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Home My WebLink About05/05/2015 03Cii Minutes 04-24-2015 Council Public Safety CommitteeITEM TITLE: SUBMITTED BY: SUMMARY EXPLANATION: BUSINESS OF THE CITY COUNCIL YAKIMA, WASHINGTON AGENDA STATEMENT Item No. C.ii. For Meeting of: May 5, 2015 Public Safety Committee minutes of April 24, 2015 Dominic Rizzi, Chief of Police Resolution: Ordinance: Other (Specify): Council committee meeting minutes Contract: Contract Term: Start Date: End Date: Amount: Item Budgeted: Funding Source/Fiscal Impact: Strategic Priority: Insurance Required? No Mail to: Phone: APPROVED FOR SUBMITTAL: RECOMMENDATION: ATTACHMENTS: Description PSC minutes 4-24-15 Public Safety City Manager Upload Date 4/24/2015 Type E3eClku.ulp IMateiriiell Council Public Safety Committee April 24, 2015 MINUTES Members: Councilmember Maureen Adkison Councilmember Tom Dittmar Councilmember Dave Ettl (alt.) Staff: City Manager Tony O'Rourke Capt. Greg Copeland, Police Dep. Chief Ted Vander Houwen, Fire Prosecutor Cynthia Martinez, Legal Brooke Goosman, Legal Perry Tarrant, GFI Terri Croft, Police The meeting was called to order at 10:00. Dittmar chaired the meeting. It was MOVED by Adkison and SECONDED by Ettl to approve the minutes of the March 27, 2015 meeting. Motion PASSED unanimously. • Department of Corrections Interlocal Agreement Copeland advised that the YPD SWAT team would like to add a representative from the Washington State Department of Corrections to the Hostage Negotiations team. The advantages are that DOC has a more extensive and inclusive database, have extensive personal contact with offenders, and have authorities that the police don't have (i.e. — they may have authority to enter the offender's residence unannounced as a condition of probation where police would have to obtain a warrant). All of these would be a benefit in quickly diffusing a situation. DOC currently houses one officer at YPD so there is already a relationship between the agencies. Adkison inquired how often SWAT is called out. Copeland advised that it varies, we are currently in a low swing with only 3-4 callouts in the past year. SWAT does assist with high risk arrests. It was MOVED by Ettl and SECONDED by Adkison to move the agreement to the full council with the committee's recommendation to approve. Motion PASSED unanimously. • YPAL agreement/People for People agreement This issue was brought back to the committee for additional information on performance metrics and productivity of the YPAL/GFI activities due to the changes in staffing and leadership. Tarrant advised that the outreach and life skills courses are continuing to be offered by YPAL. The life skills course is a revolving program that continues to move participants through the program. Ettl inquired who was attending that course, if it was neighborhood kids, kids that were identified through the school survey, or identified through the outreach work. Tarrant advised the students come from both school and juvenile court referrals. Dittmar inquired the status of the executive director search for YPAL. Tarrant reported that one subject had been interviewed and another interview was scheduled for later that day. A new director should be identified by the end of the month. Ettl related that he had been contacted by a citizen who had previously served on the GFI steering committee who inquired what was going on with GFI, and he did not feel like he had an adequate answer. Part of the original GFI plan was to funnel outreach through YPAL, and although he understands the model has changed, he would like to have some information on the current model when he is asked. Tarrant referred to the report he presented to the committee in January 2015, which changed the focus from prevention to be more inclusive of intervention and suppression, while focusing the outreach efforts. O'Rourke stated that part of the take -away from the Dallas conference was that the GFI model was too broad, so it has been more finely tuned. The committee requested bullet points on the changes and current activities of the GFI, to include a description of how subjects are selected for outreach programs. The committee also asked for information regarding 211 usage/referrals to GFI. This information should be available in the People for People annual report and will be included when the agreement is sent back to full council. Ettl also wanted to be sure that the marketing component of 211 was being utilized so that citizens are aware they can call 211 for questions regarding gang activity or GFI. The 211 information is included will all GFI materials. It was MOVED by Ettl and SECONDED by Adkison to send these two items to the full council for consideration along with the requested staff reports. Motion PASSED unanimously. • Community Court update Martinez reported there had been some problems utilizing the database for the citizen survey, however they are now using a different database and hope to have the survey and public service announcements out the week of May 4, 2015. The focus area will be downtown and North 1st Street, and possibly some adjoining neighborhoods that are affected by criminal activity in those areas. Martinez reported on the visit to Seattle's community court. Seattle does not have information on recidivism. Spokane advises they don't see their participants become "crime free", however they do see an increase in the amount of time between offenses, for example, going from seeing someone in court every few weeks to a six-month gap. Seattle anecdotally reports similar results but does not have the statistics to back that up. O'Rourke advised that the survey will gauge the interest of the community in a community court system and find out what types of crimes they would like to see addressed. Martinez pointed out that on Seattle list of ineligible offenses, many of those have different programs other than community court to address them, such as prostitution. Martinez also noted that Olympia is now starting to research community courts and that the Center for Court Innovations recommended a visit to Clackamas County, Oregon to observe their community court as their demographics are similar to ours. Martinez stated that Judge Olwell had attended the Seattle visit with the group, however she had not had an opportunity to discuss her observations. Both judges support the current information gathering process. • GFI/Emergency Preparedness update Tarrant reported that the city will participate in the mandatory FFA functional exercise at the Yakima Air Terminal in September. Both hospitals will be involved in this exercise. YPD is also coordinating with the Department of Homeland Security for a bomb prevention table top exercise. This will be a resource exhaustion exercise. The plan that council adopted has been approved by the State. The State now recognizes the City of Yakima as an independent entity. We are now eligible for funding as an independent entity — the funding is set aside, the city must request it. There are two upcoming classes in emergency management for City employees in June. Council would be welcome to attend those classes. A training scenario was conducted at Perry Tech. The scenario was built around their emergency plan and helped strengthen their plan. The meeting was adjourned at 10:35 until the May 22, 2015 meeting. Approved: