not just the people who put their heads down

1:15:09and no street at night.

1:15:11It's also the people that shop in El

1:15:12Serino that work in our Serino whose kids go to school.

1:15:16And I was rito who themselves are learning

1:15:18and rito and people that use Dorado as a commuting hub

1:15:23to get to wherever it is that they're going for.

1:15:28So high school draws its population,

1:15:30not just from our street.

1:15:31But also from Kensington and also

1:15:33from a number of neighborhoods in neighboring Richmond

1:15:37and even farther out.

1:15:38There are some students that come from the and from father

1:15:43further flung areas do you happen to have

1:15:45El Serino is that the best place to go

1:15:47their students go to school.

1:15:50And I think that also read out from both my personal

1:15:54observations and looking at mine and looking

1:15:57at the numbers of activity from police department.

1:16:00I'm not sure your high school is a pretty

1:16:02good representation of the people

1:16:04that we see in our town every day.

1:16:06It isn't just the population that sleeps here it's

1:16:10everyone else that really encompasses

1:16:11the whole street community.

1:16:15So let's start by talking about traffic ticket trends.

1:16:18So as I talked about earlier in 2018

1:16:20we had an internal review and focus changed

1:16:25for how we write tickets and what we prioritize

1:16:28and the tickets that we write.

1:16:30So we're no longer talking about 4 centimeters.

1:16:33Now we're talking about raw numbers.

1:16:36So in 2017 there was a significant focus

1:16:39among officers for riding violations

1:16:43for things like license plates not having registration

1:16:47stickers or have an expired registration in 2018

1:16:50after looking at the numbers from 2017

1:16:52and being quite alarmed at the trend that represented

1:16:55that black motorists where the predominant

1:16:58you know the most likely to get tickets

1:17:01was to veto compared to other groups.

1:17:04That certainly doesn't match our regional trends

1:17:06and was an alarming data set for me

1:17:08to see when we started having conversations about halfway

1:17:11through the year and reorient our officers to focusing

1:17:15on moving violations and unsafe driving in 2019

1:17:20represented a full year of really focusing

1:17:22on unsafe driving and deemphasizing

1:17:25the focus on license plate and registration violations.

1:17:29And one thing I'd like to point out

1:17:31is that when I talked about this in person

1:17:34and didn't have a beautiful chart in front of me.

1:17:36So people got the impression that we

1:17:37don't write tickets anymore.

1:17:38We just stopped writing tickets.

1:17:40We don't do it anymore.

1:17:41And so that's what I want to do total number of tickets issued.

1:17:43We absolutely still write tickets there.

1:17:45There is plenty of unsafe driving

1:17:47that occurs in El Reno and the numbers

1:17:50some 2017 in 2019 for total tickets issued

1:17:53are actually very similar.

1:17:54They're different by about 150 tickets.

1:17:57The big change has been the demographics of the tickets

1:18:01people who receive tickets and to go back a slide if we're

1:18:06once again, thinking of the demographics of the street

1:18:08or high school the breakdown of tickets that we issued in 2019

1:18:14is very similar to the breakdown of our high school population.

1:18:20So for me, this is a much more accessible looking chart.

1:18:25And it also, I think highlights some of the challenges

1:18:29of getting to the heart of what the demographic model is

1:18:33that we should be using for El Serino so let's

1:18:36continue to talk about restaurants.

1:18:42So when we looked at arrest trends

1:18:45and looked at our response to calls alone there we go.

1:18:51One of the things that really jumps out and had

1:18:54some conversations with some members

1:18:56of some community groups about the disparate outcome we

1:19:03get an address.

1:19:06So 2017 in particular is a good example of how black offenders

1:19:16were arrested at a much higher rate than members

1:19:20of other racial groups in 2018.

1:19:24Once again, we talked about how the types of calls

1:19:26we were responding to and the types of enforcement actions

1:19:29that we were taking some of the things

1:19:32that we saw just as an example is we might get called

1:19:36to a grocery store in the grocery store

1:19:38would say something like this person just

1:19:42Stole something from the store.

1:19:44We need the cops to come to arrest them.

1:19:47So police officers would get there.

1:19:49And let's say in this example, the person is in the parking

1:19:51lot when they see the police.

1:19:53They take off running and the police officer does.

1:19:55You know it's a police officer who does that he

1:19:57matches the description.

1:19:58This is probably the third suspect.

1:20:00Let's go apprehend the person and they'd

1:20:02apprehend the person and perhaps the person

1:20:05would have the stolen property on them

1:20:07and the people from the store would come over and say,

1:20:09well, all we wanted was this stuff back.

1:20:11We don't actually want to do anything about it.

1:20:14However, we do have a charge for resisting arrest

1:20:17and a crime did in fact occur.

1:20:20The victim now just doesn't want to press charges on it.

1:20:23So we said, this is not a good outcome.

1:20:27We don't want to have incidents where we're stopping people

1:20:31where we're detaining people where we're

1:20:33creating these moments where you arrest

1:20:38gives resisted by a person.

1:20:40We want it to go to bonafide crimes

1:20:43in kind of a companion piece that we

1:20:44saw from stores is that.

1:20:46Someone in the store would see something

1:20:47and they believed that they Stole however

1:20:51they didn't actually witness the person stealing

1:20:53but because they believe the person

1:20:55Stole they would call the police and we would get there.

1:20:57And someone would get detained and then we

1:20:59would learn that person didn't.

1:21:00In fact steal from the store.

1:21:03And now a person has been detained and inconvenienced

1:21:05and nobody actually saw that take place.

1:21:08So we changed how we responded to calls

1:21:11and we deemphasize a huge wide scale

1:21:15you know full team response to low level incidents.

1:21:19We would still go to all calls involving a criminal case.

1:21:22We just wouldn't send five cops necessarily.

1:21:25We might send one or two police officers to go

1:21:28and we test them with getting meeting

1:21:30with the witness to the crime and confirming

1:21:32that a crime actually occurred before we started detaining

1:21:35people outside of stores.

1:21:38So 2017 2018 2019.

1:21:42There was a big change in demographics and people

1:21:46who were arrested in town the group that saw the biggest

1:21:49change were black arrestees.

1:21:52They went down significantly.

1:21:55And were the group that had the biggest reduction 2017 to 2019.

1:21:59Now I will say this is a bit of an experiment

1:22:02and we're still continuing to hone and review how we respond

1:22:07to calls to make sure that we're having the impact

1:22:10that we want to have.

1:22:12Another element that I want to point out that does happen

1:22:15in these numbers is that warrant arrests

1:22:19also show up in these numbers.

1:22:21But wouldn't show up in our overall crime statistics.

1:22:25So the reason why that's important

1:22:27is that in doing some analysis of our arrests

1:22:30we found things like let's call him.

1:22:33Let's call a person John Smith John Smith gets arrested

1:22:36for stealing from a grocery store

1:22:38in El Serino we give John Smith, the ticket to show up.

1:22:42And we call John Doe John Doe a ticket to show up in court John

1:22:46Doe doesn't show up in court and gets a warrant

1:22:49issued for his arrest.

1:22:51When we see John Doe.

1:22:52Next he has a warrant.

1:22:54So he gets arrested again on the warrant

1:22:56and gets a new ticket with a new court date to send him to court

1:23:00and gets released with a ticket when John Doe doesn't show up

1:23:03for court again, then a judge might issue larger

1:23:06monetary warrant or they might issue

1:23:08was called a no bail word after two failures to appear.

1:23:12The judge may say you can't let this person go on a ticket

1:23:14anymore.

1:23:14And they have to be taken into custody and sure enough,

1:23:16if we arrest John Doe on the warrant next time.

1:23:19Now, John Doe is going to county jail

1:23:22and we've now arrested the same person 4 times 4 the one crime

1:23:27that is not a great way to resolve cases.

1:23:33It's the reality of how the justice system works.

1:23:37But the outcome is not ideal.

1:23:39It's not really what we want to see.

1:23:40We want people when they get arrested

1:23:41to be able to go to court and get the case taken care of.

1:23:44However, is going to be taken care.

1:23:46So while the demographics of our arrest

1:23:51still don't quite match up with Wall

1:23:53Street or high school, which is to be exemplary I like to use.

1:23:58They are trending in the right direction.

1:24:00And we still have a lot of work to do to keep looking at.

1:24:04What are some of the causes behind arrests

1:24:06and what are some things that we can do to bring

1:24:10our numbers down ideally.

1:24:12Because we do want to arrest fewer people,

1:24:14ideally and look at some of the trends that might be happening.

1:24:18One other thing I'd like to point out on arrests

1:24:20is that many of these arrests are the result

1:24:23of a call for service.

1:24:24So this is somebody in a store who's seen a crime happen

1:24:28or this is somebody who's a resident

1:24:30that has seen a crime happen.

1:24:31And it's called the police and their call is what

1:24:34results in the police action.

1:24:36So police absolutely do drive around and see

1:24:40crimes and make arrests.

1:24:42But many, many calls we get come from community members

1:24:45either people working or people living or shopping

1:24:49elsewhere you know calling the police on other people,

1:24:51they see they're committing crimes.

1:24:55So this year was the first year, we did a use of force

1:24:58report we put out a report in about August

1:25:02that had the last three years of our use of force trends.

1:25:05So in big numbers for people they're

1:25:08interested in the use of force report they

1:25:09can find it at our website.

1:25:11It's an element that we plan to include

1:25:13in future annual reports and we hope to dive deeper into some

1:25:18of the numbers and incidents to give

1:25:21a more in-depth look at use of force trends

1:25:25and on street read.

1:25:27We only want to delve more into the eye the why the for use

1:25:31of force happens is this.

1:25:34Why does somebody choose to run from the police.

1:25:36Why did somebody resist arrest.

1:25:38Why didn't officer feel this use of force was necessary,

1:25:42but what are the big trends we see is that over the last three

1:25:46years, we've had declining incidents

1:25:48represent on the left side.

1:25:49So these are an individual incident

1:25:52in which use of use of force was used force was used

1:25:57and the chart on the right represents

1:26:00the number of times and types of force used in each incident.

1:26:04So to explain this.

1:26:07If we had 22 uses of force in 2017

1:26:11in 20 to use of force incidents in 2017

1:26:16there were either multiple officers using force

1:26:20in that incident or there were individual officers

1:26:23who were using different techniques to resolve it.

1:26:26So an officer might use control holds a takedown

1:26:30technique and pepper spray.

1:26:32That would be one incident.

1:26:34But it would result in 3 use of force records

1:26:38what the things we're really talking about later

1:26:40is that we are going to revamp how we investigate

1:26:45use of force incidents.

1:26:47Right now, we rely on supervisors

1:26:49to conduct an investigation after a use of force incident

1:26:52began in January, we intend to have detectives assigned

1:26:55to respond to every use of force incident

1:26:58and to actually conduct the investigation

1:27:00into the circumstances surrounding the use of force.

1:27:03So what I hope to get from that is a deeper analysis

1:27:08a deeper look at why uses of force

1:27:11occur and why they occur at the rates they do overall,

1:27:15we use force in about two to 2 and 1/2 of our arrests.

1:27:21So we had 14 uses of force in 2019.

1:27:25We had just under 600 arrest in the industry.

1:27:34You typically see rates of about 3% higher

1:27:38for uses of force in other agencies.

1:27:41So that would mean that we use force

1:27:43a little bit below average compared to other departments

1:27:47in the country.

1:27:51All right.

1:27:52We're going to jump in to some statistical mean,

1:27:56some graphs on larceny burglary and robbery,

1:28:00larceny being the most common crime

1:28:01and also Fredo larceny represents crimes

1:28:05like shoplifting stealing packages from porches going

1:28:12into unlocked cars and stealing things

1:28:14out of cars going into cars and stealing things out of cars.

1:28:20So compared to last year, our numbers of thefts

1:28:25remained about steady.

1:28:27I think we went down about 0.1% or 0.2% Predominantly

1:28:33we're looking at shoplifting incidents here

1:28:35and things like packaged things are fairly stable.

1:28:402014 was when proposition 47 was passed

1:28:43in that did a lot to reduce the penalties

1:28:47for larceny incidents.

1:28:50It reduced the penalties for shoplifting in particular.

1:28:53And following that, we're not alone in seeing an upward trend

1:28:56in things like shoplifting.

1:28:58It really has become a great issue for agencies

1:29:01across the country, across country.

1:29:03But across the state.

1:29:05But one of the things we have been working with stores to do

1:29:08is to increase their security presence

1:29:12to help deter shoplifting incidents from occurring

1:29:17burglary also has been pretty steady

1:29:18for the last three years.

1:29:20So burglaries are when people go into businesses after hours

1:29:24and break into the business and steal things from the inside.

1:29:28But most commonly, we see burglaries are residences

1:29:32in town that are getting broken into for people

1:29:36that are interested.

1:29:37Burglaries tend to have residential burglaries

1:29:39tend to happen during the day while people

1:29:42are away at work in 2020.

1:29:46Burglaries tend to happen much less

1:29:48often because no one is away because hardly

1:29:52anyone is at work.

1:29:54Many many more people are at home,

1:29:56which reduces the opportunity for burglars

1:30:00to break into houses.

1:30:02So next year when I give these presentations,

1:30:04you're going to see a dramatic dip

1:30:05in all these different types of crimes

1:30:07because the opportunity to commit the crimes

1:30:10is very limited.

1:30:11Now robbery likely likewise had a small decline this year,

1:30:19a robbery trend 10 continues to be very connected to incidents

1:30:23in which someone commits a petty theft

1:30:25that turns into a robbery.

1:30:27When a security guard tries to stop them or a store employee

1:30:29starts to stop them.

1:30:31So for people's understanding not only

1:30:34if you just walk into a store, take an item off the shelf

1:30:36and walk out with the item that's a misdemeanor,

1:30:38that's petty theft.

1:30:40If while you're walking out you shove or threaten a store

1:30:45employee that elevates the crime to a robbery,

1:30:48which is a felony and a much more significant crime.

1:30:51So many of the robberies that we've seen in the last three

1:30:55years have been these types of petty theft calls

1:30:59that have been elevated into robberies based

1:31:01on the actions of the suspect.

1:31:05All right.

1:31:06So part of the annual report is we'd

1:31:08like to give annual updates on some key components.

1:31:11Some key areas that are of counsel interest.

1:31:14First of all, I talk about sanctuary city.

1:31:16We continue to train our new officers

1:31:18in the sanctuary city resolution put

1:31:20forward by the city council.

1:31:22And I can report that we had no collaboration

1:31:25with the US immigrations and Customs Enforcement in 2019

1:31:30on the body.

1:31:30One camera front.

1:31:31We did see some changes in the last in 2019.

1:31:36We continue to do things that we choose audits our footage.

1:31:39We continue to heavily use body worn

1:31:41camera footage in our internal investigations

1:31:44do a lot of training on body cameras.

1:31:46We've been responding to public records request for body camera

1:31:50footage because some new laws that require footage

1:31:54to be released in certain incidents

1:31:57where the big changes that we changed vendors in our body

1:31:59worn cameras.

1:32:00So we were using the view previously,

1:32:03we're now using axon reason we're

1:32:05using axon his axon bot view.

1:32:08So we can continue on with the same company

1:32:11but use modern cameras that had been updated.

1:32:16The nice side effect of using axon

1:32:19is that it allows us to better coordinate

1:32:21with the district attorney.

1:32:23So instead of having to create physical disks DVD of all

1:32:30of our camera footage that we would have to physically take

1:32:32over to the district attorney's office

1:32:34We can now do everything digitally.

1:32:37So we can share directly from our evidence storage

1:32:40with the district attorney and also

1:32:42likewise with the public defender's office.

1:32:45So that it cuts down on both employee time of having to make

1:32:48those disks and also on the physical creation

1:32:51of these disks and the cost associated with them.

1:32:54The other thing that we've been able to achieve

1:32:57with the district attorney is paperless filing as well.

1:33:01So we've dramatically reduced the amount of paper

1:33:03that we're creating with reports and using

1:33:06a similar system to share reports

1:33:08with the district attorney.

1:33:09So by our cameras have been a great change

1:33:12agent with the DA's office because it really did.

1:33:15Once the agencies were adopted by worn

1:33:17cameras across the county became a very consuming work.

1:33:21To be able to manage all of those pieces of evidence.

1:33:25The other thing that is a late addition to this.

1:33:27And I'm sorry is not on the slide,

1:33:29but I want to talk about our drone program.

1:33:32So about this time last year, I came to council

1:33:36and gave a presentation on the drone

1:33:38that we had purchased and were planning to use

1:33:40and also rito in the last year, we

1:33:42had been using it for a number of different incidents.

1:33:46If you're interested in the types of deployments

1:33:48and the specifics of them.

1:33:49We keep all of our logs online.

1:33:51So if you want to see Oh, what did the police department

1:33:53look at in October where they use their drone on

1:33:56we log all of our flights in on the website.

1:33:59So at the end of each month, we compile all the incidents

1:34:02and then post them.

1:34:04So some of the things that we've used drones

1:34:05for in the last year to search for missing people

1:34:08the search for armed suspects the search for burglary

1:34:10suspects I would say that the predominant use for it has been

1:34:15overhead evidence work to take boats

1:34:17to take photographs of crime scenes

1:34:19and also to help search for evidence.

1:34:21We had one incident where we were.

1:34:25There was a possibility that after chasing an armed

1:34:27suspect that the person threw the gun up on top of a roof.

1:34:33We haven't yet located the guns that we talked with residents

1:34:35let them know that we wanted to fly

1:34:38our drone up in the air to search for the roof's

1:34:40along cougar field.

1:34:41They all said they were fine with it.

1:34:43Ultimately we didn't find the gun,

1:34:44but it was a great tool to use as opposed to putting that go

1:34:48into people's yards and putting ladders up on roofs

1:34:50and climbing up there and searching around on manually

1:34:54firefighters are going to ladders.

1:34:56Cops aren't always necessarily good with ladders.

1:34:58So the drone has been a great tool for things

1:35:00like that as well.

1:35:03Once I got some changes in progress.

1:35:05And this is for 2020 and definitely moving forward

1:35:07into 2021 the first thing is that we change

1:35:11how we do are added an oversight component

1:35:14to our internal affairs investigations.

1:35:17So now at the completion of a internal investigation.

1:35:22I as the chief of police write up

1:35:24a summary of the investigation and the outcome

1:35:26of the investigation and the reasons for the outcome.

1:35:29And I send that summary to the city manager for her review.

1:35:33Now it is understood that if there's any part of the summary

1:35:37that requires additional investigation or review

1:35:40by the city manager that those files are available to her

1:35:44to look into and this is something that we

1:35:47just added in September.

1:35:51And so we have concluded some internal affairs

1:35:53investigations already and I've been

1:35:54studying those summaries over.

1:35:56And I think that from my perspective

1:35:59as the chief of police.

1:36:01It has been a great moment to kind of share

1:36:04on a more regular basis.

1:36:06The types of investigations we're engaging in and some

1:36:11of the reasoning that our investigators use when they

1:36:14make decisions on whether or not an investigation is sustained

1:36:17or not sustained or unfounded or whatever

1:36:20the resolution might be.

1:36:22So so far, that has definitely been a positive change.

1:36:26And I think that the I got on top for the city manager.

1:36:29But I think she probably feels much more engaged

1:36:31in the internal affairs investigation process

1:36:33with the police department.

1:36:35One of the big things that has been

1:36:36going on in the background.

1:36:38And this has been with not just police

1:36:39from the city's other members of city staff is working.

1:36:43So I is talking about public defender first.

1:36:45So we have been we've been working with the Contra Costa

1:36:50County Public defender on implementing a program in El

1:36:54Serino that the public defender has been

1:36:55doing with some other agencies.

1:36:57So the public fund research and the early representation

1:37:01program with the Richmond Police Department and Antioch police

1:37:03department about two years ago.

1:37:05And so what this program looked like in its early days

1:37:10is it's intended to solve the problem that I talked about

1:37:14earlier, where a person is arrested for one crime, which

1:37:17doesn't show up for court and gets arrested over and over

1:37:20and over again.

1:37:21And their life gets disrupted over and over and over again.

1:37:24The idea behind the program is that it allows

1:37:27the public defender to do early outreach

1:37:30to somebody who's been arrested and to make

1:37:32sure they show up to court.

1:37:35The number one most important thing

1:37:37is to get the person who's been arrested

1:37:39for a misdemeanor crime.

1:37:42To their court appearance.

1:37:43So that they can get their case resolved

1:37:46and with the public defender is found

1:37:48is that many times if they can get

1:37:49their defendant to court the first time,

1:37:53they can get resolution.

1:37:55The first time the person goes to court

1:37:57and they don't have to have the case get

1:37:59drawn out over the months and years

1:38:01for these low level offenses.

1:38:04So they started the program with the original police department,

1:38:07the Antioch police department.

1:38:08And they saw that for those agencies,

1:38:12the court appearance rate went up

1:38:14and fails to appear went down.

1:38:18So they have been over time, adding additional agencies

1:38:21in the county Brentwood police department

1:38:24is now part of the program.

1:38:25Martinez police department's of the program

1:38:27want to is coming on board.

1:38:29And as of yesterday, we are on board with the program.

1:38:32So what it means for us is that when we arrest somebody

1:38:35we give them a resource card from the public defender

1:38:38it gives them the contact information.

1:38:39So they can call the public defender

1:38:41right away on their case.

1:38:42Well we go to File the case.

1:38:43We share that information with the public defender which

1:38:46gives them an opportunity to reach

1:38:47out to the defendant by phone and setup a text based program.

1:38:53So they can text the person they can set up rides

1:38:56to get the person into court.

1:38:57They can provide some resources and

1:38:59getting the person into court.

1:39:00This is funded by a grant from the Department of Justice

1:39:04a companion program to that.

1:39:06We're also working on.

1:39:07It's the holistic intervention partnership.

1:39:09So this program is intended to try

1:39:12to address the root causes of why the person committed

1:39:15the crime to begin with.

1:39:17So this is another resource card that we're giving out.

1:39:20And we're talking to our arrestees about.

1:39:22And the goal behind this program is to connect people

1:39:25with the resources they may be lacking that led them

1:39:29to turn to crime to begin with.

1:39:30So there are housing resources that can be connected with.

1:39:34Importantly there are drug treatment resources

1:39:37people can be connected with.

1:39:39There are resources to get people's

1:39:42licenses straightened out.

1:39:44So that people there, the crime involves somebody having

1:39:49a suspended license, they can get

1:39:50those things trained out to get other outstanding cases worked

1:39:54out.

1:39:55So that when they come before a judge for the first time

1:39:58in their case ideally, they can already talk about the life

1:40:02changes that they have engaged in

1:40:04to keep the crime from recurring again in the future.

1:40:08So these are trying to tackle two different problems

1:40:10through parallel programs.

1:40:12One we want to get people to go to their court

1:40:14date because we really don't want

1:40:16to be chasing around people for low level offenses

1:40:19and disrupting their daily existence by arresting them

1:40:22again for a low level crime.

1:40:26And on the other hand, we want to also target the reasons why

1:40:29people commit crime and to try to get

1:40:32those issues solved as well.

1:40:33They also, I think the classic intervention partnership.

1:40:36I believe they also have a program to connect

1:40:38people with work as well.

1:40:40So if the reason they committed the crime was out of need

1:40:45for life's necessities they have some resources

1:40:47for that as well.

1:40:48So these are two different programs

1:40:50we're working with the cross public defender on.

1:40:53We're hoping to have similar results to Richmond

1:40:55and any archive with reduced failures

1:40:58to appear which means reduced warrants which means

1:41:01overall, fewer people getting arrested in the county

1:41:04for low level offenses.

1:41:06OK So the mental health response program is something

1:41:09that city staff have been working with Contra

1:41:11Costa County health services.

1:41:13So the mental health response program

1:41:17is intended to develop a program for mental health resources

1:41:22from county health services to respond

1:41:24directly to calls for people that

1:41:26are in a mental health crisis.

1:41:29Currently Contra Costa County health services

1:41:33is undergoing a VSO program.

1:41:37So that stands for.

1:41:40Oh jeez.

1:41:40I think I just for that value system mapping.

1:41:44I think that's it.

1:41:46So what they're doing right now as I speak

1:41:49is they are writing along with agencies in the county.

