[Public Safety on November 13, 2023. ]
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GOOD AFTERNOON. TODAY IS NOVEMBER 13TH AND IT'S 1:04.
I'M GOING TO CALL THE PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE MEETING TO ORDER.
OUR FIRST AGENDA ITEM IS APPROVAL OF THE OCTOBER 10TH MINUTES.
IS THERE A MOTION TO APPROVE? THERE'S A MOTION AND A SECOND.
ARE THERE ANY CHANGES OR CORRECTIONS? HEARING NONE. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR, PLEASE SAY AYE.
ANY OPPOSED? MINUTES PASS UNANIMOUSLY.
WELL, WE HAVE A PRETTY FULL AGENDA.
WE'RE GOING TO GO THROUGH IT AS QUICKLY AS WE CAN.
THE FIRST ONE IS A NEW ITEM THAT I INTEND TO HAVE EVERY MONTH AS OUR FIRST ITEM.
THAT HAS SOME KEY FIGURES, AND WE CAN START WITH POLICE SINCE YOU'RE ALREADY SITTING THERE, AND I JUST WANT TO SAY ON FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, I WAS HONORED TO JOIN DPD ON A RECRUITING TRIP IN CHICAGO AND REALLY UNDERSTAND IN A DIFFERENT WAY THAN I THINK I HAD PREVIOUSLY.
HOW YOU'RE DOING RECRUITING AND WHAT THE CHALLENGES ARE WITH SOME OF THE CANDIDATES, AND WE'LL BE LOOKING TO ADD SOME POLICY CHANGES AND UPDATES BASED ON THAT.
GOOD AFTERNOON, PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE.
I'M DEPUTY CHIEF WILLIAM GRIFFITH OVER THE PERSONNEL DIVISION.
SO JUST SOME QUICK HIGHLIGHTS OF OUR LAST MONTH RECRUITING EFFORTS.
JUST BASICALLY LAST MONTH, 46 INDIVIDUALS APPLIED FOR THE DALLAS POLICE DEPARTMENT, AND CURRENTLY WE HAVE 76 INDIVIDUALS IN BACKGROUND AWAITING TO GO TO THE JANUARY CLASS.
THERE WAS A CLASS THAT STARTED ON NOVEMBER THE 3RD.
IT SAYS 19, BUT AFTER THE MEMO WAS WRITTEN AND PRESENTED, WE ADDED ONE MORE.
SO WE HAD 20 ON THIS LAST ACADEMY CLASS.
ON THE PROFESSIONAL STAFF SIDE WE HAD 60 APPLY.
JUST TO LET YOU KNOW, WE DID HAVE AN HIRING EVENT FOR 9-1-1 COMMUNICATIONS AND DISPATCHERS.
WE SAW A LOT OF INTEREST IN THAT.
THAT'S WHY YOU'RE SEEING 60 APPLIED.
BASICALLY, WE HAVE SIX 9-1-1 CALL TAKERS IN BACKGROUND AND THAT AND A BACKGROUND POLICE INSTRUCTOR ALSO IN BACKGROUND AS WELL, AND WE HAVE TWO DISPATCHERS THAT ARE CURRENTLY IN BACKGROUND, AND FOR SOME ONBOARDING HIGHLIGHTS WE HAVE THREE POLICE REPORT SPECIALISTS, TWO DISPATCHERS, ONE SENIOR DISPATCHER AND OFFICE ASSISTANT, AND THAT IS FOR COMMUNICATIONS, AND JUST SOME HIGHLIGHTS IN OCTOBER OF WHERE OUR RECRUITING EFFORTS OCCURRED AT.
OUR BIGGEST ONE IS WE SPENT THE ENTIRE FAIR DOING RECRUITING.
WE DID HAVE A RECRUITING TABLE THERE AS WELL.
SO WE SPENT OUR THE THREE WEEKS OUT THERE AT THE FAIR ALONG WITH THE TFR.
SOME OTHER AREAS OF WE WENT TO WAS GRAMBLING UNIVERSITY, EASTFIELD COLLEGE, AND WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY, AND WE ACTUALLY WENT TO DETROIT AND VISITED SEVERAL COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES THERE AS WELL.
WE ALWAYS HAVE GOOD SUCCESS IN DETROIT AND MICHIGAN AREA AND ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS YOU HAVE.
GREAT. DOES ANYBODY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THE POLICE RECRUITING RETENTION UPDATE? NO. WELL, I'LL JUST SAY I THINK YOUR TEAM WAS EXTRAORDINARY ON THE TRIP, AND I DO THINK THAT IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE SHOULD ALL LEARN A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT AND SEE WHAT WE CAN DO TO HELP MAKE THIS PROCESS A LITTLE BIT EASIER TO GET TO YES.
I WAS JUST GOING TO ASK WHAT THE FOLLOW UP IS ON THE LIST THAT YOU GO TO, WHAT THE YIELD IS AND HOW YOU ALL MANEUVER THAT BASED ON WHAT KIND OF YIELD YOU GET AS FAR AS APPLICANTS OR QUALITY APPLICANTS IS.
WELL, IT'S TRADITIONALLY THE PLACES THAT WE GO TO ARE AREAS THAT WE HAVE TRADITIONALLY SAW SUCCESS IN RECRUITING, BUT A LOT OF TIMES WHEN WE GO TO UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES, IT'S ABOUT AN 18 MONTH TURNAROUND BEFORE WE CAN GET THEM INTO THE ACADEMY BECAUSE THEY'RE STILL IN SCHOOL, BUT WE WANT TO GET THEM INTERESTED.
WE GET THEIR INFORMATION, THEIR NAMES, AND WE STAY IN CONTACT WITH THEM.
THEY STILL INTERESTED IN THE DALLAS POLICE DEPARTMENT.
SO WE WANT TO KEEP THEM ENTHUSED, AND THEN WHEN WE REALIZE THAT IT'S ABOUT TIME FOR THEM TO GRADUATE FROM COLLEGE, WE MAKE CONTACT AGAIN AND SAY, HEY, WE'RE GOING TO BE HAVING AN ONSITE AT THIS LOCATION.
OR WE MAY BE ONE OF THESE LOCATIONS OR CLOSE BY TO WHERE WE CAN DO AN OUT-OF-STATE RECRUITING EVENT.
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SO WE MAY TRY TO KEEP THEM INTERESTED THE WHOLE ENTIRE TIME.WE GOT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE SHOW THAT WE LOVE THEM.
WE WANT THEM TO BE PART OF OUR DEPARTMENT.
IT'S A GREAT DEPARTMENT TO WORK AT.
SO WE KEEP THAT, BUT SOMETIMES WHEN WE GO TO UNIVERSITIES, THE TURNAROUND IS ABOUT 18 MONTHS.
IS THERE SOME OTHER PLACE WE SHOULD BE LOOKING WHERE WE MIGHT HAVE A NARROWER A TIGHTER TIME FRAME AND WHERE WE MIGHT ACTUALLY CONVERT SOMEONE TO BEING AN APPLICANT AND GOING THROUGH THE ACADEMY.
RIGHT, AND SO WHAT WE DO IS TRY TO ATTEND THOSE JOB FAIRS AS WELL.
SO JOB FAIR EVENTS HELP US AS WELL, AND WE HAVE JOINED A MEMBERSHIP TO A COMPANY WHO PUTS ON THESE JOB FAIRS AND IF WE SEE ONE THAT WE SHOULD BE INTERESTED IN GOING, WE TRY TO GO TO THOSE JOB FAIRS AS WELL.
THANK YOU, AND THEN DID YOU WANT TO MENTION ANYTHING MAYBE ABOUT BLUE LINE OR ANY OF THE MILITARY WORK THAT YOU'RE DOING? YEAH, SO WE'RE STILL WAITING ON THE GOVERNMENT TO COME BACK WITH US TO GIVE US THE APPROVAL TO START THAT PROGRAM, AND ONCE THEY DO, THAT WILL BE A GREAT PIPELINE TO APPLICANTS WHO ARE INTERESTED IN LAW ENFORCEMENT IN THE MILITARY CAN COME AND DO AN INTERNSHIP PROGRAM THAT'S PAID BY THE MILITARY FOR THAT SIX MONTHS TO GET THEM, SEE IF THEY'RE INTERESTED IN IN THE POLICE, POLICE FIELD, AND WE REALLY TCOLE ALLOWS MILITARY POLICE TO BE CONSIDERED LATERALS, AND SO WE TRY TO FOCUS ON THOSE PEOPLE THAT ARE IN THE MILITARY WHO HAVE BEEN PART OF THE MILITARY POLICE AS WELL.
CHIEF EVANS, MAYBE THE TOP FIVE THINGS YOU WANT TO SAY ABOUT YOUR MEMO.
GOOD MORNING. TOP FIVE THINGS SO FAR THIS YEAR DALLAS FIRE RESCUE.
WE'VE BEEN TO 35 DIFFERENT VISITS OF COLLEGES, JOB FAIRS AND EVENTS.
AMONG THOSE, WE'VE DONE A LOT OF WORK WITH DISD, SEVERAL UNIVERSITIES.
WE'VE BEEN TO THREE SIGNIFICANT CAREER FAIRS, BOTH THE DALLAS CAREER FAIR, THE NORTH TEXAS CAREER FAIR, AND THE TEXAS CAREER DAY. WE'VE ALSO SPENT THE ENTIRE FAIR, SPENT TIME AT THE FAIR TO RECRUIT THERE AS WELL.
CURRENTLY WE'VE WE HAD 1314 APPLICANTS THIS TIME AROUND.
WE'VE NOW WE'VE DOWN TO 120 THAT ARE STILL IN THE POOL, AND WE'RE LOOKING AT OF THOSE HIRING 90 FOR THE JANUARY TO MARCH TIMEFRAME, AND I'M OPEN TO QUESTIONS.
DO YOU ALL HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FOR HIM? HI. THANK YOU.
SO MY QUESTION IS ON THE DISQUALIFICATIONS.
HOW ARE THESE CATEGORIZED? I MEAN, ARE SOME OF THESE RETRIEVABLE AND IF SO, ARE WE WORKING WITH THEM? I MEAN, I REALIZE SOME MAY BE YOU'RE JUST NOT GOING TO BE A CANDIDATE FOR US EVER, BUT IS THERE A WAY TO CONTINUE WORKING ON THESE TO TURN THEM INTO APPLICANTS? THE VAST MAJORITY OF THE DISQUALIFIED INDIVIDUALS ARE TEMPORARY DISQUALIFICATIONS.
A LOT OF THE TIME IT HAS TO DO WITH TIME WHERE BETWEEN THE WHATEVER INFRACTION OR THE DRUG USAGE, THERE'S A CERTAIN TIME PERIOD THAT THEY HAVE TO WAIT TO AGE OUT OF. THAT SAME THING WITH THE TICKETS.
IF YOU'VE GOTTEN A TICKET LAST MONTH, THEN YOU'LL BE DISQUALIFIED FOR THIS GO AROUND, BUT OUR RECRUITERS KEEP IN CONTACT WITH THEM SO THEY'LL BE ELIGIBLE FOR FURTHER ROUNDS OF HIRING.
ALL RIGHT, AND THEN ON THE TIMING FROM THE SOURCING PHASE TO THE HIRING PHASE, IT LOOKS LIKE A REALLY LONG TIME AND I THINK WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THIS BEFORE.
IT SEEMS LIKE THAT WOULD BE SO OFF PUTTING.
ARE THERE ANY WAYS TO TIGHTEN IT? YES, MA'AM. THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I FOCUSED ON TRYING TO GET THAT DOWN.
WE'VE HAD SOME GOOD CONVERSATIONS WITH JARED AND CIVIL SERVICE, WHERE WE'RE LOOKING AT EXPANDING INSTEAD OF HAVING THE ONCE OR TWICE A YEAR HIRING APPLICATION PROCESS TO EXPANDING THAT TO ONCE A QUARTER.
SO WE'RE WORKING WITH HIM TO GET THAT DONE.
SO WITH THAT, THAT SHOULD SIGNIFICANTLY SHORTEN OUR WINDOW.
SO WE'RE PROJECTING THAT YOU SHOULD SEE SOME RESULTS WITH TIGHTER WINDOWS.
SO ARE YOU SAYING THAT PART OF THE HIRING, THE LENGTH ON THIS IS BECAUSE WE ONLY HIRE TWICE A YEAR.
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YES MA'AM, AND THAT ALSO IS IN LINE WITH US TRYING TO MOVE TO FOUR HIRING CLASSES A YEAR AS WELL.SO WITH US HAVING FOUR HIRING CLASSES, FOUR APPLICATION PERIODS TEND TO TEND TO MAKE SENSE.
SO WE'RE TALKING WITH CIVIL SERVICE AND THEY LOOK LIKE THEY'RE ON BOARD.
SO WE'RE HOPING TO MOVE FORWARD SHORTLY WITH THAT.
OKAY. WELL IT SOUNDS LIKE THAT'S MOVING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION.
THANK YOU THANK YOU, THANK YOU, CHIEF EVANS.
OH GO AHEAD, COUNCILMAN MORENO.
I'M GLAD TO HEAR ABOUT THE ENGAGEMENT THAT'S GOING ON.
FOR THOSE THAT CURRENTLY DON'T QUALIFY BUT MIGHT QUALIFY TWO MONTHS, SIX MONTHS DOWN THE ROAD, A YEAR DOWN THE ROAD, WOULD THOSE OPENINGS BE ALLOWED IN OUR 9-1-1 OPERATING SYSTEM OR SOMEWHERE WITHIN PUBLIC SAFETY? IT MIGHT NOT BE AT DPD OR WITHIN DFR, BUT ARE THE SAME QUALIFICATIONS FOR 9-1-1 OPERATORS.
OR IS THAT POSSIBLY AN AVENUE TO GET THEM IN? AND THEN ONCE THAT TIME HAS LAPSED, GETTING THEM BACK INTO THE RECRUITING CLASS? SO WITH REGARD TO 9-1-1 CALL TAKERS, THEY ARE TCOLE CERTIFIED.
SO THERE'S CERTAIN REQUIREMENTS, WHICH IS PART OF OUR DISQUALIFIERS THAT WOULD NOT ALLOW THEM TO BE 9-1-1 CALL TAKERS, BUT AS THE CHIEF SAID, THERE ARE SOME TIMES IT'S TIME IT'S DRUG USE AND OTHER THINGS THAT THEY MAY BE ABLE TO QUALIFY AT A LATER DATE THAT WE ALLOW THEM IN, BUT WE WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO MOVE THEM OVER TO THE 9-1-1 CALL TAKER OR DISPATCHER BECAUSE THEY ARE TCOLE CERTIFIED AS WELL.
SO THERE'S OUR RESTRICTIONS ON ON RECEIVING THEIR CERTIFICATION FOR THAT AS WELL.
THANK YOU. THANK YOU BOTH FOR YOUR UPDATE.
I'M ASSISTANT CHIEF ANGELA SHAW, AND I WILL BE DOING TODAY'S BRIEFING.
OKAY, SO BACKGROUND IN HISTORY.
SO OUR TRAINING ACADEMY BEGAN AT 5310 REDBIRD CENTER DRIVE IN 1990.
CURRENTLY, THE LEASE AT OUR TRAINING ACADEMY WILL EXPIRE IN JULY OF 2027, BUT SINCE OPENING IN 1990, WE'VE HAD 176 RECRUIT CLASSES PASSED THROUGH THE TEMPORARY FACILITY AND ACCOUNTING FOR OVER 6300 RECRUITS.
90% OF THE ORIGINAL CLASS THAT STARTED HAVE SINCE RETIRED.
AS WE ALL KNOW, POLICE TRAINING STANDARDS AND PRACTICES HAVE GROWN AND EVOLVED IN THE PAST 33 YEARS, AND THE CURRENT WAREHOUSE FACILITY THAT WE HAVE IS OUTDATED AND DOES NOT MEET THE NEEDS OF OUR DEPARTMENT.
NEXT SLIDE. SO IN JUNE OF 2021, A MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING WAS EXECUTED BETWEEN THE CITY OF DALLAS AND UNT DALLAS.
THE BENEFITS WERE TO HOPEFULLY PROVIDE A 21ST CENTURY TRAINING FACILITY, PROVIDE TRUE HIGHER EDUCATION ENVIRONMENT FOR OUR OFFICERS AND OUR EMPLOYEES, AND EXPAND TRAINING AND RETENTION AND REDUCE THE COST TO THE CITY FOR LAND AND INFRASTRUCTURE.
NEXT SLIDE. THE PURPOSE FOR TODAY'S PRESENTATION IS TO PROVIDE AN OVERVIEW OF WHERE WE ARE AT WITH THE PROJECT, WHICH WILL INCLUDE THE CURRENT STATUS OF THE PROJECT, GENERAL TIMELINES AND NEXT STEPS.
NEXT SLIDE. SO THE CURRENT STATUS OF THE PROJECT.
WE HAVE REQUESTED $50 MILLION AS PART OF THE 2024 BOND PACKAGE, AND WE HAVE SOME WONDERFUL FOLKS LIKE MISS STAUBACH GATES, WHO ARE DOING PRIVATE FUNDRAISING TO HELP US ACCOUNT FOR THE OTHER MONEY THAT WE DON'T HAVE.
THE CITY AND UNT ARE CURRENTLY IN NEGOTIATING THE PRELIMINARY GROUND LEASE CONTRACT.
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OBVIOUSLY, THE TERMS ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE, BUT WE ARE LOOKING AT USING FIVE ACRES ON THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF THE CAMPUS.WE'RE ASKING FOR AN INITIAL 40 YEAR LEASE WITH FOUR ADDITIONAL TEN YEAR RENEWAL OPTIONS.
AT THE EXPIRATION OR TERMINATION OF THE LEASE, THE TITLE TO THE IMPROVEMENTS WILL BECOME PROPERTY OF UNTD, AND AGAIN, WE HAVE SUBMITTED THE INITIAL PAPERWORK FOR THE 10 MILLION TO BE TRANSFERRED FOR THE CITY FROM THE STATE, AND LET'S SEE NEXT SLIDE.
PLEASE NOTE THERE IS A SKYBRIDGE IN THIS PHOTO AND IN THE PHOTOS.
IT IS NOT PART OF THE ACADEMY.
NEXT SLIDE. SO IN THIS PARTICULAR SLIDE, YOU WILL SEE THE CAMPUS MASTER PLAN THAT SHOWS THE LOCATION OF THE NEW ACADEMY LOCATED ON THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF UNTD.
THE NEW ACADEMY WILL SIT AGAIN ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF CAMP WISDOM IN APPROXIMATELY 1800 BLOCK.
THERE IS AN ADDITIONAL 4.5 ACRES PARCEL NEAR THE ACADEMY THAT COULD BE USED FOR RECRUIT HOUSING.
HERE IS A CLOSER VIEW AGAIN, FROM THE EAST IN YELLOW, YOU WILL SEE THE LOT THAT IS POSSIBLY COULD BE USED FOR RECRUIT HOUSING, AND IN THE PINK YOU WILL SEE THE PARKING LOT, BUT UNDERNEATH THE PARKING STRUCTURE THERE IS A VISION OF HAVING A FIREARMS TRAINING CENTER RANGE UNDERNEATH IT.
NEXT SLIDE. THIS WILL BE A VIEW FROM THE SOUTH.
SLIDE WILL BE ANOTHER VIEW FROM THE EAST, AND YOU CAN SEE IN THIS PICTURE AGAIN THE ON THE RIGHT WILL BE THE UNT EXCUSE ME OUR DALLAS POLICE ACADEMY, BUT TO THE LEFT YOU WILL SEE THE UNTD CRIMINAL JUSTICE CENTER THAT THEY ARE LOOKING TO BUILD AS WELL.
SO DPD IS CURRENTLY WORKING WITH OUR BOND OFFICE TO SECURE AN OWNER'S REP RFQ.
THE INTENT IS TO UTILIZE THE SAME PROCESS AS BEING DONE CURRENTLY WITH THE CONVENTION CENTER PROJECT, WHICH WOULD ALLOW FOR AN A&E FIRM TO PROVIDE STAFFING RESOURCES AT A LEVEL THAT IS NEEDED FOR A PROJECT OF THIS SCALE.
THE OWNER'S REPRESENTATIVE WILL HELP PROVIDE THE CITY THE EXPERTISE, THE PROJECT MANAGEMENT OVERSIGHT, HELP US CONTROL THE COSTS, STAY ON TIME, AND COMMUNICATE AND COORDINATE WITH ALL ASPECTS RELATED TO THIS PROJECT.
WE'RE HOPING TO SUBMIT THE DOCUMENTATION.
WE SEE THIS AS OUR DESIGN PHASE, AND WE HOPE TO BEGIN DESIGNING THE NEW ACADEMY, AND OBVIOUSLY WE'LL HAVE THE BOND ELECTION AND THEN THE REMAINDER OF 2024. WE'RE HOPEFUL THAT OUR PARTNERS WILL HELP US RAISE THE FUNDS THAT WE NEED TO FINISH PAYING FOR THE ACADEMY.
NEXT SLIDE, AND THEN THE VISION IS FOR 2025 THROUGH 2027 TO CONSTRUCT THE NEW ACADEMY AND THEN MOVE IN PRIOR TO OUR LEASE EXPIRING IN JULY OF 2027.
NEXT SLIDE, WHICH WILL BE OUR NEXT STEPS.
WE HOPE TO OBTAIN APPROVAL BY THE CITY AND DALLAS FOR THE GROUND LEASE CONTRACT.
WE ALSO HOPE TO FINALIZE A ROADMAP FOR DESIGNING THE NEW ACADEMY, HIRE A VENDOR TO BEGIN DESIGNING IT, AND THE TRAINING DIVISION WILL CONTINUE TO WORK WITH THE CITY AND THE STATE.
WHEN IT COMES TO POSSIBLE INCOME GENERATING OPPORTUNITIES RELATED TO OUR REGIONAL TRAINING ACADEMY, AND THEN WE WILL CONTINUE TO LOOK WITH OUR COMMUNITY OR EXCUSE ME, OUR CITY PARTNERS FOR OTHER LAND THAT THE CITY CURRENTLY OWNS TO HOUSE SO WE CAN RELOCATE OUR DRIVING TRACK AND OUR REALITY BASED TRAINING VILLAGE, AND WITH THAT CONCLUDES THE PRESENTATION.
HI THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS UPDATE AND FOR ALL THE HARD WORK THAT'S BEING DONE AROUND THIS.
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I KNOW. THANK YOU, MISS GATES, FOR WORKING ON RAISING MONEY TO HELP AUGMENT THIS.I AS PART OF THE CRITICAL FACILITIES BOND COMMITTEE IN 2017, I TOURED THIS FACILITY AND WAS JUST APPALLED BY THE STATE AND THEN TO COME BACK AS A NEW COUNCILMEMBER IN 2021 AND SEE IT IN THE SAME STATE.
WE HAVE TO BUILD A NEW DALLAS POLICE ACADEMY, AND BECAUSE OF THAT, I HAVE QUESTIONS ON PAGE SIX ABOUT WHAT THE CITY IS RESPONSIBLE FOR WITH REGARD TO DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE.
SO AS THIS IS ON THE UNT CAMPUS, I MEAN, THEY UNDERTAKE A LOT OF BIG CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS, AND SO AND I GUESS, MS. NICEWANDER, I WOULD ASK YOU AS WELL, SINCE WOULD IT BE RIGHT TO HAVE MORE OF THE OWNERSHIP OF THE CONSTRUCTION SIDE OF THIS LIE WITH UNT SINCE THEY ARE ALREADY BUILDING THEIR CAMPUS, HOW JUST WITH THE NAME OF GETTING TO THE FINISH LINE AS QUICK AS WE CAN FOR THE DALLAS POLICE ACADEMY.
WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO IS, IS ALIGN OURSELVES RIGHT NOW WITH THAT RFQ FOR THE OWNER'S REP, IN CASE THAT'S THE COURSE THAT WE TAKE, BUT WE'RE CERTAINLY OPEN TO WHATEVER IS MOST ADVANTAGEOUS, AND THAT WOULD KEEP US AS NIMBLE AS POSSIBLE THROUGHOUT THIS, THIS PROJECT.
SO WE'RE CERTAINLY OPEN TO THOSE CONVERSATIONS WITH UNT.
HAVE THEY EXPRESSED ANY THOUGHTS AROUND THIS OR WILLINGNESS TO HELP IF IT'S CLOSER TO THEIR CORE COMPETENCY THAN OURS? I WOULD PROBABLY HAVE TO DEFER THAT TO I'D HAVE TO GET BACK WITH YOU ON THAT.
I'M SORRY, I HAVE NOT HAD ANY CONVERSATIONS WITH UNT TO SPEAK TO THAT.
OKAY. WELL, I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THAT BECAUSE THAT IS WHAT THEY'RE DOING.
I BELIEVE WE HAVE A REPRESENTATIVE FROM UNT THAT'S HERE, DR.
WILLIAMS, IS SHE HERE? SHE WAS SUPPOSED TO COME.
I'D LOVE TO HEAR FROM THEM ABOUT THAT, ABOUT HOW WE COULD MANAGE IT OPTIMALLY.
ANOTHER QUESTION IS ON THE REVENUE GENERATING OPPORTUNITIES.
HAVE OTHERS EXPRESSED AN INTEREST EVEN THOUGH THIS IS WE'RE LOOKING OUT TO 2027.
HAVE OTHER MUNICIPALITIES, OTHER COUNTIES.
OTHERS SAID ONCE THIS IS UP AND RUNNING, WE'D LIKE TO DO OUR TRAINING IN DALLAS.
SO WE HAVE NOT SOLICITED OTHER PARTNERS YET.
I CAN TELL YOU THAT WE ALREADY TRAIN OTHER PEOPLE, INCLUDING DFR.
WE TRAIN ALL OF THEIR ARSON INVESTIGATORS.
SO WE DO SOME JOINT ACTIVE SHOOTER TRAINING WITH DISD AND DART, AND SO IT WOULD BE NATURAL THAT WE WOULD REACH OUT TO THEM TO SEE IF THAT IS SOMETHING THEY WOULD BE WILLING TO PARTICIPATE IN.
SURE. I MEAN, THE THIRD ITEM ON THAT LIST WAS MAINTENANCE, AND SO AS WE LOOK AT O&M, I MEAN, IT WOULD REALLY BE NICE IF IT WASN'T JUST LINE ITEMS MOVING BETWEEN CITY DEPARTMENTS, BUT RATHER SOME NEW REVENUE COMING IN.
WILLIAMS IS ON THE CALL VIRTUALLY, IF YOU'D LIKE TO ASK A QUESTION OF HER.
SURE. I DON'T KNOW IF YOU WERE ON WHEN WE WERE ASKED THE QUESTION DR.
WILLIAMS ABOUT WOULD SINCE UNT HAS GROWN AN EXTRAORDINARY CAMPUS FOR DALLAS, WOULD CONSTRUCTION OF THIS PROJECT BE SOMETHING THAT UNT WOULD CONSIDER MANAGING MORE OF, VERSUS HAVING IT BE THE CITY'S PROJECT WITH REGARD TO THE CONSTRUCTION ASPECT OF IT? THANK YOU FOR YOUR QUESTION.
I WOULD JUST SAY THAT I KNOW THOSE CONVERSATIONS HAVE TRANSPIRED RELATED TO THE CONSTRUCTION, WHETHER IT WOULD BE SOMETHING THAT WE WOULD TAKE ON AS A SYSTEM OR BE WILLING TO, AND.
I WON'T SAY THAT IT'S OFF THE TABLE, BUT THE CONVERSATIONS OF WHICH I'VE BEEN APPRIZED HAVE LED ME TO UNDERSTAND THAT THE CONSTRUCTION WOULD HAPPEN BY THE CITY, AND THAT I THINK THE PLEASURE WOULD BE TO HAVE WEIGH-IN CERTAINLY AND INVOLVEMENT, BUT I THINK AT THIS POINT, THE CONVERSATIONS HAVE BEEN AROUND THE CITY BUILDING THE FACILITY.
I WILL SAY ONE MORE THING OFF OF THAT.
SO THERE WERE ORIGINAL CONVERSATIONS RELATED TO IT, AND WHEN YOU PUT NUMBERS TO FIGURES, THERE WAS AN AVERAGE OF ABOUT A $3 MILLION RENT THAT WOULD PROBABLY BE ALLOCATED ON A BUILDING OF SUCH, AND I THINK, AGAIN, THIS CONVERSATION OCCURRED BEFORE ME THAT THE BETTER INTEREST FOR THE CITY WOULD BE TO
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BUILD THE BUILDING ITSELF.I HAVE ONE MORE BUT IF SOMEBODY ELSE.
OKAY, JUST FINALLY ON THE DRIVING TRACK AND THE REALITY BASED TRAINING VILLAGE IS THAT DOLLAR AMOUNT AND WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT FOR THE NEW FACILITY OR IS THAT A SEPARATE THAT'S SEPARATE BUDGET.
THANK YOU. THIS IS AN EXCITING PROJECT.
THANK YOU ALL FOR THE TOUR THAT YOU ALL DID FOR US NOT TOO LONG AGO.
I'LL START OFF ON PAGE THREE, KNOWING THAT THE LEASE IS SLATED TO EXPIRE IN 2027.
OBVIOUSLY, WE ALL WANT THIS FACILITY TO BE COMPLETED BY THEN.
ARE WE LOOKING INTO A SCENARIO THAT IT'S NOT COMPLETED IN 2027, AND DOING A ONE YEAR OR TWO YEAR EXTENSION TO ENSURE THAT OUR OFFICERS DO HAVE A PLACE TO BE? YES. YES, SIR, WE ARE PLANNING FOR THAT CONTINGENCY IF WE MISS OUR TIMELINE.
OKAY. THE BIG THING FOR ME IS GOING TO BE AROUND O&M AND WE SEE THE STATE OF THE CURRENT FACILITY.
IT'S SOMETHING THAT NONE OF US ARE PROUD OF.
HOW ARE WE GOING TO ENSURE THAT OUR NEW STATE OF THE ART FACILITY REMAINS THAT IT DOESN'T LOOK THE WAY IT DOES TODAY, AND SO WE HEARD ABOUT REVENUES THAT COULD POTENTIALLY BE COMING IN FROM OUTSIDE AGENCIES TO HELP OFFSET THAT, AND SO HOW ARE WE GOING TO ENSURE THAT THE FACILITY DOESN'T.
GREAT QUESTION. SO CURRENTLY WE'RE PAYING 1.089 MILLION PER YEAR IN RENT OF OUR CURRENT FACILITIES AND SOME FIGURES THAT WERE ORIGINALLY PROVIDED TO US BY UNT HAD THEY OWNED THE BUILDING, THERE WERE SOME MAINTENANCE NUMBERS WHICH AVERAGED OUT TO ABOUT 660,000 PER YEAR.
SO THAT 600,000 IS WHAT WE'RE EXPECTING OUR O&M TO BE? IT WAS FOR THE GENERAL MAINTENANCE AND GROUND LANDSCAPING.
YES, SIR, FOR THOSE TWO SPECIFIC ITEMS. OKAY, AND CAN YOU REMIND ME WHAT THE TOTAL NUMBER IS FOR CONSTRUCTION? I KNOW THAT IT HASN'T GONE TO DESIGN YET, BUT DO WE HAVE AN IDEA, AND THEN WHERE ARE WE WITH PRIVATE FUNDING.
SO THERE WAS SOME NUMBERS AND I HAVE THEM HERE.
SO ORIGINALLY WHEN THIS PARTICULAR PROJECT CAME UP, THERE WAS IT WAS ESTIMATED THAT IN APRIL OF 2022 FOR THE 200,000 SQUARE FOOT ACADEMY THAT WAS ORIGINALLY LOOKED AT, WAS GOING TO BE ABOUT $140 MILLION.
SO THAT'S KIND OF WHERE WE'RE AT RIGHT NOW.
NOTHING IS FINALIZED, BUT THAT WAS THE INITIAL NUMBERS THAT WE WERE GIVEN OKAY, AND THEN I GUESS THIS IS FOR THE HONORABLE GATES ON WHERE WE ARE WITH PRIVATE DOLLARS AND ARE WE LOOKING ALL OF THAT GAP FUNDING THAT WE HAVE CURRENTLY TO BE FROM PRIVATE ENTITIES? THANK YOU, JENNIFER GATES, AND VOLUNTEERING TO HELP FUNDRAISE ON THE PRIVATE SIDE OF THIS PROJECT, AND YES, IT'S IF WE HAD BUDGETED THAT 140, WE WOULD HAVE HAD A 50/50 MATCH WITH 70 MILLION.
WHY? I THINK IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT THAT WE KEEP IT AT 50 MILLION.
WE HAVE HAD GREAT MEETINGS WITH SOME POTENTIALLY LARGE DONORS, PROBABLY 15, THAT PEOPLE THAT WE'RE CURRENTLY WORKING WITH OUR FOUNDATIONS. COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION IS WE HAVE AN APPLICATION INTO THEM WE SHOULD KNOW IN DECEMBER.
SO HOPEFULLY BY THE FIRST QUARTER OF NEXT YEAR, WE'LL BE ABLE TO ANNOUNCE SOME FOUNDATIONS AS WELL AS SOME OTHER PARTNERS THAT ARE WAITING.
ONE, THEY WANT TO MAKE SURE THE CITY WAS FULLY SUPPORTIVE AND BEHIND THIS AND THAT WAS GOING TO HAVE BOND FUNDING, WHICH IT'S OBVIOUSLY NOT UNTIL YOU VOTE ON IT WILL THAT BE A FOR SURE, BUT IT IS LOOKING POSITIVE AND THAT WE, JOHN FORTUNE HAS BEEN MOVING FORWARD TO
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WE'LL BE ABLE TO USE THE STATE'S MONEY 2 MILLION TO GO FORWARD WITH THE DESIGN SO WE COULD STAY ON TRACK TO BE ABLE TO MOVE WHEN THE LEASE IS OVER FOR THE CURRENT.WE'VE HAD EXTREMELY POSITIVE INPUT, EVERYBODY.
WE'VE HAD SEVERAL TOURS OUT AT THE SITE AS YOU ALL HAVE TOURED AND AND THEY REALIZE THAT WE ARE MUCH NEED OF HAVING OUR OWN FACILITY INSTEAD OF LEASING WHERE WE CAN'T MAKE THE IMPROVEMENTS, AND BUT THEY DO WANT TO MAKE SURE THE CITY IS MOVING FORWARD, AND THEY WANT TO SEE WHERE SOME OF THESE FOUNDATIONS ARE GOING TO LINE UP, BUT I THINK EVERYBODY'S TOLD US THEY'RE GOING TO BE ON BOARD.
THANK YOU, AND, CHIEF SHAW, I KNOW THAT AGAIN, FACILITY HASN'T BEEN BUILT, BUT HAVE WE TALKED ABOUT ANY TERMS IN THE CONTRACT OF HOW MANY YEARS WE'RE LOOKING AT AND HOW THAT MEETS THE BOND OBLIGATION? I MEAN, DO WE HAVE TO HAVE 20 YEARS AT LEAST? WHAT'S GOING TO BE THE REQUIREMENT ON SOME OF THOSE TERMS? SO WHAT WE'RE HOPING FOR IS AN INITIAL 40 YEAR LEASE AT $1 A YEAR WITH FOUR 10-YEAR OPTIONS.
PERFECT. THE NEXT ONE IS JUST PAGE NINE, HIGHLIGHTING THE OPPORTUNITY FOR FOR HOUSING.
I THINK THAT'S GOING TO BE FABULOUS FOR TRAINING AND GETTING RECRUITS INTO THE CITY.
SO APPLAUD YOU ALL FOR PUSHING WITH THAT, AND THEN I'M JUST GOING TO END WITH, YES, WE NEED TO SEEK OTHER NEARBY SUBURBS TO TRY TO GET THEM TO DO THEIR TRAINING HERE IN THE CITY OF DALLAS TO HELP OFFSET SOME OF THOSE COSTS, AND WITH THAT, I'M FULLY SUPPORTIVE OF THE PROJECT AND I LOOK FORWARD TO THAT COMING TO COUNCIL.
THANK YOU. THANK YOU, COUNCILMEMBER STEWART.
OKAY. THIS IS JUST A VOICE OF SUPPORT.
I DO LIKE THIS PROJECT TREMENDOUSLY FOR A VARIETY OF REASONS.
SO YOU SAID THERE WAS $8.9 MILLION PAID PER YEAR IN FOR RENT FOR THE CURRENT FACILITY, IS THAT CORRECT? IT'S 1.089 MILLION.
SO 8.9 MAYBE OVER THE OKAY SOMEWHERE I HEARD THAT [INAUDIBLE] I JUST TO THOSE WHO ARE DOING BUDGETS LET'S EARMARK THAT MONEY. I DON'T WANT IT TO FLOAT OFF INTO THE ATMOSPHERE GET ABSORBED SOMEWHERE ELSE.
IT NEEDS TO BE IDENTIFIED AND SET ASIDE FOR KEEPING UP AND OPERATING THIS FACILITY, BECAUSE THIS IS GOING TO BE STATE OF THE ART AND A WELL DONE PROJECT, AND SO WE JUST NEED THE RESOURCES TO SUPPORT THAT AND TO KEEP IT TO KEEP IT STRONG, AND JUST ONE OTHER POINT, I DO LOVE ALSO ITS LOCATION ON THE UNT CAMPUS AND ITS CONNECTION WITH THEIR CRIMINAL JUSTICE DEPARTMENT.
I JUST THINK THE SYNERGY THERE WILL BE WILL BE GOOD, AND I THINK, AS I'VE HEARD OTHER PEOPLE SAY, IT COULD ALSO HELP US WITH RECRUITMENT THAT WE WILL HAVE STUDENTS ON THAT CAMPUS WHO WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO DRAW IN.
I THINK THERE ARE JUST SO MANY POSITIVES, AND I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THOSE WERE IN THE RECORD.
THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU.
A LOT OF TIMES WHEN THERE'S A BIG CAPITAL CAMPAIGN LIKE THIS, THERE'S SOME DONORS THAT WANT TO BE THE LAST DOLLARS, AND SO I'M WONDERING IF THERE'S AN AMOUNT THAT WE'VE SET OR AGREED TO THAT SAYS, OKAY, WHEN WE AT LEAST GET TO THIS POINT, WE'RE READY TO KICK OFF CONSTRUCTION.
WELL, I THINK THAT IS GOING TO BE DETERMINED BY WHAT WE I THINK WE HAVE TO HAVE AT LEAST 50% RAISE BEFORE, AND I THINK IT'S I DON'T KNOW WHAT MAYBE JENNY COULD SPEAK TO THAT, WHAT THE CITY'S REQUIREMENTS ARE.
I MEAN, I KNOW YOU CAN USE COMMERCIAL PAPER AFTER THE BOND ELECTION HAS PASSED, AND I THINK ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT HAS ACTUALLY MENTIONED TO ME THERE MAY BE WAYS TO HELP WITH THAT FINANCING, BUT WHAT WOULD BE WHAT WOULD BE THE AMOUNT THAT WOULD HAVE TO BE? SO I THINK TRADITIONALLY WITHIN THE CITY FACILITIES ARE THAT WE LOOK TO PUT INTO THE BOND PROGRAM.
IF WE HAVE 40% OF THE FUNDS, THEN WE MOVE FORWARD.
I KNOW IN 2017 BOND PROGRAM, THERE WERE SEVERAL PROJECTS THAT HAD MATCHING FUNDS THAT WERE KIND OF SET ASIDE, AND UNTIL WE REACHED WE RECEIVED THOSE MATCHING GOALS, THEN WE WOULDN'T ISSUE BONDS ON THEM.
I DON'T THINK THAT'S WHAT WE WANT TO DO HERE.
I WOULD SAY THOSE WERE MUCH SMALLER PROJECTS AS WELL.
SO WE MAY NEED TO TAKE A CLOSER LOOK AND IDENTIFY THAT DOLLAR AMOUNT.
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SO WHILE EVERYBODY'S PULLING YOUR HEARTSTRINGS, I'M JUST GOING TO SAY THIS IS THE INVESTMENT TO MAKE AND BE THE LEAD DONOR, BE THE FIRST ONE TO MAKE A BIG ONE.FOR THE RFQ CAN WE ENSURE THAT WHOEVER IS SELECTED, LIKE A MINIMUM REQUIREMENT, IS THAT THEY HAVE ACTUALLY COMPLETED A POLICE ACADEMY? YES, WE CAN PUT THAT IN THE CRITERIA.
I KNOW A NUMBER OF US HAVE GONE THROUGH REALITY BASED AND VIRTUAL TRAINING AT OUR CURRENT FACILITY, WHICH IS COMPLETELY INSUFFICIENT, BUT MANY TIMES THE REALITY BASED TRAINING INCLUDES BOTH POLICE AND FIRE, AND I'M WONDERING IF THAT HAS BEEN IMAGINED SO THAT OUR, ESPECIALLY OUR ENGINEERS, CAN DRIVE THE FIRE TRUCKS AROUND CORNERS AND BACK THEM INTO A STATION, AND OUR AMBULANCES CAN PRACTICE HOW THEY WOULD PULL UP TO VARIOUS BUILDINGS AND THAT SORT OF THING.
HAVE YOU LOOKED AT HAVING THAT CO-LOCATED? WE HAVE NOT, BUT THAT WE WILL DEFINITELY LOOK AT THAT.
YOU MAY HAVE SOME DONORS THAT LOVE THE FIREMEN.
SO IT SEEMS LIKE THAT MIGHT BE A GOOD SYNERGY.
WHEN ARE YOU EXPECTING TO SEE ANY KIND OF LEASE EXTENSION FOR OUR CURRENT FACILITY? IS THERE SOMETHING WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO DO OR WE'RE JUST GOING TO SEE HOW THAT TIMELINE PROCEEDS? SO TALKING TO CINDY ALVARADO AND REAL ESTATE GENERALLY ABOUT A YEAR IN ADVANCE, WE MAY HAVE TO MAKE A DECISION WHETHER WE'RE GOING TO EXTEND IT OR NOT.
SO I THINK PROBABLY BY 2026, THE BEGINNING, WE SHOULD KNOW WHAT WE'RE GOING TO BE DOING.
WELL, AFTER 30 YEARS OF RENT, THEY MIGHT WANT TO JUST LET US EXTEND MONTH TO MONTH.
THANK YOU. APPRECIATE THAT UPDATE.
OUR NEXT ITEM IS AN OVERVIEW OF THE EMERGENCY ALERT AND WARNING SYSTEMS, AND ROCKY.
THANK YOU, CHAIR, MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE.
ROCKY WAS DIRECTOR OF OFFICE OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT.
WE ARE GOING TO PRESENT TO YOU INFORMATION ABOUT OUR EMERGENCY ALERT AND WARNING SYSTEMS. AGAIN, I JUST WANT TO PREFACE THAT THIS IS NOT ABOUT CRISIS COMMUNICATION.
WE HAVE CATHERINE CUELLAR OVER HERE.
IF THERE ARE ANY QUESTIONS AROUND THAT, AND ALSO ABOUT A LARGER NOTIFICATION SYSTEM FOR OUR RESIDENTS OR COMMUNICATION THAT ARE NOT EMERGENCIES WILL HAVE BILL ZIELINSKI OVER HERE WHO CAN TALK THROUGH THAT PROCESS ON HOW THEY ARE MOVING TOWARDS A CITYWIDE ENTERPRISE SYSTEM. SO WITH THAT, I'M GOING TO TURN IT OVER TO OUR ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, TRAVIS HOUSTON, TO WALK US THROUGH THE PRESENTATION.
GOOD MORNING. TRAVIS HOUSTON, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF THE OFFICE OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT.
SO AS ROCKY MENTIONED WHILE CRISIS COMMUNICATIONS ARE ENCOMPASSING A WIDE VARIETY OF ACTIVITIES, THE OFFICE OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT HAS AN OPERATIONAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR ALERTS AND WARNINGS WITHIN THE CITY OF DALLAS, AND OVER TIME, ALERTING TECHNOLOGY HAS ADVANCED DRAMATICALLY.
WHERE WE PREVIOUSLY COULD ONLY CALL LANDLINE PHONES NOW WE CAN SEND A HIGHLY GEO TARGETED ALERTS TO CELL PHONES AND THERE'S NO SILVER BULLET WHEN IT COMES TO ALERTING TECHNOLOGY.
WE'RE OFTEN FACED WITH USING SOMEWHAT BLUNT TECHNOLOGIES TO COMMUNICATE REALLY COMPLICATED PROTECTIVE MEASURES OR THINGS LIKE THAT, AND THEN THERE'S STILL A LOT OF WORK TO BE DONE IN MAKING ALERTS MORE EQUITABLE AND INCLUSIVE.
SO OUR PURPOSE TODAY IS TO PROVIDE YOU WITH AN OVERVIEW OF THE ALERT AND WARNING CAPABILITIES WITHIN THE OFFICE OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT TO DESCRIBE WHEN AND HOW WE ACTIVATE THEM, AND SOLICIT YOUR FEEDBACK ON HOW WE CONTINUE TO GROW THESE CAPABILITIES TO BETTER REACH ALL CITY OF DALLAS RESIDENTS AND GUESTS.
NEXT SLIDE. SO JUST TO FIRST COVER GENERAL ALERTING PROTOCOLS.
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EMERGENCY COMMUNICATION CANNOT RELY ON A SINGLE METHOD OF NOTIFICATION.THERE'S ALSO CONSIDERABLE RISK.
THERE'S CONSIDERABLE RISK IN EMERGENCY ALERTING.
IT'S SOMETHING THAT'S INHERENTLY INTRUSIVE.
IT'S MEANT TO MAKE YOU TAKE SOME TYPE OF ACTION, AND WE'VE SEEN REALLY HIGH PROFILE EXAMPLES OF THAT GOING WRONG AND WHAT AN ERRANT NOTIFICATION CAN DO, LIKE THE INCOMING BALLISTIC MISSILE MESSAGE IN HAWAII, AND THEN THE 2017 RADIO INTRUSION INTO OUR OUTDOOR WARNING SYSTEM.
ALSO, WHILE WE'VE WORKED WITH COMMUNICATIONS, OUTREACH AND MARKETING TO TRANSLATE STANDARD MESSAGING INTO THE TOP FIVE SPOKEN LANGUAGES, OFTEN THE NEED TO RAPIDLY CREATE CUSTOM MESSAGES THAT FIT A PARTICULAR SITUATION MEANS THAT WE GENERALLY CAN ONLY TRANSLATE ONLY ISSUE ALERTS IN ENGLISH AND SPANISH.
SO NEXT WE'RE GOING TO JUMP INTO SOME OF THESE CAPABILITIES.
SO THE FIRST IS THE EMERGENCY NOTIFICATION SYSTEM OR DALLAS ALERT.
THEY CAN PUT THEIR EMAIL, PHONE ADDRESS AND.
..YEAH, EMAIL, PHONE AND ADDRESS, AND WE'VE ADVERTISED DALLAS ALERT ON VIRTUALLY EVERY PIECE OF OEM MARKETING MATERIAL AND ALL OF OUR COMMUNITY PREPAREDNESS PRESENTATIONS, SOCIAL MEDIA, ETCETERA, BUT WE'VE CONSISTENTLY HAD A REALLY DISMAL OPT IN RATE AT AROUND 1% OR 10,000 INDIVIDUALS IN THAT SYSTEM. SO THIS NEXT YEAR OR RIGHT NOW, WE'RE TRANSITIONING TO A NEW SYSTEM CALLED RAVE ALERT THAT ACTUALLY ALLOWS RESIDENTS TO JUST SIMPLY TEXT A SHORT CODE TO SIGN UP FOR EMERGENCY ALERTS, AND HAS AN OVERALL MORE MODERN APPROACH.
WE HOPE THAT MOVING FROM HAVING TO GO TO A WEBSITE AND SIGN UP AND GO THROUGH THAT ENTIRE PROCESS TO BEING ABLE TO JUST TEXT DALLAS TO TWO SHORT CODE WILL INCREASE THOSE SELF-REGISTRATION RATES.
THIS CURRENT SYSTEM ALSO ALLOWS US TO USE REVERSE 9-1-1.
SO INTERNALLY WE HAVE THE CITY EMPLOYEE NOTIFICATION SYSTEM, OR CENS.
IT'S UTILIZED AS A MASS NOTIFICATION TOOL FOR INTERNAL CITY EMPLOYEES.
IT'S ANOTHER REGISTRATION BASED SYSTEM, AND RIGHT NOW THAT'S NOT ACTIVE DIRECTORY AWARE.
SO IT DOES RELY ON THE EMPLOYEE TO GO AND SIGN UP THEMSELVES.
WHEN WE MOVE TO THE NEW RAVE ALERT SYSTEM THAT WILL BE ACTIVE DIRECTORY AWARE.
SO WE'LL AT LEAST BE ABLE TO GET THAT BASELINE AMOUNT OF INFORMATION ABOUT AN EMPLOYEE AND THEN ALSO BE ABLE TO UPLOAD ALL CITY ISSUED CELL PHONES, AND THEN WE'LL STILL HAVE TO ENCOURAGE INDIVIDUALS THAT HAVE THEIR PERSONAL CELL PHONES TO ADD THAT TO THE SYSTEM, BUT WE WILL GET BASELINE INFORMATION.
SWAT, THE DPD, NON-FATAL SHOOTING TEAM AND SEVERAL DFR SPECIAL TEAMS UTILIZES THE CENS TO ACTIVATE.
AN OEM USES THE SYSTEM TO ACTIVATE THE EMERGENCY OPERATIONS CENTER AND YOU ALL MAY BE FAMILIAR WITH THIS SYSTEM BECAUSE THIS IS WHAT DEPUTY CITY MANAGER FORTUNE USES TO SEND NOTIFICATIONS AFTER CRITICAL INCIDENTS.
NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. SO THE INTEGRATED PUBLIC ALERT AND WARNING SYSTEM IS A FEDERALLY MANAGED SYSTEM THAT'S USED NATIONWIDE TO SEND EMERGENCY ALERTS.
IT WAS IMPLEMENTED POST-KATRINA AS A WAY FOR THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO BOLSTER THEIR CAPABILITIES TO REACH WIDE SWATHS OF THE AMERICAN PUBLIC, AND IT MAKES UP A SUITE OF TOOLS THAT YOU CAN SEE ON THE SLIDE THERE.
IPAWS ITSELF IS ORGANIZED AND FUNDED BY THE FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY, BUT IT'S GOVERNED BY THE FCC, AND ALERTS CAN ONLY BE ISSUED WHEN THERE'S AN IMMINENT THREAT TO LIFE SAFETY OR THERE IS A DANGEROUS OR MISSING PERSON.
TODAY, WE'RE JUST GOING TO BRIEFLY DISCUSS THE TWO MOST UTILIZED ALERTING METHODS IN IPAWS.
SO THE MOST HIGH, HIGH IMPACT IPAWS CAPABILITY IS THE WIRELESS EMERGENCY ALERT SYSTEM.
THESE ALERTS ARE GEO TARGETED DOWN TO ONE TENTH OF A MILE.
SO YOU CAN YOU CAN TARGET A REALLY EXTREMELY SPECIFIC POPULATION WITHOUT OVER ALERTING AND CAUSING UNNECESSARY CONCERN, AND MAJOR IMPROVEMENTS HAVE BEEN MADE TO THIS SYSTEM OVER THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS. PREVIOUSLY, YOU COULD ONLY SEND 90 CHARACTER ENGLISH ONLY MESSAGES.
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NOW YOU CAN SEND ENGLISH AND SPANISH MESSAGES THAT'LL DISPLAY A DIFFERENT ONE.DEPENDING ON THE PHONE SETTINGS.
THEY CAN BE 360 CHARACTERS AND HAVE EMBEDDED LINKS TO A WEBSITE WITH MORE INFORMATION.
SO WE'VE DONE A COUPLE OF LIVE TESTS.
WE DID A LIVE TEST IN 2018 AND 2019, AND THEN MONTHLY OEM STAFF CONDUCTS A PROFICIENCY TEST, WHAT'S CALLED THE IPAWS LAB, THAT SIMULATES GOING THROUGH THE PROCESS OF SENDING A REAL ALERT, BUT DOESN'T ACTUALLY SEND ONE.
WE EMBEDDED A LINK THERE SO FOLKS COULD CLICK THE LINK, GET MORE INFORMATION, SEE THE MAP.
ET CETERA. NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE.
SO THE EMERGENCY ALERT SYSTEM IS ANOTHER TECHNOLOGY WITHIN THE UMBRELLA.
I'M SURE EVERYONE'S FAMILIAR WITH THE EMERGENCY ALERT SYSTEM IS WHAT YOU SEE ON YOUR TV.
IT'S WHAT YOU HEAR ON THE RADIO.
IT'S KIND OF A LEGACY SYSTEM, BUT IT'S STILL EXTREMELY EFFECTIVE.
IT NOTIFIES A VERY LARGE GEOGRAPHIC AREA, SO IT'S NOT USED AS MUCH WHENEVER THERE'S SOMETHING THAT'S VERY SPECIFIC AND BROADCASTERS ALMOST PARTICIPATE IN THIS SYSTEM, BUT THEY HAVE A LOT OF FLEXIBILITY IN HOW THEY DISPLAY THOSE ALERTS, WHETHER THAT'S TAKING OVER THE WHOLE SCREEN OR SCROLLING AT THE BOTTOM, THEY HAVE THE ABILITY TO CHOOSE.
SO EMERGENCY MANAGERS PREPARE FOR THE WORST CASE SCENARIO, AND THAT PHILOSOPHY CERTAINLY EXTENDS TO ALERTS AND WARNINGS AND THE ABILITY TO PROVIDE EMERGENCY INFORMATION.
SO THE NATIONAL PUBLIC WARNING SYSTEM STATIONS ARE STRATEGICALLY LOCATED THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY AND CAN REACH MORE THAN 90% OF THE US POPULATION USING THE AM FREQUENCIES AND THESE THESE SITES ARE DESIGNED TO WITHSTAND EVEN THE MOST SIGNIFICANT ATTACKS, LIKE A NUCLEAR ATTACK, AN EMP.
THEY'RE FULLY STOCKED SHELTERS, FOOD FOR 60 DAYS, COMPOSTING, TOILET COURT, ETCETERA, AND LOCAL EMERGENCY MANAGERS ARE TRAINED TO UTILIZE THIS LOCATION IN THE EVENT THAT FEMA IS UNABLE TO, TO GET THERE AND SEND THOSE ALERTS, AND SO IF WE HAVE SOMEONE IN THIS SHELTER, YOU CAN EXPECT THAT WHATEVER HAS HAPPENED IS MORE CATASTROPHIC THAN ANYTHING WE'VE EVER SEEN IN NORTH TEXAS.
ALL RIGHT. OUTDOOR WARNING SYSTEM.
SO WE HAVE 178 SIRENS STRATEGICALLY INSTALLED THROUGHOUT THE CITY.
WHILE ACTIVATION CRITERIA IS UNIQUE TO EVERY JURISDICTION, OURS IS ON THE SLIDE.
THERE IS A REGIONAL FRAMEWORK EXISTS THAT WAS DEVELOPED IN COORDINATION WITH THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE, EMERGENCY MANAGERS AND BROADCAST METEOROLOGISTS AND OEM, AND WE'RE GOING TO ACTIVATE THE SIRENS.
WE FOLLOW THIS ACTIVATION CRITERIA PRETTY CLOSELY, BUT WE DO ALSO CONSIDER OTHER THINGS LIKE OBSERVED CONDITIONS, TIME OF DAY, THE SPEED OF THE STORM, PROXIMITY TO DALLAS, AND SPECIAL EVENTS THAT MAY BE GOING ON.
