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WE'RE RUNNING A LITTLE LATE TODAY, AND WE HAVE A LOT TO COVER.
WELCOME TO OUR PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE MEETING FOR THE MONTH OF NOVEMBER.
MADAM CLERK, WILL YOU PLEASE CALL ROLL? YES, MA'AM.
COUNCIL MEMBER MAKI RODRIGUEZ.
AND THANKS, UH, TO EVERYONE FOR BEING HERE.
UH, I'M GONNA WELCOME OUR NEW COMMITTEE MEMBERS, COUNCILMAN BRAVO.
THANK YOU FOR, UM, AND I, I KNOW THAT YOU HAVE BEEN ON PUBLIC SAFETY BEFORE, SO I GUESS NEVER.
WELL THEN WELCOME TO BOTH OF YOU
UM, EXCITED FOR YOUR TO HEAR YOUR, YOUR VOICES ON THIS COMMITTEE, UM, TODAY.
UH, COUNCILMAN MCKEY RODRIGUEZ WILL NOT BE ABLE TO ATTEND.
UM, SO THANK YOU ALL FOR BEING HERE.
IN ADDITION TO THE APPROVAL OF LAST MINUTE'S MEET, I'M LAST MEETINGS MINUTES.
THERE ARE THREE ITEMS FOR BRIEFING AND A ONE FOR POSSIBLE ACTION.
I RUN A TIGHT SHIP HERE, GUYS.
WE, WE HAVE, WE HAVE A VERY PACKED AGENDA ON PUBLIC SAFETY HERE ALL THE TIME.
SO, UH, WE HAVE FIVE MINUTES, UH, EACH AND THEN A COUPLE MINUTES FOR, FOR FOLLOW UP.
SO LET'S GO AHEAD AND GET STARTED.
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THE FIRST ITEM IN OUR AGENDA IS THE APPROVAL OF MINUTES FROM OUR OCTOBER 18TH MEETING.ANY OPPOSED? UM, MOTION CARRIES AND MINUTES ARE APPROVED.
WELL, NOW, UH, DO WE HAVE PUBLIC COMMENT TODAY, MA'AM? THERE'S NO, OKAY.
NOBODY SIGNED UP TO SPEAK FOR A PUBLIC COMMENT.
I SHOULD HAVE ASKED THAT A DIFFERENT WAY.
UM, SO WITH NO PUBLIC COMMENT, WE'LL MOVE
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ONTO ITEM TWO, A BRIEFING BY ANIMAL CARE SERVICES.AND WE THANK YOU FOR BEING PATIENT.
I KNOW WE HAD TO BUMP YOU FROM OUR LAST MEETING, BUT WE'RE GLAD YOU'RE HERE TODAY.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR HAVING US.
UH, THIS BRIEFING WILL ACTUALLY BE GIVEN BY SHANNON, UH, OSTER GABRIELSON.
AND, UH, SO I'LL TURN IT OVER TO SHANNON AT THIS POINT.
AS THE OTHER SHANNON SAID, MY NAME IS SHANNON
UM, AS, UH, GOOD MORNING EVERYONE.
MY NAME IS SHANNON OSTER GABRIELSON, THE ASSISTANT TO THE DIRECTOR AT ANIMAL CARE SERVICES.
I WANNA START OFF BY THANKING ONE OF OUR ADVISORY BOARD MEMBERS IN ATTENDANCE THIS MORNING.
RITA, THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONTINUOUS SUPPORT OF ANIMAL CARE.
THE TIMING OF COUNCIL MEMBER MCKEE RODRIGUEZ, AND COUNCIL MEMBER KEO HBAR AS C C R IN FEBRUARY COULDN'T BE MORE TIMELY AS WE WERE JUST KICKING OFF OUR NEW STRATEGIC PLANNING PROCESS AT A C S.
WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON CREATING A NEW STRATEGIC PLAN NONSTOP SINCE JANUARY.
WHILE WE ARE NOT DONE YET, WE HAVE A LOT TO REPORT BACK.
AS I LAY OUT FOR YOU WHERE WE HAVE BEEN AND WHERE WE'RE WHERE WE ARE GOING, I THINK YOU'LL SEE WHERE WE'RE WORKING TOWARDS THE SAME RESULTS.
OUR STRATEGIC PLANNING PROCESS HAS BEEN LAID OUT IN A PHASED TIMELINE, DISCOVERY, ENGAGEMENT, AND FINALIZATION PHASES.
WE HAVE TAKEN A BALANCED APPROACH OF GATHERING INFORMATION, RESEARCHING, AND COMMUNITY INPUT TO IDENTIFY STRATEGIC PRIORITIES THAT WILL TAKE US THROUGH THE NEXT FIVE TO 10 YEARS.
WE STARTED OUR STRATEGIC PLANNING PROCESS BY GATHERING AS MUCH INFORMATION AS POSSIBLE, BEGINNING WITH THE STAFF AT A C S.
OUR STAFF ARE COMMITTED TO ANIMAL WELFARE IN OUR COMMUNITY AND INTERACT WITH OUR RESIDENTS EVERY DAY.
WE SURVEYED ALL STAFF AT A C S AND CONDUCTED INTERVIEWS WITH MANAGERS AND KEY PERSONNEL.
FEEDBACK WE RECEIVED WAS THE NEED FOR ACCESSIBLE LOW-COST VETERINARY SERVICES, FOSTERING A HEALTHY WORKFORCE, INCREASING SPAY NEUTER EFFORTS, REDEFINING ACSS RELATIONSHIP WITH THE COMMUNITY, AND FINDING WAYS TO KEEP PETS IN THEIR HOMES.
NEXT, WE WENT TO YOUR REPRESENTATIVES ON THE ADVISORY BOARD.
WE CONDUCTED IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS WITH EACH ADVISORY BOARD MEMBER AND HELD AN ALL DAY FACILITATED RETREAT IN AUGUST.
BEFORE THE RETREAT AND INTERVIEWS, BOARD MEMBERS WERE ENCOURAGED TO WORK WITH COUNCIL MEMBERS TO UNDERSTAND COUNCIL PRIORITIES AND BOARD MEMBERS WERE GIVEN HOMEWORK TO GET OUT IN THEIR DISTRICTS AND GET FEEDBACK FROM RESIDENTS.
FROM THIS PROCESS, WE IDENTIFIED SEVERAL COMMON TAKEAWAYS, MAKING SPAY NEUTER AND LOW-COST VETERINARY SERVICES MORE ACCESSIBLE, INCREASING COMMUNITY AWARENESS OF RESPONSIBLE PET CARE, REDEFINING THE COMMUNITY'S PERCEPTION OF A C S AND INCREASING AWARENESS OF A C S AS A RESOURCE, CHANGING THE CULTURE OF HOW PETS ARE VIEWED IN THE COMMUNITY, AND ENSURING THE SAFETY OF HUMANS AND THE SAFETY OF PETS.
WE STARTED OUR BEST PRACTICE RESEARCH EARLY IN THE PLANNING PROCESS, AND IN FACT, THAT IS STILL GOING.
WE CAST A HUGE NET AS WE DIDN'T WANNA HOLD OURSELVES JUST TO OUR COMPARABLE CITIES.
WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED SO FAR THAT PARTNERSHIPS ARE CRITICAL FOR THE PLACEMENT OF ANIMALS? MANDATORY SPAY NEUTER IS EFFECTIVE IN PREVENTING ANIMAL OVERPOPULATION.
UNFORTUNATELY, IN TEXAS, MUNICIPALITIES ARE NOT ALLOWED TO OPERATE ON OWNED ANIMALS, NOR ARE WE ALLOWED TO MANDATE SPAY NEUTER.
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NEUTER IN RETURN, OR T N R SURGERIES ARE A WIDESPREAD EFFECTIVE TOOL.COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE AND RESOURCES FOR FAMILIES WITH PETS IS A NEW TOOL MANY SHELTERS ARE UTILIZING.
SIMILAR TO ACSS CASA, OUR CASE MANAGEMENT TEAM, MANY SHELTERS ARE IMPLEMENTING NEW PROGRAMS WITH THE GOAL TO KEEP PETS IN THEIR HOMES OUTTA THE SHELTERS AND OFF THE STREETS.
MANAGED INTAKE PROGRAMS HAVE BEEN A USEFUL STRATEGY TO KEEP PETS OUT OF SHELTERS, BUT WE'RE STILL RESEARCHING THE IMPACT THOSE HAVE ON COMMUNITIES.
FINALLY, WE HAVE FOUND THAT MUNICIPAL SHELTERS ACROSS THE COUNTRY ARE FACING THE SAME STRUGGLES AS A C S.
MANY SHELTERS ARE SEEING THEIR LIVE RELEASE RATES DIP.
MORE PEOPLE ARE WANTING TO SURRENDER PETS, AND FEWER PEOPLE ARE ADOPTING FROM SHELTERS.
AS WE LOOKED AT DATA AND SPOKE WITH OTHER SHELTERS, THIS IS NOT GONNA BE AN EASY FIX TO GET OUR LIVE RELEASE RATE BACK TO 90%.
WE NEED TO CONTINUE WITH OUR PLANNING PROCESS AND FOCUS ON LONG-TERM SUSTAINABLE SOLUTIONS.
ONE OF THE MOST CRITICAL STEPS TO OUR STRATEGIC PLANNING PROCESS IS COMMUNITY FEEDBACK.
THAT STARTED WITH A COMMUNITY SURVEY IN APRIL.
WE OBTAINED OVER 3000 SURVEYS USING A GRASSROOTS APPROACH, USING TOOLS FROM THE OFFICE OF INNOVATION AND DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND, AND INCLUSION.
WE MADE SURE THAT COMMUNITY MEMBERS WERE HEARD DIGITALLY AND IN PERSON.
OUR HIGHEST RESPONSE RATES WERE IN DISTRICTS ONE, TWO, AND SIX, BUT WE RECEIVED RESPONSES FROM ALL DISTRICTS.
PARTICIPANTS IDENTIFIED THEIR TOP THREE PRIORITIES AS CONTROLLING ANIMAL OVERPOPULATION THROUGH SPAY NEUTER, ENFORCEMENT OF ANIMAL RELATED LAWS, AND FINDING PLACEMENT FOR ANIMALS IMPOUNDED AT A C S.
MANY ALSO EXPRESSED GAPS IN AWARENESS AND EXPECTATIONS OF A C S PROGRAMS AND RESOURCES.
THIS SUMMER, WE HELD FIVE COMMUNITY INPUT MEETINGS.
WE LISTENED TO OVER 150 RESIDENTS ON A C S PRIORITIES AND DISCUSS SOLUTIONS TO COMMUNITY PROBLEMS. WE LEARNED A LOT ABOUT WHAT RESIDENTS NEED AND WHERE WE HAVE GAPS.
PEOPLE ARE CONCERNED ABOUT THE STRAYER ROMAN ANIMALS IN THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD.
THEY CONSISTENTLY TALKED ABOUT SPAY AND NEUTER SERVICES AND AFFORDABLE VET SERVICES.
ONE OF THE MOST COMMON ISSUES EXPRESSED WAS THE PUBLIC SAFETY OF HUMANS AND ANIMALS.
WHETHER SOMEONE'S FEELING UNSAFE WALKING IN THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD, OR THEY'RE CONCERNED ABOUT THE HUMANE CONDITION OF A PET THEY MAY SEE IN THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD.
MANY ARE ALSO ARE PASSIONATE ABOUT INCREASING SHELTER, PET ADOPTIONS, AND OTHER LIFESAVING OPTIONS.
OUR PARTNERS ARE CRITICAL TO THE MISSION OF A C S, AND THAT IS WHY WE HELD A FOCUS, FOCUS GROUP TO GET THEIR FEEDBACK.
IN OCTOBER, WE MET VIRTUALLY WITH VETERINARIANS, SPAY, NEUTER CLINICS, RESCUE PARTNERS, COMMUNITY AGENCIES, AND NEIGHBORS TO HEAR WHAT THEY HAD TO SAY.
WE HEARD CONCERNS ABOUT MISINFORMATION AND THE SPREAD OF DISEASE IN THE PET COMMUNITY.
PARTNERS WANNA SEE SUPPORT FOR HUMANE PET EDUCATION, ACCESSIBILITY OF VET SERVICES, AND STRENGTHENING LIFESAVING OPTIONS.
THE LAST STEP IN GATHERING INFORMATION IS COMPLETING A COMMUNITY NEEDS ASSESSMENT.
COLLECTING DATA, NOT JUST ABOUT ANIMALS, ENSURES THAT THE STRATEGIC PLAN WILL CONTINUE, WILL INCLUDE STRATEGIES TO HELP CLOSE THOSE GAPS, AS WELL AS SET A BASELINE FOR MEASURABLE GOALS.
AN EXAMPLE IS LOOKING AT OUR SPAY NEUTER OR VETERINARY CARE DESERTS.
WE PULLED ALL THE VET OFFICES IN SAN ANTONIO AND MAP THEM, AND THERE ARE SOME GLARING AREAS WHERE PEOPLE WOULD HAVE TO TRAVEL MILES JUST TO GET THEIR PET VACCINATED.
PAIR THAT WITH THE FACT THAT ALMOST 9% OF RESIDENTS DON'T HAVE A CAR.
THESE ARE SIGNIFICANT BARRIERS TO OVERCOME, JUST TO BE ABLE TO CARE FOR YOUR PET IN THE MOST BASIC WAY.
ONCE WE HAVE ALL THESE PIECES OF THE PROCESS, WE PLAN TO PRESENT TO THE CITY COUNCIL AT A B SESSION IN JANUARY, YOU'LL SEE THE FINAL PLAN FOR ADOPTION IN APRIL.
THAT PLAN'S NOT JUST GONNA BE A LIST OF PRIORITIES.
WE'LL HAVE SPECIFIC STRATEGIES WITH ACTION PLANS LAID OUT THAT INCLUDES PROGRAMS, POLICIES, RESOURCES, FACILITIES, AND TARGET DATES.
ULTIMATELY, THIS WILL GUIDE NEXT YEAR'S BUDGET PROCESS FOR A C S AND FOR MANY YEARS TO COME.
WE DO WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT WE'RE NOT JUST WAITING UNTIL FISCAL YEAR 2024 TO START MAKING CHANGES.
THIS YEAR, A C S HAS GROWN A PARTNERSHIP WITH ANIMAL DEFENSE LAKE TO PROVIDE FREE COMMUNITY VACCINE CLINICS AND NEIGHBORHOODS THAT NEED THEM THE MOST.
WE ALREADY COMPLETED THE FIRST CLINICS OF FISCAL YEAR 2023 IN DISTRICTS FIVE AND THREE, AND WE SERVED ALMOST 400 PETS.
WE PLAN TO SERVE OVER 2000 MORE.
OUR CASA IS WORKING ONE-ON-ONE WITH RESIDENTS TO HELP KEEP THEIR PETS AT HOME AND OUT OF THE SHELTERS.
IN THE FIRST THREE MONTHS OF THE PROGRAM, CASA PREVENTED 121 OWNER SURRENDERS AND IMPACTED OVER 2,500 FAMILIES.
SPAY NEUTER SERVICES HAVE BEEN GREATLY IMPACTED SINCE THE START OF THE PANDEMIC.
SHANNON SIMS HAS FREQUENTLY TALKED ABOUT HIS ALL THE ABOVE APPROACH TO BRINGING OUR NUMBERS BACK TO PRE PANDEMIC LEVELS AND THEN INCREASING THEM.
WE ARE WORKING ON IDENTIFYING NEW PARTNERS IN STRENGTHENING OUR EXISTING PARTNERSHIPS.
SOON WE HOPE TO BE ABLE TO REPORT TO YOU OUR FIRST EVER PRIVATE CLINICS PROVIDING SPAY NEUTER SERVICES AND A PILOT FOR AFFORDABLE VET SERVICES PROVIDING WELLNESS.
ALTHOUGH A FEW YEARS AWAY, A C S IS ALREADY WORKING WITH PUBLIC WORKS TO BRING THEIR
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STANDARD OF CARE UP FOR ANIMAL POPULATION THROUGH A BOND APPROVED VET HOSPITAL AT OUR CAMPUS ON 1 51, WE ARE CREATING A CUSTOMER SERVICE TEAM THAT CAN HELP HANDLE UP TO 150 ADOPTION OR FOSTER CALLS A DAY.FINALLY, WITH THE USE OF DONATIONS, A C S WILL BE PILOTING LIFESAVING PROGRAMS WITH TEMPORARY EMPLOYEES.
FIRST, WE WANNA INCREASE OUR PRESENCE ON THE ADOPTION FLOOR WITH ONE-ON-ONE HELP FOR PEOPLE LOOKING AT ADOPTING.
WE'RE ALSO GONNA INCREASE THE QUALITY OF OUR MARKETING EFFORTS WITH GRAPHIC DESIGN EXPERTISE.
A C S HAS BEEN VERY EXCITED ABOUT HOW THIS PROCESS HAS DEVELOPED AND SHAPED OUR NEXT STRATEGIC PLAN.
THE FEEDBACK WE RECEIVED FROM STAKEHOLDERS HAS BEEN BENEFICIAL TO IDENTIFYING COMMON THEMES.
WE LOOK FORWARD TO PROVIDING MORE INFORMATION AND DISCUSSING WITH YOU IN JANUARY.
THIS CONCLUDES OUR PRESENTATION AND OUR, WE ARE AVAILABLE FOR MORE.
THANK YOU SHANNON AND SHANNON.
UM, REALLY APPRECIATE YOUR, YOUR PRESENTATION TODAY, AND THANKS FOR ALL THE TIME THAT YOU TAKE TO MEET WITH THE COMMUNITY AND, AND, AND CONDUCT THESE SURVEYS.
AND, UH, I THINK THEY'RE REALLY IMPORTANT.
WE HAVE A LOT OF, UH, VERY PASSIONATE ANIMAL RIGHTS ADVOCATES ACROSS OUR CITY.
AND, UH, OF COURSE, THEY'RE, WE'RE, THEY'RE ALWAYS ADVOCATING FOR OUR ANIMALS AND IMPROVEMENTS AT A C S.
SO I'M GLAD TO SEE THAT THE PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT PROCESS HAS BEEN THOROUGH.
UM, UH, THERE SEEMS TO BE A, A CONSENSUS ON INCREASING SPAY NEUTER.
I HEAR A LOT ABOUT, YOU KNOW, THAT, THAT OUT IN THE COMMUNITY.
CAN YOU TALK A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THE WORK THAT'S BEEN DONE TO WORK ON INCREASING? UM, BUT BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, WHAT ELSE CAN WE DO? I KNOW DISTRICT THREE HAS, UH, KIND OF A STANDALONE, UM, SPAY NEUTER CLINIC, RIGHT? THAT'S RUN BY THE CITY.
UM, I'D LOVE TO SEE THOSE IN EVERY DISTRICT, BUT, UM, BUT SHORT OF THAT, WHAT, WHAT ELSE CAN WE DO? YES, MA'AM.
SO, UH, AS, AS I'VE PREVIOUSLY SPOKEN, UH, RIGHT NOW WE'VE DONE A NATIONWIDE RECRUITING CAMPAIGN, UH, RATHER THAN JUST CONTINUE TO LOOK AT, UH, THE KNOWN WE HAVE IN SAN ANTONIO TO OPERATE THOSE CLINICS MM-HMM.
UH, IT MAKES IT HARD FOR FOLKS TO MAKE THAT INITIAL INVESTMENT TO MOVE INTO A NEW MARKET.
UH, WE'VE ACTUALLY UTILIZED THE BRACKENRIDGE CLINIC AS AN ENTICEMENT TO BRING NEW, UH, NEW BLOOD IN.
UH, SPAY NEUTER NETWORK WILL BE TAKING THAT CLINIC OVER, UH, ON THE 15TH OF DECEMBER, UH, AND OPEN FOR BUSINESS IN MID-JANUARY.
UH, JUST TO PUT INTO PERSPECTIVE, LAST YEAR THEY RUN THREE CLINICS OUT OF THE DALLAS-FORT WORTH AREA.
THEY DID 60,000 SURGERIES OUT OF THOSE THREE CLINICS.
THEY'RE A VERY ORGANIZED DATA-DRIVEN ORGANIZATION.
THE GOOD NEWS IS NOT ONLY ARE WE BRINGING THAT NEW CAPACITY IN, BUT WE STILL MAINTAIN A PARTNERSHIP WITH PET SHOTS, WHO IS THE PREVIOUS VENDOR OF THAT ORGANIZATION.
UH, AND, AND SO WE'VE ACTUALLY EXPANDED THE CAPACITY AND WE'RE LOOKING TO DO THE SAME THING FOR THE SAN ANTONIO HUMANE SOCIETY BUILDING THAT'S, THAT'S DOWN IN, IN BROOKS RIGHT NOW.
UH, AGAIN, WE CONTINUE TO REACH NATIONWIDE, TRYING TO BRING, BRING THAT NEW BLOOD IN, BUT MAINTAIN THE EXISTING RELATIONSHIPS THAT WE HAVE.
UH, I ABSOLUTELY BELIEVE, AS I'VE TALKED WITH COUNCILMAN MCKEE RODRIGUEZ ABOUT MM-HMM.
SO THAT IF, IF WE DO BRING THOSE TO FRUITION, I'VE GOT VENDORS READY TO COME IN AND, AND, AND START OPERATING THEM.
SO I THINK THAT'S THE BIGGEST WAY.
BUT SHANNON DID ALSO TALK ABOUT THE FACT THAT WE ARE NOW ALSO IN THE, IN THE PROCESS OF CONTRACTING WITH A, UH, WITH SEVERAL ALREADY IN TOWN PRIVATE ORGANIZATIONS THAT ARE GONNA BE ABLE TO PROVIDE US SOME SPAY CAPACITY, PRIMARILY FOR THOSE CASA UH, RELATED, YOU KNOW, CASES AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
BUT THAT'S GOING TO SIGNIFICANTLY HELP US AS WELL.
CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG, THERE WAS A KIND OF A MOBILE CLINIC.
ARE WE USING THAT AT ALL ANYMORE? SO THE MOBILE CLINIC ACTUALLY WAS SEVERELY, UH, DEGRADED.
UH, HOWEVER, THE GOOD NEWS IS WITH SPAY NEUTER NETWORK COMING IN, THEY ACTUALLY POSSESS A MOBILE CLINIC.
AND THE INTENT IS AS THEY COME IN AND THEY, YOU KNOW, THEY GET THEIR FEET ON THE GROUND, UH, NOT ONLY EXECUTING, BRINGING THAT MOBILE CLINIC DOWN HERE MM-HMM.
THAT THAT'S, I MEAN, THAT'S SOLVING THE PROBLEM AS WELL.
IT MAKES ME THINK OF, YOU KNOW, SENIORS OR PEOPLE WITH SPECIAL NEEDS WHO HAVE VERY MUCH RELY ON THE, YOU KNOW, THE COMPANIONSHIP OF THEIR, THEIR ANIMALS, BUT THEY DON'T HAVE, UH, AN OPPORTUNITY TO MAYBE GET TO ONE OF THESE CLINICS.
AND ON THAT SAME NOTE, UM, ARE THESE ALL LOW COST OPPORTUNITIES? FREE AND LOW COST.
SO THERE ARE, UH, FREE AS WELL? YES.
FOR THE ZIP CODES, UH, FOR THE FOLKS THAT ARE IN, IN THE DESIGNATED ZIP CODES THAT WE'VE IDENTIFIED, THEY'RE FREE.
UH, BUT THEY ARE AVAILABLE FOR LOW COST IN ANY, ANYONE IN ANY ZIP CODE.
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UM, THE OTHER BIG ISSUE THAT'S BEEN COMING UP A LOT, AND I'M SURE YOU KNOW A LOT ABOUT IS THE, THE, THE LACK, I GUESS, OF VETERINARIANS.I THINK THAT'S ACROSS THE COUNTRY THOUGH.
IS DO WE HAVE AN ALTERNATIVE, UH, UM, FOR, OR A PLAN B FOR, UM, FILLING THOSE GAPS HERE IN SAN ANTONIO? I, I KNOW THAT THERE'S A, UM, A C C D HAS A, A VETERINARY TECHNOLOGY ASSOCIATE'S DEGREE PROGRAM.
ARE WE PARTNERING WITH THEM? SO WE HAVE BEEN, UH, DESIGNS, UH, WE'VE BEEN, UH, PARTNERING WITH, UH, PIMA.
UH, P PIMA HAS A VETERINARY, UH, VETERINARY TECHNICIAN DEGREE PROGRAM.
THEY ACTUALLY COME IN AND THEY PROVIDE, THEY GET SOME BOOTS ON THE GROUND TYPE OF EXPERIENCE WHILE THEY'RE GOING THROUGH THEIR PIMA PROGRAM.
AND IT ALSO OPENS US UP TO THE OPPORTUNITY TO, TO RECRUIT THOSE INDIVIDUALS FOR ON, UH, ON SITE.
WHAT IS PIMA? UH, IT'S, IT'S A VETERINARY SCHOOL.
IT'S LIKE A COMMUNITY COLLEGE VETERINARY, UH, WITH A VETERINARY PROGRAM.
WELL, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THE PRESENTATION.
WE'LL MOVE ON TO, UM, COMMITTEE COMMENT.
ANYBODY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS? COUNCIL GERRAN, THANK YOU.
THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION.
UM, YOU KNOW HOW IMPORTANT THIS ISSUE IS TO ME.
UH, MY TEAM AND I ARE IN CONTACT WITH YOU PRETTY REGULARLY.
SO THE ONE THING YOU BROUGHT UP, AND I KNOW IN DISTRICT THREE, WE GOT A REPORT IN OCTOBER THAT OUR ZIP CODE SEVEN EIGHT TWO TEN SEVEN EIGHT TWO ONE FOUR SEVEN EIGHT TWO TWO ONE, AND 7 8 2, 2 3, WHICH ARE MORE URBAN DENSE.
WE'RE SEEING A LOT OF STRAY CALLS.
DID WE IDENTIFY, IS IT BECAUSE IT'S BY THE RIVER, OVER BY THE CREEK? DO WE JUST MAYBE HAVE SOMEBODY THAT'S COLLECTING THEM? AS I WAS DRIVING TO CITY HALL, I HA I SAW TWO, TWO DOGS.
ONE HAD A COLLAR THOUGH, ROAMING THE STREET.
AND THEN I HAD TWO FURTHER DOWN THE ROAD JUST, IT WAS LIKE THEY WERE ON THEIR MORNING WALK.
SO, UM, HAVE WE IDENTIFIED WHETHER THIS IS PEOPLE DUMPING THEM, JUST PEOPLE NOT, NOT FENCING UP THEIR DOGS? UH, ARE, ARE PEOPLE, ARE THE DOGS GETTING DUMPED BY THE RIVER OR THE CREEKS? SO, SO, YES, MA'AM.
SO WE KNOW FOR A FACT THAT, UH, THE LACK OF AVAILABILITY OF SPAY NEUTER OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS WITH THE PANDEMIC AND THE ISSUES THAT WE'VE HAD, UH, WITH BROOKS BEING ABLE TO STAY OPEN FIVE DAYS A WEEK, HAS SIGNIFICANTLY IMPACTED, UH, THE NUMBER OF ANIMALS IN THE COMMUNITY.
UH, WE'VE SEEN THE DEAD ANIMAL PICKUP, UH, INCREASE, WHICH IS, YOU KNOW, KIND OF A NON-ASSOCIATED METRIC THAT WE USE TO KIND OF MEASURE THE NUMBER OF LOOSE ANIMALS IN THE COMMUNITY.
WE'VE SEEN THAT RISE OVER THE LAST YEAR.
SO A LOT OF THAT IS DIRECTLY RELATED TO SPAY NEUTER.
UH, I HAVE NO DOUBT THOUGH, THAT WE, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE PICKED UP QUITE A FEW ANIMALS THAT COME IN, UH, THAT WERE, UH, YOU KNOW, MICROCHIP TO AN INDIVIDUAL WHEN WE REACH OUT, UH, BECAUSE OF ECONOMIC SITUATIONS AND THINGS.
FOLKS ARE SAYING, I, I, I CAN'T, I CAN'T TAKE THE ANIMAL BACK.
UM, SO I THINK IT'S A COMBINATION OF SOME OF THE ECONOMIC IMPACTS.
YOU KNOW, IF THE DOG GETS LOOSE, THEY'RE KIND OF LIKE, YOU KNOW, I REALLY CAN'T AFFORD TO FEED HIM ANYWAY.
AND SO THERE, THERE'S, THERE'S THAT, AND THEN THERE'S JUST THE INCREASED POPULATION DUE TO THE LACK OF SPAY NEUTER OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS THAT WE'VE SEEN.
AND WHAT I WOULD REALLY LIKE TO SEE, 'CAUSE THE OTHER CALLS WE'VE BEEN GETTING IS I HAVE A LOT OF SENIORS THAT GET DOGS TO PROTECT THE HOME, BUT YET AS THEY AGE, THEY'RE NOT DOING AS WELL AS TAKING CARE OF THE, THEY DON'T KEEP UP WITH THE, THE OUTDOOR DOGHOUSE, OR THEY, THEY TETHER THEM TOO CLOSE TO THE FENCE.
AND SO I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WITH SOME OF THE PROGRAMS WE'RE GETTING OUT TO THEM AND KIND OF SEEING WHERE WE CAN HELP THEM BE BETTER DOG OWNERS.
THE OTHER THING IS, I KNOW, UM, THERE'S A LOT OF AGENCIES OUT THERE THAT PROVIDE DOG FOOD, BUT I ALSO HAVE DOG RESIDENTS, UH, SENIORS IN PARTICULAR THAT ARE INSISTENT.
AND THIS IS WHERE I THINK YOU GUYS NEED TO COME IN AND EDUCATE THEM, INSISTENT THAT THEIR DOGS NEED THE MORE EXPENSIVE DOG FOOD, UH, AND WET AND DRY COMBINATION.
AND TRYING TO GET THEM, YOU KNOW, YOUR DOG'S OLDER, THEY ONLY EAT, YOU DON'T, THEY'RE NOT AS ACTIVE AS USED TO.
YOU DON'T HAVE TO KEEP FEEDING THEM THIS FOOD, YOU KNOW, TWICE A DAY OR SOMETHING LIKE THIS.
SO I THINK THERE'S A LOT OF EDUCATION WE NEED TO DO TO MAKE SURE THAT OUR, UM, OUR, OUR, UH, PET OWNERS ARE RESPONSIBLE PET OWNERS, AND AS THEY AGE, THAT THEY'RE, AND THEIR DOGS AGE, THAT THEY'RE UNDERSTANDING WHAT THAT MEANS.
UM, AND I WOULD LIKE TO GET THE RESPONSES.
I, I SEE THAT ONE, TWO, AND SIX WERE THE, UM, HIGHEST RESPONSE RATES.
BUT IF I COULD GET A BREAKDOWN FOR DISTRICT THREE, I'D, I'D REALLY LIKE TO SEE THAT.
UH, BECAUSE WHEN I VISIT, UM, DIFFERENT COMMUNITY EVENTS, THERE IS ALWAYS SOMEONE
SO IF I COULD GET THAT, I'D APPRECIATE IT.
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WE, AND LIKE I SAID, WE HAD RESPONSES FROM EVERY DISTRICT WE ACTUALLY WENT TO.WE USED, UM, THE EQUITY ATLAS AND SOME TOOLS FROM INNOVATION TO DETERMINE WHERE WE SHOULD GO, BOOTS ON THE GROUND.
I PERSONALLY WAS IN DISTRICT THREE, AND IT WAS VERY FUN.
WE WENT TO, UM, I CAN'T REMEMBER, ONE OF THE COMMUNITY CENTERS WE WENT TO, AND THERE WAS A REC LEAGUE, AND SO WE GOT A TON OF RESPONSES.
AND THEN, UM, ONE OF OUR COMMUNITY MEETINGS WAS IN DISTRICT THREE, AND IT WAS SHOULDER TO SHOULDER STANDING ROOM ONLY.
IT MIGHT'VE BEEN THE BREAKFAST TACOS, I'M NOT SURE.
THE, THE NEXT TIME BOTH SHANNON'S PRESENT, CAN, CAN WE INVITE MIKE SHANNON TO, YOU KNOW, LIKE, YEAH.
UH, HOLD YOUR BAGS OR SOMETHING WHILE YOU GUYS TALK? HE NEEDS TO BE ON OUR BOARD, SO, YEAH.
ONE, IT WOULD HELP ME, UM, WHEN MY CONSTITUENTS ASK ME IF I COULD HAVE SOME DOCUMENT SHOWING SORT OF THE TRAJECTORY OF AN ANIMAL FROM, YOU KNOW, FROM THE CALL, UH, TO THE, UH, YOU KNOW, TO WHATEVER ENDS UP HAPPENING RIGHT.
AT THE VERY HOWEVER THE MOVIE ENDS FOR THESE ANIMALS.
UM, AND 'CAUSE I DON'T HAVE A VISUAL REPRESENTATION OF THAT.
AND SOMETHING I COULD SHARE BECAUSE I, I GET ASKED SO OFTEN, YOU KNOW, WELL, WHAT HAPPENS TO THE DOG ONCE I, ONCE I MAKE A CALL? OR WHERE DID MY DOG GO? RIGHT.
UH, AND I WOULD JUST, LIKE, I, I, AND, AND ALSO, I DON'T KNOW, RIGHT? I'D LIKE TO KNOW.
AND SO CAN YOU HELP ME WITH THAT? ABSOLUTELY.
THE SECOND THING IS, IS IT OCCURS TO ME, UM, THAT, YOU KNOW, WE'VE GOT BRIAN DILLARD AND HIS MEN IN BLACK AND THE BRAINIACS UP THERE, UH, YOU KNOW, COMING UP WITH NEW AND INNOVATIVE WAYS OF SOLVING OLD PROBLEMS, HAVE WE ROPED THEM INTO SOLVING FOR SPAY AND NEUTER AND ALL THAT? SO WE, WE'VE WORKED REALLY CLOSELY WITH, UH, BRIAN'S TEAM ON A COUPLE OF DIFFERENT INITIATIVES FROM DATA GOVERNANCE, UH, BETTER, YOU KNOW, KIND OF PUTTING OUR DATA TOGETHER AND HOW TO ANALYZE IT TO, UH, OUR, OUR CLINIC OPERATIONS, UH, STUDY THAT WE DID A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO THAT ACTUALLY GAVE US THE DATA THAT WE MOVE FORWARD WITH TO REQUEST THE BOND, UH, AS WELL AS THE POSITIONS THAT WE RECEIVED IN THE F Y 23 BUDGET.
UH, SO YEAH, WE'VE, WE'VE WORKED REAL CLOSELY WITH THEM.
AND ONE OF THE OTHER THINGS THAT WE'RE WORKING, UH, RIGHT NOW, UH, NOT ONLY WITH BRIAN'S TEAM, BUT THROUGH A LEGISLATIVE PROCESS, IS TEXAS RIGHT NOW IS ONE, IS THE ONLY STATE IN THE UNION NOW, UH, THAT DOES NOT ALLOW A MUNICIPAL SHELTER TO, TO BASICALLY TREAT AN OWNED ANIMAL.
UH, WE HAVE TO EITHER OWN THAT ANIMAL, OR THE ANIMAL HAS TO BE OWNER SURRENDERED.
THAT'S LEGISLATION THAT WE'RE MOVING FORWARD THIS YEAR, NOT JUST WE WITH A LOT OF SUPPORT FROM OTHER LARGE MUNICIPALITIES SO THAT WE CAN PROVIDE THAT KIND OF HELP.
UH, IF THAT ANIMAL COMES IN AND WE'RE GETTING READY TO RETURN IT TO AN OWNER, WE CAN SPAY AND NEUTER IT BEFORE IT GOES BACK TO THAT OWNER OR PROVIDE THAT TREATMENT FOR THOSE LOW-COST INDIVIDUALS.
I, WE SAT THROUGH OUR GOVERNMENT RELATIONS COMMITTEE MEETING THE OTHER DAY LOOKING AT THE, THE AGENDA, AND I DON'T REMEMBER THAT POPPING OUT.
UH, AND WAS IT ON THERE? DID YOU GUYS YES, SIR.
THIS IS ACTUALLY THE FIRST TIME THAT COUNCIL HAS ACTUALLY VOTED TO ALLOW, UH, BASICALLY THE ANIMAL WELFARE TYPE, UH, ISSUES TO BE A PRIORITY, UH, TO BE ABLE TO BE, UH, USE OUR LOBBYISTS AND THINGS LIKE THAT TO HELP US KIND.
AND THEN THE, THE OTHER THING TOO IS, YOU KNOW, WE'RE ALWAYS GETTING CREATIVE WITH TRYING TO GET COMPANIES TO DO THINGS WE WANT THEM TO DO.
RIGHT? LIKE, HIRE INTERNS AND, YOU KNOW, BUILD GREENER AND WE WILL FORGIVE YOUR, OR WE'LL REBATE TAXES, RIGHT? IF YOU DO THIS, WE WILL INCENTIVIZE YOU TO DO IT WITH SOME, WHATEVER TOOLS ARE AVAILABLE TO US.
IT OCCURS TO ME IF, UM, YOU KNOW, COULD WE DO SOMETHING SIMILAR WITH VET OFFICES WHO HELP US WITH SPAY AND NEUTER? AND SO IF YOU SPAY A NEUTER X NUMBER OF DOGS AND CATS, RIGHT, YOU COULD REALIZE SOME SORT OF TAX BENEFIT AT THE END OF THE YEAR, UH, IF YOU WANNA BE PART OF THIS TAX SAVING OPPORTUNITY RIGHT.
MAKING IT, BECAUSE RIGHT NOW, I IMAGINE DOING FREE SPAY AND NEUTER AT A VET CLINIC, THAT'S PROBABLY NOT IN THE INTEREST OF THEIR BALANCE SHEET.
BUT IF WE COULD MAKE IT BALANCE SHEET POSITIVE FOR THEM, UM, THERE MAY BE A SOLUTION THERE.
WHAT WOULD IT, WHAT WOULD THAT REQUIRE, COUNCILMAN? WE'LL DO SOME RESEARCH AND, UM, UM, PROVIDE THAT INFORMATION TO THE COMMITTEE IF THERE'S SOME ALTERNATIVES FOR US TO CONSIDER SOME INCENTIVES, IF YOU WILL, TO THE PRIVATE VETS.
WOULD THAT BE HELPFUL? I MEAN, I THINK RIGHT NOW WE'RE, AGAIN, KIND OF THAT ALL IN APPROACH RIGHT NOW.
WE KNOW THAT WE HAVE TO INCENTIVIZE FOLKS TO COME HERE.
MY HOPE IS THAT SPAY NEUTER NETWORK WILL DO THREE YEARS, OR THEY'LL DO THEIR CONTRACT TERM AT THE BRACKENRIDGE FACILITY AND THEN SET UP THEIR OWN FACILITY LIKE PET SHOTS DID, AND WE CAN BRING SOMEBODY ELSE IN.
SO I THINK ANYTHING THAT WE CAN INCENTIVIZE PEOPLE TO BRING THAT NEW BUSINESS IN IS,
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IS ABSOLUTELY HELPFUL.UH, WITH, AND, AND I THINK ONE OF THE KEY THINGS IS NOT JUST BRINGING THEM IN, BUT BRINGING THEM INTO THE AREAS THAT NEED THEM.
YOU KNOW, YOU LOOK AT DISTRICTS 3, 4, 6, 2, TH THERE'S A TREMENDOUS DESERT THERE OF VETERINARY CARE.
YOU KNOW, WE MOVE UP INTO THE 8, 9, 10.
THERE'S, THERE'S A VETERINARIAN, YOU KNOW, YOU CAN THROW A ROCK ANY DIRECTION AND HIT ONE.
UH, COUNCILMAN BARRO, THANK YOU FOR THAT PRESENTATION.
I WAS REALLY GLAD TO SEE THAT YOU HELD, UM, SEVERAL PUBLIC INPUT, INPUT FORUMS, UM, BECAUSE I, I WASN'T AWARE THAT THEY WERE HAPPENING AT FIRST, AND WE ACTUALLY SCHEDULED A DISTRICT ONE ANIMAL WELFARE ADVOCATE, UH, PUBLIC INPUT SESSION THE SAME TIME AS YOUR VERY FIRST ONE.
SO, UM, BUT WE GOT A LOT OF GREAT INFORMATION OUTTA THAT.
UM, AND SOME GOOD TAKEAWAYS THAT WE WERE STARTING TO WORK ON.
I DID WANT TO ASK, I, I THINK, UM, OUR CHAIR ASKED ABOUT, UM, YOU KNOW, I GUESS MAYBE HAVE HIRING OR EXPANDING ACCESS TO BEING ABLE TO DO MORE SPAY AND NEUTER.
AND I KNOW THAT WE AS A COUNCIL APPROVED INCREASING FUNDING FOR, UH, THE, FOR YOU ALL TO HIRE ANOTHER VETERINARIAN.
AND I WANT TO KNOW WHERE WE ARE IN THAT PROCESS RIGHT NOW.
SO WE'VE, UH, UH, WE'VE GONE OUT AND WE'VE, UH, BEEN TO CONFERENCES TO, TO HELP IN THE RECRUITING AND THINGS, YOU KNOW, THINGS LIKE THAT.
SO WE'RE, WE'RE ACTIVELY OUT THERE.
UH, MOST RECENTLY, UH, WE HAVE PARTNERED WITH, UH, AN ORGANIZATION CALLED VETNET.
UH, THEY SPECIFICALLY, UH, KIND OF SPECIALIZE IN VETERINARY RECRUITING.
UH, WE'VE GOTTEN SOME GOOD INPUT FROM THEM FROM A PERSPECTIVE OF HOW WE MIGHT NEED TO CHANGE OUR BUSINESS MODEL A LITTLE BIT.
WE'VE TYPICALLY ALWAYS BEEN FIVE DAYS A WEEK FOR A VETERINARIAN.
THEY'VE TOLD US THAT FOUR DAYS A WEEK IS NOW KIND OF THE STANDARD, YOU KNOW, FOUR DAY WORK WEEKS FOR THESE FOLKS.
THE POTENTIAL TO ALSO HAVE PART-TIME POSITIONS IS VERY, VERY, UH, I GUESS SOMETHING THAT A LOT OF VETERINARIANS ARE LOOKING FOR RIGHT NOW.
UH, SO WORKING WITH THEM RIGHT NOW, THEY ARE ACTUALLY OUT CANVASSING THE COLLEGES TO GET US SOME LEADS.
UH, THEY SAID DECEMBER, JANUARY, THE PRIME TIMES TO BE ABLE TO RECRUIT AND INTERVIEW FOR THOSE ABOUT TO GRADUATE, UH, AS WELL AS THEY, THEY'VE GOT A SIGNIFICANT POOL OF, OF, UH, VETERINARIANS IN THEIR SYSTEM THAT THEY'RE TALKING TO RIGHT NOW.
AND EVERY TIME THAT THEY FIND ONE THAT MAY BE A POTENTIAL MATCH, THEY SEND THEM TO US.
AND, UH, AND WE START HAVING THE DISCUSSIONS THEN.
SO WE DON'T HAVE ONE ON, UH, YOU KNOW, ON, ON, UH, I GUESS IN, IN THE PROCESS OF ONBOARDING RIGHT NOW.
UH, BUT WE'VE GOT SEVERAL THAT ARE CURRENTLY CONTRACT VETS WITH US THAT ARE KIND OF FEELING IT OUT TO SEE IF THIS IS SOMETHING THAT THEY'D LIKE TO DO FULL-TIME, AS WELL AS THAT VET NET, UH, RECRUITING AGENCY.
IT, IT SOUNDS LIKE, UH, BECAUSE THERE'S SUCH A HUGE SHORTAGE ACROSS THE NATION THAT MAYBE, UM, THE APPLICANTS ARE ABLE TO SET THE TERMS OF THEIR, THEIR, YOU KNOW, THEIR, THEIR WORK WEEK.
AND SO IF THEY'RE WORKING MAYBE FOUR WEEK, FOUR DAYS A WEEK, UM, I GUESS I'M CURIOUS, UH, IF YOU'VE LOOKED INTO, UM, TO, ARE YOU TAKING PART-TIME CONS? UH, LIKE ARE YOU TAKING THAT SERIOUSLY, MAYBE CONSIDERING TWO PART-TIME PEOPLE AS OPPOSED TO ONE FULL TIME? AND THE REASON I'M CONCERNED ABOUT THIS IS, LIKE, I'M WONDERING IF SOMEBODY'S GONNA SAY, I'M ONLY GONNA WORK FOUR DAYS A WEEK.
THEY MIGHT WANT THREE DAY WEEKENDS.
AND WE, I WOULD GUESS THAT WE PROBABLY WANT PEOPLE WORKING WEEKENDS, BECAUSE WHEN CAN PEOPLE, WHEN DO PEOPLE PET OWNERS ACTUALLY HAVE TIME TO GO AND TAKE THEIR, THEIR DOG TO HAVE A SPAYED TO BE SPAYED OR NEUTERED? AND I WOULD IMAGINE IT'S MORE ON WEEKENDS THAN ON WEEKDAYS.
SO THAT, THOSE FOUR DAY SCHEDULES, THEY STAGGER.
SO THAT WE DO HAVE THAT WEEKEND COVERAGE, UH, AS IN, IN RELATION TO THE PART-TIME POSITIONS.
I'M ACTUALLY MEETING WITH CRYSTAL STRONG TOMORROW AND TO, TO KIND OF TALK THROUGH ALL OF THE LOGISTICS.
WE DON'T HAVE ANY PART-TIME POSITIONS.
SO FOR US, IT'S KIND OF A NEW ENDEAVOR.
SO I'M MEETING WITH CRYSTAL STRONG TOMORROW TO KIND OF SAY, HEY, HOW CAN WE DO THIS? AND I ALSO NEED THE FLEXIBILITY OF ADVERTISING BOTH FULL-TIME AND PART-TIME.
AND IF I GET ONE OR THE OTHER, BEING ABLE TO FLIP THAT, THAT POSITION PRETTY QUICKLY.
UH, THE VET RECRUITER HAS TOLD ME THAT BASICALLY ONCE SHE GIVES US A LEAD, WE'VE GOT ABOUT TWO WEEKS TO PULL THE TRIGGER ON IT, BECAUSE THERE'S, THERE'S A TON OF OPPORTUNITY OUT THERE FOR 'EM.
UM, AND THEN, UH, AT, WELL, I GUESS WE'RE, WE'RE CONTRACTING WITH A NEW ORGANIZATION OVER AT BROOKS AT THAT FACILITY, AND YOU SAID, WE'RE GONNA BE ABLE TO EX EXPAND CAPACITY.
WHAT DOES EXPANDING CAPACITY LOOK LIKE? LIKE WHAT WAS OUR CURRENT CAPACITY? WHAT IS OUR ANTICIPATED NEW CAPACITY? SO THE, THE NEW VENDOR IS FOR BRACKENRIDGE.
UH, WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT RIGHT NOW IS 6,500 A YEAR, 6,500 SPAY NEU A YEAR.
UH, IN TALKING WITH JORDAN, WHO'S THE C E O OF SPAY NEUTER NETWORK, UH, SHE BELIEVES THAT THEY CAN EXCEED THAT PRETTY SIGNIFICANTLY JUST BASED ON THEIR, THEIR, UH, THEIR CURRENT MODEL THAT THEY HAVE IN THE D F W AREA.
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UH, WE WILL BE MOVING IN MARCH.UH, WE'RE GETTING READY TO RELEASE THE R F P RIGHT NOW FOR THE BROOKS FACILITY.
THAT SA HUMANE SOCIETY, UH, IS, IS CURRENTLY OPERATING.
AND I ANTICIPATE US, AGAIN, HAVING EXTERNAL VENDORS FROM OUTSIDE THE CITY COME IN.
UH, AND, AND KIND OF GOING THROUGH A SIMILAR PROCESS OF A NEW VENDOR COMES IN.
WE STILL HAVE A GREAT RELATIONSHIP WITH SAN ANTONIO HUMANE, AND IT ALLOWS THEM TO CONSOLIDATE ALL THEIR OPERATIONS AT THEIR FREDERICKSBURG LOCATION.
SO, YOU KNOW, WHEN I TALK TO MY CONSTITUENTS AND THEY'RE CONCERNED ABOUT LOOSE DOGS, UM, THEY'RE CONCERNED ABOUT DANGEROUS DOGS, THEY'RE CONCERNED ABOUT DOG BITES.
YOU'RE PRESENTING IN A PUBLIC SAFETY MEETING.
HOW ARE YOU HANDLING DANGEROUS DOGS DIFFERENTLY FROM OTHERS? YES.
UH, SO WE, WE ACTUALLY HAVE A DANGEROUS DOG INVESTIGATION TEAM.
UH, IT'S A TEAM OF TWO INVESTIGATORS.
UH, WHEN WE, UH, WE GET A BITE OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT, A BITE INVESTIGATOR GOES OUT, THEY, THEY PROCESS THE PART OF THE BITE THAT'S RABIES CONTROL, WHICH IS NECESSARY, UH, AS THEY'RE TALKING TO THE VICTIM.
UH, IF THE VICTIM IS INTERESTED IN, UH, FILLING OUT AN AFFIDAVIT, BECAUSE WE DO HAVE TO HAVE THAT IN ORDER TO INITIATE A DANGEROUS OR AGGRESSIVE CASE.
UH, AT THAT POINT, THE DANGEROUS INVESTIGATORS MAKE CONTACT WITH THEM AND, UH, UH, KIND OF GO THROUGH THAT PROCESS WHERE WE CAN ACTUALLY PULL THAT DOG IN, HOLD THAT ANIMAL WHILE IT'S BEING INVESTIGATED.
UH, IF IT IS DESIGNATED UNDER THE STATE LAW, UH, AS A DANGEROUS ANIMAL, WE THEN HAVE, UH, THINGS THAT WE CAN IMPOSE UPON THEM, UH, FROM, UH, COMPLETE ENCLOSURE, INCLUDING A TOP SIGNS, A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS WORTH OF INSURANCE, THINGS LIKE THAT.
ANNUAL INSPECTIONS, SURPRISE INSPECTIONS TO MAKE SURE THAT THAT ANIMAL IS STAYING IN COMPLIANCE.
SO I GUESS MY NEXT FOLLOW UP IS SO THAT THAT'S MAYBE A CASE WHERE IF, IF A DOG DID BITE SOMEBODY, WHAT IF, WHAT ABOUT BEING PROACTIVE? AND IF IT'S JUST REPORTS FROM NEIGHBORS THAT THEY BELIEVE THIS DOG IS DANGEROUS, BUT IT HASN'T BIT SOMEBODY YET? YEAH, WE CAN, WE CAN ACTUALLY, OR WE DON'T HAVE IT.
WE, WE CAN STILL DESIGNATE THAT ANIMAL.
UH, SO IF WE GO OUT IN THE ANIMAL IS, IS FREE OF RESTRAIN OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT, UH, WE CAN CITE ON THE SPOT.
BUT IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BITE SOMEONE TO BE DESIGNATED AS DANGEROUS.
IT JUST HAS TO BE OFF PROPERTY.
AND, AND SO IT CAN THREATEN AN INDIVIDUAL OR THREATEN THEIR DOG OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
IF IT'S LOOSE AND THEY'RE WILLING TO FILL OUT THAT AFFIDAVIT, WE CAN PURSUE A DANGEROUS INVESTIGATION ON IT.
AND THANKS AGAIN, UM, TO BOTH OF YOU FOR, FOR BEING HERE AND, AND TALKING WITH US ABOUT A C S TODAY.
WE'RE TAKING ITEM FIVE OUT OF ORDER BECAUSE IT'S A, OUR, OUR ONLY ACTION ITEM.
UM, WE WANNA MAKE SURE WE'RE ABLE TO GET THAT COMPLETE.
UM, SO WE'LL INVITE UP, UM, DEPUTY CHIEF BLANTON.
MORNING COMMITTEE MEMBERS, DEPUTY CITY MANAGER.
I WON'T DO THE SHANNON THING, I GUESS.
UH, UH, I'M THE CHIEF OF STAFF FOR CHIEF MCMANUS, AND I'LL BE PRESENTING THIS MORNING ON THE, UH, TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION IMPAIRED DRIVING MOBILIZATION, D W I ENFORCEMENT PROGRAM GRANT.
WE JUST CALL IT THE D W I ENFORCEMENT GRANT.
SO A SUMMARY OF THE GRANT, THE PURPOSE IS TO REDUCE, UH, FATALITIES, ALCOHOL RELATED FATALITIES AND OTHER ALCOHOL RELATED CRASHES THROUGH A COUPLE OF WAYS THROUGH THE ENFORCEMENT, UM, THROUGH THE GRANT, AND ALSO THROUGH PUBLIC EDUCATION AND, UH, OUTREACH CAMPAIGNS.
THE PERIOD OF THE GRANT IS MIRRORS OUR FISCAL YEAR.
IT'S OCTOBER OF THIS YEAR THROUGH SEPTEMBER OF NEXT.
THE GRANT AWARD IS $50,000 WITH AN IN-KIND MATCH OF 12,500 FROM THE CITY.
AND PRIMARILY THE GRANT, UH, AWARD FUNDS OVERTIME, UH, TO AUGMENT OUR, UM, D W I UNIT AND PROVIDE EXTRA CAPACITY OUT THERE TO ENFORCE D W I RELATED STATUTES.
THIS SLIDE, UH, DEPICTS OUR GRANT ENFORCEMENT FOR LAST YEAR FOR F Y 22.
YOU CAN SEE THERE THE ARRESTS, D W I IN BOTH FELONY CITATIONS AND WARNINGS ISSUED, UM, TOTAL VEHICLE STOPS AND PERSONNEL HOURS DEDICATED TO THE GRANT ACTIVITY.
AND MIND YOU, THIS IS ONLY THE GRANT ACTIVITY, NOT, NOT WHAT THE UNIT NOR DOES.
AND IT'S NORMAL COURSE OF OPERATION.
THE GRANT AWARD, AS I MENTIONED, IS $50,000 FROM THE TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION FOR D W I TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT ON AN OVERTIME BASIS.
AND THAT'LL AUGMENT OUR EXISTING, UH, PERSONNEL AND RESOURCES DEDICATED D W I ENFORCEMENT.
THE 12,500 INKIND MATCH IS PRIMARILY USED FOR VEHICLE COSTS SUCH AS FUEL AND MAINTENANCE AND THE PERSONNEL COSTS TO ADMINISTER THE GRANT AND RECOMMENDATION.
THE STAFF RECOMMENDS WE FORWARD THE
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ACCEPTANCE OF THIS GRANT TO THE FULL CITY COUNCIL FOR APPROVAL.AND WITH THAT, THAT CONCLUDES MY PRESENTATION, AND I'D BE HAPPY TO TAKE ANY QUESTIONS.
UM, HOW MANY YEARS HAVE WE RECEIVED THIS GRANT? IN THE PAST? WE'VE HAD IT, WE RECEIVED IT FIVE YEARS PREVIOUSLY, OUTTA THE LAST 10 YEARS, BUT THIS WILL BE THE FOURTH YEAR IN A ROW.
IF, IF WE RECEIVE IT, IF YOU, WELL, CAN YOU SEE A DECLINE IN, IN INCIDENTS OF D W I? WELL, MIND YOU, THE, THE GRANT IS, IS LIMITED TO THE $50,000 CAPACITY.
SO, UH, WHILE IT'S CERTAINLY A, A BENEFIT TO THE DEPARTMENT, UM, IT'S, UH, ITS IMPACT IS, IS STRATEGICALLY TARGETED.
'CAUSE IT'S NOT A LOT OF MONEY, QUITE FRANKLY.
UM, BUT, UH, NO, WE'VE ACTUALLY SEEN DWIS GO UP, ESPECIALLY AFTER 2020.
THEY WERE REDUCED DUE TO COVID SIGNIFICANTLY.
BUT THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS THEY'VE, THEY'VE SHOT UP COMPARED TO THAT.
UH, BUT AS POPULATION COMES IN AND PEOPLE MOVE HERE, WE'RE, WE'RE SEEING MORE MORE OF IT.
I KNOW WE'RE GONNA HEAR, UH, OUR STATISTICS HERE IN A MOMENT, BUT WE HAVE TO ACCOUNT FOR THE GROWTH OF THE CITY, ESPECIALLY IN THE LAST FEW YEARS.
UM, SO IT'S GONNA BE HARD TO GET THAT NUMBER TO GO DOWN WHEN THE POPULATION IS IS GOING UP.
IS THERE ANY, UM, OUTREACH? I THINK IT SOUNDS TO ME LIKE IT WAS ALL ENFORCEMENT.
THERE'S NOT AN OUTREACH COMPONENT TO THIS.
THE, THE UNIT DEFINITELY ENGAGES IN OUTREACH.
WE DO, UH, UH, PSAS THROUGH P I O, BUT THEY ALSO MAKE EVENTS, UM, HIGH SCHOOLS, CHURCHES, MAT MAD SPONSORS EVENTS, AND THEY PUT ON PRESENTATIONS HIGHLIGHTING MAYBE, YOU KNOW, TRAGIC INCIDENTS TO, TO DISCOURAGE.
UH, MOSTLY IT'S TARGETED AT YOUTH, YOUNGER DRIVERS TO DISCOURAGE SORT OF TAKING UP THE, THE, UH, DRIVING WHILE INTOXICATED.
I ENCOURAGE YOU TO CONNECT WITH OUR MUNICIPAL COURTS AS WELL.
UM, JUDGE OLOW HAS DONE A, WORKED REALLY HARD TO, AS, AS FAR AS OUTREACH, ESPECIALLY TO YOUNG PEOPLE ABOUT IMPAIRED DRIVING WHILE IMPAIRED.
UM, SO SHE'S DONE A LOT OF WORK ON THAT.
UM, HAD A COUPLE OF, OF, UM, OUTREACH CAMPAIGNS.
I'D LIKE TO CONNECT THE TWO OF YOU TO SEE IF YOU COULD MAYBE WORK TOGETHER ON THAT.
WE'RE FRED AND JUDGE ALL THE TIME, SO WE'LL DO THAT.
UM, COUNCILMAN EZ, UM, MOTION TO APPROVE AND SEND THE FULL COUNSEL SECOND, UM, UH, WITH, WITH THAT, I, I, I DO HAVE JUST A QUESTION FOR, FOR LIZ.
IF, IF THE CITY MANAGER'S SPENDING AUTHORITY IS $50,000, OR IF THE CITY MANAGER SPENDING AUTHORITY IS $50,000 OR LESS, WHY, WHY DO GRANTS OF $50,000 HAVE TO COME BEFORE US? IS THAT NOT THE SAME, OR, I MEAN, OR DO WE, DO WE HAVE TO TAKE A VOTE ON EVERY GRANT THAT COMES OUR WAY? UM, YES.
COUNCILMAN, SO THIS IS DIFFERENT THAN PROCUREMENT.
TO YOUR POINT, THE CITY MANAGER HAS AUTHORITY UP TO 50,000 TO PROCURE, UM, A PROFESSIONAL SERVICES AGREEMENT, FOR EXAMPLE.
BUT FOR GRANTS, REGARDLESS OF THE SIZE, WE NEED TO BRING THOSE TO COUNCIL FOR APPROVAL.
'CAUSE WE'RE ACCEPTING FUNDS FROM A THIRD PARTY AND COMMITTING THE CITY TO PERFORM CERTAIN FUNCTIONS.
SO BY ORDINANCE, WE HAVE SET A $50,000 THRESHOLD FOR THE CITY MANAGER'S SPENDING AUTHORITY.
THIS STATE LAW, WAIT, THE CITY MANAGER'S SPENDING AUTHORITY IS A STATE LAW.
SO EVERY CITY MANAGER IN TEXAS HAS $50,000.
'CAUSE I'VE, I'VE BEEN VISITING WITH OTHER TEXAS MANAGERS AND THEY'RE JUST TELLING US THAT THEY'VE GOT AN EXCESS OF $200,000.
WELL, IT COULD DEPEND ON WHAT IS AT ISSUE WITH THAT, BUT YEAH, I'M PRETTY SURE IT'S SET BY STATE LAW.
BECAUSE I'M WONDERING ALSO, YOU KNOW, INSTEAD OF HAVING TO AGENDIZE THINGS THAT ARE KIND OF SMALL LIKE THIS, UH, I'M WONDERING, YOU KNOW, FOR YOU AND FOR PRETTY MUCH ANY OTHER DEPARTMENT, WHETHER OR NOT IT WOULD BE SMARTER TO GIVE THIS PROCESS SOME AGILITY.
UM, AND IT SEEMS TO ME ALMOST MINISTERIAL.
BUT I MEAN, I LEAVE THAT UP TO THE REST OF THE COMMITTEE IF THEY, IF THEY HAVE AN APPETITE FOR THAT.
BUT I AM CURIOUS TO SEE, YOU KNOW, WHETHER OR NOT THERE'S ANY LIMITATIONS ON US TO SET A THRESHOLD FOR ACCEPTANCE OF SMALLER GRANTS LIKE THIS.
UM, WE HAVE BEEN BRINGING POLICE GRANTS TO THIS COMMITTEE, ONLY POLICE GRANTS TO THIS COMMITTEE AS REQUESTED BY THIS, UM, COMMITTEE A FEW YEARS AGO.
BUT THAT IS A POLICY DISCUSSION FOR THIS COMMITTEE IF YOU WANT US TO CONTINUE WITH THAT PRACTICE.
UH, OR IF YOU WANNA MAKE SOME ADJUSTMENTS.
NO, I HAVE NO, I, I HAVE NO PROBLEM WITH, WITH BRINGING GRANTS.
I'M, I'M JUST WONDERING, YOU KNOW, WHETHER OR NOT THAT'S JUST A MATTER OF OUR PREFERENCE OR IF WE'RE LEGALLY BOUND BY SOME RULE TO, TO DO IT.
AND SO, I MEAN, OBVIOUSLY THE GRANT PRO, THIS IS MORE ACADEMIC THAN ANYTHING ELSE.
SO MAYBE YOU AND I TAKE IT OFFLINE 'CAUSE SURE.
THE GRANT PROCESSES WITHIN OUR CONTROL.
SO TO YOUR POINT, IF THERE'S A PREFERRED PROCESS AT A LOCAL LEVEL, WE CAN CERTAINLY EXPLORE THE WAY TO BE MORE EFFICIENT ABOUT IT.
AND IT'S, AND AND MORE THAN ANYTHING, IT'S JUST, WE HAVE, WE HAVE A BUNCH OF UNIFORMS THAT HAD HAD TO PREPARE FOR A MEETING TODAY.
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UH, YOU KNOW, AND IT, I MEAN, IT'S, IT SEEMS ALMOST MINISTERIAL THAT WE'RE GONNA ACCEPT THE GRANT FOR $50,000 THAT WE'VE ACCEPTED AT FIVE YEARS IN A ROW.AND SO, A, A ANYWAY, THAT WAS MY FIRST QUESTION.
MY SECOND QUESTION IS, AS FAR AS, UM, THIS, UH, D W I ENFORCEMENT PROGRAM, IS THIS ALSO GONNA HELP TOWARDS EQUIPMENT PURCHASING OR, UH, BREATHALYZERS OR, YOU KNOW, ANYTHING LIKE THAT? NO, NO.
THIS IS JUST, UH, ENFORCEMENT RELATED.
SO IT'S REALLY OVER TIME IS WHAT IT FUNDS.
I JUST WANNA ALSO MAKE A POINT, I DO THINK IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE HAD THAT DISCUSSION.
IT'S A, A WELL-MADE POINT, UM, BUT THERE'S ALSO, ESPECIALLY IN THE LAST COUPLE YEARS, A CALL FOR THESE DISCUSSIONS TO BE PUBLIC.
UM, SO I THINK THAT'S, WE HAVING THESE OPEN, UH, DISCUSSIONS HERE.
AND THEN THE COUNCIL, UM, HAS BEEN PART OF THE PROCESS.
AND THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION.
I THINK, UH, WHETHER IT'S HERE AT THE COMMITTEE, I'D BE VISITING WITH Y'ALL ANYWAY ON THESE ISSUES.
SO I'M SO THANKFUL YOU ARE HERE.
UM, AND WE'RE ACCEPTING THIS GRANT AND THAT WE, WE HAVE BEEN FAITHFUL TO APPLY FOR IT.
WE KNOW THAT DRINKING AND DRIVING IS A REAL ISSUE THAT IMPACTS THE CITY.
UM, ONE 'CAUSE THE CITY LIKES TO CELEBRATE, BUT WE NEED TO, TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE DOING IT RESPONSIBLY.
UH, I ALSO THINK THAT THE COOPERATION BETWEEN TXDOT AND THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO NEEDS TO BE HIGHLIGHT HIGHLIGHTED, AND WE NEED TO DO, UH, I'M SURE THE, UM, SS A P D TEAM WILL DO THAT, BUT I WOULD LIKE TO SEE OUR C AND E TEAM MAKE SURE THAT WE PUT THAT OUT THERE.
SO IT'S ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE CONVERSATIONS ABOUT DRINKING, ABOUT, UH, WHEN, WHEN TO CALL, UM, AN UBER OR A FRIEND.
AND WE DID THIS YEARS, YOU KNOW, A DESIGNATED DRIVER WE NEED TO GET BACK TO THAT WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND, ESPECIALLY DURING THE HOLIDAY SEASON.
SO I'M GLAD IT'S COMING HERE TODAY.
I HOPE WE GET THIS IN THE NEWS ONCE IT GETS TO OUR, UM, OUR, UH, OUR A SESSION.
SO I LOOK FORWARD TO SUPPORTING IT.
MAYBE IRAN, DID YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, COUNCILMAN? OKAY.
WELL, UM, WE HAVE A MOTION AND A SECOND ON THE ITEM.
I'LL, UM, WE'LL GO AHEAD AND VOTE.
AND ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE.
ANY OPPOSED? UM, MOTION PASSES AND THANK YOU VERY, VERY MUCH.
THANK YOU, DEPUTY CHIEF CLINTON, AND WE'LL MOVE ON TO OUR FINAL ITEMS THREE AND FOUR, WE'LL TAKE TOGETHER, UM, BOTH, UH, OUR FD AND PD WILL TALK ABOUT CRIME STATISTICS TODAY.
HOW ARE YOU? UH, MEMBERS OF PUBLIC SAFETY WELCOME, UH, COUNCILMAN LIA AND BRAVO, WELCOME TO PUBLIC SAFETY.
LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH YOU GUYS IN THE FUTURE.
UH, I'D LIKE TO, UH, THANK MY TEAM BEHIND ME, UH, CHIEFS, UH, NORRIS ESTRADA AND MONASTERY.
UM, AS YOU KNOW, WE ARE A FIRE BASED ALL HAZARDS DEPARTMENT.
UM, THESE ARE NUMBERS THAT ARE REPRESENTED HERE FROM THE DIFFERENT DIVISIONS IN OUR DEPARTMENT THAT RESPOND ON THESE TYPE OF RUNS.
AND YOU CAN SEE FIRE SUPPRESSION, EMERGENCY MEDICAL RESPONSE ARE THE NUMBER ONES THAT CREATE MOST OF THE RUNS.
BUT AGAIN, WE PROVIDE A LOT OF DIFFERENT SERVICES FOR THE CUSTOMERS OF THE, UH, CITY OF SAN ANTONIO.
UH, IF YOU LOOK AT INCIDENTS, UH, BY TYPE, AND YOU CAN SEE WE'RE GOING BACK TO, UH, FISCAL YEAR 14 UP UNTIL 22.
AND YOU CAN SEE THE, UH, MEDICAL INCIDENTS, UH, MAKES SENSE THAT THEY'RE CONTINUE TO RESPO, UM, INCREASE IN NUMBERS.
OUR NON-MEDICAL INCIDENTS ARE UP 97%.
UH, AND SO WE'LL GO INTO A LITTLE BIT MORE DEPTH IN THAT.
UH, AND, AND WHY, UM, RESPONSES BY DIVISION.
SO OUR FIRE UNIT RESPONSES, AS WE MENTIONED, WE'RE A FIRE BASED SYSTEM.
SO WHAT WE WERE TRYING TO DO WHEN WE STARTED THE FIRE BASED SYSTEM WAS TO ALLEVIATE THE STRESS ON OUR E M S UNITS TO KEEP THOSE UNITS IN SERVICE.
SO YOU CAN SEE THE PROGRAMS WORKING BY PUTTING PARAMEDICS ON THE FIRE TRUCKS.
UM, THE, UH, E M S UNIT RESPONSES ARE, UH, 18%, BUT THEY WERE BASICALLY FLAT FOR SEVERAL YEARS WITH AN INCREASE DURING THE COVID TIMES.
AND THEN WE SEE A DEC DECREASE, AGAIN, OF E M S UNIT RESPONSES.
WE WANT THOSE UNITS AVAILABLE FOR THE MOST CRITICAL PATIENTS SO WE CAN TRANSPORT THEM QUICKLY.
WE HAVE FOUND THROUGH EXPERIENCES SUCH AS FIRE BASED SYSTEMS, M I H, TO WHERE A LOT OF THE PEOPLE THAT CALL US, THEY DO NOT NEED TO BE TRANSPORTED.
SO THAT KIND OF REPRESENTS WHY THOSE NUMBERS ARE, ARE, HAVE INCREASED FIRE STATS, WORKING STRUCTURE FIRES.
IF YOU LOOK AT FISCAL YEAR 20, WE HAVE 4 23 A WORKING STRUCTURE.
IT'S A WAREHOUSE, A, A HIGH RISE, SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
SO WE'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT DUMPSTERS, WE'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT FENCE FIRES OR BRUSH FIRES, BUT WE WILL TALK ABOUT THE BRUSH FIRES IN A SECOND.
UH, YOU SEE THE INCREASE, UH, 21 WAS UP 6.9.
THE LAST TIME WE DID THESE NUMBERS FOR YOU, PROBABLY THE FIRST OR SECOND QUARTER.
THAT FIRE NUMBER THAT YOU SEE FOR 22 WAS UP 31%.
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BUT IT'S STILL HIGH, WHERE WE'RE AVERAGING NEARLY TWO STRUCTURED FIRES EVERY SINGLE DAY.UH, IF YOU LOOK AT THIS BY DISTRICT, UH, NO, THIS IS ANOTHER ONE BY DISTRICT.
IF YOU LOOK AT THIS ONE, UH, FOR THE YEAR, YOU CAN SEE THAT, UH, FEBRUARY, UH, 21 WAS A HIGH, UH, AND AGAIN, IF YOU LOOK AT MARCH THIS YEAR, UH, 73, THAT'S A HIGH NUMBER.
SO IT KIND OF TRENDS WITH THE WEATHER, DIFFERENT THINGS THAT ARE GOING ON.
UH, WORKING STRUCTURE FIRES, YOU CAN SEE BY DISTRICT, AND YOU CAN SEE DECREASES IN, UM, IN SOME OF THOSE DISTRICTS.
UH, COUNCIL 2, 6, 10, WHERE YOU SEE DECREASES.
YOU ALSO SEE A SPIKE, UH, OF WORKING FIRES.
UH, IN COUNCIL DISTRICT FIVE, UM, THIS NUMBER HERE, WE'RE LOOKING AT FIRE FATALITIES.
AND AGAIN, THAT'S THE NUMBER THAT WE'RE ALWAYS GONNA TRY TO WORK WITH.
UH, WHETHER IT'S THROUGH FIRE PREVENTION AND COMMUNITY RISK, UH, REDUCTION PROGRAMS, UH, TO EDUCATE OUR CITIZENS, OUR RESIDENTS, RATHER, UH, THE MEDIAN AGE OF THESE PEOPLE IS 65, UH, YEARS OLD.
UH, THE CAUSES, AGAIN, SOME OF THOSE ARE UNDETERMINED.
UH, THEY ARE STILL COULD POTENTIALLY IN, IN THE PROCESS OF BEING INVESTIGATED, FIVE WERE ACCIDENTAL.
THESE ACCIDENTALS USUALLY TURN OUT TO BE SOMETHING OF SMOKING MATERIALS, UH, ELECTRICAL, THINGS LIKE THAT.
AND THEN ONE WAS DEEMED ARSON.
YOU CAN SEE THE MAP AS FAR AS WHERE THOSE WERE OVER THE LAST TWO YEARS.
UM, INCIDENTS INVOLVING UNHOUSED INDIVIDUALS.
AND SO I, I, I LIKE THIS TERM, UNHOUSED VERSUS HOMELESS.
UM, I WAS TALKING TO A CREW THE OTHER DAY AT STATION FOUR, WHICH IS RIGHT ON ST.
MARY'S, ACROSS THE STREET FROM, UM, CENTRAL CATHOLIC.
AND THEY HAD GONE ON 11 CALLS THAT DAY.
ONLY ONE CALL THAT THEY WENT ON, THEY WENT INTO A HOUSE.
SO THIS IS KIND OF SERVES, WE'RE PROVIDING A LOT OF OUR FIRE COMPANIES AND E M S UNITS.
WE ARE RESPONDING TO INDIVIDUALS THAT, THAT DON'T, THEY DON'T HAVE AN ADDRESS EXCEPT FOR THAT CURB THAT THEY'RE ON.
SO, UM, THAT IS A CHALLENGE FOR US, AS IT IS WITH PD.
BUT IF YOU LOOK AT THE FIRES, UH, THAT WE HAVE HAD, UM, THE, UH, VACANT STRUCTURE FIRES IS, IS UP.
WE'RE GONNA PROBABLY, UH, BE LOOKING AT MORE OF THOSE AS THE WEATHER GETS COLD.
YOU WERE LOOKING AT THE MIDNIGHT RODEO, UH, IN THE BACKGROUND.
THAT WAS A THREE ALARM FIRE WE HAD PROBABLY THREE WEEKS AGO.
UM, IT WAS DETERMINED THAT HOMELESS HAD GOT UP THROUGH THE SKYLIGHT.
WERE BASICALLY LIVING IN THE STRUCTURE.
UH, SO WE'RE, UM, IT WAS, UH, IT WAS A, UM, UNHOUSED.
SO FORTUNATELY THERE WERE NO INJURIES ON THIS FIRE.
BUT THIS DID GO TO THREE ALARMS. AND, UH, WE FOUGHT THIS FIRE FOR A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF TIME.
ONE OF THE THINGS THAT, UM, I VOW AS A FIRE CHIEF AND MY STAFF, UH, OUR MEMBERS WE'RE NOT GONNA LOSE A FIREFIGHTER OVER ABANDONED BUILDING.
AND SO WE HAVE A UNSAFE STRUCTURE PROGRAM THAT HAS GONE INTO PLACE, UH, WORKING IN COORDINATION WITH, UH, D S D.
WE HAVE SOME LARGE STRUCTURES OUT THERE THAT YOU ARE FAMILIAR WITH THAT ARE HISTORIC.
THEY ARE POTENTIAL PROJECTS DOWN THE ROAD.
BUT WE NEED TO MARK THESE THINGS TO WHERE OUR FIRE CREWS, WHEN THEY ROLL UP, THEY SEE THIS AS A DANGEROUS STRUCTURE.
UH, AND WE'RE GONNA GO INTO POLICIES AND PROCEDURES OF AN UNSAFE STRUCTURE.
SO WE ARE IN THE PROCESS OF TRIAGING SOME OF THESE BUILDINGS.
AND SO YOU'RE GONNA SEE THIS BIG, UH, TWO BY TWO SIGN ON THE FRONT OF SOME OF THESE STRUCTURES THAT A LARGE STRUCTURE, YOU'RE NOT GONNA SEE IT IN FRONT OF A HOUSE IN A NEIGHBORHOOD.
BUT AGAIN, YOU'RE GONNA SEE THESE IN LARGE, UH, COMMERCIAL SPACES WHERE THESE BUILDINGS HAVE PROBABLY BEEN SITTING AROUND FOR YEARS, AND WE'RE ALL VERY FAMILIAR WITH THE, WITH THEM AND WHERE THEY ARE.
UH, GRASS FIRES, WHEN YOU DRIVE DOWN THE ROAD, YOU SEE THOSE BURNED OUT PATCHES OF, UH, GRASS ON THE FREEWAY.
SOME IS THROWING A, A CIGARETTE OUT.
SO THOSE CONTINUE TO, UH, INCREASE AT AN ALARMING RATE.
THESE ARE VERY DANGEROUS FIRES FOR US BECAUSE WE WERE OUT ON THE FREEWAYS, UH, TRYING TO PUT THESE FIRES OUT.
THE ENVIRONMENT'S SMOKY PEOPLE DON'T SEE.
THEY WANNA LOOK AND SEE WHAT WE'RE DOING.
SO OUR GRASS FIRES HAVE INCREASED TO ABOUT, UH, ALMOST NINE A DAY.
IF YOU LOOK AT THE BRUSH GRASS FIRES AGAIN BY, UH, COUNCIL DISTRICT, UM, YOU CAN SEE WHO'S, WHO'S LEADING IN IN THAT NUMBER.
AND AGAIN, IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE NEED TO CONTINUE TO EDUCATE OUR CUSTOMERS AS FAR AS DISCARDING MATERIALS AND THROWING BURNING MATERIALS OUTSIDE OF THEIR VEHICLES WHEN THEY'RE DRIVING.
THIS LOOKS AT, AGAIN, THE HISTORICAL BRUSH FRY TREND.
AND YOU CAN SEE IT'S, IT'S, IT'S, IT'S SEASONAL FOR US.
THIS TALKS ABOUT OUR RESOURCES.
THEY'RE STRATEGICALLY DEPLOYED THROUGHOUT THE CITY.
13 BRUSH STROKES, FOUR WATER TENDERS, TWO ATVS.
AND WE UTILIZE SAP'S EAGLE FOR HELICOPTER WATER DROPS, UH, ASSIST
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A PD CALLS.AND AGAIN, THERE WAS A SENATE BILL, THE GEORGE FLOYD LAW THAT REQUIRES PD TO CALL US IF SOMEONE'S BEEN INJURED, UM, DURING AN ARREST OR AN ENCOUNTER WITH PD.
WE'RE AVERAGING CLOSE TO 22 A DAY.
I LOOK FORWARD TO ANSWERING ANY QUESTIONS AFTER CHIEF FAULK GETS UP HERE.
GOOD MORNING, CHAIRWOMAN, AND GOOD MORNING COUNCIL MEMBERS.
HOPE YOU HAD A GOOD THANKSGIVING TODAY.
I GET TO BRIEF ON THE CRIME STATS FOR JANUARY THROUGH OCTOBER OF 2022.
AND, UH, I'M GONNA START WITH, UM, SOME BACKGROUND.
AND I KNOW YOU'VE HEARD CHIEF MCMANUS TALK ABOUT OUR U C R REPORTING AND HOW THAT'S BEEN DONE IN THE PAST, AND THERE'S BEEN SOME DISCUSSION ON HOW WE DO THAT.
UH, NOW THAT STARTED IN JANUARY OF 2021, BUT I'M GONNA GIVE SOME BACKGROUND ABOUT THAT BEFORE I GET INTO THE ACTUAL NUMBERS.
UM, SO IN EARLY, UH, 19 HUNDREDS ACTUALLY, UH, THAT'S WAY BACK, UH, THE F B I CREATED OUR U C R PROGRAM, UH, WHICH IS HOW WE'VE ALWAYS REPORTED OUR U C R NUMBERS.
IT WAS A SUMMARY REPORTING SYSTEM.
YOU'VE HEARD CHIEF HUIS TALK ABOUT THAT QUITE OFTEN.
AND THAT'S THE COLLECTION AND THE COMPILING OF OUR CRIME DATA.
AND THAT'S HOW ALL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES ACROSS THE COUNTRY, UH, COLLECTED AND COMPILED THEIR DATA AND, AND TRANSFERRED IT TO THE F B I.
AND, UM, AND WHAT THE SUMMARY SYSTEM DID WAS FOCUSED ON THE MOST SERIOUS OF CRIMES.
AND, UH, THOSE CRIMES WERE THE MOST, UM, LIKELY OCCURS TO HAVE, UH, CRIMES TO HAVE OCCURRED AND TO BE REPORTED.
AND WE'LL TALK ABOUT THOSE IN JUST A FEW MINUTES.
AND WHAT THAT ALLOWED US TO DO WAS ALLOWED US TO, TO BUILD HISTORICAL DATA ON THOSE MOST FREQUENTLY REPORTED CRIMES.
AND THAT WAS THE SUMMARY REPORTING SYSTEM THAT WE USED FOR ALL THOSE YEARS UNTIL JANUARY OF 2021.
AND STARTING THEN, AND, AND, AND MANY OF YOU WILL REMEMBER, UH, WE TRANSITIONED TO A NEW RECORDS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM MARKED 43.
AND ONE OF THE REASONS WE DID THAT IS SO THAT WE COULD TRANSITION TO THE NEW REPORTING SYSTEM, WHICH IS NBRS, THE NATIONAL INCIDENT BASED REPORTING SYSTEM.
UH, THAT WAS A FEDERAL MANDATE THAT ALL POLICE DEPARTMENTS START REPORTING UNDER NBRS, UH, IN JANUARY OF 2021.
AND THAT ELIMINATED, UH, THAT SUMMARY REPORTING SYSTEM WHERE WE FOCUSED ON THAT HIGHEST CRIME.
UH, IT ELIMINATED THAT HIERARCHY RULE, WHICH ALLOWED US TO PROVIDE MUCH MORE COMPREHENSIVE DATA REGARDING, UH, OUR CRIME AND OUR CRIME STATISTICS.
AND, UM, SO SS A P D WAS CERTIFIED, UH, IN NBRS IN JANUARY OF 2021.
AND THEN WE ACTUALLY BEGAN REPORTING ONLY NBRS, UH, TO THE F B I IN JANUARY OF 2022.
SO NOW WE'RE GONNA TALK STRICTLY ABOUT NBRS SINCE THAT'S HOW WE ARE REPORTING OUR NUMBERS TO THE F B I.
UH, NOT UNDER NBRS OFFENSES ARE CLASSIFIED, UH, IN TWO GROUPS.
GROUP A AND GROUP B, UH, GROUP A ARE THE MOST SERIOUS OFFENSES.
UH, AND YOU CAN SEE THERE ON THE, ON THE SLIDE THAT, UH, THEY'RE ASSIGNED IN ONE OF THREE CATEGORIES.
AND THOSE ARE CRIMES AGAINST PERSONS, CRIMES AGAINST SOCIETY, AND THEN CRIMES AGAINST PROPERTY.
AND AS I MENTIONED, UH, THEY'RE MUCH MORE DETAILED REPORTING FOR US NOW, UH, GROUP B OFFENSES ARE, ARE INCLUDED JUST FOR THE STATISTICS, AND THEY'RE ONLY REPORTED IF AN ARREST IS MADE.
AND SO, AS I I MENTIONED, UH, THEY'RE ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THE SCREEN.
UH, THAT SUMMARY REPORTING SYSTEM, YOU HEARD CHIEF MCMANUS REFER TO PART ONE CRIMES UNDER THE SUMMARY SYSTEM.
AND THOSE WERE, UH, THOSE EIGHT OFFENSES, MURDER, RAPE, AG, ASSAULT, ARSON THEFT, BURGLARY, MOTOR VEHICLE THEFT, AND ROBBERY.
NOW YOU SEE ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THAT SCREEN UNDER BRSS, THOSE, THOSE ARE THOSE 24 CATEGORIES THAT WE NOW REPORT.
SO YOU CAN SEE IT'S MUCH MORE DETAILED.
SO THESE ARE THE GROUP A OFFENSES, WHICH ARE THE MUCH MORE SERIOUS CRIMES THAT WE REPORT.
UH, THOSE ARE THE CRIMES AGAINST PERSON, UH, WHICH, UH, YOU CAN SEE THOSE ARE MUCH MORE SERIOUS CRIMES.
THE CRIMES AGAINST SOCIETY ARE THERE IN THE MIDDLE COLUMN.
AND THEN CRIMES AGAINST PROPERTY ARE THERE ON THE RIGHT HAND SIDE OF YOUR SCREEN.
SO NOW WE CAN, UH, TALK ABOUT THE CRIME STATS.
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UM, AS YOU CAN SEE ON THIS SLIDE, UH, CRIME IS UP, UH, JUST AT 11.7% FOR JANUARY TO OCTOBER, 2022 WHEN COMPARED TO THE SAME TIME AND 2021.WE HAVE BROKEN DOWN HERE, CRIMES AGAINST PERSON, SOCIETY AND PROPERTY, UH, FOR BOTH OF THOSE YEARS.
AND YOU CAN SEE, UH, THE CHANGE, UH, CRIME AGAINST PERSON IS JUST OVER 4% CRIMES AGAINST SOCIETY, UH, FROM 20 TO 22, UH, SEVEN, JUST OVER 7.5%.
AND THEN YOU'LL SEE THE BIGGEST JUMP, UH, IS CRIMES AGAINST PROPERTY FROM 20 TO 22, IS JUST OVER 15% AT 15.1%.
AND THAT, UH, PROPERTY JUMP, WE BELIEVE IS, UH, DRIVEN.
WELL, WE DON'T BELIEVE IT'S, UH, WE HAVE THE NUMBERS, AND I'LL SHOW 'EM TO YOU HERE IN A MINUTE, ARE DRIVEN, UM, SPECIFICALLY BY MOTOR VEHICLE THEFTS, UH, DRIVEN BY, UH, PROPERTY THEFTS AND ALSO BY, UH, BURGLARIES.
AND YOU'LL SEE THAT ON A SLIDE, UM, COMING IN JUST IN A MINUTE.
SO THEN WE ALSO BROKE OUT FOR YOU, UH, CRIMES AGAINST PERSON AND HOW THOSE CHANGE FROM 2021.
YOU CAN SEE THE CHANGE OR, UM, UH, FOR THE, FOR THE BETTER OR FOR THE WORSE.
UH, WE DID THAT ALSO WITH CRIMES AGAINST SOCIETY.
THE NEXT SLIDE, WE DID THAT ALSO, UH, FOR CRIMES AGAINST PROPERTY.
AS I POINTED OUT, YOU CAN SEE BURGLARY, UM, UH, IS UP, UH, JUST OVER A LITTLE OVER 30% IN 2022.
WE TALKED ABOUT MOTOR VEHICLE THEFT IS UP, UM, ALMOST AT 30%.
AND THEN, UM, WE TALKED ABOUT, THE OTHER ONE I MENTIONED, I THINK IS, UH, THEFT DEFENSES IS JUST AT A LITTLE OVER 18%.
UH, AND THAT THOSE ARE THE BIGGEST DRIVERS FOR THAT.
UH, 15.1% INCREASE IN, IN PROPERTY, UM, CRIMES AGAINST PROPERTY.
SO THEN I WANNA GIVE A LITTLE UPDATE ON OUR MICRO HOTSPOT INITIATIVE THAT WE BEGAN IN JANUARY OF 2022.
THAT'S WHEN WE INTRODUCED THIS.
I THINK WE'VE TALKED TO COUNCIL ABOUT THIS IN THE PAST.
UM, SO, SO WE STARTED IN JANUARY, 2022.
THIS IS A DATA-DRIVEN INITIATIVE.
WE IDENTIFIED AREAS THAT EXPERIENCE A VERY HIGH CONCENTRATION AND SIGNIFICANT PERCENTAGE OF CRIME THROUGHOUT THE CITY.
AND THESE MICRO HOTSPOTS, UH, CONSISTED CONSIST OF A SEVEN BLOCK RADIUS, UH, THAT, UH, WE FOUND HAD AT LEAST FIVE VIOLENT CRIMES.
AND WE TALK ABOUT VIOLENT CRIMES, THAT'S MURDER, THAT'S ROBBERY, AGGRAVATED ASSAULT, OR DEADLY, UM, CONDUCT WHERE A WEAPON WAS INVOLVED.
UH, AND AT LEAST A THREE MONTH PERIOD TO OUR, PRIOR TO THE, UH, A THREE MONTH PERIOD PRIOR TO US BEGINNING THE INITIATIVE, UH, WE FOCUSED, UH, UH, AN INCREASED SS A B D PRESENCE IN THOSE AREAS.
UH, AND WE, UM, INVOLVED DIFFERENT CITY AGENCIES.
UM, WE IN INVITED OUTSIDE PARTNER AGENCIES, UH, TO WORK WITH US TO REDUCE CRIMES IN THOSE INITIATIVES.
AND SO I KIND OF WANTED TO GIVE YOU AN IDEA ABOUT THESE MICRO HOTSPOTS.
UH, THEY'RE, THEY'RE CALLED HEXA PENS, AND THEY'RE 500 METERS BY 500 METERS.
IF YOU LOOK OUT THROUGHOUT THE CITY, THERE'S ALMOST 9,000 HEXA BANS, UH, THAT MAKE UP THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO.
UH, AND WE WERE ABLE, UH, IN THE FIRST THREE QUARTERS OF THE YEAR, UH, TO TREAT, UH, 60 DIFFERENT HOTSPOTS.
UH, IT'S NOT A BIG NUMBER WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE BIG, BIG SCHEME OF THINGS.
UM, BUT THE FIRST QUARTER WE WERE ABLE TO IDENTIFY 21 HOTSPOTS THAT MET THAT THRESHOLD, THAT CRIME THRESHOLD.
AND SO BY, UH, USING STREET CRIMES AND OUR SAFE, UH, OFFICERS AND DIFFERENT, UH, PARTNER AGENCIES IN THE CITY, WE WERE ABLE TO SEE A REDUCTION OF 60%, UH, CRIME IN THOSE, UH, MICRO HOTSPOTS.
UH, AFTER THE ANALYSIS OF, OF THE FIRST QUARTER, SOME OF THOSE HOTSPOTS FELL OFF 'CAUSE THEY NO LONGER MET THAT THRESHOLD.
AND SO WE, AND SO WE IDENTIFIED 16 THAT'S MET, STILL MET THE THRESHOLD.
WE WORKED THOSE FOR THE NEXT APRIL, UM, MAY AND JUNE.
WE SAW A 52% REDUCTION AND SO ON.
AND THEN IN THIRD QUARTER, UH, WE HAD 23 HOTSPOTS THAT WE WERE WORKING.
SO IN A TOTAL OF THE FIRST THREE QUARTERS OF OUR INITIATIVE, WE SAW A TOTAL REDUCTION OF 52% OF VIOLENT CRIME IN THOSE AREAS THAT WE WORKED, UH, WHICH IS REALLY FANTASTIC.
WHEN WE MET WITH THE U T S A PROFESSORS AND WE KIND OF SHOWED THEM WHAT WE WERE DOING, THEY WERE QUITE SURPRISED THAT WE HAD SUCH, UM, SUCH, UH, GREAT RESULTS AND, UH, IN OUR OWN.
UH, SO, UH, NOW WE'VE TRANSITIONED
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FROM THE HOTSPOT AREAS.WE'VE STARTED A BURGLARY VEHICLE TASK FORCE.
SO RIGHT NOW, WE'RE NOT GONNA BE FOCUSING ON THOSE HOTSPOTS, UH, AS WE'RE WORKING THIS BURGLARY VEHICLE TASK FORCE.
UM, BUT AFTER 2023, WE'RE GONNA, UM, ENGAGE WITH THE U T S A PAR, UH, U U T S A PLAN AND WE'LL GET BACK ONTO THE HOTSPOT INITIATIVES.
SO I THINK WITH THAT, UH, IS THE PRESENTATION.
AND I THINK CHIEF WOODIN, I WILL PROBABLY TAKE QUESTIONS IF THERE ARE ANY.
I THINK WE MIGHT HAVE A COUPLE.
UM, I'M GONNA START WHERE, JUST WHERE YOU LEFT OFF, UM, THE, REMIND ME, WHAT FACTORS GO INTO IDENTIFYING A HOTSPOT? IS IT JUST, IS IT THE GROUP A, UM, CRIMES OR? NO, SO WHEN WE WERE IDENTIFYING HOTSPOTS, WE, WE WERE LOOKING AT VIOLENT CRIME.
'CAUSE THE INTENT WAS TO REDUCE VIOLENT CRIME HAPPENING.
AND SO WE LOOKED AT FOUR CATEGORIES AND THAT WAS MURDERS, UM, ROBBERIES, AGGRAVATED ASSAULTS AND, UH, UM, DEADLY WEAPONS, OR WAS IT DEADLY WEAPONS DEADLY CONDUCT WHERE WEAPONS WERE INVOLVED.
AND THOSE, THOSE WERE THE FOUR CRIMES THAT WE WERE LOOKING FOR.
AND SO IF THERE WERE FIVE OR MORE, UH, THAT OCCURRED, UH, WITHIN THAT PARTICULAR HEXAGON, THEN, UH, THAT WOULD BE DUBBED THE, THE MICRO HOT SPOT THAT WE, BUT THAT WE WOULD WORK.
AND, UM, DID I HEAR YOU CORRECTLY THAT YOU'RE GONNA, WE NOT TAKE A YEAR OFF, IT'S NOT GONNA BE A HIATUS FROM HOTSPOT, BUT NOT A FOCUS ON, ON HOTSPOTS? RIGHT.
SO RIGHT NOW WE HAVE THOSE RESOURCES THAT WE'RE WORKING, THOSE HOTSPOTS ARE NOW, UH, WORKING A, UH, FOR THE HOLIDAY SEASON, A BURGLARY VEHICLE TASK FORCE.
AND SO WE WE'RE GONNA MOVE THOSE FROM THE HOTSPOTS TO WORK THIS TASK FORCE FOR THE HOLIDAY SEASON, FOR THE HOLIDAYS.
UM, AND I'M CURIOUS, WHAT'S AN EXAMPLE OF A GROUP B OFFENSE? THAT'S, THAT'S A GOOD QUESTION.
UH, SO THAT, THAT WOULD BE SOMETHING LIKE, UH, BAD CHECKS, DWIS, UM, PEEING TOM TYPE, UM, UM, CRIMES.
UM, ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? UH, COUNCILMAN EZ, DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? CONGRATULATIONS ON ERADICATING BLACKMAIL.
WHERE'S THAT? WHERE'S THAT ONE THIRD? I'D HAVE TO DO SOME RESEARCH.
UM, THESE ARE THESE JUST FOR SAN ANTONIO RELATED CRIMES.
DOES THIS ALSO INCLUDE F B I PROSECUTED CRIMES OR ARRESTS OR THEIR COUNTY SHERIFF FOR CONSTABLE ARRESTS? NO, THIS, THIS IS JUST SAN ANTONIO.
COUNCILMAN S UH, OH, I'M SORRY.
ACTUALLY, I FORGOT TO, WELL, I DON'T KNOW HOW I LEFT YOU OUT.
BUT, UM, I ACTUALLY JUST REALLY WANTED TO, WELL, THANK YOU FOR FOCUSING ON, UH, SENIORS, UM, AND INSTALLING THE SMOKE DETECTORS.
I KNOW THAT, UH, COUNCILWOMAN GAN HAS BEEN A BIG, UH, CHAMPION AND PROPONENT OF THAT.
UM, AND I THINK IT'S INCREDIBLE, UH, PROGRAM THAT Y'ALL ARE DOING.
I, I'M CURIOUS MORE ABOUT ON THE COLLABORATION WITH D S D ON UNSAFE STRUCTURES.
CAN YOU TALK A LITTLE MORE ABOUT THAT? YES, MA'AM.
SO, UM, YOU KNOW, THIS IS A RETROFIT CITY.
IT'S A HISTORIC CITY, HISTORIC BUILDINGS.
WE HAVE BUILDINGS LIKE THE FRIEDRICH BUILDINGS THAT ARE SITTING THERE WAITING FOR THIS GLAMOROUS GREAT PROJECT DOWN THE ROAD.
BUT WHAT THEY DO IS THEY END UP BEING HAVENS FOR UNHOUSED.
AND SO WE SEE THAT YEAR AFTER YEAR WHERE WE HAVE VACANT BUILDINGS THAT, UM, ARE IN SOME FORM OF EITHER RE REMODEL, CONSTRUCTION, SALE, WHATEVER, UH, THEY'RE NOT BOARDED UP CORRECTLY.
UM, OVER THE YEARS THEY'VE DETERIORATED TO WHERE IF WE GO IN THAT BUILDING, THAT BUILDING COULD COME DOWN ON, ON US AT A MOMENT'S NOTICE.
SO WHAT WE WANNA MAKE SURE IS TO JOG THE MEMORIES OF OUR FIRE OFFICERS WHEN THEY PULL UP TO THAT BUILDING TO WHERE THEY HAVE THIS PLACARDED BUILDING.
SO WE HAVE WORKED IN CONJUNCTION WITH D S D TO IDENTIFY, TO, UH, FIGURE OUT THE LANGUAGE, UH, WITH LEGAL TO MAKE SURE THAT WE PUT THESE, UH, PLACARDS ON CERTAIN BUILDINGS.
THERE'S ONLY A COUPLE THAT ARE UP RIGHT NOW.
SOME OF THESE BUILDINGS THAT WE IDENTIFIED, THEY'RE DEMOED WITHIN A WEEK OR TWO, BUT SOME OF THESE LONGSTANDING HISTORIC PROPERTIES THAT ARE THERE, WE'RE GOING TO MARK THEM.
SO WE KNOW WHERE THEY ARE AND WE KNOW HOW WE'RE GONNA FIGHT THAT FIRE IF WE GET A CALL ON THAT.
I'M CURIOUS, I KNOW IT'S THE NATURE OF, OF, OF SOMETIMES WHEN PEOPLE ARE, ARE UNHOUSED, UH, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE TRANSIENT.
DO YOU HAPPEN TO, OR HAVE WE AS A CITY IDENTIFIED WHEN THERE IS A POPULATION LIKE AN ENCAMPMENT? I MEAN, I HEARD YOU SAY, AND RIGHTLY SO, YOU
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DON'T WANNA LOSE A FIREFIGHTER TO A, AN EMPTY BUILDING, BUT HOW DO YOU KNOW IF THERE'S SOMEBODY IN THERE? DO WE HAVE WE IDENTIFIED WELL-KNOWN ENCAMPMENTS? WELL, YOU KNOW, WE, WE WORK WITH PD.UM, THE, THE ONLY WAY WE KNEW ABOUT THE MIDNIGHT RODEO WAS WE GOT A CALL FOR CHECK SMOKE.
WE SENT ONE ENGINE COMPANY OVER ENGINE 39, AND THEY FOUND THIS 25,000 SQUARE FOOT BUILDING.
D S D WAS IN THE PROCESS OF WORKING THAT BUILDING.
BUT AGAIN, UM, THERE SHOULD ALWAYS BE MORE COORDINATION WITH US ON THESE BUILDINGS.
BUT THE THING IS, SINCE I'VE BEEN HERE, I HAVE NOT SEEN A HOMELESS PERSON DIE IN A STRUCTURED FIRE.
THEY KNOW HOW TO GET IN AND GET OUT OF 'EM BETTER THAN WE DO.
THAT'S ONE OF THE IMPORTANT REASONS THAT WE WANNA STRESS, UH, SECURING THEM AND PUTTING THESE PLACARDS UP.
THANK YOU CHIEF, UH, UH, COUNCIL IZE, DID YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FOR CHIEF HOOD? YEAH, CHIEF, HOW WAS THE, UH, UNIVERSAL BLOOD, UH, I'M SORRY.
HOW IS THE, THE UNIVERSAL BLOOD PROGRAM WORKING? IS THAT GETTING EXPANDED? ARE WE SEEING MORE OF THAT BLOOD AVAILABLE ON TRACK? UH, YEAH.
COUNCILMAN, WE, WE DID A, UM, UM, MEDIA BLURB COUPLE MONTHS AGO.
WE HAD GIVEN OUR THOUSANDTH UNIT OF BLOOD.
WE CONTINUE TO WORK WITH DEPARTMENTS ALL OVER THE COUNTRY.
WE WENT AND DID A, UH, WHOLE BLOOD, UM, UM, TRAINING SESSION FOR NEW YORK FIRE DEPARTMENT, F D N Y.
UH, WE'VE BEEN ALL OVER THE COUNTRY TRYING TO EXPAND THIS PROGRAM, UM, TO WHERE EVERYBODY HAS BLOOD, IF THEY HAVE THE CAPABILITY TO, TO DELIVER TO, TO THEIR RESIDENTS.