1:41:52They are examining the path to mental health services

1:41:56that people go through when they do or do not call 9-1-1.

1:42:03So if somebody picks up the phone and calls 9-1-1

1:42:05they're examining what happens from that moment

1:42:09through to when they are connected with health services.

1:42:12And I believe part of the program also they're also going

1:42:16to try to look at is what are the outcomes

1:42:19for people who enter health services through a 911 call.

1:42:24What are their later mental health outcomes.

1:42:27So there is a plan to have a public meeting at 10:00

1:42:31in the morning on Contra Costa TV

1:42:34to talk about the outcomes of this first part

1:42:37of their examination and they're some of the potential options

1:42:43for a mental health response program going forward.

1:42:46And they may not be not talk about what a timeline might

1:42:48look like to have county health as a first responder

1:42:52to mental health costs.

1:42:54I can tell you from talking with the health department director

1:42:57that a program like this could be up to a year out

1:43:01or maybe more before we have county

1:43:04resources directly responding to mental health calls.

1:43:08What are the challenges we face in Contra Costa is that we are

1:43:12just starting to look at this now as a program,

1:43:16and we don't have individual cities with health departments

1:43:20in Contra Costa County.

1:43:21Now in Oakland they are working with white bird clinic

1:43:27the same group that does the cruise program up in Eugene.

1:43:30They've been working with them as consultants

1:43:31to get a mental health first response program in Oakland.

1:43:36But they started that two years ago.

1:43:37So that's something that's already been in the works.

1:43:39And it's something that it sounds like.

1:43:41Oakland PD plans to be rolling out sometime in 2021 in San

1:43:45Francisco another city that is moving

1:43:49very quickly to a mental health response program.

1:43:51Eventually San Francisco and say Contra Costa County it service

1:43:54Cisco is a city, and a county.

1:43:56And so they already have a number of mental health

1:43:59therapists site and they have full control over everything

1:44:03that happens in their city.

1:44:04So they're a little more agile in moving forward.

1:44:06Something like this.

1:44:09The some of the reason behind the public meeting

1:44:12is not only to do a public report out.

1:44:14But county health services is also

1:44:16going to be talking about opportunities for the public

1:44:20to provide feedback to share ideas and share concerns

1:44:23about the program.

1:44:24And they I believe there and be put out information

1:44:28on at that meeting as well.

1:44:29So for members of the public if this is something that you

1:44:32want to know more about, or you want

1:44:33to get directly involved with.

1:44:35I hope you have an opportunity to tune into that meeting.

1:44:38I believe it will be recorded.

1:44:39So if you miss it.

1:44:41I believe it will be recorded.

1:44:42But I hope that there's also going to be a big report out so

1:44:45that people can find ways to get involved

1:44:48if that's what they want to do.

1:44:49OK last month.

1:44:51I also talked about ways that we're restructuring

1:44:53the police department.

1:44:55Next month I'm going to be talking

1:44:57about some key personnel that are retiring which will be

1:45:01moving us closer to this restructuring

1:45:03of the police department.

1:45:05But basically what the restructure is going

1:45:07to look like is we're moving from three divisions

1:45:10down to two divisions and we're going to be eliminating traffic

1:45:15enforcement as a unit traffic or sport enforcement

1:45:18responsibilities are going to fall down to our patrol

1:45:21division and we're going to increase the resources that we

1:45:24have in our detective unit, which I'll

1:45:26talk about on the next line.

1:45:29Another thing that we're in the progress of doing that.

1:45:31We just rolled out is that we have

1:45:34a new wellness application and street

1:45:37police department application.

1:45:38So we have a new app on the Store the back end of that

1:45:41is a wellness application for our officers.

1:45:43So it's a way to connect our officers

1:45:46with resilience resources directly in their phone.

1:45:52So an officer can access the application

1:45:55and do self-evaluation questionnaires

1:46:00they can contact peer support people directly through there.

1:46:04They also have access to AP resources

1:46:09through the application.

1:46:10So it's another way to access the city's ERP resources.

1:46:15That's the play assistant program.

1:46:17So this is something that has been

1:46:20spearheaded by MPA by the mysql point authority

1:46:25our overarching insurer.

1:46:28And it's something that a lot of the departments

1:46:30are getting on in the county.

1:46:32And the idea is that if we have an officer who is experiencing

1:46:39a crisis they may not have the phone number to the city's VIP

1:46:45program on them.

1:46:48You know they may be in an acute crisis.

1:46:51The one thing we can be pretty sure that they would have

1:46:53on them is their cell phone.

1:46:56And so our hope is that if someone is feeling like they're

1:47:01overwhelmed and they need help that the help will be right

1:47:06there on their phone and available to them, whether it's

1:47:10somebody to talk to whether it's resources

1:47:13to read about whether it's self assessments to do.

1:47:17But the number one thing is there's someone there to talk

1:47:21to them and they can just easily access that to the application.

1:47:25So that's the idea behind the application.

1:47:30Officer wellness has been a big trend.

1:47:31It was a component of the task force on 21st century policing

1:47:37and it's certainly continuing to be a significant trend,

1:47:40especially through the summer that we've

1:47:43had with the pandemic.

1:47:45I mean, I think mental health is a trend

1:47:47for everybody in America right now

1:47:50all around the world right now.

1:47:51But definitely on police officers.

1:47:53So we're trying to look at ways that we can put tools

1:47:56and officers hands over also to have some new focus is

1:48:00an investigation someone who wanted that task we would talk

1:48:04about that a little bit more.

1:48:06So the current focus areas for investigations

1:48:09are really major crime Follow up.

1:48:10I got them all listed there.

1:48:11I really don't like reading our slides you can kind of take

1:48:14a look at these slides I guess there might

1:48:15be people at home listening.

1:48:16So these are major crime follow UPS.

1:48:19Crimes against people crimes against property

1:48:22missing persons.

1:48:23District attorney coordination homicides and liaison duties

1:48:27with groups like our crime prevention committee

1:48:29and our volunteer group.

1:48:32Well we're intending to do is to have an expanded

1:48:35focus for our investigators we're

1:48:37planning on eliminating our traffic unit

1:48:40and moving the two positions that

1:48:42were previously traffic officers into detective positions.

1:48:46So we intend for them to be responsible for a major traffic

1:48:49collision investigation.

1:48:51As I said detectives are going to be responsible for use

1:48:53of force investigations which means that we have a use

1:48:56of force at 10:00 at night.

1:48:58We're going to be calling detectives to the scene

1:49:00to investigate the incident.

1:49:03We want to have increased support for victim advocacy

1:49:08and making sure that our victims are getting the follow up

1:49:11that they need and deserve after they're a victim of a crime.

1:49:16We want to have increased focus on COVID cases and more

1:49:19resources to put into COVID cases,

1:49:22particularly our homicides.

1:49:24We currently work on them, but the areas on the left

1:49:29already take a lot of time and max

1:49:31out the unit having additional detectives responsible

1:49:35for cold case investigation will be a great boon for the unit.

1:49:39And we want to have more people and expanded focus

1:49:41on responding to crime trends to have additional analysis

1:49:47and have additional responders available to address

1:49:50crime trends as they happen things

1:49:52like catalytic converters.

1:49:53That was all encompassing task for our person

1:49:56who is in charge of crimes against property for at least a

1:50:01full month.

1:50:01That was basically that person's area of focus.

1:50:05This will give us some additional staff.

1:50:07So that we can help people focus on those big crimes.

1:50:09While the other crimes against property

1:50:11don't languish waiting for somebody to address them.

1:50:16One of the things that I want to get

1:50:17out of our use of force investigators

1:50:19as I said about earlier.

1:50:20And so I want to learn more about the why the use of force

1:50:24occurred.

1:50:25So that it can inform our training and our response

1:50:28to calls.

1:50:29So our use if we're intending for our use of force

1:50:32investigations to really delve deeper into the

1:50:36build up to an incident to really get

1:50:39to why not just from the officer's side,

1:50:42but also from the person who first was used against.

1:50:45We want to know what led up what part of their behavior led

1:50:48up to the use of force as well.

1:50:50Some other things are going to be happening on of use of force

1:50:55and recall reporting in general that I

1:50:57don't have a slide forward.

1:50:58But I'll talk a bit about.

1:51:00There is a law that was enacted was passed

1:51:04by the state legislators called revise the race

1:51:08and identity profiling act.

1:51:10So what Riba requires is that police

1:51:13departments maintain a record a whole host

1:51:18of data points on every stop.

1:51:21They make whether or not it results in

1:51:23and take it whether or not it results in arrest if an officer

1:51:27detains a person and under rip they're

1:51:30going to be required to report out

1:51:32to the Department of Justice on a wide array

1:51:35of different topics.

1:51:37Now the state ruled this out in a very smart way.

1:51:40They said, we're going to take the nine largest agencies

1:51:43and they are going to be responsible for being

1:51:45the Guinea pigs in this process.

1:51:47They're going to be the first ones to collect

1:51:49data and report it out.

1:51:52We are going to be working in this next year on fine tuning

1:51:55everything we need to do to be able to meet

1:51:58our mandate of beginning to report out in January of 2022.

1:52:02So following 2022 there is going to be a lot more data points

1:52:09available to look at the demographics of the stops

1:52:14that we make the demographics of the arrests that we make.

1:52:18What goes into searches.

1:52:21There's a lot of data points going

1:52:22to be out there for our agency.

1:52:24There already is a lot of data points out there.

1:52:26And there you can look at them as a member

1:52:27of the public at open justice through the Department

1:52:31of Justice.

1:52:32The agencies that are already up on.

1:52:34There are agencies like Los Angeles Police Department Los

1:52:36Angeles Sheriff's Department the California Highway Patrol San

1:52:40Jose police San Diego Police the largest agencies in the state

1:52:43are already up there.

1:52:44So if you want to see the kind of data

1:52:46that's going to be available that be a good place to take

1:52:49a look to get a preview.

1:52:50We are part of the number of agencies are about 300

1:52:54of us that start reporting in 2022.

1:52:58So it is the smallest agencies in the state, which I believe

1:53:01is agencies with 200 officers or less

1:53:05are all going to be reporting beginning in 2022.

1:53:07So that's something that we're getting

1:53:09ready for on the internet technology and training

1:53:12side with our officers.

1:53:15OK, let's talk about some things we've been seeing

1:53:18in 2022 which are potentially going

1:53:20to carry over into next year.

1:53:23So some of the things that we've seen this year

1:53:25is this concept of group coordinated crime

1:53:30if you've been following the news the last two days,

1:53:34you'll see this poor business in San Francisco.

1:53:36I think it's called LSP.

1:53:38Is this high end accessories store.

1:53:42I think they got hit two days in a row, the first day a person

1:53:45came in and sidetrack the security guard

1:53:48while a whole crew of guys went and installed

1:53:49$54,000 with the purchase of purses today.

1:53:54I think the news was from today, somebody rammed an SUV

1:53:57through the front of the store and a group of people

1:53:59jumped out the SUV loaded the SUV with high end merchandise

1:54:03backed it out and escaped from the scene with.

1:54:06But you really expensive stuff.

1:54:08So what we've been seeing in West Contra Costa County

1:54:11is this group coordinated crime working its way out

1:54:16in vehicle caravans.

1:54:17So following today in June.

1:54:22We had these caravans the cars that were targeting doing

1:54:25targeted looting in shopping districts in Contra Costa

1:54:29County Alameda County up in Squanto county and that caravan

1:54:36theme has been carrying on this last month,

1:54:41right around the election.

1:54:41We had caravans began popping up again,

1:54:44most notably in San Leandro and Oakland

1:54:47the night of the election.

1:54:49They were tracking a caravan that had up to 100

1:54:52vehicles and at some points.

1:54:54And the method of the crime is that the caravan pulls

1:54:58up to their target destination.

1:55:00Members of the caravan block off the street with their cars

1:55:03that help inhibit police responses.

1:55:07The people of the caravan get out.

1:55:09They mob the business, whatever the business might be,

1:55:11whether it's a shoe store or a drug

1:55:13store in San Leandro and Oakland they were targeting

1:55:16marijuana dispensaries.

1:55:18They overwhelm whatever security might

1:55:19be in the business and still merchandise

1:55:22their back in the cars and they're on their way.

1:55:24And it's challenging for the police

1:55:26to deal with because you have to connect the cars

1:55:29in the caravan with you.

1:55:30They're actively participating in crime in order to rito.

1:55:35We've seen this group coordinated crime work its way

1:55:38out in flash mob style thefts where

1:55:41four people will come charging in to see

1:55:45a drug store as an example.

1:55:47So it's a pretty common target they'll hit the cosmetic aisle

1:55:51they'll smash the cases in the cosmetic now they'll round up

1:55:55$3,000 worth of cosmetics and then the four of them

1:55:58will go running out the door into waiting cars

1:56:01and be gone in a matter of moments.

1:56:02It's too many people for the security guard to handle.

1:56:06And it's hard to stop when you're in the middle of it.

1:56:08It's also hard to plan for if you

1:56:10only have one security guard.

1:56:12So these are the types of crimes we've been seeing

1:56:14and what we've seen is sideshows which have been

1:56:17a thing in the Bay Area for a while

1:56:18now I've kind of created this offshoots of them

1:56:23that results in these caravans.

1:56:25We have also seen during the pandemic while we're on site

1:56:29shows a dramatic uptick in sideshow activity.

1:56:32So for those who are familiar with them

1:56:35type shows typically happen in the evening hours.

1:56:38It's when car enthusiasts will get out

1:56:41they'll block off freeways that's been down.

1:56:44It's in the freeways sometimes people

1:56:47will get run over by cars spilling donuts

1:56:48on the freeways.

1:56:50We've had a lot of incidents where guns are fired

1:56:52off site shows sometimes guns fired at each other

1:56:55and sideshows.

1:56:57So they are certainly outlaw motoring

1:57:00behaviors that have other ancillary crimes

1:57:02that happen around them.

1:57:04So this, especially during the pandemic.

1:57:07What we've seen is reduced traffic out there.

1:57:10So that there has been an uptick in sideshow activity

1:57:13because there's just less cars out there.

1:57:15It's easier to find a band in stretches

1:57:17of highway for abandoned commercial districts

1:57:20to spin down Anderson.

1:57:22I know I live in Eldorado and there's certainly

1:57:24been nights where you can hear when you hear

1:57:26car engines racing around those are multiple cars racing around

1:57:32on Friday and Saturday nights.

1:57:33I mean, there's usually side show activity going on.

1:57:35And we're working this last weekend.

1:57:38We had a sideshow group come into the Bay Area of 200 cars.

1:57:46Happily we've been doing a lot of coordination

1:57:48with our neighboring agencies.

1:57:49So the agencies in San Francisco Sammy tail

1:57:53Alameda Contra Costa and Solano are all

1:57:54working very closely together.

1:57:56And we had a pretty robust police presence

1:57:59out over the weekend and really deterred the sideshow

1:58:01from gaining a lot of steam.

1:58:03So we're trying to keep up that presence because they do

1:58:06tend to break off into the caravan cybercrime crime

1:58:08as well as I talked about earlier catalytic converter

1:58:11that continues to be a significant trend in Ontario.

1:58:15Once again, if you own a Prius strongly

1:58:18consider adding some security devices

1:58:21to your taillight converter.

1:58:24There's products out there that involved cable locks.

1:58:28There's other solutions.

1:58:29The mechanics can do involving welding Rebar cages

1:58:32onto your catalytic converter some of them

1:58:35are more economical than others.

1:58:38But I encourage you to take a look at some things that

1:58:40are out there if you own a Prius and a continuing trend

1:58:47is also homeless victimization.

1:58:50One shooting.

1:58:51We've had someone shot this year was a homeless person

1:58:54late in the evening.

1:58:57The homeless victimization often time surfaces as people

1:59:04who are also homeless.

1:59:06Housing challenged as well as other suspects.

1:59:11It's a trend we're continuing to see

1:59:12with our neighboring agencies as well.

1:59:15Certainly something to keep our eye on.

1:59:17In Reno we work very closely with the core team

1:59:22the health services department.

1:59:25So we work with a housing outreach teams.

1:59:28We rarely talk to them about where people are sleeping

1:59:31and setting up camp in town.

1:59:33And for those that have these see these housing analysts

1:59:40and house encampments around town

1:59:43you may notice from time to time that a white car pulls up

1:59:46with Contra Costa badge and on the side

1:59:48and co-workers are out, making sure that people know

1:59:52that they're getting medical assistance that they're

1:59:54see doctors regularly that are getting mental health

1:59:58care if any mental health care that they're getting food

2:00:01that they have adequate clothing that they're getting

2:00:04other resources that are available like housing

2:00:07vouchers getting them in motels getting

2:00:10them things like cell phones.

2:00:11So we work very closely with core to make sure that when

2:00:15we come across people that are experiencing homelessness

2:00:18that we are making sure that we're

2:00:20helping direct county resources to them when it's happening.

2:00:23And when I say they get medical help

2:00:26the court teams will arrange to have medical doctors come out

2:00:30and do evaluations with people while they're out on the street

2:00:34wherever they are.

2:00:35They'll bring doctors to them.

2:00:37They bring mental health therapies to them.

2:00:40So that they are getting direct care direct attention.

2:00:44So a couple of things that I saw on

2:00:48comments that were posted to supplemental materials.

2:00:51One someone said, there's a bunch of sirens and racing

2:00:54noises on Sunday night.

2:00:56So on Sunday night our patrol officers

2:00:58became involved in a pursuit with stolen vehicle.

2:01:01It was quite a lengthy pursuit was about 4:00 in the morning.

2:01:05We tend to cancel pursuits before they get too lengthy.

2:01:08We usually cancel them in the first minute or two.

2:01:11But at 4:00 in the morning, there was

2:01:13very little traffic out there.

2:01:15We were interested in recovering the stolen car.

2:01:18Ultimately we ended up recovering the car in Berkeley.

2:01:21Unfortunately, the suspect is still outstanding.

2:01:23But we're developing some leads to try

2:01:24to take him into custody.

2:01:25So if you're drawing vehicles.

2:01:28I know some of my neighbors did it is because we were chasing

2:01:31stolen car on Sunday night.

2:01:33So that is what you heard somebody said that also wrote

2:01:37that boy the police department sure

2:01:39goes to a lot of false alarm calls.

2:01:42What's that about.

2:01:43Can we charge people for false alarms.

2:01:45Yes, we can, in fact charge fewer false alarms

2:01:47than we do do that.

2:01:48So we have an alarm registry program and also

2:01:51Vito where if you have an alarm system that connects

2:01:54to essentially monitored service you

2:01:55are required to register with the city each year

2:01:59your first alarm activation.

2:02:01It's on us.

2:02:03So you get one false alarm a year.

2:02:06Beyond that.

2:02:06You do get charged for additional false alarms.

2:02:09So we do have a program that tries to respond to those.

2:02:13The main benefit of the program is that it does cut

2:02:16down on repeat false alarms.

2:02:18We have some locations in town that

2:02:21continuously have false alarms.

2:02:23School district is one of them.

2:02:25But we have a lot of the residents it helps alert them

2:02:28to the fact that their alarm is malfunctioning

2:02:32and it gets them to correct it.

2:02:34Now if we go to a house and the alarm is sound in the house.

2:02:37It's been broken into.

2:02:38People do not get charged for that.

2:02:39That is a crime that has happened.

2:02:42And the reason why we don't want to discourage people

2:02:45from having alarms is because it is

2:02:47a valuable burglary deterrent.

2:02:49And it also mean it helps deter burglaries.

2:02:53We believe it helps get burglars out of your fast house

2:02:55quicker if they do break into your house

2:02:57and hear the alarm sounding and it helps get police officers up

2:03:00there sooner.

2:03:02So that ideally, we can apprehend the suspect

2:03:04as he's playing in your house or fleeing the scene in a vehicle.

2:03:08So if you have a alarm an alarm system,

2:03:11please get it registered and ID, please also

2:03:15consider getting alarm system that is a very effective.

2:03:18OK So I've come to the end of the presentation in my head.

2:03:22I thought I'd be 15 or 20 minutes.

2:03:24So maybe I went a little bit longer than that.

2:03:27My email is on this slide.

2:03:29So if you're a member of the public.

2:03:31Maybe you're not tuned in right now.

2:03:33But you have a question or you want to talk

2:03:35more about something on here.

2:03:37Easiest way to get in touch with me is through email.

2:03:39You can also find my telephone number on our website as well.

2:03:43Give me a call and talk about it.

2:03:46I have a question about.

2:03:47That's my contact information and I'd

2:03:49like to open it up for questions from counsel if you have any.

2:03:55I stopped sharing my will here, I can.

2:03:59You want me to keep the screen up there

2:04:00would you like me to draw.

2:04:02Oh I think you're going to drop it unless you need to respond

2:04:05to a question with some data.

2:04:07So I think it'll be useful for her for us to see bigger faces.

2:04:14Chief thank you very much for that presentation.

2:04:17I appreciate it.

2:04:18And I will go too.

2:04:20I see Gabe, you're on muted.

2:04:21So it looks like you have questions.

2:04:23So we'll go to Gabe first.

2:04:25OK, thank you.

2:04:26There chief.

2:04:28A thorough thorough presentation.

2:04:31Thank you for that.

2:04:34You know I was part of the group that supported prop 47

2:04:39and a friend of mine helped write that for the DA

2:04:44in San Francisco.

2:04:46I attended the party in celebration

2:04:48when that was signed.

2:04:49Looking at what has transpired out there with so many car

2:04:55thefts so many break ins.

2:04:59Yeah there is.

2:05:00Yeah, I can't tell you how many folks have had their cars

2:05:05broken into not necessarily here or in El Serino

2:05:09but when they go to the CSI show or this is pre COVID.

2:05:15So looking at that and looking at our legislators

2:05:19in Sacramento that want to update and change

2:05:22prop 47 to include crimes that basically, it's a slap on the

2:05:29get on the wrist really or just getting a ticket.

2:05:34You're making your joined as many tickets.

2:05:38As you were in the past.

2:05:42But you know we have the grocery stores having

2:05:47their own private police now instead

2:05:50of having a CPD dropped by their every hour on the hour.

2:05:58So there is I know several of our partners in Sacramento

2:06:04want to put legislation to change prop 47

2:06:09to make sure that these crimes that happen over and over

2:06:12and over again.

2:06:14We see the same people over and over and over again.

2:06:18And get out there, they just get a ticket.

2:06:22Let's what's your opinion on that.

2:06:25Is very frustrating for you to have our police

2:06:28officers deal with the same people

2:06:30over and over and over again.

2:06:33Well I think that one of the impacts of the legislation

2:06:37is that there are fewer consequences for people

2:06:42who are arrested for shoplifting or for being

2:06:45habitual shoplifters.

2:06:48And it really has shifted the expense

2:06:51of dealing with shoplifters onto the stores themselves.

2:06:54So when I've talked to after we changed

2:06:57up how we responded to calls.

2:06:59I talked with local grocery store

2:07:00and they said that although their boss

2:07:04has started to go down.

2:07:06It had to expend more money on security at the store

2:07:09to try to deter the thieves from coming in.

2:07:11So what they are trying to do more actively

2:07:15is know who they are bad actors that are coming into pitch

2:07:19really stealing and try to keep them from entering the store

2:07:22to begin with as opposed to kind of dealing

2:07:25with them on the table and after they've committed the crime

2:07:27and then trying to place them under citizen's arrest.

2:07:30So I know that there are a lot of businesses

2:07:32that are spending more money on things like security.

2:07:35And there certainly will be probably

2:07:37a cost impact on community members in California

2:07:42as a result. And I know that there's legislators that are

2:07:45trying to find the right balance between what kind of penalties

2:07:50and what kind of repercussions should there

2:07:52be for crimes that are just and that

2:07:56are acceptable for our society.

2:07:57And that is certainly not an easy task to tackle

2:08:02big societal issues like that.

2:08:04They have been a number of changes in the last years.

2:08:08I pointed out prop 47 because I'm from larceny in particular

2:08:11that seems to be at an inflection point

2:08:14where from that point on, we saw a very

2:08:17visible trend in petty theft.

2:08:22And then also dealing with a car break ins

2:08:27and you did mention catalytic converters.

2:08:31We are back in the day.

2:08:33And my neighborhood was ground zero for people stealing cars.

2:08:39And we are still getting my neighborhood on the North side.