WHENEVER WE ISSUE AN ALERT FOR ANY REASON, THE VERY NEXT THING WE DO IS GET ON SOCIAL MEDIA AND SAY, THIS IS WHY WE ISSUED THAT ALERT, WHETHER THAT WAS SOUNDING THE SIRENS OR OTHERWISE. WE KNOW THAT MANY RESIDENTS LOOK TOWARDS THOSE SOURCES FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION, AND OUR PARTNERS IN COMMUNICATIONS, OUTREACH AND MARKETING REALLY HELP US BY BOOSTING ALL OF THOSE COMMUNICATIONS THROUGH THEIR CHANNELS, AND WHAT WE SEE IS THAT AFTER EVERY DISASTER OR EVEN SMALLER EMERGENCY, WE GET A REAL BIG BOOST IN NEW FOLLOWERS.
SO WE KNOW THAT PEOPLE ARE LOOKING AND SEEKING OUT THAT INFORMATION, AND THEN IN WORKING WITH COMMUNICATIONS, WE HAVE TAKEN EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS INFORMATION AND TRANSLATED IT INTO THE TOP FIVE LANGUAGE SPOKEN LANGUAGES SPOKEN IN DALLAS.
AGAIN, A MAJOR UPGRADE I THINK IS GOING TO BE SIMPLIFYING THE PROCESS FOR ACTUALLY SIGNING UP FOR EMERGENCY NOTIFICATIONS AND THEN FINALLY, WE'RE ALWAYS LOOKING FOR BETTER WAYS THAT WE CAN COMMUNICATE EMERGENCY INFORMATION.
AS STATED, THERE'S NO SILVER BULLET AND YOU NEED A LOT OF TOOLS IN THE TOOLBOX.
SO THANK YOU. HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS.
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THANK YOU. COUNCILMEMBER REYNOLDS.THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION.
I'M PLEASED TO SEE YOU GUYS BEING PROACTIVE IN THE VARIOUS OPTIONS, ESPECIALLY WHEN IT COMES TO OUR HEARING IMPAIRED, AND OBVIOUSLY TRANSLATION IN SPANISH IS KEY WHEN WORKING WITH IPO.
ARE WE LOOKING AT SLIDES THAT ARE ALREADY SORT OF A TEMPLATE THAT ARE READY TO GO FASTER THAN RATHER THAN WAITING ON SOMEONE TO HAVE TO CREATE A NEW FLYER OR A NEW SLIDE DECK.
IS THERE SOME TEMPLATES THAT ARE ALREADY KIND OF THEY'RE AVAILABLE AND THEY'RE JUST KIND OF TWEAKED TO THE SITUATION AT THE MOMENT? YES, ABSOLUTELY.
AS YOU MENTIONED JUST A MINUTE AGO ON SLIDE NUMBER 14, WE HAVE CANNED SOCIAL MEDIA SLIDES READY TO GO, AND WE CONTINUE WORKING WITH THE MOST THE HAZARDS THAT WE SEE IN DALLAS ALL THE TIME.
WE HAVE THOSE AND WE HAVE THE ABILITY WORKING WITH COMM WHEN WE DO ACTIVATE FOR ANY REASON, WE ALWAYS HAVE A PIO IN OUR OFFICE OR IN OUR EOC, AND WE CAN QUICKLY CRAFT THAT.
THANK YOU. COUNCILMEMBER STEWART.
THANK YOU. I'M CONCERNED ABOUT THE LANGUAGES.
SO IN MY DISTRICT AT LAKE HIGHLANDS HIGH SCHOOL, THERE ARE LIKE 65 LANGUAGE DIALECTS AND THERE ARE A LOT OF KIDDOS WHO FALL INTO THAT CATEGORY, AND CERTAINLY A LOT OF FAMILIES IN CERTAIN AREAS OF THE DISTRICT, AND I DON'T OBVIOUSLY YOU CAN'T DO ALL 65, BUT I'M SURE WE COULD PICK OUT THE TOP TEN.
SO I THINK YOU WERE MENTIONING THOSE LATER IN THE SLIDE.
MAYBE WITH RESPECT TO SOCIAL MEDIA, YOU'VE GOTTEN THE TOP FIVE LANGUAGES, BUT WAS IT THE TEXT MESSAGING AT THE BEGINNING OF YOUR PRESENTATION THAT YOU SAID IT WAS REALLY ONLY YOU COULD ONLY DO ENGLISH AND SPANISH? SO WHEN I SAID ONLY ENGLISH AND SPANISH, IT'S REALLY WELL, I MEAN, THE SHORT ANSWER IS YES WHEN SENDING ONE OF THOSE ALERTS, IF WE HAVE SOMETHING THAT'S REQUIRING AN IMMEDIATE PROTECTIVE MEASURE, SHELTER IN PLACE NOTICE OR I MEAN ACTIVE SHOOTER NOTIFICATION OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT, THE SPEED AT WHICH WE NEED TO GET THAT INFORMATION OUT IS REALLY FASTER THAN WE'RE ABLE TO GET SOMETHING TRANSLATED INTO THAT MANY DIFFERENT LANGUAGES.
AS IPAWS CONTINUES TO MATURE, I REALLY HOPE TO SEE THAT ADDITIONAL LANGUAGES WILL BE BROUGHT ON, BUT WHAT WHAT I THINK WE WHAT I THINK WE CAN DO IS CONTINUE TO LOOK AT MAYBE EVEN EXPANDING BEYOND JUST THESE TOP FIVE LANGUAGES INTO SOME OF THE LANGUAGES THAT ARE MORE SPECIFIC AND IDENTIFY WHAT COULD WE DO IN ADVANCE TO TEMPLATE SOME OF THOSE MESSAGES OUT? RIGHT AND I THINK THAT'S WHAT I WAS GOING TO SAY.
IF IT'S A FLASH FLOOD WARNING, A TORNADO WARNING, AN ACTIVE SHOOTER, WE CAN WE KNOW WHAT WHAT MAYBE 90% OF THOSE MESSAGES WILL BE, AND SO WE COULD GO AHEAD AND GET THOSE TRANSLATED AHEAD OF TIME AND HAVE THOSE OUT, AND I DON'T KNOW WHEN YOU SIGN UP, IF YOU SIGN UP TO RECEIVE THE TEXT MESSAGE IN A PARTICULAR LANGUAGE, I DON'T KNOW HOW THAT PART IS WORKING, BUT ANYTHING WE CAN DO TO KEEP THAT BEAR THAT IN MIND, BECAUSE I DO THINK WE HAVE JUST A REALLY SIGNIFICANT REFUGEE POPULATION THROUGHOUT THE CITY, AND AND THEY SOMETIMES HAVE TROUBLE NAVIGATING THE NEW CULTURE AND THE NEW WORLD THAT THEY'RE LIVING IN.
SO HAVING THAT PIECE, WHICH IS ALREADY GOING TO CREATE A LOT OF ANXIETY ANYWAY, HAVING SOMETHING FOR THEM, I THINK COULD BE VERY BENEFICIAL AND HELP WITH THEIR ABILITY TO INTERACT AND UNDERSTAND WHAT'S EXPECTED OF THEM.
ABSOLUTELY, AND ON THE PREPAREDNESS SIDE, I THINK IT WOULD ALSO BE REALLY GREAT TO WORK WITH YOU IN YOUR OFFICE ON WAYS THAT WE CAN REACH THOSE COMMUNITIES ON THE FRONT END, MAKE SURE THEY UNDERSTAND HOW TO GET THIS INFORMATION, HOW TO GET PREPARED, ALL OF THAT.
YES, I'M MORE THAN HAPPY TO WORK WITH YOU ON THAT.
THANK YOU. THANKS. THANK YOU, COUNCILMEMBER WILLIS.
SURE. I WANTED TO GO BACK TO THE RAVE ALERT SYSTEM.
SO THAT IS SOMETHING THAT'S FOR THE GENERAL POPULACE, NOT JUST CITY EMPLOYEES, RIGHT? IT WILL BE BOTH.
OKAY, AND I MAY HAVE MISSED THE TIMING ON WHEN YOU EXPECT THAT CONVERSION TO TAKE PLACE.
SO WE'RE IN THE PROCESS RIGHT NOW OF THE TRANSITION FROM OUR OLD SYSTEM, VESTA.
WE HAVE A LOT OF LEGACY DATA, A LOT OF THINGS.
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HOPING IN THE NEXT MONTH OR TWO TO BE COMPLETELY MOVED OVER TO RAVE.WELL, IN THE SPIRIT OF COMMUNICATING THAT OUT, I'D LOVE TO SEE US IMPROVE OUR DISMAL OPT IN RATE OR WHATEVER AND AND SEE IF WE CAN ALL WORK ON GETTING THOSE ON OUR NEWSLETTER LIST TO SIGN UP, SO PLEASE KEEP US INFORMED AS TO WHEN THAT HAPPENS.
THEN MY OTHER QUESTION WAS ON PAGE 12.
WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT THE OUTDOOR WARNING SYSTEM YOU BROUGHT UP, THE TIME OF DAY MIGHT HAVE A BEARING ON WHEN THAT IS USED, AND I LOOKED AT THE SECOND BULLET AND I'M JUST WONDERING, IS OUR OBJECTIVE RIGHT.
IT SAYS INTENDED TO WARN INDIVIDUALS OUTSIDE TO SEEK SHELTER AND ADDITIONAL INFORMATION, BUT HOW ELSE DO WE WARN PEOPLE WHO MAY BE IN FOR AN EVENING, BUT STILL WOULD NEED TO TAKE BETTER SHELTER WITHIN THEIR HOME? SO AGAIN, THE OUTDOOR WARNING SYSTEM WAS DESIGNED FOR PEOPLE IF THEY ARE OUTSIDE FOR SPECIAL EVENTS OR TO GO INSIDE AND GET ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.
NOW, IF THEY'RE ALREADY INSIDE, WE WOULD RELY MORE ON THE BROADCAST MEDIA, OUR SOCIAL FEEDS TO GET ADDITIONAL INFORMATION. SO THAT'S HOW WE WOULD DO THAT, BUT THE WHOLE PURPOSE OF THE OUTDOOR, THAT'S WHY IT'S CALLED THE OUTDOOR WARNING SYSTEM FOR PEOPLE TO COME IN, AND I UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU'RE SAYING EVEN DURING THE EF3 TORNADO THAT WENT THROUGH DALLAS THERE WAS A DALLAS COWBOY GAME GOING ON, AND ONE OF THE CHANNELS DID NOT BREAK IN AND TELL PEOPLE THAT THERE WAS A TORNADO COMING DOWN AT THEM.
SO WE HAVE TO RELY ON OUR BROADCAST PARTNERS AND OUR MEDIA PARTNERS TO BE ABLE TO GET THAT MESSAGE OUR REACH IS VERY MINIMAL BASED ON WHAT THE BROADCAST MEDIA HAS SO WELL, AND I UNDERSTAND THAT, BUT I MEAN, WITH ALL THE CLUTTER OUT THERE, EVEN WHEN THOSE MESSAGES COME ACROSS YOU, I GUESS YOU MIGHT TEND TO PAY ATTENTION, BUT WHEN YOU HEAR THAT SIREN GO OFF, YOU DON'T HEAR THAT ALL THE TIME AND SO IT'S A BIT OF A CLARION CALL THAT, OH MY GOSH, SOMETHING'S GOING ON, AND SO THAT'S WHY, EVEN THOUGH WE CALL IT THE OUTDOOR WARNING SYSTEM TO GET YOU FROM OUTSIDE, INSIDE, I THINK IT'S REALLY JUST A WARNING SYSTEM THAT CUTS THROUGH SOME OF THE OTHER THINGS THAT PEOPLE ARE DOING AND MIGHT KIND OF GO STRAIGHT TO GO IN GETTING THEM TO PAY ATTENTION AND GET TO SAFETY.
IT'S WE REALLY TRY AND MOVE AWAY FROM THE CONCEPT THAT THESE ARE THE TORNADO SIRENS, THE ACTION THAT WE'RE TRYING TO MAKE SURE PEOPLE TAKE WHENEVER THEY HEAR THEM IS TO GO INSIDE AND SEEK ADDITIONAL INFORMATION, AND SO I WOULD ALSO PLUG THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AS BEING REALLY EFFECTIVE IN HOW THEY ISSUE ALERTS, EITHER THROUGH THE WIRELESS EMERGENCY ALERT SYSTEM, NO WEATHER RADIO THROUGH THEIR SOCIAL CHANNELS.
THANK YOU. COUNCILMEMBER BLACKMON, DID YOU HAVE A QUESTION ON THIS BRIEFING? NO. OKAY. I JUST WANT TO RUN THROUGH QUICKLY A COUPLE OF THINGS HERE.
SO THE EMERGENCY NOTIFICATION SYSTEM HAS ITS OWN SIGNUP, IS THAT CORRECT? YES, MA'AM, AND HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE SIGNED UP FOR THAT.
OKAY, AND WHO CAN SEND OUT THAT ALERT.
OEM IS SENDING OUT THAT ALERT, AND SPECIFICALLY, WHAT KINDS OF THINGS ARE YOU ALERTING ON THAT ONE? WE HAVE AN SOP, AND I DON'T KNOW IF TRAVIS HAS THAT READILY AVAILABLE, BUT WE COULD DO FOR SEVERE WEATHER.
IF THERE'S A FLOOD WARNING TO A CERTAIN AREA THAT WE KNOW THERE'S A LOW LYING AREAS, AND IF YOU HAVE PEOPLE FROM WITHIN THAT GEOGRAPHIC AREA SIGNED UP, YOU CAN SEND AN ALERT OUT TO THEM. IT COULD BE FOR ANY AND ALL REASONS.
YES. THEY'RE NOT SENDING IT TO EVERYONE.
WHAT ABOUT IF WE WANT TO HAVE THE CITY PROMOTE SOMETHING? ARE THEY ABLE TO USE THIS ALERT SYSTEM IF THEY HAVE SIGNED UP? AND IF THAT IS A POLICY THAT WE ALL AGREE UPON, THAT IF THE COUNCIL MAKES THAT POLICY.
YES, WE COULD, WE COULD USE THAT SYSTEM, BUT THEY HAVE TO SIGN UP WE CANNOT SEND A ALERT.
RIGHT, BUT THE INTEGRATED PUBLIC ALERT AND WARNING SYSTEM, HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE SIGNED UP FOR THAT.
IT'S SIMILAR TO THE [INAUDIBLE] IT'S A FEDERAL SYSTEM.
WE CALL IT WEA WIRELESS EMERGENCY ALERT.
IT GETS TO YOUR PHONE UNLESS YOU TURN OFF THAT WEA ALERT ON YOUR PHONE.
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SO FOR YOU, THE ONLY ONE WHERE PEOPLE ARE SIGNING UP IS THE EMERGENCY NOTIFICATION SYSTEM.CORRECT, BUT THEN THE CITY COMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENT HAS A WHOLE OTHER SYSTEM.
BILL AND CATHERINE, TALK ABOUT THE PROCESS THEY'RE GOING THROUGH RIGHT NOW IN IN LOOKING AT CITYWIDE ENTERPRISE WIDE SYSTEMS, I THINK BILL'S HERE.
OKAY. WELL BEFORE BEFORE WE DO THAT I DO KNOW.
COME GET COMFORTABLE, BUT LET ME ASK ANOTHER QUESTION BEFORE WE GET THERE.
SO YOU HAVE IN HERE ABOUT THIS RAVE SYSTEM.
SO ARE YOU GOING THROUGH AN RFP OR THE VENDOR IS CHANGING SOMEHOW.
YEAH. SO AND I'LL LET BILL EXPAND ON THAT.
RIGHT NOW WE HAVE WHAT WE HAVE.
THE VESTA SYSTEM IS OWNED BY MOTOROLA, AND MOTOROLA ACQUIRED RAVE ALERT RECENTLY, AND SO WHAT THEY ARE DOING IS MOVING US OVER TO THE RAVE ALERT, WHICH IS A MUCH BETTER SYSTEM THAN THE EXISTING VESTA SYSTEM.
OUR CURRENT CONTRACT WITH VISTA GOES THROUGH OCTOBER 2024.
WE HAVE A LOT OF OUR PEERS AROUND THE NATION THAT ARE USING RAVE ALERT.
THERE MIGHT BE AN OPTION OF EXTENDING THE CONTRACT AND THEN DEPENDING ON ITS WHOLE STUDY OF MASS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, RAVE COULD OR COULD NOT BE A PART OF IT.
SO I'LL LET BILL EXPAND ON THAT.
WELL, I'M JUST GOING TO PAUSE.
I'M NOT SURE WE ACTUALLY HAVE TO HAVE THAT ANSWER AT THIS POINT, ALTHOUGH LIKE PLEASE GET ON THE AGENDA FOR THE FUTURE, BUT MY CONCERN IS THAT WE WOULD AUTOMATICALLY MOVE TO A NEW VENDOR AND NOT HAVE AN RFP BECAUSE THERE ARE A LOT OF VENDORS THAT DO THIS WORK, AND I THINK OUR OTHER LARGE CITIES ARE ACTUALLY NOT ON RAVE IN TEXAS.
IS THAT TRUE? I'M NOT SURE WHICH OTHER CITIES ARE ON RAVE, BUT WHEN WE WHEN WE SAY WE ARE MOVING TO A VENDOR WITHOUT AN RFP, THAT'S NOT TRUE BECAUSE IT'S THE SAME VENDOR, MOTOROLA. WE HAVE A CONTRACT WITH THEM THROUGH THE END OF 2024.
THEY'RE MOVING US FROM AN OLDER VISTA SYSTEM TO THIS NEW TECHNOLOGY ACQUIRED RAVE ALERT, AND WE HAVE THROUGH OCTOBER 2024, AND YOU KNOW, WHEN WHEN WE GET ON AN AGENDA AGAIN AND BILL CAN TALK ABOUT THE OVERALL RFP PROCESS, WHERE FROM THE OEM PERSPECTIVE, IF RAVE WORKS WELL, THAT WILL BE JUST EMERGENCY NOTIFICATION SYSTEM FOR US, AND THAT COULD BE A CITYWIDE OTHER PLATFORM FOR ALL OTHER MASS COMMUNICATION THAT THE CITY WANTS TO DO COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT TYPE OF STUFF THAT HAS BEEN BROUGHT TO OUR ATTENTION THAT THAT'S WHAT THE CITY WANTS TO GO GO FOR BUT WE HAVE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT [INAUDIBLE].
SO THE EMERGENCY ALERT SYSTEM, AND WE HAVE TALKED TO MANY VENDORS OVER THE LAST 18 MONTHS.
THEY ARE ONLY FOCUSED ON THAT ONE THING.
THEY'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT MASS COMMUNICATION OR COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT.
THAT HAS TO BE A TOTAL DIFFERENT PLATFORM.
YOU KNOW THAT A LOT OF THESE DISCUSSIONS HAPPEN AT THE NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS, AND I'VE LEARNED A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THIS FROM THAT, AND I'M CONCERNED THAT THERE ARE FEATURES AND OPPORTUNITIES WITH VENDORS THAT WE JUST NEED TO KNOW THE WHOLE LANDSCAPE AND MAKE A GOOD DECISION.
THAT'S THE WHOLE POINT OF A PROCUREMENT, AND I WOULD NOT WANT TO SEE THE CITY RUSH INTO AN AGREEMENT WITH RAVE WITHOUT HAVING LOOKED AT ALL OF THE OPTIONS, AND SO THAT'S WHAT MY CONCERN IS THAT WE'VE ALREADY GOT RAVE LISTED IN HERE, THAT IN THE PRESENTATION IT'S LIKE, OH, WE COULD EXTEND THE CONTRACT, AND IT'S LIKE, BUT YOU HAVEN'T EVEN TAKEN THE TIME TO LOOK AT ALL THE OTHER THINGS, AND I KNOW YOU'RE AWARE OF MANY OF THEM.
LIKE I DO WANT TO KNOW TO COUNCILMEMBER WILLIS'S POINT THERE'S A SIREN GOING OFF.
WHAT'S HAPPENING? I WISH I HAD GOTTEN A TEXT RIGHT.
SO THEY WANT TO KNOW ABOUT THE EMERGENCY, BUT THEY REALLY DON'T WANT ALL THE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT THAT THE CITY DOES, AND THEY ARE NOT OPTING IN FOR THAT EXACT REASON THAT THE CITY IS SENDING OUT MESSAGES THAT THEY DON'T WANT TO GET, THAT IT'S SPAM TO THEM.
MAYBE IT'S NOT TO US, BUT IT IS TO THEM, AND THEY REALLY ONLY WANT TO GET THAT EMERGENCY NOTIFICATION, AND SO I WANT MORE PEOPLE TO GET THE EMERGENCY NOTIFICATION IF THEY CHOOSE TO ENGAGE WITH US IN OTHER WAYS, THAT'S THEIR CHOICE, BUT I DO WANT TO MAKE SURE THEY'RE SAFE, AND SO I THINK HAVING A DISTINCTION BETWEEN THOSE TWO IS REALLY, REALLY IMPORTANT.
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TO MAKE SURE THAT PEOPLE UNDERSTAND THAT IF YOU SIGN UP FOR THIS, ALL YOU GET IS EMERGENCY LIFE SAFETY THREATENING ENVIRONMENTAL MESSAGES VERSUS COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT.WE CAN MAKE THAT DISTINCTION AND KEEP PUSHING, AND WITH THE YOU ALL'S HELP, HOPEFULLY WE HAVE MORE PEOPLE SIGN UP, AND IT'S IT'S NOT UNIQUE TO DALLAS NATIONWIDE OPT IN SYSTEM. SEE LESS THAN 10 TO 15% OF THE POPULATION OPTING IN FOR ANY TYPE OF CITY NOTIFICATION.
AND SO GIVEN THE WORDING OF OUR AGENDA AND THE BRIEFING, IF COMMS, IT, IF YOU WANT TO JUST SAY SOMETHING ABOUT THE INTERSECTION OF THE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND THE EMERGENCY ALERT AND WARNING SYSTEM, THAT WOULD BE APPROPRIATE FOR THIS, AND WE CERTAINLY CAN PUT YOU ON FOR ANOTHER OR MAYBE ANOTHER COMMITTEE WOULD. YES.
SO THE SHORT TERM SWITCH FROM VESTA TO RAVE IS GOING TO MODERNIZE AND IMPROVE THE MINIMUM FUNCTIONALITY OF THE EMERGENCY NOTIFICATION TOOL WE HAVE, AND TO QUESTIONS POSED EARLIER.
RAVE DOES HAVE AI TRANSLATION TO DOZENS OF LANGUAGES FROM ENGLISH TEXT MESSAGES, AND FURTHER IN OUR CRISIS COMMUNICATIONS TOOL KIT, WE CAN USE THE OEI LANGUAGE MAP TO LOOK AT LANGUAGES MOST SPOKEN WITHIN YOUR DISTRICT, SO THAT WE CAN THEN PROVIDE ADDITIONAL BOILERPLATE MESSAGES, GRAPHICS, AND BRIEF TEXTS WITHIN THE ALLOWABLE CHARACTER COUNT FOR THE LANGUAGES MOST SPOKEN WITHIN YOUR DISTRICT.
IN PARTNERSHIP WITH OUR LANGUAGE ACCESS CENTER OF EXCELLENCE AND COMM AND THE OE LANGUAGE MAP, THE RAVE MOBILE SAFETY PLATFORM ALSO DOES HAVE MORE ROBUST ENGAGEMENT FUNCTIONALITY IN TERMS OF SURVEYING, SO IT WOULD ALLOW PEOPLE TO MARK THEMSELVES SAFE, FOR EXAMPLE, IF THEY'VE OPTED THEMSELVES IN OR TO BE SURVEYED ABOUT WHAT THEY NEED.
DO YOU NEED WATER? DO YOU NEED GENERATORS? AND THEY DO HAVE A WHITE LABEL APP THAT CAN BE LOCALLY CUSTOMIZED.
YOU MAY WISH TO LOOK AT CHICAGO AS AN EXAMPLE OF A CITY THAT HAS USED THAT FUNCTIONALITY, WHICH COULD BE USEFUL IN EMERGENCY SITUATIONS, LIKE FOR EXAMPLE, THANK HEAVEN IT WASN'T A SCALE THAT IT WAS NEEDED, BUT THE EVACUATION OF THE FAIRGROUNDS DURING THE STATE FAIR OF TEXAS WHEN THERE WAS A SHOOTING THERE WHERE INFORMATION COULD BE TARGETED WITHIN THAT AREA AND PEOPLE COULD MARK THEMSELVES SAFE OR GET THE ALL CLEAR WHEN IT'S OKAY TO COME OUT.
GREAT. GOOD AFTERNOON, CHAIR MENDELSOHN, BILL ZIELINSKI, CIO.
IF SOMEBODY OPTS IN, IT NEEDS TO BE VERY SPECIFIC TO THE PURPOSE, AND SO WE ARE WORKING WITH THE CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE IN TERMS OF WHATEVER SOLUTION OR SOLUTIONS ARE CHOSEN FOR EMERGENCY VERSUS NON-EMERGENCY COMMUNICATION PLATFORMS, THAT WE ARE VERY EXPLICIT IN TERMS OF WHAT THAT OPT IN STANDS FOR, BECAUSE, AGAIN, YOU'RE SPOT ON IN TERMS OF ENSURING THAT WE'RE NOT MIXING AND MATCHING ACROSS EMERGENCY VERSUS NON-EMERGENCY PURPOSES, AND SO, CATHERINE, TO YOUR POINT ABOUT THE DALLAS ALERT TARGETING, LET'S SAY THE FAIRGROUNDS, WHEN THERE WAS AN INCIDENT, I MEAN, ROCKY, YOU COULD HAVE GEOFENCED IT AND MESSAGED EVERYONE THERE, RIGHT, IN THAT IN THAT PARTICULAR INSTANCE, SINCE IT WAS A SHOOTING AND IT COULD BE CONSIDERED AN ACTIVE SHOOTER UNTIL THEY HAD THE SUSPECT, WE COULD HAVE USED VR FOR THAT, AND IT WOULD BE TARGETED WITHIN THAT SMALL AREA OF THE FAIR PARK BUT WE DIDN'T KNOW BECAUSE IT HAPPENED.
I MEAN, THEY HAD THE SUSPECT ON SITE, I MEAN, WITHIN SECONDS.
SO THERE WAS JUST PANIC WHERE PEOPLE WERE STILL DOING THAT.
SO IT WOULD HAVE BEEN HELPFUL TO SEND OUT AGAIN, IT WOULD NOT HAVE MET THE CRITERIA IF THEY HAD ALREADY CONTAINED THE SUSPECT, BECAUSE WE HAVE TO FOLLOW THE FEMA IPAWS RULES TO THE T.
IF NOT, THEN WE WOULD BE REMOVED AS AN ALERTING AGENCY.
THANK YOU. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? NOPE. WELL, LET'S GO TO OUR NEXT ITEM.
MAJOR SCOGGINS, ARE YOU LEADING US OFF?
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GOOD AFTERNOON, COMMITTEE AND COUNCILMEMBERS.MY NAME IS MAJOR JASON SCOGGINS, AND I'M OVER THE VIOLENT CRIME REDUCTION PLAN.
I'M HERE TODAY WITH ONE OF OUR PARTNERS FROM OFFICE OF INTEGRATED PUBLIC SAFETY SOLUTIONS, MR. KEVIN ODEN, ALONG WITH CHIEF GARCIA AND CHIEF ANDERSON.
BASICALLY, WE HAVE GOOD NEWS TO DELIVER AS VIOLENT CRIME IS STILL HOLDING TO BE DOWN.
WE'RE SHOWING TO BE DOWN OVER 11.5%.
OUR HUGE CONTRIBUTING FACTOR IS THE AGGRAVATED ASSAULTS.
WHAT DOES THAT TRANSLATE TO? IT TRANSLATES TO.
OVER 1000 LESS VICTIMS THIS YEAR AS COMPARED TO LAST YEAR.
STILL, OUR OFFENSES INVOLVING GUNS ARE STILL DOWN OVER 12% AND OUR INCIDENTS OF SHOOTINGS RELATED TO VIOLENT CRIME OFFENSES ARE DOWN OVER 20%.
THAT LEADS TO A PRETTY SIGNIFICANT DROP IN VIOLENT CRIME THIS YEAR.
OUR FOCUS DETERRENCE PORTION OF THE CRIME PLAN, WHICH IS OUR THIRD LEG OF THE CRIME PLAN.
WE ARE EXCITED TO BE HOSTING OUR THIRD CALL IN SESSION TOMORROW EVENING.
IT TOOK A YEAR OR SO TO PLAN OUT THE FIRST CALL IN SESSION.
SO NOW WE'RE LOOKING AT QUARTERLY.
SO OUR NEXT ONE IS DUE TOMORROW.
WE'RE IN PERIOD 12 OF OUR GRIDS, AND WE'RE ACTUALLY STARTING TO PREPARE TO LAUNCH PERIOD 13, WHICH WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT LAUNCHING, I BELIEVE FIRST PART OF DECEMBER, AND AS FAR AS.
PRETTY SIMPLE THIS MONTH, AND I'D LIKE TO SEND IT TO MR. KEVIN ODIN FOR COMMENTS ON HIS END.
THANK YOU, MR. SCOGGINS, AND HONORABLE CHAIR AND MEMBERS AND MR. CITY MANAGER KEVIN ODEN WITH INTEGRATED PUBLIC SAFETY SLIDES, 13 THROUGH 15 OF THE PRESENTATION OUTLINED FIVE OF OUR MAJOR PROGRAM RESPONSIBILITIES, AND THE METRICS THAT ARE SHOWN IN THESE SLIDES ARE THE OUTPUTS WITH A HEAVY EMPHASIS ON AT AND AROUND APARTMENT COMMUNITIES. NOW, THESE OUTPUTS ON OUR SLIDES DIRECTLY INFLUENCE BOTH THE VIOLENT CRIME RATE AND THE SEVEN GOAL METRICS THAT ARE SHOWN ON IPS'S DASHBOARD.
THESE SUCCESSES ARE ONLY POSSIBLE BECAUSE OF THE DESIRE, THE DISCIPLINE, AND THE DEDICATION OF IPS'S STAFF AND THE COLLABORATION WITH OUR PARTNERS, PARTICULARLY FOR OCTOBER, I'D LIKE TO CALL OUT AND RECOGNIZE THE WORK OF THE CODE COMPLIANCE DEPARTMENT, AS WELL AS THE COMMUNITY PROSECUTOR DEPARTMENT, ON OUR WORK UNDER THE APARTMENT COMMUNITIES INITIATIVE.
AS WE MOVE FORWARD THROUGH 2024, WE'LL SEE A NEW DASHBOARD FROM IPS COME FORTH, ADDITIONAL PROGRESS ON OUR SEVEN GOALS AND NEW VIOLENCE INTERVENTION PROGRAMING THAT WE EXPECT TO COME BEFORE THIS COMMITTEE NEXT MONTH.
I WANT TO THANK THE COMMITTEE FOR YOUR SUPPORT, BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, YOUR EXPECTATIONS PLACED UPON US, AND WE'LL KICK IT BACK TO MAJOR SCOGGINS OR CHIEF GARCIA AND THEN TAKE ANY QUESTIONS YOU HAVE FOR US.
NOW, JUST IN CLOSING, AS WE GET OPEN TO QUESTIONS SO WE'VE HAD OUR CHALLENGES THIS YEAR, PARTICULARLY WITH MURDER BEING HIGHER THAN IT WAS LAST YEAR AND STILL CONTINUING TO DO WHAT WE CAN TO REDUCE THAT, BUT AS WAS HIGHLIGHTED EARLIER, WHEN WE LOOK AT THE OVERALL REDUCTION OF VIOLENT CRIME OF, AS OF THIS MORNING, ALMOST 12% IN THE CITY WITH ROBBERIES CONTINUING TO GO DOWN AS WELL, IS THE FACT THAT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT AGGRAVATED ASSAULT AND AS I'VE MENTIONED THIS BEFORE, EACH AGGRAVATED ASSAULT THAT WE HAVE IS LITERALLY AN ATTEMPTED MURDER, AND TO SEE THAT WE HAVE NEARLY OVER A THOUSAND LESS AGGRAVATED ASSAULTS THIS YEAR THAN WE HAD LAST YEAR.
THE FACT THAT WE'RE SEEING THE DECLINE IN GUN CRIME, BECAUSE, AS MOST WOULD SAY, THE TRUE CITY'S INDICATION OF VIOLENT CRIME IS AGGRAVATED ASSAULT AS IT RELATES TO GUN CRIME, AND WE SEE OUR GUN CRIME NUMBERS GOING DOWN.
THOSE ARE AND WE SEE OUR INCIDENTS, OUR VIOLENT INCIDENTS GOING DOWN IN THE CITY AS WELL.
IT'S JUST A TESTAMENT TO THE WORK THAT THE MEN AND WOMEN ARE DOING EVERY DAY.
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HEARD ME SAY MANY TIMES, THERE WAS NO LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL.THERE'S JUST ANOTHER TUNNEL, AND SO WE'RE ALREADY LOOKING INTO NEXT YEAR AND SEE WHERE OUR CHALLENGES WERE THIS YEAR AND CONTINUING TO BE OUR TOUGHEST CRITIC, TO CONTINUE TO DROP VIOLENT CRIME AND GUN ASSAULTS MORE THAN WE'VE DONE ALREADY.
SO WITH THAT, WE'LL OPEN UP TO QUESTIONS.
THANK YOU FOR THE REPORT COMMITTEE.
AS YOU CAN SEE, I ASKED THEM NOT TO GO SLIDE BY SLIDE AND JUST READ EVERY ONE OF THEM TO US.
MANY OF THESE ARE CONTINUING TRENDS MONTH AFTER MONTH, AND I'LL EVEN SAY YEAR AFTER YEAR.
SO WHEN YOU SAY CRIME IS DOWN ALMOST 12% FOR THE YEAR, BUT THAT'S ON TOP OF A REDUCTION FROM LAST YEAR AND ON TOP OF A REDUCTION FROM THE YEAR BEFORE, AND SO IT GETS HARDER AS THE YEARS GO ON TO KEEP REDUCING AND SO I DEFINITELY WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT, AND I THINK YOU CALLED OUT THE MOST IMPORTANT PART, WHICH IS THERE'S 1000 LESS AGGRAVATED ASSAULT VICTIMS THAN WE HAD JUST EVEN LAST YEAR, WHICH IS, I THINK, REMARKABLE.
SO IF THERE'S ONE TOOL YOU NEED TO HELP US GO EVEN FURTHER, WHAT IS IT? STAFFING, CHAIRWOMAN.
STAFFING. ABSOLUTELY, AND YOU SAW FIRSTHAND HOW HARD OUR RECRUITERS ARE WORKING, BUT OBVIOUSLY, WHEN I SAY STAFFING, IT'S ALSO ENSURING THAT OUR MEN AND WOMEN ARE HAPPY HERE SO THAT THEY DON'T GO ELSEWHERE.
WE HAVE A REMARKABLE RECRUITING UNIT, BUT AS I'VE SAID, OFTENTIMES OUR MOST IMPORTANT ARE THE OVER 3100 MEMBERS OF THIS DEPARTMENT, SWORN MEMBERS OF THIS DEPARTMENT, AND THE VAST NUMBER OF PROFESSIONAL STAFF WE HAVE THAT SAY THIS IS THE PLACE TO COME TO WORK, AND SO, AGAIN, THEY'RE DOING TREMENDOUS WORK, BUT THE ONE THING WE NEED, WE NEED MORE STAFFING. WE NEED TO GROW AS A DEPARTMENT.
THANK YOU. COUNCILMEMBER WILLIS.
THANK YOU. SPEAKING OF STAFFING, IN THIS PAST BUDGET, I BELIEVE WE VOTED TO FUND THREE FOCUSED DETERRENCE REPRESENTATIVES TO HELP MANAGE THIS PROGRAM, AND I REALIZE THE BUDGET HAS ONLY BEEN IN EFFECT SINCE OCTOBER 1ST, BUT TELL ME WHERE WE ARE IN THAT SINCE WE'VE GOT OUR SECOND CALL IN HAPPENING TOMORROW.
SO THAT PROCESS IS UNDERWAY, AND WE EXPECT TO BE SOON TO START DOING INTERVIEWS, AND SELECTING THAT VERY CAPABLE APPLICANT SUPPORT OUR THIRD LEVER OF THE CRIME PLAN. SO I KNOW IN THE INITIAL PROGRAM I THINK THAT LAUNCHED IN JUNE, YOU TOOK A POOL THAT WOULD QUALIFY FOR THIS KIND OF PROGRAM, AND NOW IT LOOKS LIKE.
SO WE'RE AT 20 CLIENTS SIGNING UP TO RECEIVE 98 SERVICES.
THAT'S FANTASTIC WORK, AND NOW MAYBE WITH DEDICATED TEAM MEMBERS THAT CAN ACTUALLY GROW.
SO IS THE GOAL TO TAKE THE SECOND TIER OF PEOPLE? HOW WILL YOU GET TO THE NEXT ROUND OF WHAT THESE NEW STAFFERS ARE GOING TO BE DOING? SO THE WAY THAT WE SELECT OUR TIER ONE AND TIER TWO CLIENTS IS THAT WE HAVE A METRIC THAT WE HAVE DEVELOPED.
IT WAS DEVELOPED BY A CRIMINOLOGIST, AND SO THERE ARE 7 OR 8 DIFFERENT CRITERIA THAT EACH ONE OF THE FUTURE CLIENTS HAVE TO MEET, AND THEN BASED ON A POINT SYSTEM, WE DEVELOP A RUNNING TALLY OF INDIVIDUALS THAT MEET THE CRITERIA OF FOCUSED DETERRENCE.
THE EXTREMELY GREAT PART ABOUT THE CALL IN SESSION FOR TOMORROW AFTERNOON, ALL OF THOSE INDIVIDUALS WILL BE BRAND NEW INDIVIDUALS.
NONE OF THOSE INDIVIDUALS WILL BE INDIVIDUALS THAT ARE COMING FROM THE FIRST CALL IN SESSION, AND SO IT WILL BE NEW FACES, NEW INDIVIDUALS. IT WILL GIVE US THE OPPORTUNITY TO BE ABLE TO HAVE A CONVERSATION, NUMBER ONE, TO REALLY POUR INTO THE LIFE ADVOCATE, TO BE ABLE TO START A NEW CHAPTER IN LIFE WITH FULL SUPPORT ONLY FROM US, BUT ALSO THE COMMUNITY SERVICE PROVIDERS THAT WE'VE BEEN WORKING TOGETHER FOR THE LAST YEAR TO BE ABLE TO PUT THIS PROGRAM IN A PLACE TO WHERE IT CAN BE VERY ROBUST.
SO WE'RE VERY, VERY EXCITED ABOUT THAT.
OKAY, BECAUSE I WAS UNDER THE IMPRESSION THAT YOU HAD THE FIRST CALL IN AND THEN YOU DO THE SECOND ONE AND IT'S THE SAME PEOPLE THAT ARE COMING BACK, AND SO REALLY, YOU'VE ALREADY GOTTEN THIS UP AND RUNNING, AND SO NOW YOU'LL JUST HAVE STAFF TO TAKE IT ON.
WHAT DO YOU DO WITH THE PEOPLE IN THAT FIRST GROUP? I MEAN, YOU LINK THEM TO SERVICES, BUT DO THEY JUST SORT OF SCATTER TO THOSE SERVICES, OR IS THERE STILL SOMETHING TO BRING THEM BACK TOGETHER? NO. SO WE ACTUALLY WENT THROUGH AN EXERCISE HERE IN THE LAST COUPLE OF WEEKS OF IN ANY TIME THAT WE MAKE CONTACT WITH THE CLIENTS BECAUSE WE SEE THEM AS CLIENTS WITHIN A 90 DAY PERIOD, THERE'S AT LEAST 15 DIFFERENT OUTREACHES BY US TO THEM, REGARDLESS IF THEY CONTACT US ON A DAILY
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BASIS AND SO THE GOAL IS TO CONTINUE TO DO THE OUTREACH, TO LET THEM KNOW THAT WE'RE SERIOUS ABOUT THIS, THAT THEY HAVE OUR FULL SUPPORT, NOT ONLY OUR FULL SUPPORT, BUT FOR THE COMMUNITY, FULL SUPPORT, AND WE REALIZE THAT SOME OF THESE INDIVIDUALS, IT MAY TAKE MORE THAN ONCE TO BE ABLE TO MAKE A POSITIVE IMPACT, AND WE'VE SEEN THAT SO FAR.WE'VE SEEN THAT WITH A FEW OF OUR CLIENTS THAT IT ACTUALLY TOOK ABOUT 6 OR 7 TIMES FOR THEM TO SAY, OKAY, I'M ALL IN AND I'M READY TO GO, AND SO THAT'S WHERE WE ARE WITH THAT PROCESS. IF I COULD JUST JUST ADD ONE THING COUNCILMEMBER, FOCUSED DETERRENCE HAS ALWAYS BEEN PART OF THE CRIME PLAN SINCE DAY ONE, AND WORKING WITH THE CRIMINOLOGISTS IS THE FACT THAT THIS IS GETTING EVALUATED.
THE SUCCESS OF THIS PROGRAM AND CHALLENGES IS SOMETHING THAT'S GOING TO GET EVALUATED CONSTANTLY, AND SOMETHING THAT WE'RE REALLY KEEPING AN EYE AN EYE ON BECAUSE THIS IS TRUE WHAT WE FEEL WHEN WE TALK ABOUT REINVESTMENTS IN PEOPLE IN PLACES, THIS IS WHAT THAT IS.
OKAY, AND SO LET ME ASK, AND I'M SURE SINCE WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THIS PROGRAM FOR A WHILE, THE HISTORY HAS WAS PROBABLY GIVEN AT A MEETING A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO, BUT WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE 80-20 RULE, IF WE'VE GOT 20% OF THESE CRIMINALS CREATING 80% OF THE VIOLENT CRIME, ARE OTHER CITIES DOING A FOCUSED DETERRENCE PROGRAM? ARE WE MODELING THIS AFTER SOMEONE ELSE, OR I MEAN, IT SEEMS LIKE WE'RE ALREADY SEEING SUCCESS.
OTHER CITIES HAVE HAVE DONE FOCUSED HAVE DONE FOCUSED DETERRENCE.
SOME HAVE DONE IT STANDALONE OTHER CITIES LIKE SUCH AS OURS ARE USING THIS AS ONE OF THREE METHODS.
THERE'S THREE METHODS IN THIS CRIME PLAN.
WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT HOTSPOT POLICING, [INAUDIBLE] INVESTIGATIONS AND FOCUSED DETERRENCE.
THE [INAUDIBLE] INVESTIGATIONS IS MORE OF A NEW CRIMINOLOGICAL TECHNIQUE, WHICH, AGAIN, WITH THE PARTNERSHIPS THAT WE HAVE WITH KEVIN AND OTHERS THAT WE'RE HOPEFUL THAT'S GOING TO BE FRUITFUL AS WELL.
ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. THANK YOU.
COUNCILMEMBER MORENO. THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
THANK YOU ALL FOR THE PRESENTATION.
KEVIN. THANK YOU FOR THE WORK THAT YOU'VE BEEN DOING.
CHIEF, THANK YOU FOR WORKING WITH OUR VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS TO BRING AND REINVEST INTO OUR COMMUNITIES, BECAUSE I KNOW THAT WE CAN'T DO IT SOLELY THROUGH THROUGH POLICING, BUT IT'S ALSO THROUGH URBAN ENVIRONMENT AND MAKING SURE WE HAVE THE LIGHTING IN PLACE.
THE WORK WITH CODE WITH PARK AND REC.
DO YOU HAVE SOME QUESTIONS ON PAGE 15 102 RESPONSES BY CBD PILOT PROGRAM TEAM.
CAN YOU GUYS GO A LITTLE BIT INTO DETAIL ON THAT? THAT'S ABSOLUTELY A COUPLE OF MONTHS AGO.
WE BROUGHT THE CONCEPT OF A CBD RESPONSE TEAM BEFORE THIS BODY.
IN SHORT, THE CBD RESPONSE TEAM IS AN IPS TRAINED AND LICENSED SOCIAL WORKER ALONGSIDE A DALLAS FIRE RESCUE PARAMEDIC.
THEY ARE MOBILE IN THE CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT AREA.
THERE ARE MULTIPLE STATIONS OF DFRS THAT THEY COVER AND THE THOUGHT PROCESS WAS WE COULD SAVE RESPONSE TIMES AND RUNS BY BOTH ENGINES AND AMBULANCES IN THAT AREA BY RESPONDING TO WHAT WE NOTICED WAS AN UPTICK IN WELFARE CHECK CALLS.
THAT TEAM OPERATES MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY, AND THE 102 RESPONSES WAS FOR THE MONTH OF OCTOBER.
NOW, WHAT I CAN SAY IS THAT WE DO TRACK THE OUTCOMES OF THESE CALLS.
WE TRACK IF A PERSON DECLINED SERVICES, IF THEY ACCEPT SERVICES WHERE THEY GO TO, AND WE'VE HAD A NUMBER OF SUCCESS STORIES WHERE MAYBE ON THE FIRST TIME AN INDIVIDUAL SAID, NO, I DON'T WANT YOUR HELP, AND THEY WENT ON ABOUT THEIR WAY, BUT WE, WHEN MAYBE NOT ON A CALL, WENT BACK AND FOUND THE PERSON, AND SO WE'VE MADE CONNECTIONS IN SOME OF THE SOBRIETY CENTERS DOWNTOWN, A NUMBER OF OUR HOMELESS RESPONSE COMMUNITY PARTNERS, AND AS WELL ON CALLS THAT ARE TRULY A BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CRISIS, TRYING TO GET PEOPLE INTO LONGER TERM SERVICES WITHOUT HAVING TO TAKE THEM TO JAIL OR HOSPITALS.
SO THAT'S JUST A QUICK OVERVIEW, BUT BUT HAPPY TO ELABORATE ANY FURTHER IF YOU NEED, SIR.
THANK YOU. KNOW WE CAN GO OFFLINE ON THAT.
I'M JUST CURIOUS AS TO WHY WE HAVE 102 RESPONSES, BUT YET ONLY SIX RESPONSES FROM THE HART TEAM.
IS THERE A LACK OF COORDINATION WITH THE OFFICE OF HOMELESS SOLUTIONS? OR WHY AREN'T WE SEEING A HIGHER, I GUESS REQUEST FROM HART TEAM?
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YEAH, I LOOKED AT THAT WHEN I SAW THE NUMBER BECAUSE IT SEEMED OFF TO ME.ET CETERA, AND SO WE SAW THE LOW NUMBER OF SERVICE REQUESTS, AND SO THE HEART TEAM JUST TO BARELY DIP MY TOE IN SOME OF THEIR WORK, THEY OPERATE A LOT OFF OF THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL SERVICE REQUEST TICKET, BUT THEY'RE ALSO DOING A LOT OF PROACTIVE WORK IN HOTSPOT AREAS, AND SO WHAT I SENSE FROM THIS NUMBER IS PROBABLY WE NEED TO DO A BETTER JOB OF PROACTIVELY CREATING SERVICE REQUESTS SO THAT WE UP THAT PARTICULAR NUMBER.
WHAT I WILL SAY, AND I'M HAPPY TO SHARE IT, IS THE DATA BEHIND THE DATA.
WE HAVE THAT DATA AND WE'RE HAPPY TO SHARE IT.
SO I APPRECIATE THAT QUESTION.
APPRECIATE THE UPDATE I THINK WE'RE READY TO GO TO OUR NEXT ITEM.
OKAY. OUR NEXT ITEM IS OPIOID RESPONSE TEAM UPDATE.
GOOD EVENING. I'M FIRE CHIEF DOMINIQUE ARTIS, AND I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING US TO JUST PRESENT OUR OPIOID PROGRAM HERE TODAY. OUR PRESENTERS TODAY WILL BE DOCTOR ISAACS, CHIEF MEDICAL DIRECTOR AND DEPUTY CHIEF SCOTT CLUMPNER.
WE ALSO HAVE WITH US BECKY TINNEY FROM RESOURCE RECOVERY COUNCIL, OUR PARTNER IN THIS PROGRAM.
THE LATEST DATA FROM THE CDC SHOWS THAT OVER 80,000 PEOPLE DIED FROM OPIOIDS IN 2021, AND LAST YEAR HERE IN DALLAS COUNTY, OVER 260 PEOPLE DIED WHERE OPIOIDS WERE CONSIDERED A CONTRIBUTING FACTOR.
WHILE, THE PROBLEM MAY BE FLUCTUATING IN COLLIN AND DENTON COUNTIES WE HAVE SEEN AN INCREASE EACH YEAR IN THE NUMBER OF DEATHS HERE IN DALLAS COUNTY RELATED TO DRUG OVERDOSES. THE DEATH RATE PER 100,000 PEOPLE IN DALLAS COUNTY SHOWS THAT WE HAVE A PROBLEM.
ONE OF THE WAYS WE'RE WORKING TO ADDRESS THIS PROBLEM IS WITH OUR COMMUNITY PARTNERS.
ONE OF OUR PARTNERS IS RESOURCE RECOVERY COUNCIL.
THIS TEAM IS FULLY FUNDED BY RRC, PROVIDING A PARAMEDIC AND A PEER SUPPORT SPECIALIST.
THE TEAM USES 9-1-1 DISPATCH INFORMATION, PREVIOUS ENCOUNTERS WITH EMS OR OR LAW ENFORCEMENT REFERRALS TO ASSIST ANY INDIVIDUAL THAT IS EXPERIENCED AND SURVIVED A DRUG RELATED OVERDOSE.
WHEN THE TEAM CONDUCTS CONDUCTS A CLIENT VISIT, THE GOAL IS TO BREAK THE CYCLE OF ADDICTION.
IF THE CLIENT IS WILLING, THE TEAM WILL OFFER SERVICES BEGINNING WITH AN OUTREACH SCREENING.
THIS SCREENING IS USED TO DETERMINE IF SOMEONE QUALIFIES FOR STATE FUNDED TREATMENT IN TEXAS.
REGARDLESS OF FUNDING, THEY ARE OFFERED INPATIENT OR OUTPATIENT TREATMENT.
ACCESS TO A 12 STEP PROGRAM OR POTENTIALLY MEDICATED ASSISTANT TREATMENT PROGRAMS. NEXT SLIDE PLEASE.
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REDUCTION OF PEOPLE WHO OVERDOSE IN THE CITY OF DALLAS.SINCE THE OVERDOSE RESPONSE TEAM BEGAN IN JANUARY OF THIS YEAR, THE TEAM HAS ATTEMPTED TO CONTACT OVER 334 CLIENTS, MADE DIRECT CONTACT WITH 173 CLIENTS AND ENROLLED 35 PEOPLE IN TREATMENT PROGRAMS. IN ADDITION, THEY HAVE PROVIDED OVER 250 KITS CONTAINING NARCAN AND OTHER RESOURCES TO CLIENTS OR THEIR FAMILY MEMBERS.
FROM THIS GRAPH, YOU CAN SEE THAT THE OVERALL NUMBER OF OVERDOSES FOR ALL DRUGS HAS DECREASED SLIGHTLY IN RECENT YEARS, BUT THE NUMBER OF OVERDOSES FOR OPIOIDS HAS INCREASED.
SO OF THOSE 3000 TO 3600 OVERDOSES DFR HAS RESPONDED TO, THE NUMBER OF TIMES PARAMEDICS HAVE HAD TO ADMINISTER NARCAN HAS INCREASED FROM 900 TO OVER 2400 SINCE 2020.
OPIOIDS HAVE BECOME THE LEADING CAUSE OF OVERDOSES IN THE CITY OF DALLAS.
SUCCESS OF THIS PROGRAM WILL ONLY BE MEASURED WHEN THESE DEATHS ARE REDUCED.
WITH THE SUPPORT OF COUNCIL, WE WILL CONTINUE TO TACKLE THIS EPIDEMIC.
RECENTLY, DFR WAS AWARDED A JOINT GRANT WITH DALLAS COUNTY RRC AND PARKLAND TO EXPAND THE OVERDOSE RESPONSE TEAM AND OTHER SUPPORT SERVICES. THIS GRANT WILL FUND TWO TEAMS SEVEN DAYS A WEEK FOR THE NEXT FIVE YEARS.
MADAM CHAIR, COMMITTEE MEMBERS, I WANT TO COMMEND THE DEPARTMENT, THE RESOURCE RECOVERY COUNCIL, DALLAS COUNTY HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, AND ALL OUR COMMUNITY PARTNERS IN TAKING THIS VERY, VERY IMPORTANT STEP IN BEGINNING TO ADDRESS THE OPIATE EPIDEMIC ON A LOCAL LEVEL HERE IN DALLAS.
SO WHILE WE ARE FOCUSED ON OPIATES, THE WORK THAT THIS TEAM IS DOING CAN ADDRESS INDIVIDUALS WITH ANY SUBSTANCE USE DISORDER.
SO WHILE THE FUNDING MAY COME FROM OPIATE SETTLEMENT FUNDS AND FROM SPECIFIC GRANTS, THE WORK IS NOT JUST CONFINED TO INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE SUFFERING FROM SUBSTANCE USE DISORDERS DUE TO FENTANYL AND HEROIN ALONE.
THEY CAN ADDRESS ISSUES RELATED TO SUBSTANCE USE DISORDERS ACROSS THE BOARD.
YOU'RE PROBABLY ASKING YOURSELVES, WHAT ARE THE NEXT STEPS? AND WE ARE PROUD TO BE IN DISCUSSIONS WITH PARKLAND HEALTH AND THEIR EXPERTS, ALSO AT UT SOUTHWESTERN, TO BEGIN TO BUILD A PRE-HOSPITAL BRIDGE TO TREATMENT SO THAT IN ADDITION TO IDENTIFYING INDIVIDUALS WITH SUBSTANCE USE DISORDERS, BE THEY HEROIN, OPIATES, METHAMPHETAMINES OR ALCOHOL USE DISORDERS, WE CAN GET THESE FOLKS INTO TREATMENT TO BEGIN NOT ONLY TO SAVE THEIR LIVES IN CASE OF A POTENTIALLY FATAL OVERDOSE WITH NARCAN, BUT ALSO TO GET THEM INTO TREATMENT, MEDICATION ASSISTED TREATMENT THROUGH OUR ADDICTION SPECIALISTS AT PARKLAND HEALTH IN EMERGENCY MEDICINE AND PSYCHIATRY.
THIS IS AN IMPORTANT NEXT STEP, AND WE'RE PROUD TO BE BEGINNING THOSE EFFORTS.
WE'RE HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE.
THANK YOU. I JUST WANT TO FIRST CALL OUT THIS ONE THING AND SAY THANK YOU FOR INCLUDING COLLIN AND DENTON COUNTIES IN THESE, ESPECIALLY WITH ALL THE MEDIA WE'VE HAD COVERING CARROLLTON, WHICH WE HAVE FOUR SCHOOLS IN CARROLLTON FARMERS BRANCH THAT ARE IN THE CITY OF DALLAS.
I JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU FOR THAT.
COUNCILMAN MORENO YOU HAVE QUESTIONS.
THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION AND FOR THE WORK THAT YOU ALL ARE DOING.
YOU ALL TRULY ARE SAVING LIVES EACH AND EVERY SINGLE DAY.
THERE'S VARIOUS GROUPS THAT WE CAN HELP EDUCATE AND HELP GET THE WORD OUT.
HIGH SCHOOLS, COLLEGES, CHURCH GROUPS, ETCETERA.
THOSE ARE ALL KIND OF WHEN YOU HAVE A TARGETED AUDIENCE, CAPTURED AUDIENCE ALREADY, AND I SHOULD HAVE ASKED THIS AT THE PREVIOUS BRIEFING, BUT I'M CURIOUS TO FIND OUT HOW MANY OPIOID OVERDOSES WE'RE DEALING WITH IN OUR UNSHELTERED POPULATION AND HOW WE'RE GETTING THE WORD OUT TO THOSE INDIVIDUALS WHO AREN'T
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NECESSARILY IN A GROUP SETTING AND HOW ARE WE GETTING ADVICE AND JUST LETTING THEM KNOW ABOUT THE DANGERS AND ALSO THE EDUCATION TO OUR UNSHELTERED POPULATION? THANK YOU. WOULD YOU LIKE TO. I'D BE HAPPY TO SPEAK ON THAT.SO PART OF WHAT RECOVERY RESOURCE COUNCIL'S ROLE IS IN THIS PARTNERSHIP IS BEING SORT OF THE DIRECT CONNECTION TO MORE OF THE BOOTS ON THE GROUND AND GRASSROOTS ORGANIZATIONS THAT WORK WITHIN THE CITY OF DALLAS TO WORK WITH SOME OF THOSE MORE DEFINITELY HIGHER RISK POPULATIONS AND POPULATIONS THAT ARE MORE ON THE FRINGES OF OUR SOCIETY, QUITE FRANKLY, BUT SO WE, THROUGH OUR ROLE IN THIS PARTNERSHIP AND IN THE CITY OF DALLAS, HAVE DIRECT RELATIONSHIPS WITH SEVERAL ORGANIZATIONS, HARM REDUCTION ORGANIZATIONS THAT WORK SPECIFICALLY WITH THOSE POPULATIONS.
WE ALSO HAVE A PARTNERSHIP WITH OUR CALLING THE HOMELESS SERVICE CENTER HERE IN DALLAS.
WE ACTUALLY STAFF A PEER SUPPORT SPECIALIST THAT SETS UP SHOP, SO TO SPEAK, TWO DAYS A WEEK AT OUR CALLING AND TAKES REFERRALS DIRECTLY FROM THE CARE MINISTERS THERE, WORKS VERY CLOSELY TO GET THOSE RESOURCES AND EDUCATION OUT TO THE HOMELESS COMMUNITY THROUGH THAT PARTNERSHIP WITH OUR CALLING AND OTHER ORGANIZATIONS IN DALLAS, WITH THAT CITY MANAGER.
WITH THAT, WE'D LOVE TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE SOME SORT OF PARTNERSHIP WITH THE BRIDGE.
I'LL MAKE SURE THAT I PROVIDE THAT TO DCM FORTUNE.
THANK YOU. COUNCILMEMBER BLACKMON.
THANK YOU AND THANK YOU FOR BRINGING THIS TO YOUR COMMITTEE.
WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON THIS ON OUR STRIKE FORCE, AND I JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU FOR THE WORK THAT YOU'VE BEEN DOING AND BRINGING A NEW, FRESH PERSPECTIVE, AND EVERY TIME WE SUGGEST SOMETHING, TRYING IT OUT.
I KNOW, BECKY, WE'VE MET AND CHATTED AND YOU KNOW, WE'RE HERE TO SUPPORT YOU, AND SO ANYTHING THAT WE CAN DO TO HELP YOU, TO SUPPORT YOU, TO REACH OUT TO MORE, JUST LET US KNOW, BUT I JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO YOUR TEAM.
WELL, THANK YOU FOR THE BRIEFING.
THANK YOU FOR BEING SUCH A GREAT PARTNER.
ESPECIALLY SINCE YOU'RE PAYING FOR SO MUCH OF THIS.
AWESOME. OKAY, WELL, HERE WE GO WITH EMS QUALITY MANAGEMENT PROGRAM UPDATE.
WE'VE MADE MANY STRIDES IN OUR EMS DELIVERY.
OF COURSE WE STILL REALIZE THERE'S MUCH WORK TO DO, AND I LOOK FORWARD TO CONTINUING TO BUILD UPON OUR SUCCESSES AS WELL AS WORK ON TAKING IT INTO THE FUTURE. OUR PRESENTERS AGAIN TODAY WILL BE DEPUTY CHIEF SCOTT CLUMPNER AND DR.
ISAACS, OUR CHIEF MEDICAL DIRECTOR.
WITH THE SUPPORT OF CITY COUNCIL, WE WERE ABLE TO EXPAND OUR EXISTING QUALITY IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM AND PROVIDE A DEDICATED TEAM OF PEOPLE FOCUSED SOLELY ON MONITORING OUR EMS SYSTEM AND IDENTIFYING WAYS TO IMPROVE HOW WE PROVIDE EMS SERVICE DELIVERY TO THE CITIZENS OF DALLAS.
THIS TEAM STRATEGICALLY REVIEWS EMS INCIDENTS, POLICIES, GUIDELINES, AND EDUCATIONAL EFFORTS TO IDENTIFY AREAS OF IMPROVEMENT AND RECOGNIZE WHEN OUR MEMBERS PROVIDE EXCEPTIONAL SERVICE.
NEXT SLIDE. SO IT IS IMPORTANT THAT CHIEF CLUMPNER AND I PRESENT TO YOU A LITTLE BIT OF DATA AT A HIGH LEVEL, SO YOU CAN UNDERSTAND WHAT OUR EFFORTS HAVE BEEN IN TERMS OF PERFORMING QUALITY MANAGEMENT, WHICH ULTIMATELY HAS THE GOAL OF IMPROVING PATIENT OUTCOMES.
THIS FIRST GRAPH DEMONSTRATES THE PATIENT TRANSPORT RATE IN DALLAS FIRE RESCUE, AND WHILE IT IS CERTAINLY NOT OUR GOAL OR NEED TO TAKE EVERY PATIENT WHO CALLS 9-1-1 TO THE HOSPITAL, WE WANT TO MAKE SURE WE GET THE RIGHT PATIENTS TO THE HOSPITAL.
HISTORICALLY, DALLAS FIRE RESCUE'S PATIENT TRANSPORT RATE HOVERED BELOW 50%, AND WHEN YOU LOOK AT OTHER HIGH FUNCTIONING EMS SYSTEMS IN THE UNITED STATES, IT'S MUCH HIGHER BECAUSE OF THEIR CONSERVATIVE EDUCATION, TRAINING AND POLICIES REGARDING HOW TO MANAGE PATIENTS WHO DON'T WISH TO GO TO THE HOSPITAL BY AMBULANCE.
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LAST MONTH, WE HAD THE HIGHEST TRANSPORT RATE IN THE HISTORY OF THE CITY, APPROACHING 68% OF ALL PATIENTS.THIS IS NOT ONLY GOOD FOR PATIENTS, IT'S GOOD FOR THE CITY AND DECREASING THE RISK AND ENSURING THAT WE GET POTENTIALLY CRITICALLY ILL PATIENTS TO THE HOSPITAL, RATHER THAN NOT TAKING THEM TO THE HOSPITAL.
NEXT SLIDE. ANOTHER MEASURE OF PERFORMANCE IS HOW PARAMEDICS DOCUMENT A PATIENT ENCOUNTER.
THREE YEARS AGO, 18% OF THE REQUESTS FOR EMS WERE DOCUMENTED AS NOT BEING A PATIENT BY PARAMEDICS.
THIS NOT ONLY IMPROVES OUR PATIENT CARE, BUT ALSO REDUCES THE OVERALL RISK TO THE CITY.
THE STATE MANDATES THE USE OF A FAIRLY NEW TOOL TO MONITOR PATIENTS' BREATHING QUALITY, AND WE SHOULD DO THIS IN ALL PATIENTS THAT ARE CRITICALLY ILL, OR THAT WE ARE CONCERNED MAY BE CRITICALLY ILL BECAUSE OF THE QUALITY IMPROVEMENT EFFORTS OF DALLAS FIRE RESCUE TEAM, WE'VE INCREASED THAT TO NEARLY 100% USAGE, AND THAT TRANSLATES TO IMPROVED PATIENT OUTCOMES AND BETTER PATIENT SAFETY.
NEXT SLIDE. AGAIN, AS WE REVIEWED THE OVERALL PERFORMANCE OF OUR SYSTEM, ONE THING WE IDENTIFIED FOR AN AREA OF IMPROVEMENT WAS HOW WE TREAT PATIENTS IN CARDIAC ARREST.
WE NOW ASSIGN AN EMS SUPERVISOR TO SUPPORT OUR PARAMEDICS.
NEXT SLIDE. PATIENTS IN CARDIAC ARREST ARE AMONG THE SICKEST PATIENTS WE ENCOUNTER IN THE CITY OF DALLAS, AND WE WANT TO DO AN EXCELLENT JOB FOR THEM. OUR PARAMEDICS, FIREFIGHTERS AND OFFICERS PROVIDE EXEMPLARY CARE DAY IN AND DAY OUT, BUT IT'S THIS SUBSET OF PATIENTS THAT WE FOCUS A LOT OF OUR EFFORT BECAUSE IF WE'RE DOING A GOOD JOB FOR THESE PATIENTS, WE ARE LIKELY DOING A GOOD JOB FOR LESS SICK PATIENTS.
ALL RIGHT. THIS GRAPH DEMONSTRATES SOME IMPROVEMENT IN CARDIAC ARREST SURVIVAL, AND THAT'S DUE TO THE WORK OF THESE TEAM, THE DEPARTMENT AS A WHOLE, EDUCATION AND TRAINING EQUIPMENT, AND AS CHIEF CLUMPNER SAID, THE LEVEL OF SUPERVISION WE'RE PROVIDING FOR EACH OF THESE PATIENTS IN CARDIAC ARREST.
ULTIMATELY, OUR GOAL IN 2024 IS TO LOOK AT BENCHMARKS, NATIONAL AND STATE BENCHMARKS FOR SURVIVAL FROM CARDIAC ARREST SO WE CAN COMPARE OURSELVES AND MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE AT OR ABOVE THOSE BENCHMARKS IN CARDIAC ARREST CARE.
THIS TEAM CONDUCTS A COMPLETE REVIEW OF EVERY CARDIAC ARREST, HIGH RISK INCIDENTS, AND ANY TIME A MEDICATION IS ADMINISTERED BY A PATIENT TO A DANGEROUSLY AGITATED BY A PARAMEDIC TO A DANGEROUSLY AGITATED PATIENT.
THIS TEAM REVIEWS ALMOST 3000 INCIDENTS A YEAR TO VERIFY PARAMEDICS ARE AGAIN FOLLOWING GUIDELINES, IDENTIFY AREAS FOR IMPROVEMENT AND PROVIDE RECOGNITION FOR MEMBERS PROVIDING EXCEPTIONAL PATIENT CARE.
CASE REVIEWS BY PHYSICIANS INVOLVE HIGH RISK PATIENT ENCOUNTERS, AND THESE ARE REVIEWED BY THE MEDICAL DIRECTORS FOR DALLAS FIRE RESCUE. EVERY CASE IS TRACKED THROUGH AN INTERNAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, AND THIS HELPS SUPPORT OUR PARAMEDICS, FIREFIGHTERS AND OFFICERS IN PROVIDING EXCELLENCE AND CARE BY PROVIDING DIRECT EDUCATION, TRAINING AND MENTORING TO THOSE THAT ARE PROVIDING THE CARE IN THE STREETS EACH AND EVERY DAY.
NEXT SLIDE. WHEN AN INCIDENT IS REVIEWED BY A QUALITY MANAGEMENT SPECIALIST AND MEDICAL DIRECTOR.
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THIS MAY RESULT IN PROVIDING ADDITIONAL EDUCATION TO OUR MEMBERS TO IMPROVE THE CARE PROVIDED WITH OUR QUALITY IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM.THIS, AGAIN, IS A TANGIBLE MEASUREMENT OF THE IMPROVEMENT IN OUR EMS PERFORMANCE.
NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. RECOGNITION OF THE EXCELLENCE AND CARE THAT OUR MEMBERS PROVIDE IS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT FUNCTIONS THAT THE OFFICE OF THE MEDICAL DIRECTOR AND THE DEPARTMENT AS A WHOLE CAN DO.
THE MEDICAL DIRECTORS, ALONG WITH COMMAND STAFF, MEET WITH CREWS AT THE STATION, REVIEW THE CASE, AWARD RECOGNITION CERTIFICATES, AND ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS THAT WE MAY HAVE.
MADAM CHAIR, YOU'RE GOING TO BE INVITED TO ONE COMING UP SOON.
THAT WAS REFERRED TO SOMEONE IN YOUR CONSTITUENCY.
THESE NUMBERS DEMONSTRATE THE MARKED IMPROVEMENT IN MEMBER RECOGNITIONS THAT THE DEPARTMENT HAS PROVIDED, AND IF YOU LOOK AT THE LAST BAR, THAT IS JUST HALF A YEAR OF RECOGNITIONS AND WE'RE ALREADY SURPASSING PREVIOUS YEARS.
DFR STRIVES TO PROVIDE THE HIGHEST QUALITY OF SERVICE WHEN PEOPLE NEED US THE MOST.
SOME OF THE THINGS WE HAVE DONE TO ACCOMPLISH THESE IMPROVEMENTS INCLUDE A QUARTERLY VIDEO FROM THE OFFICE OF THE MEDICAL DIRECTOR DIRECTLY TO THE PARAMEDICS, A 40 HOUR BOOT CAMP TRAINING CLASS DIRECTLY OVERSEEN BY THE OFFICE OF MEDICAL DIRECTOR, AND REAL TIME TRAINING TO PARAMEDICS IN THE FIELD ON TOPICS IDENTIFIED AS AREAS NEEDING IMPROVEMENT.
TOGETHER, DFR AND THE OFFICE OF THE MEDICAL DIRECTOR STRIVE TO ENSURE OUR PARAMEDICS PROVIDE THE HIGHEST LEVEL OF SERVICE TO THE MEMBERS OF OUR COMMUNITY AND I'LL BE HAPPY TO TAKE ANY QUESTIONS. SO I'M JUST GOING TO SAY THIS.
THIS IS MY FAVORITE PRESENTATION TODAY, MAYBE EVEN SINCE I'VE BECOME PUBLIC SAFETY CHAIR.
FOUR YEARS AGO, THERE WERE SOME CASES THAT WERE VERY CONCERNING.
THE DATA COMING OUT OF THE DEPARTMENT ON MEDICAL OUTCOMES WASN'T ANYTHING LIKE WHAT YOU PRESENTED TODAY, AND CHIEF ARTIS, DOCTOR ISAACS, YOU BOTH ASSURED ME THAT YOU HAD A PLAN TO IMPROVE, AND TODAY I SAW IT AND THE NUMBERS SHOW IT, AND I'M SO PROUD OF YOU, AND I THINK THAT THE FIREFIGHTERS THAT I HAVE TALKED TO ARE PROUD OF THE LEVEL OF SERVICE THEY'RE PROVIDING TODAY.
THEY KNOW THAT THEY HAVE ALL THE TOOLS, THEY HAVE THE TRAINING, THEY HAVE THE EXPERTISE, EITHER RIGHT WITH THEM OR RIGHT COMING RIGHT ON A CALL TO DO WHAT OUR RESIDENTS NEED TO HAVE THESE KINDS OF GOOD OUTCOMES.
SO I JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU.
THAT TRANSPORT RATE, IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT.
DOWN TO ONLY 4% AIRWAYS CARDIAC SUPERVISION CASE REVIEW.
CONTINUING ALL THE TRAINING THAT YOU'RE DOING IS EXTRAORDINARY, AND YOU'VE MADE A WHOLE SHIFT IN THE CULTURE OF THE PARAMEDICS AT DFR. I JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU AND I'M REALLY, REALLY PROUD OF YOU.
I DON'T HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT YOUR PRESENTATION.
HOW'S THAT? DOES ANYBODY ELSE? COUNCILMEMBER WILLIS.
IT WOULD BE FANTASTIC TO STAKEHOLDERS, AND WE DO HAVE STAKEHOLDERS.
WE HAVE OUR TAXPAYERS AND SOME OF THEM NEED YOUR SERVICES, AND SO THIS IS SOMETHING TO GO BACK TO THEM ABOUT AND JUST SAY, OH MY GOSH, WE'VE GOT TOP NOTCH SERVICE IN DALLAS IF YOU ARE IN CRISIS.
SO THANK YOU FOR THIS TREMENDOUS IMPROVEMENT IN THE DEDICATION IT TAKES.
SO THE QUESTION I HAVE IS KIND OF DRILLING INTO SOMETHING A LITTLE MORE GRANULAR.
ON PAGE 13, YOU TALK ABOUT SOME OF THE STATION TRAINING ON TOPICS REQUESTED BY MEMBERS.
WHAT ARE SOME OF THE THINGS THAT THEY'RE ASKING FOR TRAINING AROUND.
SO OUR PARAMEDICS ARE HUNGRY FOR KNOWLEDGE.
SO OUR FIREFIGHTER EMTS AND EVEN OUR OFFICERS.
SO I'LL JUST GIVE YOU ONE EXAMPLE.
WHEN A PATIENT IS CRITICALLY ILL AND THEY NEED IV ACCESS TO EITHER GIVE FLUID OR MEDICATION, AND IN THE PAST IF WE COULDN'T START AN IV, WE COULDN'T ADMINISTER FLUID OR MEDICATION.
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A FEW YEARS AGO, WE WERE ABLE TO INSERT A NEEDLE INTO A LONG BONE AND DIRECTLY ADMINISTER FLUID AND MEDICATION THROUGH THE VASCULAR SYSTEM OF THE BONE.ALL RIGHT, AND SO RECENTLY, BASED UPON WHAT WE'VE SEEN FROM OUR QUALITY MANAGEMENT PROGRAM, OUR NEW CLINICAL PRACTICE DIVISION THAT GOES OUT TO THE STATIONS AND PROVIDES DIRECT TRAINING AND MENTORING, HAS BEEN VISITING EVERY STATION AND PROVIDING THAT WITH THE ADDITIONAL EDUCATION TO ALLOW THEM TO PROVIDE THAT LIFE SAVING TREATMENT.
THAT'S PHENOMENAL. THANK YOU SO MUCH.
OKAY, WELL, I THINK WE'RE READY FOR OUR NEXT OUR NEXT ITEM.
NEXT UP IS LEGISLATIVE PRIORITIES FOR PUBLIC SAFETY.
GOOD AFTERNOON, CHAIR MENDELSOHN AND MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE.
WE ARE GOING TO PRESENT TO YOU THE LEGISLATIVE PRIORITIES THAT WERE ADOPTED THIS LAST LEGISLATIVE SESSION, AND THEN REVIEW SOME OF THE PRIORITIES THAT WE'VE RECEIVED TO DATE IN THE HOPES OF RECEIVING SOME FEEDBACK AND DIRECTION FROM THE COMMITTEE.
ALL RIGHT. SO I'LL QUICKLY MOVE THROUGH THE PRIORITIES YOU ADOPTED LAST YEAR, BUT JUST AS GENERAL OUTLINE THE PROCESS PRIOR TO EACH LEGISLATIVE SESSION, THE CITY COUNCIL ADOPTS A FEDERAL AND STATE LEGISLATIVE AGENDA OUTLINING OFFICIAL CITY OF DALLAS POSITIONS ON VARIOUS LEGISLATIVE ISSUES, AND THESE PROGRAMS WILL REALLY SERVE AS THE GUIDE THROUGHOUT SESSION AS TO WHAT THE CITY ADVOCATES FOR OR AGAINST.
NEXT SLIDE PLEASE, AND HERE YOU'LL SEE OUR FULL STATE FEDERAL OR FULL STATE ADOPTED AGENDA.
YOU CAN FIND THESE ON THE OFFICE OF GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS WEBSITE.
SO JUST QUICKLY TO GO THROUGH THE PUBLIC SAFETY PRIORITIES FOR THE 2023 88TH LEGISLATIVE SESSION.
SUPPORT LEGISLATION THAT PROVIDES ADDITIONAL RESOURCES FOR LOCAL GOVERNMENTAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES FOR PUBLIC SAFETY, AND YOU CAN SEE ON HERE THE OUTCOMES OF EACH OF THESE PRIORITIES.
YOU WERE BRIEFED ON THESE IN THE AD HOC COMMITTEE.
JUST A FEW. AS YOU HEARD EARLIER, WE SECURED $20 MILLION FOR THE REGIONAL TRAINING FACILITY.
NEXT SLIDE PLEASE, AND THEN ANOTHER HIGHLIGHT HB 5202 VICTORIA REPRESENTATIVE [INAUDIBLE] RELATING TO DATABASE FOR DOMESTIC VIOLENCE VICTIMS, AND NEXT SLIDE PLEASE, AND JUST FOR OUR FEDERAL PRIORITIES SUPPORT LEGISLATION THAT PROVIDES ADDITIONAL RESOURCES FOR LOCAL GOVERNMENTAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES FOR PUBLIC SAFETY, AND NEXT SLIDE PLEASE, AND THEN HERE YOU WILL SEE JUST A FEW PROJECTS THAT OUR LEGISLATIVE TEAM IN DC AND OUR GRANTS TEAM HAVE BEEN WORKING ON.
IF YOU WANT MORE INFORMATION ON THOSE WE CAN GET THAT TO YOU, BUT WITH THAT, I WILL TURN IT OVER TO CARRIE TO GO OVER THE PRIORITIES THAT WE HAVE RECEIVED SO FAR FOR THE UPCOMING SESSIONS. SO, AS YOU KNOW, WE HAD REQUESTED FOR THE COUNCILMEMBERS TO BEGIN SUBMITTING LEGISLATIVE PRIORITIES FOR CONSIDERATION, ACTUALLY FROM THE COUNCILMEM BERS, BUT AS WELL AS OUR SENIOR STAFF AND EXTERNAL STAKEHOLDERS AND SO WHAT YOU HAVE BEFORE YOU ON SLIDE TEN IS A LIST OF LEGISLATIVE PRIORITIES THAT HAVE BEEN SUBMITTED FOR CONSIDERATION BY THE COMMITTEE BEFORE THEY WOULD ADVANCE TO, BEFORE THEY WOULD ADVANCE TO THE LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE FOR FINAL ADOPTION AND ON TO THE FULL CITY COUNCIL CHAIR.
MENDELSOHN, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU WANT TO ADD TO ANY OF THESE, BUT I'LL DO A FEW HIGHLIGHTS HERE.
I THINK WE HAVE SOME DPD FOLKS HERE WHO COULD PROBABLY ELABORATE ON THOSE.
PURSUE FUNDING FOR BULLETPROOF CAMERAS FOR HIGH CRIME MULTIFAMILY PROPERTIES, AND I WILL SAY, IN OUR LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM LAST YEAR, AS LINLEY INDICATED, THERE WAS SUPPORT FOR ADDITIONAL TOOLS ET CETERA FOR OUR POLICE OFFICERS.
SO THIS TRACKS WITH THAT ADDRESSING THE RESPONSIBILITY OF SCHOOL CROSSING GUARDS.
WE PUT THIS IN HERE BECAUSE IT WAS IN LAST YEAR'S PROGRAM.
WE RECEIVED SOME FEEDBACK ON ENHANCING SAFETY, SAFETY FOR RESIDENTS AND SENIOR FACILITIES, AND YOU MAY HAVE READ SOME COVERAGE IN THE IN THE PRESS ON SOME HIGH PROFILE CASES IN THAT REGARD.
REGULATION AND REPORTING FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES.
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AND SO THERE'S A DESIRE TO LOOK AT THAT.YOU ALL ARE AWARE IF THERE'S AN ACCIDENT ON THE HIGHWAY, OFTENTIMES THE FIRE DEPARTMENTS NOT JUST UNIQUE TO OURS, BUT ANY RESPONDING ENTITY WOULD PUT THEIR FIRE TRUCK IN FRONT TO HELP BLOCKADE AND PROTECT THE WORKERS AS THEY'RE RESPONDING TO AN ACCIDENT.
CLARIFY THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY AS THE PRIMARY FIRST RESPONDER ON STATE HIGHWAYS.
CERTAINLY, CITIES LIKE THE CITY OF DALLAS HAVE LOCAL JURISDICTION, BUT THIS IS SOMETHING I KNOW.
THE TOLL AUTHORITIES CONTRACT WITH DPS TO SERVE AS THEIR FIRST RESPONDERS AND SUPPORT ADDITIONAL PROTECTIONS AND RESOURCES FOR DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND HUMAN TRAFFICKING SURVIVORS. SO THAT'S WHAT WE'VE GOTTEN TO DATE ON PUBLIC SAFETY, AND OUR NEXT STEPS ARE, OF COURSE, TO RECEIVE FEEDBACK FROM THE COMMITTEE, AND THEN ONCE THE COMMITTEE HAS MADE THEIR DECISION, IT WILL GO ON TO THE FULL LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE AND THEN CITY COUNCIL FOR ACTION.
SO WITH THAT, I'M PLEASED TO TAKE ANY QUESTIONS.
COMMITTEE, DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THESE ITEMS? COUNCILMEMBER WILLIS. THANK YOU, AND THIS MAY BE BETTER DIRECTED TO THE CHAIR.
I'M ASSUMING THERE MAY BE DISCUSSIONS GOING ON WITH DPD AND DFR ABOUT SOME THINGS THAT WE WOULD LIKE TO SEE THAT MAKE IT ONTO THIS LIST THAT WE CAN CONSIDER OR ADD.
YES. WELL, I'LL SAY THE FIRST ITEM THAT'S MISSING IS THE PENSION.
SO THAT'LL PROBABLY BE ITEM NUMBER ONE.
THE NEXT ITEM THE SUPPORT PUBLIC ACCESS TO LESS LETHAL DEVICES.
THE TASER TEN ITEM THAT SHE WAS MENTIONING IS SOMETHING WE'RE ACTIVELY WORKING ON TODAY.
SO WITH THE VARIOUS SPECIAL SESSIONS, WE'VE HAD TO GET THE NEW VERSION OF TASER CALLED TASER TEN TO BE DESIGNATED AS LESS THAN LETHAL IS IMPORTANT AS OUR CURRENT TASER SYSTEM IS JUST BARELY STILL BEING SUPPORTED, AND WE'LL NEED TO BE UPDATED, AND IF WE WENT WITH TASER TEN AND IT HAD NOT BEEN DESIGNATED AS LESS THAN LETHAL, EACH ONE WOULD BE AN OFFICER INVOLVED SHOOTING, REQUIRING AN INVESTIGATION, AND COULD LEAD TO PROSECUTION FROM THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY.
SO THIS IS AN IMPORTANT ITEM AND HOPEFULLY WE'LL GET ADDED TO, I DON'T KNOW, WHATEVER SPECIAL SESSION COMES NEXT FIVE, SIX, SEVEN, BUT IT WOULD BE WONDERFUL IF WE COULD SEE OUR LEGISLATORS COME TOGETHER TO SUPPORT PUBLIC SAFETY IN THIS WAY, AND OUR OFFICERS. THIS IS AN INSTANCE WHERE BOTH THE CRIMINAL GETS TO LIVE AND THE OFFICER GETS ADDITIONAL SAFETY AND PROTECTION.
SO THIS IS SORT OF ALREADY HAPPENING, BUT I KNOW IT'S BEEN A HIGH PRIORITY FOR CHIEF GARCIA, AND I BELIEVE THE MAJOR CHIEFS ASSOCIATION HAS ALSO WEIGHED IN, AS WELL AS LOTS OF OTHER STATE LAW ENFORCEMENT ORGANIZATIONS IN SUPPORT OF WHAT WE'RE DOING, THE BULLETPROOF CAMERAS FOR HIGH CRIME MULTIFAMILY PROPERTIES. WE KNOW AND ARE OFTEN BRIEFED TO THIS COMMITTEE, THAT THE NUMBER ONE LOCATION OF VIOLENT CRIME IN DALLAS IS IN MULTIFAMILY APARTMENTS, AND IF WE COULD SOMEHOW ADDRESS THAT BETTER, I THINK WE'D SEE EVEN GREATER REDUCTION IN VIOLENT CRIME.
CROSSING GUARDS, AS CARRIE MENTIONED, IS A HOLDOVER FROM LAST TIME, BUT IT'S A SIGNIFICANT BUDGET ITEM FOR US, AND IT'S IMPORTANT FOR THE SAFETY OF OUR CHILDREN AND OUR FAMILIES. HOWEVER, I'M NOT SURE IT'S REALLY APPROPRIATE TO BE IN A BURDEN ON THE CITY AND PERHAPS COULD BE INCLUDED AS PART OF OUR EDUCATION BILLS. YES, ENHANCING SAFETY FOR THE RESIDENTS OF THE SENIOR FACILITIES.
A LOT OF THIS ACTUALLY COMES FROM THE BILLY CHEMIRMIR CASES, AND I'VE TALKED TO A NUMBER OF SENIOR GROUPS WHO HAVE SOME FANTASTIC WAYS TO HELP ADDRESS THE SAFETY THAT VERY OFTEN OUR SENIORS DON'T HAVE, AS WELL AS INVESTIGATIVE ABILITIES OF OUR POLICE OFFICERS.
THERE'S BEEN A LOT IN THE NEWS ABOUT THAT, AND THERE IS A STATE LAW RIGHT NOW THAT SAYS WE HAVE NO ABILITY TO MAKE ANY KINDS OF REGULATIONS, AND I THINK THAT WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT IF THERE IS A BAD OPERATOR, THAT WE CAN REMOVE THEM FROM OUR STREETS AND PROTECT OUR PEOPLE.
ANYHOW, I THINK THE REST OF THEM ARE FAIRLY SELF-EXPLANATORY.
YES. SO ON THE LAST ONE REGARDING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND HUMAN TRAFFICKING, IT TALKS ABOUT SUPPORT AND RESOURCES FOR SURVIVORS, BUT I THINK WE'D ALSO WANT TO LOOK AT THE FLIP SIDE OF THAT AND ABUSE ABUSERS AND TRAFFICKERS AND WHAT WE NEED TO STRENGTHEN ON THAT SIDE OF THE FENCE AND ALSO AROUND.
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I KNOW THE SUPREME COURT RIGHT NOW IS CONSIDERING CLOSING LOOPHOLES ON FIREARMS THAT ARE STILL IN THE HANDS OF DOMESTIC ABUSERS.SO I GUESS IT'S AN ONGOING DISCUSSION THAT WE.
THIS WAS ACTUALLY LEFT FAIRLY VAGUE, ON PURPOSE, WITH THE HOPE THAT YOU AND THE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE TASK FORCE WOULD STEP FORWARD WITH SPECIFIC LEGISLATION, OR IF OTHER ENTITIES AROUND THE STATE COME FORWARD, THAT WE WILL BE ABLE TO WEIGH IN AND SUPPORT ADDITIONAL PROTECTIONS FOR FOLKS.
THANK YOU. YES, CHAIR BLACKMON.
WILL THAT STILL COME? STILL COULD COME THROUGH QUALITY OF LIFE.
I THINK THAT WAS WHAT THE DISCUSSION WAS AS IT COME THROUGH THIS COMMITTEE OR QUALITY OF LIFE.
SO MY RECOLLECTION IS THAT THE DISCUSSION WAS ONLY THAT NOT EVERYBODY WAS AS UP TO DATE ON THE [INAUDIBLE] THE HARM REDUCTION ISSUE WAS, I THINK, BECAUSE WE HAD IT ON THE LAST AGENDA AND IT WASN'T COMPLETED, THAT WE WOULD CARRY IT FORWARD UNLESS THERE WAS SOME OBJECTION TO DOING SO.
THERE'S NO OBJECTION, BUT JUST WHICH COMMITTEE SHOULD IT COME THROUGH? BECAUSE IT'S NOT ON YOUR LIST AND I HAVEN'T SEEN IT THROUGH QUALITY OF LIFE, YET WE ARE SCHEDULED TO BRIEF QUALITY OF LIFE AT THEIR MEETING IN DECEMBER.
SOMETIME IN DECEMBER, BUT IT IS ON THAT IN THAT PACKET OF MATERIALS AND SINCE IT WAS ADOPTED IN LAST YEAR'S PROGRAM, SINCE THAT TIME AT THE FEDERAL LEVEL, SENATOR CORNYN HAS TAKEN UP LEGISLATION TO PURSUE DECRIMINALIZING FENTANYL TESTING STRIPS, WHICH WOULD THEN SUPERSEDE ANYTHING AT THE STATE LEVEL.
I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE IT WAS SOMEWHERE.
OKAY. WELL, KEEP YOUR KEEP YOUR THOUGHTS OPEN, AND IF YOU HAVE ADDITIONAL ITEMS, PLEASE SUBMIT IT.
ALSO, IF YOU'LL HELP US SHARE THE SOCIAL MEDIA GRAPHIC THAT ENCOURAGES THE PUBLIC IN ANY SORT OF ADVOCACY GROUPS THAT THINK THAT WE OUGHT TO BE PURSUING STATE OR FEDERAL LEGISLATION TO SUPPORT THEM, THAT THEY CAN SEND THAT TO LINLEY.
WE'LL HAVE THIS ON NEXT MONTH'S AGENDA AND FINALIZE IT AS WELL.
OKAY. SO EVERYTHING ELSE IS BRIEFING MEMOS, PUBLIC SAFETY DASHBOARD.
DOES ANYBODY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ON THAT? OKAY. MOVING TO J.
THIS IS THE BLOCKER APPARATUS PROGRAM THAT DFR HAS.
THEY'RE GETTING THREE WITH I BELIEVE STATE FUNDING.
I SURE WOULD LIKE TO HAVE MORE THAN THREE.
DOES ANYBODY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT IT? NO. A NUMBER OF OUR NEIGHBORING CITIES.
YOU CAN SEE NOW THEIR FIRE TRUCKS AND OTHER VEHICLES COMING AROUND WITH THE SCORPION MODEL, AND I THINK I'VE BEEN TO TWO DIFFERENT FUNERALS NOW SINCE I'VE BEEN ON COUNCIL FOR SWORN OFFICERS WHO HAVE LOST THEIR LIFE BECAUSE OF NOT HAVING BLOCKERS, AND WE'VE GOT TO CHANGE THAT.
SO WE HAVE TO KEEP WORKING ON FUNDING, BOTH STATE LEVEL.
ASK DPS WHEN IT'S A HIGHWAY THAT THEY COME OUT WITH A BLOCKER UNTIL WE HAVE THEM ALL IN PLACE.
CHIEF, I SEE YOU'RE KIND OF WAVING A LITTLE BIT.
DID YOU WANT TO ADD ANYTHING TO THAT? I KNOW YOU WANT BLOCKERS FOR EVERYBODY TOO.
YES, WE ARE EXCITED ABOUT THIS NEW PROGRAM.
WE CONTINUE TO HAVE SOME OF OUR OTHER OLDER ENGINES AS BLOCKERS.
WELL, I WOULD LOVE YOU TO BRING THAT FORWARD.
WE HAVE DFR CONSTRUCTION UPDATE.
DOES ANYBODY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ON THAT ONE, AND THEN WE HAVE FLEET MAINTENANCE.
ARE WE STILL ON SCHEDULE FOR GETTING THOSE ENGINES.
YES WE HAD FOR THAT I BELIEVE WENT OUT LAST WEEK.
WE HAVE ANOTHER FOUR THAT ARE GOING OUT THIS WEEK.
WE HAVE, I THINK TWO TRUCKS THAT ARE DUE TO COME IN NEXT MONTH.
SO WE'RE FINALLY STARTING TO SEE SOME TRICKLE IN STARTING TO HAPPEN.
WE'RE STILL HAVING ISSUES WITH JUST GETTING THE AMBULANCES IN RIGHT NOW.
NATIONAL SHORTAGE FOR EVERYBODY.
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WE'RE HAVING TO DO A LOT OF WORK ON MAINTAINING AND KEEPING THIS OLDER FLEET ALIVE, AND SO OUR GUYS ARE DOING A HECK OF A JOB.WE HAVE. ONE GOOD NOTE IS THAT WE'RE ONLY DOWN, I THINK ONE POSITION AS OUR MECHANICS, WE'VE DONE A REALLY, REALLY GOOD JOB OF GOING IN AND GETTING DIFFERENT MECHANICS TO COME AND SEE WHAT WE OFFER HERE AT DALLAS FIRE RESCUE, AND SO WE'RE EXCITED ABOUT THAT.
OKAY. WELL, IF I NEED TO GO DOWN THERE AND TALK TO THEM ABOUT PENSION, I THINK A LOT OF MECHANICS DON'T GET A PENSION, AND THIS IS A GREAT BENEFIT AND MEANS THEY SHOULD STAY WITH US A LONG TIME, BESIDES 25 FIRE ENGINES TO WORK ON.
OKAY. WELL, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THAT UPDATE COMMITTEE.
ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? NO RECORD TIME TODAY.
IT IS 3:10 AND WE'RE GOING TO ADJOURN THIS MEETING.
THANK YOU SO MUCH.
* This transcript was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.