2:08:43We get people calling me and calling the police

2:08:46and mentioning something on Nextdoor

2:08:50about their catalytic converter being

2:08:54up in the middle of the night.

2:08:57That sense that for many types of cars.

2:09:02That's over the limit that then that what could be considered

2:09:06more of a crime than just that.

2:09:10Does that correct over $1,000 yes

2:09:15though the valuing of a catalyst buy

2:09:18used catalytic catalytic converter is the challenge.

2:09:22So if you were to steal something off a car

2:09:25that was worth more than $1,000.

2:09:27Now would increase the severity of the crime,

2:09:30but is placing what is the value of a used catalytic converter

2:09:34was taken up.

2:09:35The replacement cost is $3,000, but I don't believe

2:09:40that this attorney has been filing

2:09:42those more serious charges on people

2:09:43that have been stealing them.

2:09:45So we do.

2:09:46We come across catalytic converter things.

2:09:48I mean a couple of department head meetings.

2:09:50I started off the meeting by saying, hey,

2:09:52we caught a catalytic converter.

2:09:54This weekend because it's great to do.

2:09:56Unfortunately there they are considered

2:09:59low level offenses even though they have

2:10:00major impacts on car owners.

2:10:02So that's something that's above my pay grade.

2:10:05We what we can do is we catch the person

2:10:09put forth the charges and said to the DA

2:10:11to make the filing decision.

2:10:13OK, thank you, Chief.

2:10:14I appreciate all your work Paul.

2:10:18Yeah chief.

2:10:20Thanks for the important work that our force does.

2:10:25I think the caliber of our elsewhere through the forest

2:10:27is excellent.

2:10:29And you provided a lot of information.

2:10:31And I had a lot of questions.

2:10:33But I think you touched on most of them.

2:10:36But I'm saying really good trends

2:10:38some good changes in the trends that you've talked about.

2:10:42So because of time.

2:10:43I want to just make a few comments on the things you said

2:10:47rather than ask your questions.

2:10:50I see good trends with your use of force and your ticketing.

2:10:54That's really good news for El Serino.

2:10:56I want to hopefully in 2020 to see that continue.

2:11:01Cameras it sounds like you're dealing with in a positive way.

2:11:05And dealing with the state legislation.

2:11:09You mentioned restructuring and obviously

2:11:11later tonight, we're going to be dealing with the budget.

2:11:13So I'm hoping that when you visualize how our police

2:11:18force will be restructured there are budgetary

2:11:22attributes to change.

2:11:23And then the police department can

2:11:25reduce its budget as well as other departments can in this.

2:11:29Nick of time.

2:11:30I'm very pleased about the mental health direction

2:11:34that you're talking about.

2:11:35I know every city is and we need to be right

2:11:38there in the center of that.

2:11:39So thank you for that information about the event

2:11:42that's happening.

2:11:43I think tomorrow.

2:11:46I was the one question I had was if you thought there

2:11:49needed to be more training.

2:11:52What if there is no training opportunities or directions.

2:11:56What do you think those should be.

2:11:59Well, let's say that we are always playing catch up.

2:12:04To a degree on things like crisis intervention training

2:12:07and de-escalation training because every time

2:12:09we hire a new officer.

2:12:11We have to make sure they get through the same training

2:12:13that the other officers have been in

2:12:15and we'll train up people.

2:12:17And then they'll move to another agency.

2:12:19And place that person will have to give them the same training.

2:12:22So we are in a constant cycle of making sure people are getting

2:12:25training in how to intervene in crises

2:12:28and also getting training and how to de-escalate

2:12:30situations to help reduce the likelihood

2:12:33they'll have to use force.

2:12:33So we also try to work de-escalation themes into all

2:12:38of our training opportunities.

2:12:40So whether we're doing use of force training,

2:12:42whether we're doing things like taser training or firearms

2:12:44training we try to work in the concepts of de-escalation

2:12:48to each of those.

2:12:49So that scenarios can be achieved

2:12:51without having to use force.

2:12:53There are other options resource scenarios

2:12:55or at least that our officers are using

2:12:58de-escalation techniques to resolve

2:13:00situations even if a verbal resolution isn't

2:13:04going to stop the scenario.

2:13:06So for us, it's continuing to hit on those big themes.

2:13:11Some of the things that we're gong to be working

2:13:12on in the new year and the rounds of training

2:13:14are going to be additional de-escalation training

2:13:17agency wide and doing principal policing training agency wide.

2:13:23This is something that we'd like to hit on every few years

2:13:26to make sure that people are thinking about the impacts

2:13:29of their actions.

2:13:30Principal policing also includes a big block on implicit bias.

2:13:34So it has officers questioning the reason why they might be

2:13:38jumping into the incident and questioning their own biases

2:13:40when they confront a situation.

2:13:43So those are two big training things we have planned

2:13:46in the first half of next year.

2:13:48We're using some outside vendors to come

2:13:50in and do some socially distanced and COVID responsible

2:13:53training.

2:13:55I want to get to a point that council member Keith

2:13:59though mentioned on prop 47.

2:14:01You know our DA in our county has set out some new rules

2:14:05for small amounts of drugs and some other is that

2:14:08in a similar direction the same kinds of issues

2:14:12that you'll have to deal with lots of enforcement

2:14:16and we'll talk about that a little bit.

2:14:20You mentioned that to me what.

2:14:21Sure so the district attorney recently

2:14:25made today a news release basically

2:14:29talking about the new filing guidelines

2:14:31for certain types of crimes.

2:14:33Now one set of crime, low level offenses.

2:14:36The district attorney has is really

2:14:38focusing on trying to use non punitive resolutions

2:14:43for those crimes.

2:14:45These are things like first are low level offenses

2:14:49for petty theft or for trespassing

2:14:51where instead of somebody having to face

2:14:53criminal penalty on there.

2:14:55She's going to try to refer them to alternate resolution

2:15:02where they would have to go to through a program instead

2:15:05of going through a prosecution process.

2:15:07And the actual phrase for it is totally lost

2:15:10from my mind on the drug front.

2:15:12That new filing guidelines are that you have to be arrested

2:15:17in the county three times before the district attorney's office

2:15:22will file charges on somebody for possession of essentially,

2:15:27any type of drug in Contra Costa County.

2:15:29So I think the challenge that we're

2:15:31working through conceptually at the police department

2:15:35is that if we make an arrest.

2:15:41We don't want to make an arrest just for the sake

2:15:43of making an arrest.

2:15:45I don't know that that's particularly

2:15:46valuable to someone.

2:15:48There are not any kind of a mandatory rehabilitation

2:15:53programs or drug treatment programs.

2:15:55This attorney can impose on people.

2:15:57So we're trying to figure out what the right balance is when

2:16:00we engage in Drug Enforcement activities

2:16:04knowing that the district attorney

2:16:05will likely not file charges.

2:16:09So those are conversations we're currently having

2:16:11in the police department.

2:16:13Obviously if crimes happen in people's homes and residences

2:16:17we're going to go to those.

2:16:19I can tell you that our police officers

2:16:22definitely way much more now.

2:16:27The risks associated with making arrests versus

2:16:31the severity of the crime.

2:16:34So we hear here is an example that we've

2:16:36had this happened recently.

2:16:40We have a guy who steals from grocery stores.

2:16:44He definitely steals and they see him

2:16:46steal steal bottles of alcohol.

2:16:48And when officers have gone to confront him.

2:16:51He's displayed a willingness to fight

2:16:52and throw bottles and use bottles as weapons

2:16:55with the officers.

2:16:56So protesters have been faced with this person.

2:16:58They've got some decision making.

2:17:00OK this is a $30 bottle of alcohol.

2:17:04This person's stolen.

2:17:06We can go tackle the person to the ground

2:17:09fight with them over the bottle end

2:17:12up with a broken bottle in play.

2:17:14No doubt force is going to be used in this situation.

2:17:16And we can take him into custody and the outcome of that

2:17:19is going to be released with a ticket or probably

2:17:21a quick release from county jail due to cocaine

2:17:25or we can document the crime for it because we know the person

2:17:30we brought it to the district attorney

2:17:32and let the attorney make the decision

2:17:34on whether or not they're willing to move

2:17:36forward with charges.

2:17:38So this have been some of the dilemmas our officers thing.

2:17:40And I can tell you that when faced with some low level

2:17:43offenses our officers have chosen not to make the arrest

2:17:46because they don't perceive that the outcome is going to be

2:17:51worth the enforcement action if the outcome is going to result

2:17:54in the use of force that they don't

2:17:56want to be involved in that.

2:17:57OK All right.

2:17:59So is that good overall.

2:18:01I don't know.

2:18:02I think we're going to see is that he

2:18:04used to be a pilot program.

2:18:06Right now, it's being implemented in the county.

2:18:09Look at these are just policy decisions

2:18:11by the district attorney.

2:18:12So we are navigating that.

2:18:15And we're navigating that through the narrative

2:18:19about police use of force and having lots of conversations

2:18:23about it and our officers are making what would

2:18:26in the past to be really unpopular

2:18:30decisions in the field.

2:18:31And so when officers are making decisions where they're taking

2:18:35into account the safety of the public

2:18:37and the safety of other officers and the severity of the crime.

2:18:40We're trying to make sure that they

2:18:42feel supported when they make courageous decisions like that.

2:18:46It doesn't mean that we're not arresting people for low level

2:18:48offenses or that you could just get

2:18:50away with everything at all.

2:18:51But we are taking into account the COVID is a reality

2:18:55bank for low level offenses.

2:18:57The jail will not accept people and that there is.

2:19:03We've seen reduced prosecutions for low level offenses as well.

2:19:07OK And I just had one more quick thing on your presentation,

2:19:13and I don't mean to be picky, but a kind of there's

2:19:17an element of respect, I just wanted to ask you about.

2:19:20You know when you do the graphs and you

2:19:23have our ethnic makeup of our city black, Hispanic and white

2:19:28you have other.

2:19:29I mean our city is one third Asian API why don't we

2:19:32say what it is.

2:19:34Why can't we say what that other is.

2:19:37It seems a bit disrespectful to me.

2:19:39I'm glad you brought that up.

2:19:40And I meant to say something when

2:19:41those graphs were up there.

2:19:43I wanted to keep it a little less focus.

2:19:48So we could kind of see big numbers.

2:19:50And that way we could see kind of the big blocks

2:19:53of population.

2:19:54Now We do have many other groups that would have spread

2:19:57those graphs out significantly.

2:20:00And I wanted to make sure that we were seeing that where

2:20:04the big trends were in and for us,

2:20:06the big trends we see in arrests where there is despair

2:20:10at numbers is really in the communities

2:20:14of our black community members and our Hispanic media members.

2:20:18And so I wanted to have graphs that really honed

2:20:22in on the areas where we see disparities show where there

2:20:26are other groups that are significantly underrepresented

2:20:29in our enforcement activities compared to their population

2:20:32in the community.

2:20:33But I really wanted to show the negative impacts

2:20:37in those graphs and I wanted it to be

2:20:40really obvious to the viewer.

2:20:43So it was a design choice that I was hoping

2:20:46would show that it absolutely does not totally represent

2:20:50the wide diversity of our community on the grounds

2:20:53that, which we're going to have an asterisk next to the other.

2:20:57And put it on the bottom or something.

2:20:59It just seems that we're not saying who really lives

2:21:02here by or by other animals.

2:21:04That's just my comment.

2:21:07Rochelle do you have any questions or comments.

2:21:13Yes, I am very happy with a lot of things

2:21:20that I saw in your presentation especially

2:21:22about what we were just talking about trying

2:21:25to decrease racial disparities.

2:21:28And I know that that was in the works

2:21:31prior to all of this civil unrest that has happened

2:21:35in the last year and the liberal movement of Black Lives Matter.

2:21:42And so I do want to give you a lot

2:21:46of credit for working on that.

2:21:49But you really before.

2:21:50I mean, it's always been an issue.

2:21:52But I know you're working on it before it really

2:21:54came to that kind of boiling point

2:21:56that it had over the last summer.

2:21:57So I just wanted to acknowledge that.

2:22:01And thank you.

2:22:02And also I on my way out here.

2:22:09I just wanted to say that I think I hope you know that I

2:22:13think you're a great chief.

2:22:16But what I'm concerned about is that I

2:22:19want to make sure we have policies

2:22:21in the city that will continue to work towards all people.

2:22:29If for some reason you were to say move up or move on

2:22:33to another place I want to find a so-called bullet proof far

2:22:39are our resilience and our commitment to working on issues

2:22:49for various communities such as our black community,

2:22:51our Hispanic community.

2:22:54So what I feel is missing is just public engagement.

2:22:59I know we've had tons of requests for a better

2:23:03public forum like this is the first chance

2:23:05we didn't really have a more in-depth discussion.

2:23:09And it really hasn't been a discussion.

2:23:10But more presentation.

2:23:12And so I feel like what's missing

2:23:14from all of that is just more direct engagement

2:23:19from the public.

2:23:21Sometimes I feel like serving as the only

2:23:26African-American council member and soon there

2:23:30will be no representation.

2:23:31And that matter on the council.

2:23:34I'd really like to continue to hear

2:23:36from our African-American community

2:23:40and give more feedback because honestly, at times,

2:23:45it has been unfair for me to be a representative because I'm

2:23:50in my house with my kids.

2:23:51I go to work, I come home.

2:23:55I don't get pulled over.

2:23:56Fortunately I try to follow all the rules,

2:23:59but I just don't really know you know what the experiences

2:24:03of some of our residents when they are getting

2:24:06arrested what is that experience like for them.

2:24:10And you know I don't think any of the council

2:24:12members are getting arrested.

2:24:13I think we probably have all similar experiences maybe

2:24:17we've had experiences being the victim of a crime,

2:24:23but not necessarily maybe having family members that commit

2:24:27crimes or things like that.

2:24:30So I just feel like there's voices missing

2:24:33from the conversation here.

2:24:35And I don't feel like I'm the best representative to come

2:24:42up with those questions.

2:24:45So I really would like to see better community engagement

2:24:49from specifically our Black and Hispanic neighbors when it

2:24:56comes to the area of policing.

2:24:57So that if there are other stories that I'm sure there

2:25:01are less positive experiences.

2:25:05I really want to hear what that is, because I feel

2:25:08like I'm living in a bubble.

2:25:10Now really I don't really know how other or feeling

2:25:14about what's going on and elsewhere you know I feel safe,

2:25:18I feel like my family is taking care of.

2:25:20I feel like the police officers especially

2:25:23the ones that recognize me are particularly friendly.

2:25:26So I just want to make sure that we

2:25:29can delve into any potential complications

2:25:33and split numbers of our neighbors,

2:25:38our neighboring neighborhoods that

2:25:39may have other experiences.

2:25:45I guess that's not really a question except

2:25:47for when can we do that.

2:25:50So what are the things that I hope to do

2:25:53is to talk with the incoming mayor

2:25:58and coordinate something like that with the council

2:26:01and see what it is that the incoming council how they want

2:26:06to address that.

2:26:07And I know where you go to meetings out from that.

2:26:11So I'd like to give some model is certainly something

2:26:15that I would be happy to do.

2:26:16I want to make sure that we're asking the right questions

2:26:20and formatting in the forum in the right way

2:26:23to get the input that we need.

2:26:27Great, thank you.

2:26:28Sure Janet do you have any questions or comments sir.

2:26:36The only thing I can think to add

2:26:38is just that I really appreciate this session because I

2:26:41think it's gotten a lot more into detail

2:26:45about what's happening.

2:26:46And I'm really happy to see that.

2:26:48And I'm you know I'm really glad that you're

2:26:53doing what you're doing.

2:26:54So I'll just leave it at that.

2:26:56Thank you.

2:26:58Thank you.

2:26:59All right.

2:27:00I've got just a few questions.

2:27:03I mean, I think the answer to this is yes.

2:27:07You know the way you looked at the 2017 numbers

2:27:10you are still continuing to use statistics

2:27:14and new metrics in the decisions about policing.

2:27:18Where to where to patrol what types of crimes are happening.

2:27:22I'm assuming that's all being driven by data.

2:27:27Yes it is.

2:27:30And also people's observations I think

2:27:33that you don't make changes in the organization

2:27:36without people saying is this.

2:27:40Well, we should be seen and should we

2:27:42be seeing something different.

2:27:43It's this.

2:27:43Are these the outcomes we want to see.

2:27:45So you know sometimes these things come out because you'll

2:27:49read about how a specific incident was handled

2:27:52and it will make you ask geez is that the outcome we wanted

2:27:57to achieve.

2:27:58This is not a great outcome.

2:28:00Is this something that's regularly occurring.

2:28:03What can we do to change that.

2:28:04So sometimes it does start just at the story level.

2:28:08And then that helps form the direction for it.

2:28:12But other times it does come from just looking at data

2:28:14and saying, this is a trend you mentioned the core teams

2:28:20at the accounting core teams.

2:28:22Those are funded by the county and they're there.

2:28:26You had various programs of information cards

2:28:29that you were giving out to various things

2:28:33various arrestees.

2:28:35Can you just sort of touch on the interactions.

2:28:39The training and the interactions

2:28:40that our officers have with the How's the it done.

2:28:46How's population.

2:28:47It also is growing.

2:28:48There's no question about that.

2:28:51And invariably you do end up with interactions with them,

2:28:55and you're just curious what if you

2:28:57had any additional comments on what you can and can't do when.

2:29:01With regards to the housed and how you guys are handling them.

2:29:07Well I would say that to start with the training

2:29:10and how we train our officers is that when you come

2:29:13across a person who is experiencing homelessness

2:29:16you need to treat them just as you

2:29:18would treat any other person who is calling for police services.

2:29:22You don't treat them differently just

2:29:24based on the fact that they may not have a permanent residence.

2:29:28So that is the mentality we try to infuse into our officers

2:29:32as far as what our officers might be doing proactively

2:29:37with our homeless population.

2:29:39Those tend to revolve around identifying

2:29:44where new encampments may have cropped up.

2:29:48Getting that information over to the core team.

2:29:51So that they can start doing outreach

2:29:53and also directly alteration with people that are perhaps

2:29:56new to the community to see just give us some early questions

2:30:00and see if they're amenable to help from the court team

2:30:02as well, because that's good information to have a core team

2:30:05already knows that they've got somebody

2:30:07who's open to the idea of help.

2:30:10That's a good may move somebody up higher on a priority list,

2:30:14but especially during COVID there

2:30:17is guidance from the county health department

2:30:20that they don't want to see homeless encampments disrupted

2:30:25because they don't want to cause interchanging of people

2:30:30or people moving from one in Camden to another encampment

2:30:33in it being a factor for the spread of COVID.

2:30:35We really have been trying to take that into account when

2:30:40we got homeless catchments.

2:30:41Now as a city.

2:30:43Most of the homeless encampments when they're dealt with

2:30:48is really focused on the kind of ancillary components

2:30:52that may come with some encampments.

2:30:54So if an encampment has created a hazardous situation

2:31:00either through accumulation of debris or fire hazards

2:31:03situations, then the city does have

2:31:06some tools at their disposal to abate an encampment.

2:31:10However, we don't make arrests of people

2:31:13just because they're homeless.

2:31:14The act of being homeless is not a crime.

2:31:16So our officers are not out arresting people

2:31:19for sleeping on the street.

2:31:20That's not against the law.

2:31:22We do want to make sure that public health issues are taken

2:31:25care of relating to people who are sleeping outdoors

2:31:29now on private property.

2:31:30The situation is a little different because

2:31:33on private property.

2:31:35The private property owner really has responsibility

2:31:39for how they want and can be dealt with other than

2:31:42for those hazardous situations.

2:31:44So and what that involves is that a private property owner

2:31:50could have somebody could play somebody under arrest

2:31:53for trespassing if somebody was occupying their property right

2:31:58now during COVID I can tell you that all we're going to do

2:32:01is give the person a ticket at the scene

2:32:03because they're not going anywhere.

2:32:06We've really changed a lot of how

2:32:09we do business and COVID in the county jail

2:32:11certainly is not going to accept an arrest for somebody who was

2:32:13trespassing because they're homeless

2:32:16but over time, the if someone wants us right a case

2:32:20they could potentially do things like apply for a stay

2:32:24away order for their property or a restraining

2:32:26order from their property.

2:32:27Have other ways to deal with people who refuse to vacate

2:32:31but the private property situation is certainly much

2:32:34more challenging and COVID and a lot of the responsibility

2:32:37really rests on private property owners.

2:32:40There's some private property owners

2:32:41that don't care at all, if someone

2:32:43is sleeping in the doorway of their business.

2:32:46This has other private property owners

2:32:48that care a lot if they come to work in the morning to someone

2:32:50sleeping at the business.

2:32:51So in those incidences just like when we respond

2:32:55to a petty theft call we try to empower the property owner

2:32:58to take ownership of the problem and be the person in charge

2:33:02into to empower them to contact the person

2:33:07and explain their point of view and ask for compliance that way

2:33:09before we get involved with anything

2:33:13else that might result from a homeless encampment that

2:33:16is unwelcome.

2:33:18The mayor, I think that the main thing to focus on

2:33:21is that it's not illegal to be homeless.

2:33:23It's not illegal have nowhere to sleep and sleep in a park

2:33:25or sleep on a sidewalk.

2:33:27It's not it.

2:33:28It's not illegal to sit on a sidewalk and occupy a bench

2:33:31and have your belongings in a shopping cart with you.

2:33:33Those things are not illegal necessarily,

2:33:36but possession of a shopping cart

2:33:37could be what he is doing anything about that.

2:33:40So anyway, that's the main point.

2:33:43And it certainly is a delicate act to navigate with COVID

2:33:48and we really have been stepping into using

2:33:51the quarantine for a lot of the assistance

2:33:54to our homeless population.

2:33:56So and people people shouldn't think they

2:33:59just come out occasionally.

2:34:01They're constantly active in West

2:34:03Contra Costa County checking in on people multiple times

2:34:06a week.

2:34:07So they really do put a lot of time on it.

2:34:09We have two people in apartment assigns

2:34:11a homeless liaison duties.

2:34:13One person the middle of the week one person on the weekend

2:34:15and they both are in contact with the core team to make sure

2:34:19that they're staying abreast of new people are coming in

2:34:21and need be contacted or if a situation is deteriorating

2:34:24and a person needs more resources.

2:34:26So that really as far as us being involved

2:34:29in homeless cameras it really is to coordinate

2:34:31outreach and that is our biggest opponent.

2:34:34Now if a person is homeless is experienced

2:34:36being a victim of a crime and we treat them

2:34:38like any other crime victim.

2:34:39They get the same resource as any other crime

2:34:41victim would get on.

2:34:42And we would probably also link them with the court scene.

2:34:44So that they can get additional help

2:34:46for their homeless situation.

2:34:49Well chief we're very lucky to have you your ability

2:34:54to look at these situations and apply your training at your end

2:34:59analysis.

2:35:01A good example fired by the fact that you were looking at 2017

2:35:04data and already starting to trend towards changes

2:35:08in how we enforce our policies, our own internal policing

2:35:14policies.

2:35:15I look forward to your restructuring

2:35:17there was a comment during public comment

2:35:20tonight about looking at the reasons

2:35:24for policing it does sound like you are taking

2:35:27that type of approach to the restructuring

2:35:31to understand what are the reasons we are policing

2:35:35and what are the outcomes that are desired.

2:35:37I mean, those are on your own words

2:35:40and to have a restructuring that having it look that is exactly

2:35:46that outcome focused as opposed to process focused

2:35:54is going to allow us to, again end up in with a restructuring

2:35:58that potentially is much more forward facing forward thinking

2:36:03and closer to what I think the community is seeking.

2:36:08So I do applaud that.

2:36:11And and I think it was council member FLE who mentioned

2:36:15that we would hope the restructuring

2:36:17might save us some money too.

2:36:18But that was that.

2:36:22That that I think it's much more important

2:36:24that we get the policing done correctly

2:36:27and have all aspects of our community,

2:36:30whether they're people who are housed or traveling

2:36:34through our community shopping and community, business owners

2:36:38residents students that they get the protections

2:36:42and safety that they're looking for.

2:36:45So that concludes this item.

2:36:53Thank you.

2:36:55As pointed out by Councilman reals

2:36:57in quite an in-depth start to I think

2:37:00a lengthy discussion that will be carried out

2:37:02throughout all of next year.

2:37:05That concludes.

2:37:06Item five B presentation of the ulcerative police department.

2:37:12And that brings us to item 6, which is public hearings.

2:37:15There are no public hearings tonight

2:37:16that concludes item 6, which brings us to policy matters.

2:37:20We have two policy matters.

2:37:22This evening all matters 7 8 fiscal 2020 2021 general fund

2:37:29budget update for October 2020 and item policy

2:37:34the latter 7 7b city council policy subcommittee

2:37:38report and recommendations.

2:37:40With that we will go back to 7 and that is

2:37:44the action is to receive and file the 20.

2:37:48We need one budget update on general fund

2:37:50revenues and expenses.

2:37:53And I see you have joined us.

2:37:54So I think you have a presentation.

2:37:59Can you hear me.

2:38:00Yes great.

2:38:03Good man.

2:38:04Council members macro sire finance director.

2:38:07I'm here to share with you the latest fiscal reports

2:38:09through the printing.

2:38:11So October 2020.

2:38:13And before I get into that, I just want to check with you

2:38:15as to how you would like me to proceed with this.

2:38:18I could take the long and winding road

2:38:20like I'm doing the past Orioles equity the high points

2:38:22and then take the questions and drill down as needed.

2:38:26I just want to make sure that I make the best use of your time

2:38:29while I'm here.

2:38:32I think that your ultimate presentation.

2:38:35We've certainly discussed the details in some cases.

2:38:38So I think looking at the big picture.

2:38:40I know I think there's going to be a fair amount

2:38:44of discussion on this.

2:38:46So I would prefer that we touched on the high points

2:38:50and then go to discussion and questions.

2:38:54So starting with the high points that I'm

2:38:56looking at for my first share, which is the income statement.

2:39:03And I hope you can see that you can get a few seconds,

2:39:06you go and you see that.

2:39:17Yes great.

2:39:20Since the turn of the year complete.

2:39:22Through the end of October, we have approximately 17.6 million

2:39:27in revenues, which represents about 19% of the budget,

2:39:33and we have approximately 11.7 million

2:39:37expense in expenses representing about 30%

2:39:40of the expenditure budget.

2:39:42As far as we can see from this slide

2:39:46a couple of key points on this.

2:39:48Property taxes have communist budget

2:39:51a 260,000 times for taxes are trending a little bit higher

2:39:57than we expected to have we expected to have about 600,000

2:40:00through October.

2:40:02But we notice that we have about $2,975,000

2:40:04that actually up to be 175,000 to the end of October.

2:40:08So that's on the transfer decks aside

2:40:11our business licenses have paper appeared to have tapered off

2:40:14at about 662,000 against a budget of 850

2:40:19and I doubt very much if we have to make 850 on that.

2:40:23And then, of course, we have the other sources

2:40:27of revenue licenses and permits, which

2:40:29are pretty much trending as expected fines and forfeitures.

2:40:33A little behind.

2:40:34And as the chief pointed out a few minutes ago.

2:40:36That's something that is being impacted by what's taking it

2:40:39happening on the court to try and use of money and property

2:40:43in a gun rental revenues charges for services other teen x items

2:40:47that we have on this list.

2:40:50And as I pointed out in the staff

2:40:51report charges for services are trending at around 566,000

2:40:57behind expectations at this point in time.

2:41:00And as I mentioned in the report.

2:41:02The significant part of that is from the recreation

2:41:05department revenue side.

2:41:07And I've indicated that the expectation for the fall

2:41:10of the age is about 600,000 behind the budget for the rec

2:41:14department rec department budget is approximately $4 million.

2:41:18And with the new estimates we expect to come in at about

2:41:20$3.4 million on that.

2:41:24And on the expenditure side, we are pretty much on track

2:41:27with personnel costs.

2:41:29Professional services and everything else below that.

2:41:32I would like to point out here that personnel costs includes

2:41:36a significant chunk of fire department

2:41:39or yes expenditures, which would be reimbursed to us sometime

2:41:43in March or April of next year.

2:41:46Typically all.

2:41:47Yes expenses are under 500,000 would be a concrete trend

2:41:50to get around a little under 800,000 for fire department

2:41:54or yes overtime costs.

2:41:56So that's the reason for every expense

2:41:59that's included within that personnel line item.

2:42:03But even with that, we have in the 33% for the budget

2:42:06to be at this point in time.

2:42:08So that's pretty much a summary of where

2:42:10we are of the income statement.

2:42:12On this slide here.

2:42:14And I'll be happy to take any questions that you might have.

2:42:16Before I get onto the next slide any questions on this slide

2:42:29to Gabe shaking his head.

2:42:31I have I won basically just what you just said

2:42:36the charges for other services.

2:42:41Our budget our adopted budget was 4.5 million.

2:42:45And if I heard you just correctly.

2:42:46I heard you say that instead of 4.5 million.

2:42:50We're expecting that to come in at 3.4 million.

2:42:54Is that what I heard the charges for services

2:42:59budget is 5.2 million.

2:43:01And as you can see from this slide,

2:43:02you Finch forming in his from actually the recreation

2:43:09department and meeting is expected

2:43:13to come in at 3.4 million.

2:43:14We just accept 1,000 less got it.

2:43:18So the 5.2 is the amended budget.

2:43:25And of that is rec is 4 million.

2:43:28And of that 4 million, you're only anticipating 3.4.

2:43:33So is correct.

2:43:34That is correct.

2:43:36All right.

2:43:39Any other questions on this slide.

2:43:44None go ahead.

2:43:47So moving on to the balance sheet,

2:43:49which is the next slide here.

2:43:51And again, this balance sheet has numbers for the audited.

2:43:55They are not just close that were recently concluded

2:43:59and these are frozen in time to the audit is complete.

2:44:01We expect that to happen towards the end of this month.

2:44:05And this for preparing their financial statements.

2:44:07They are asked about right now in the middle

2:44:10of the final audit for this fiscal year.

2:44:13In terms of the estimated balance sheet as of October '30

2:44:18first, we notice that we have a 6.3 million

2:44:22in total assets, which includes approximately a 3.2

2:44:27in cash and 925,000 in taxes receivable,

2:44:32which are received in the first part of this number.

2:44:34Obviously it's a total of about $4 million in cash there.

2:44:37And then here is the big short term.

2:44:40Note that drives up B total liabilities

2:44:42to a level of 11.1 to five and we've seen that before.

2:44:47And he knows that the fund balances a deficit

2:44:48of 4.8 million negative, which is a little better off than we

2:44:53were last month and that was to be expected

2:44:55because with revenues coming in and B

2:44:57the expenses within budget your fund balance can only improve

2:45:00from that point forward.

2:45:01So that's your balance sheet gives

2:45:03you a snapshot of assets and liabilities

2:45:06at the end of October.

2:45:08Now pause for any questions that you might have any questions.

2:45:19I have no questions.

2:45:19I mean, this one is what we would have expected

2:45:23from a cash flow perspective.

2:45:26Yes absolutely questions are more along to the next slide

2:45:40here.

2:45:42Which is the cash flow statement forecasted.

2:45:46Cash flow statement.

2:45:49And I just wish to draw your attention to the addition

2:45:55that I've put into our previous statements

2:45:57here that I've shown you before, we have the adopted budget

2:46:00as the extreme right column.

2:46:02And that was the budget that was adopted.

2:46:05You'll notice that it shows an expectation of 664,000

2:46:10as a surplus.

2:46:12If the budget is met.

2:46:14And as I point out in the staff report

2:46:16that 664 is in jeopardy if rec department revenues

2:46:22come in 600,000 or more under.

2:46:25So that is something to we kept in mind.

2:46:29The shaded section of this cash flow statement

2:46:31reflects everything that's transpired

2:46:34and then everything else that's unsheltered is left ahead.

2:46:38These numbers will be left as is and will only be changed

2:46:42in the actual is coming.

2:46:44You might recall that these were benchmarked

2:46:46in the budget before at the point

2:46:48that they started this cash flow thing back

2:46:50in May get up to it budgets.

2:46:52So that the demand assets and what

2:46:57it shows us is at the end of June,

2:46:59we expect to have approximate 9.2 million in cash.

2:47:03As I stated in the staff report.

2:47:05And that would be used to that would be available to pay

2:47:08down the trend in July.

2:47:10The 8.6 million tracking July and I'll take any questions

2:47:16you might have on that as well.

2:47:18Questions will go with shell and then Paul.

2:47:25My first question is about the sales tax.

2:47:30When looking at where we are at.

2:47:33And then what is projected.

2:47:36My question was with COVID on the rise

2:47:39and more things shutting down.

2:47:42I'm concerned about this sales tax number going down.

2:47:46And I was wondering, because it doesn't show on this graph what

2:47:50the sales tax revenues were or the time when we

2:47:55were in the biggest shutdown.

2:47:56So like March, April and May that's a great question.

2:48:04And I think I may have mentioned this in my report at some point

2:48:07that things are still fluid they are changing constantly.

2:48:10And we are currently in a second level of shutdown as well.

2:48:13That being said and looking back over the period, March, April,

2:48:17may and June up the last fiscal year,

2:48:19we noticed that sales taxes weren't as badly impaired

2:48:24as we thought they would be.

2:48:26So what that means is we expect that sales

2:48:28taxes to be in the ballpark of 600600500 1,000 a month.

2:48:32But we actually came out about 14, 15 to 550,000

2:48:35including measure a sales taxes on average.

2:48:39So March or April, may and June or March, April and May total

2:48:44sales taxes averaged about 560,000

2:48:47on an average per month of which 461 general fund and sales tax

2:48:52and the balance $100,000 was measuring sales tax

2:48:55and you might recall that back then when we first met these

2:48:57estimates we anticipate says taxes to be out of the ballpark

2:49:01of 300,000 a month.

2:49:03And so these are numbers that are being reported

2:49:06by the auditors as we speak.

2:49:08And finally, it numbers are trickling in

2:49:11because of the extended repayment schedule

2:49:13that the state has plummeted sales tax payers.

2:49:17And we expect to have more firm estimates of that

2:49:20once the auditors have signed off

2:49:22on this by the end of December.

2:49:24So I'm happy to note that the component that it's held us

2:49:29through all of this has been the county pool,

2:49:33which is all the online sales.

2:49:36If you get a share of at some point

2:49:38and those have continued to outperform in fact county

2:49:42pool revenues needs to be enough to take compared to last year's

2:49:46numbers and you get a shot of that

2:49:49because offset the retail dip that we've

2:49:52seen on our retail side.

2:49:54For example, you might recall that our biggest source

2:49:57of sales tax revenues the single biggest source of sales tax

2:50:00revenue is the Hyundai dealership and Honda leadership

2:50:04sales taxes dipped by about 49% of 50% year to year over year.

2:50:09So that puts to a large extent offset by revenues

2:50:15from the county pool, which is distributed

2:50:17in all jurisdictions getting sales taxes.

2:50:20So in answer to your question.

2:50:23Do I anticipate these numbers to be about they

2:50:25are by the end of this year.

2:50:26If things remain as they are at this point in time,

2:50:30I have also mentioned this before

2:50:31and others have mentioned this as well.

2:50:34A vaccine is not a silver bullet.

2:50:37It's going to take time for it to be deployed.

2:50:40And it's going to take time for it to be effective.

2:50:42And that could be multiple quarters into the future.

2:50:45So that being said, if things improved from this point

2:50:50or stabilized to the point that we can collect some of these,

2:50:54I would expect to see that sales tax number come in as expected

2:50:57at least 6.4 million.

2:51:00Again the caveat here is that things will improve even

2:51:04if gradually that things move up the county pool

2:51:10has been a significant source of support for our sales

2:51:12tax estimates.

2:51:14And I would expect those numbers to be supported

2:51:15by the continued to be supported by that even if things get

2:51:18worse because of the fact that people get online

2:51:20and they make purchases online and a significant source

2:51:24of revenue for cities in this climate.

2:51:31How much is that county pool is that coming in monthly.

2:51:35Yes it comes in monthly bill.

2:51:37Obviously it's taxes.

2:51:38It's all a part of the sales tax by sea.

2:51:41And that was a there was a lawsuit that was settled.

2:51:45It's called the real host case and following that sales taxes

2:51:50were distributed to jurisdictions based

2:51:52on their share of total sales.

2:51:54And we continue to get that benefit as well.

2:51:58Right that is good news.

2:52:01The next one I was looking at here that is concerned

2:52:06with the projections was the franchise

2:52:08tax just seeing where we're at.

2:52:11So far versus the monthly projections from here

2:52:15after I am mindful of that.

2:52:20And in fact, that is one of the things

2:52:21that I dug a little bit deeper into this time.

2:52:26One of the things I might mention

2:52:27in making these estimates and making

2:52:29these budgetary estimates we don't just look at things

2:52:32as things are currently.

2:52:34I've also looked at the last year,

2:52:35just to see about things go at this point in time

2:52:38to see if there's any likelihood that things

2:52:39could fall off the cliff.

2:52:42We may need to make the adjustments,

2:52:44but it's a bit too soon for that.

2:52:46We tend to get these county taxes at infrequent intervals.

2:52:49Sometimes it's two months of taxes.

2:52:51I'm sorry franchise taxes.

2:52:53I frequently demos to two or three months at a time.

2:52:57Sometimes it's a month ahead of time.

2:52:58And so on.

2:52:59So I'd like to get it.

2:53:00Let it run through the end of December

2:53:02before I will let it run in.

2:53:04If I have to, but I also want to mention to you that the budget

2:53:08itself is at the lowest level, I might add for the last four

2:53:12years for franchise taxes.

2:53:14So previously franchise tax estimates

2:53:18are somewhere in the ballpark of 1.35 to 1.4 million.

2:53:22That is the actual way in the region of

2:53:24and say you'll notice that the county the franchise tax budget

2:53:28for this is about 1.2, which is what they've been bringing

2:53:31in fairly comfortably over the last three to four

2:53:34to five years.

2:53:35So I'd like to let that drive for a little.

2:53:38Before I take a closer look at how that needs to be modified.

2:53:42Again these are things that might come back to us

2:53:44at the media.

2:53:46My immediate concern.

2:53:47Like I've said in my report is the direct impact of COVID

2:53:5119 charges for services and that seems

2:53:55to be something that seems to have been impacted sufficiently

2:53:59for us to alert you to the fact that that might need to be

2:54:03reconsidered at this point.

2:54:06OK And then lastly, looking at the business

2:54:13licenses it looks like that.

2:54:15Also fell short of our expectations.

2:54:17So what that says to me is to be on the lookout for once

2:54:23again, kind of tying back into this sales tax,

2:54:26maybe further decrease in our sales tax

2:54:29if we're not having as many business

2:54:32licenses renewed again.

2:54:37That's a fair point.

2:54:38The budget for the time 50,000 at the best of times

2:54:42we meet about 910,000 B dial that back

2:54:45to 850 because of course, we'd come in with about 762,000

2:54:51as of the end of October.

2:54:53I don't expect that to creep up much further beyond that.

2:54:57And they're looking potentially at a 60 or 70,000

2:54:59shortfall on that.

2:55:01But in relation to the point you mentioned lift sales

2:55:05even if retail has dropped off due to is due to COVID

2:55:09and business licenses reflect the drop in retail.

2:55:13Fortunately for us the pool has stepped up.

2:55:15So that has to a certain extent offset.

2:55:18Pedro OK.

2:55:20Thank you.

2:55:21That's all my questions.

2:55:22Sure well.

2:55:26And then Janet it looks like you have comments after that Janet.

2:55:30Yeah, Thanks mark.

2:55:34Thank you for the crafting of the bullet on the analysis.

2:55:39I think they were very helpful in highlighting what we need

2:55:43to be looking at with the big ticket items are directions

2:55:48that we need to be aware of.

2:55:51Unfortunately it's not very good news in the bullets.

2:55:55And I just wanted to see with COVID and the recession

2:56:02and cutting back on some of our services in the city.

2:56:08You mentioned that mid-year is when you'd

2:56:11like to make some change in midyear means

2:56:13what is that December mid-year when you're going

2:56:20to consider making changes.

2:56:22And then under financial considerations

2:56:26we talk about because of the bad news

2:56:29we're preparing some scenarios.

2:56:32So when do we start talking about the scenarios

2:56:34that we need to act on.

2:56:36I see the city manager shake your head.

2:56:38So just to jump in there for a minute.

2:56:41You're shaking your.

2:56:42Yes yes.

2:56:45Well I wasn't shaking my head at.

2:56:48But I'm happy to ask that question.

2:56:51So so there are several things that are actually,

2:56:55as we did state in the shock report

2:56:56that we are preparing scenarios.

2:56:59And as we have discussed with the city council

2:57:04that there's sort of two different things here.

2:57:07First of all, any further reductions that we would need

2:57:09to make to this budget our staff staff reductions, which

2:57:15equals service reductions.

2:57:17I do want to give kind of before I go any further,

2:57:21I want to give a hat tip right now to our staff team

2:57:24and especially our department directors.

2:57:27They have been incredibly diligent in watching

2:57:28their budgets constantly updating their data.

2:57:31I mean, I've worked here a long time.

2:57:33And even through the Great Recession.

2:57:34And I feel like right now this is probably the most frugal

2:57:37that we've ever had to be.

2:57:39And we are really laser focused on making sure that we're

2:57:41right sizing our budget.

2:57:43So yes, I want to give props to our department directors

2:57:46for being able to be really mindful

2:57:49of that as well as their staff, as well as our revenues.

2:57:52And yes I mean, right now we've talked

2:57:55a little bit about our recreation department.

2:57:56So I want to give a shout out to Chris Ben and his entire team

2:58:00that is doing everything they can

2:58:02within the restrictions that have

2:58:04been imposed on them to be able to try

2:58:06to provide those services.

2:58:09We are waiting for one of the things

2:58:11that we're waiting for is the month of December

2:58:13is a big milestone month for us.

2:58:15So we are confirming a lot of the revenues

2:58:17that we expect to come in including that big infusion

2:58:20of property taxes.

2:58:22There could be a sales tax increase

2:58:24as pointed out particularly coming into the holiday season.

2:58:28Again we're not counting on that,

2:58:30but that is certainly an aspect that could happen in December.

2:58:34But also the fiscal response plan confirming the impacts

2:58:39of the layoffs and the retirements

2:58:40that will be happening at the end of December.

2:58:42So again December is a big milestone

2:58:44month for us where a lot of this will take effect in January.

2:58:49We're really going to have a much better again.

2:58:52I know we keep talking about trying

2:58:53to come up with a much better picture, which

2:58:55is really difficult to do.

2:58:56And covered but certainly the impacts of the fiscal response

2:59:00plan taking full effect, as well as the revenues that we're

2:59:04waiting to confirm in January will definitely give us

2:59:08what that picture looks like.

2:59:10So as any reductions beats staff and services.

2:59:14I also want to make sure that the council remembers

2:59:17and the public knows that any staff

2:59:19impacts are subject to our civil service rules.

2:59:22Our personnel rules and regulations and our contracts

2:59:25with our bargaining units.

2:59:26So we cannot unilaterally impose reductions that would

2:59:30impact salary or benefits unless we

2:59:32meet with our marketing units.

2:59:35And this takes place at the bargaining table

2:59:36The council would be apprised in closed

2:59:38session of that happening.

2:59:40You have had concessions in the past.

2:59:42We have a price you have any updates with respect

2:59:45to labor negotiations.

2:59:47And just as a point of reference for the public because I know

2:59:49this has come up a few times.

2:59:51We the reason that this happens in closed session.

2:59:54And the reason that these negotiations happen

2:59:56confidentially is because we expect to negotiate

3:00:00at the table and not in public.

3:00:02We want to make sure each side has expectations

3:00:05for negotiating in good faith.

3:00:06So that is why the council is apprised

3:00:08of updates of these confidential negotiations in closed session.

3:00:13And if there's agreement when there is agreement

3:00:16on both sides, then we do report that to the public

3:00:19because we're not reporting, such things

3:00:21to the public at this time does not mean that there

3:00:23aren't discussions going on.

3:00:25There are.

3:00:26And so what I can say is we are indeed preparing

3:00:29for further reductions.

3:00:30Our preference would be to see how this quarter ends before we

3:00:34implement further cuts to staff because again, the layoffs do

3:00:38take that we've already implemented take

3:00:40effect at the end of December.

3:00:42And the services that those staff provide that

3:00:45would also go away.

3:00:46I think we would like to see how December shakes out.

3:00:50Again, this is with a huge caveat, which

3:00:54is if there's another lockdown that comes

3:00:56or if we have to take additional action because we are forced

3:01:00to stop services or programs that we're

3:01:02doing right now that we would have to take action super.

3:01:05And again, we also have those plans in place, including

3:01:09immediate furloughs or layoffs, which

3:01:11is what we had to do earlier this summer if you recall,

3:01:14we sent pretty much our entire part

3:01:16times when we did send our entire part

3:01:18time staff onto Furlough.

3:01:21So the situation remains uncertain.

3:01:23That is why we're continuing to monitor this,

3:01:25we're providing these monthly reports if things are as they

3:01:29are, however I think that it would be good for us

3:01:32to consider taking a look at what

3:01:35happens throughout the end of this order

3:01:38before we make further cuts.

3:01:40You know, I might get criticized for this,

3:01:44but I'm just going to say it anyway.

3:01:47Pulling back services and pulling back

3:01:50staff at the end of this year.

3:01:52Right before within the middle of all of this in the holiday

3:01:55season it would just be really Dutch

3:01:57it could potentially be detrimental to our residents

3:01:59and to our staff.

3:02:00So I'm just putting that out there.

3:02:02I'm just trying to be a human being.

3:02:04I think that it would be it would

3:02:07be it would be something for us to consider

3:02:10once the quarter is over.

3:02:12If we need to pull a trigger for further staff layoffs

3:02:15that I think that that could happen in January.

3:02:19So you're saying that you have thought of plan B and C

3:02:23and those things are being discussed.

3:02:26I know a lot of people have talked about furloughs

3:02:28but our furloughs do go through the end of the fiscal year

3:02:32for management and Rite Aid employees

3:02:36and you are in discussions with seiu

3:02:41or talk show Furlough action.

3:02:44Those are some things that Rochelle

3:02:45Pardue Okamoto had mentioned.

3:02:48So there's not much room for additional furloughs now.

3:02:51Right Well that is also due to negotiation.

3:02:59But my point is we are dealing you are dealing our city

3:03:03staff is dealing with these topics

3:03:05to be thinking of alternatives that will be coming up.

3:03:08Absolutely and by mid-year.

3:03:11That's that's a post December concept.

3:03:14The city is attracting about OK.

3:03:16Correct and I just and that is consistent with what we have

3:03:20been sharing with the city council

3:03:23that at the end of each quarter, which we did in October,

3:03:26we amended the budget in January, February

3:03:29whenever the meeting shakes out.

3:03:32I'm looking at January, we would amend the budget.

3:03:35So there's an a minimal budget Amendment at each quarter.

3:03:38But again, I give that a huge caveat because I mean,

3:03:42we're just watching very closely if things change and shift

3:03:46in the COVID environment, then we

3:03:49will be prepared to trigger immediate reductions

3:03:55if we have to.

3:03:57So this may be outside of the universe here.

3:04:00But today in the paper it was in our Bart system

3:04:04is under dramatic financial problems as well.

3:04:08And they're going to be discussing

3:04:09how to give early retirements to get rid of a lot of the staff.

3:04:15We can't do that because we don't have the money.

3:04:17Is this is that right to be able to pay out on early retirement.

3:04:21Should that be an option.

3:04:23Well, there's different ways to.

3:04:26I don't know exactly what Bart's doing.

3:04:28I know that there are different options

3:04:30through the purse system to provide service credits.

3:04:33Some cities have provided a cash payment capability

3:04:37but we certainly aren't in a position to do that.

3:04:41We had we had tried to survey our employees several months

3:04:45ago to see if there was one of the things

3:04:49that we were exploring was perhaps

3:04:52because it's already budgeted and it wouldn't

3:04:54be an additional cost perhaps paying the cost of health care,

3:04:58for example, or a continuing benefit

3:05:00if people wanted to retire.

3:05:02And actually that was not popular.

3:05:05And so we didn't.

3:05:06That is not something that we pursued.

3:05:09So the retirements that are happening