YOU KNOW, UH, I I I'M WONDERING, UH, YOU KNOW, YOUR, FOR, FOR BOTH OF, OF OUR CHIEFS, YOU KNOW, OUR, OUR NUMBERS, UM, IN CERTAIN CATEGORIES GO UP, RIGHT.
AND I, I BELIEVE THAT YOU'LL AGREE WITH ME THAT, UM, POPULATION INCREASE, YOU KNOW, AND THE DENSITY OF SAN ANTONIO AND THE CHANGING, UM, YOU KNOW, UM, HOW, HOW PEOPLE LIVE RIGHT.
IN SAN ANTONIO AND THE AMOUNT OF CARS ON THE ROAD AND ALL THAT YES, SIR.
IS WHAT CAN, YOU CAN DRAW A STRAIGHT LINE FROM THAT POPULATION GROWTH TO THESE INCREASES IN STATISTICS IN CERTAIN AREAS.
UM, DO YOU, UH, HAVE YOU TAKEN A LOOK AT HOW, OR HAVE YOU SUPERIMPOSED A, UH, A POPULATION GROWTH, UM, LENS ONTO SOME OF THESE STATISTICS TO SORT OF DO A PRO-RATA ANALYSIS OF, OF HOW THAT IS AFFECTING US? RIGHT.
BECAUSE I, I DO FEEL LIKE IF YOU SAY, WELL, YOU KNOW, THERE'S 10 MORE ROBBERIES THIS YEAR, OR THERE'S 20 MORE FIRES THIS YEAR, RIGHT? UH, OR 20 MORE CALLS OUT FOR, UH, YOU KNOW, INJURIES OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT, THAT IN THE ABSENCE OF CONTEXT, UH, REGARDING POPULATION THAT WE'RE REALLY NOT BEING, UM, HONEST WITH OURSELVES OR HONEST WITH THE PUBLIC OR ALL AND, AND NOT ACCURATE EITHER.
RIGHT? WELL, YOU KNOW, AND, AND I LOOK AT IT AS GROWTH IN THE CITY.
AND SO, UM, WHEN WE DO HEAT MAPS AND WE DO THOSE COUNCIL PRESENTATIONS TO YOU, THE, THE, THE DENSITY, THE MOST CALLS WE RUN ARE WHERE WE HAVE THE MOST PEOPLE.
SO OUR, THE MOST CALLS ARE DOWNTOWN DURING THE DAY.
BUT THEN IF YOU LOOK AT, UM, THE CHAIRS, UH, FIRST DUE AREA OUT THERE, EXTREMELY BUSY, BUT YOU'RE LOOKING AT GROWTH AREAS.
SO WHEREVER THE GROWTH IS, THAT'S WHERE WE'RE GONNA SEE THE RUNS.
UM, AND I, IF WE DID A STUDY BETWEEN US AND PD, WHEREVER YOU SEE THE PD CRIMES GO UP, THAT'S WHERE OUR CALLS GO UP TOO.
YOU DON'T, YOU DON'T SEE A, A POLICE CAR ON TV WITHOUT SEEING A FIRETRUCK OR AN AMBULANCE.
SO IT, IT CORRELATES DIRECTLY TO POPULATION FOR US.
SEE, AND, AND I KNOW THAT, AND YOU KNOW THAT, RIGHT? UM, BUT THE PUBLIC IS GONNA COME AND ASK US, WHY, WHY DO SOME OF THESE, YOU KNOW, WHY ARE WE WITNESSING SOME OF THESE INCREASES? RIGHT? AND SO WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO PROVIDE THEM IS DATA, RIGHT? AND SO THAT YOU CAN THEN TELL ME, I DON'T KNOW, CHIEF, MAYBE YOU OR YOU, RIGHT? SAY, LOOK, UM, THIS YEAR WE HAD AN IN A BUMP UP IN THESE HEXA ENSS, RIGHT? UH, BY THIS MUCH, BUT WE ALL, YOU KNOW, AND THIS IS HOW MUCH POPULATION GROWTH WE EXPERIENCED IN THAT HEXA BIN OR IN THIS ZIP CODE, RIGHT? SO THAT WE CAN ACTUALLY SAY AND TEST OUT OUR THEORY, RIGHT? WHICH IS GROWTH LEADS TO, AND DENSITY LEADS TO MORE CALLS FROM THAT ONE AREA.
UM, BECAUSE I, INTELLECTUALLY I AGREE WITH YOU, I THINK I, I KNOW IT RIGHT.
BUT, UM, I NEED MORE THAN JUST KNOWING WHAT WE BOTH KNOW.
DO, DO YOU THINK THAT'S FAIR TO ASK YOU GUYS THAT MAYBE IN THE FUTURE WHEN WE LOOK AT THESE STATISTICS TO ADD, UM, YOU KNOW, THAT DATA POINT, WHICH IS, YOU KNOW, INCREASE IN GROWTH IN THAT ONE AREA? SO AT THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, WE HAVE A COUPLE OF THINGS GOING ON RIGHT NOW.
WE HAVE A FACILITIES ASSESSMENT, UH, LOOKING AT ALL OF OUR SUBSTATIONS AND THAT SORT OF THING.
AND THAT'S LOOKING AT THE POPULATION GROWTH.
AND THEN ALSO WE'RE HAVING A STAFFING STUDY, UH, DONE RIGHT NOW THAT IS LOOKING AT POPULATION GROWTH AS WE MOVE FORWARD.
SO, SO WE'RE LOOKING AT THAT ALREADY.
CAN WE LOOK AT IT TOO,
WHEN WE DO OUR NEXT PRESENTATION STATISTICS, WE CAN PROVIDE THE DATA ON POPULATION GROWTH, RIGHT? AND WHICH AREAS OF THE CITY HAVE EXPERIENCED
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THAT, THAT, UH, INCREASE AND PROVIDE THAT INFORMATION.THANK YOU THAT, THAT ANSWERS MY QUESTION.
THIS IS A GREAT DAY TO JOIN THE PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE.
YOU'RE GONNA HATE ME 'CAUSE I HAVE SO MANY QUESTIONS I MIGHT HAVE TO MOTION EXTEND THE MEETING AN EXTRA HOUR.
SO, UM, I, SO THIS, THIS IS BOTH FOR CHIEF HOOD AND CHIEF FOX, I GUESS ON ARSON.
MY QUESTION IS, WHEN DO YOU CHOOSE TO INVESTIGATE? AND I, I, I'M, I DON'T REMEMBER WHAT THE STATISTICS THERE WERE FOR ARSON.
YOU KNOW, I, I CAN THINK OF JUAN HIGH PROFILE CASE IN MY DISTRICT WHERE, UM, YOU KNOW, THERE WAS A LOT OF SUSPICION.
UM, BUT I WAS TOLD, WELL, YOU KNOW, THE FIRE BURNED TOO HOT, IT BURNED TOO FAST, AND THERE WAS NO INVEST.
AND, AND THEN WE, AND THEN WE CHOSE TO DEMOLISH THE, THE STRUCTURE, I GUESS, UH, RIGHT.
YOU KNOW, WHATEVER WAS LEFT AFTERWARD.
AND SO THERE WASN'T AN ARSON INVESTIGATION.
I PERSONALLY DON'T BELIEVE THAT IT WAS ARSON.
YOU KNOW, I MET WITH THE OWNER THAT DAY, AND I HAD WALKED THROUGH, AND I HAD SEEN THAT, THAT HOMELESS INDIVIDUALS HAD BEEN LIVING IN THAT STRUCTURE.
AND I SAW WHERE THERE WAS A FIRE, SOMEBODY HAD CREATED A LITTLE CAMPFIRE IN THE MIDDLE OF A ROOM ON A CARPETED FLOOR.
AND SO I KNEW THAT KIND OF ACTIVITY WAS TAKING PLACE, BUT, UM, SO IT'S NOT, IT WASN'T A SURPRISE TO ME THAT THAT STRUCTURE BURNED DOWN ON A VERY COLD NIGHT.
UM, BUT HOW DO WE CHOOSE WHEN TO AND WHEN NOT TO CONDUCT AN INVESTIGATION? BECAUSE THERE WERE A LOT OF MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC WHO, WHO WERE SUSPICIOUS ABOUT IT.
AND, YOU KNOW, FOR TRANSPARENCY SAKES, I I WOULD'VE LIKED THAT WE HAD CON CONDUCTED AN ARSON INVESTIGATION.
SO WHAT, WHAT HAPPENS IS, SAY ENGINE FIVE GOES ON A FENCE FIRE OR A, A FIRE, AND THEY GET THERE, THEY PUT THE FIRE OUT, IT SEEMS SUSPICIOUS.
OKAY? SO WE DO HAVE FIRE INVESTIGATORS WHO ARE DISPATCHED ON EVERY STRUCTURED FIRE AND ALSO CALLED OUT.
THAT'S BEFORE WE SENT AN ARSON INVESTIGATOR OUT, BECAUSE THE THING THAT I'M TRYING TO TRACK THE MOST IS HOW THIS FIRE STARTED AND HOW IT CAN EDUCATE THE PUBLIC ON MAKING SURE THIS DOESN'T HAPPEN AGAIN.
SO WE'RE CREATING, CREATING THAT METRIC WITH THAT.
BUT THEN IF WE GET THERE, AND IT DOES SEEM SUSPICIOUS, THERE'S A FATALITY INVOLVED, THERE'S A SMELL OF ACCELERANTS, WE BROUGHT THE DOGS OUT.
SO THOSE TYPE OF THINGS ARE GOING TO LEAD TO A POTENTIAL ARSON INVESTIGATION.
BUT IF WE HAVE, SAY, A SMALL HOUSE, THERE'S HOMELESS IN THAT AREA, AND WE'VE HAD SEVERAL HOUSES LIKE THAT BURN UP, YEAH, THOSE ARE THE ONES THAT WE'RE GOING TO REALLY TARGET AND INVESTIGATE.
BUT SOMETIMES EVEN DURING AN INVESTIGATION, UM, THINGS DO DUR BURN TOO HOT, WE CAN'T FIGURE THAT OUT.
AND SO IF IT'S AN APARTMENT COMPLEX, IF IT'S SOMEONE ELSE, THEY MAY BRING A FORENSIC INVESTIGATOR IN TO DO THAT.
A LOT OF TIMES OURS STOPPED SHORT BECAUSE AGAIN, UM, IT WAS A SMALL PIECE OF PROPERTY.
IT LOOKED LIKE IT WAS A, A HOMELESS FIRE.
SO AGAIN, WE'RE GONNA INVESTIGATE THE ONES THAT WE FEEL WE NEED TO INVESTIGATE, BUT IT STARTS WITH THAT COMPANY OFFICER THAT RESPONDS THERE AND EITHER NOTICES SOMETHING SUSPICIOUS, WE HAVE SUSPICIOUS, UH, INFORMATION, AND THEN WE PASS THAT TO OUR INVESTIGATORS AND THEN UP TO OUR ARSON TEAM.
I THINK THE REMAINDER OF MY QUESTIONS ARE FOR CHIEF FOX, UM, ON THIS REPORTING SYSTEM.
I, YOU KNOW, THIS TAKES ME BACK TO CHANGING THE REPORTING SYSTEM.
THAT TAKES ME BACK TO, UH, I THINK BEFORE THE PANDEMIC, UH, THE SAN ANTONIO REPORT HOSTS THESE CITY FEST, UH, CONFERENCES ON POLICY AND, AND CHIEF HOOD.
I MEAN, UH, CHIEF MCMANUS WAS THERE AND THEY DISCUSSED CRIME.
AND, UH, I REMEMBER, UH, UM, THAT WAS WHEN MAYOR, I GET, UH, COUNCILMAN BROCK HOUSE WAS RUNNING AGAINST MAYOR NURNBERG, AND THERE WAS A LOT OF CONVERSATION ABOUT CRIME.
DID CRIME GO UP? YOU KNOW, ONE, ONE WAS CLAIMING THAT THAT CRIME CRIME HAD GONE UP.
ANOTHER ONE WAS CLAIMING THAT CRIME HAD GONE DOWN.
AND I ASKED CHIEF MCMANUS, WELL, WHO DO WE BELIEVE? HOW DO WE KNOW? AND CHIEF MCMANUS AT THAT TIME HAD TOLD ME, WELL, DIFFERENT CITIES REPORT THESE CRIMES IN DIFFERENT WAYS, YOU KNOW, VIOLENT CRIME AND WHATNOT.
AND SO SOMETIMES PEOPLE CAN REPORT IT IN A DIFFERENT WAY SO THAT IT DOESN'T SHOW UP IN STUDIES.
AND SO THEN IT MAKES THEIR CITY LOOK BETTER.
RIGHT? AND SO IS THIS HELPING, MOVING TO THIS NEW SYSTEM? IS THAT GONNA HELP ALL, LIKE MAYBE ALL CITIES IN TEXAS OR ALL CITIES IN THE COUNTRY BE ABLE TO HAVE MORE UNIFORM REPORTING SO THAT WE CAN ACTUALLY COMPARE APPLES TO APPLES? WELL, THE, THE ANSWER TO THAT QUESTION IS THAT YES, IT SHOULD.
UM, BUT AT RIGHT NOW, I CAN'T TELL YOU WHAT THOSE OTHER CITIES ARE
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REPORTING, HONESTLY.SO WE'RE REPORTING OUR NUMBERS ACCURATELY.
I CAN'T TELL YOU WHAT OTHER CITIES ARE DOING.
UM, BUT THAT'S THE INTENT OF THIS NEW SYSTEM.
AND SO THE SAN ANTONIO POLICE DEPARTMENT IS, IS DOING IT CORRECTLY.
AND, AND COUNCILMAN, I WOULD ADD THAT THE REQUIREMENT IS FROM THE F B I.
AND YES, THEIR GOAL IS TO BE ABLE TO STANDARDIZE HOW LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES ACROSS THE COUNTRY ARE REPORTING THOSE NUMBERS TO THE PUBLIC.
UM, WE CAN SPEAK FOR OTHER CITIES, BUT THAT IS THE, THE ANSWER TO YOUR QUESTION.
THAT IS THE GOAL OF THE F B I.
UM, AND THEN OUR, OUR CHAIR ASKED ABOUT A CATEGORY B, RIGHT? AND SO FOR THE CATEGORY B, YOU, YOU MENTIONED DWIS AND HOT CHECKS, AND I THINK OF DWIS AND HOT CHECKS IS VERY DIFFERENT.
I'M WONDERING WHY THEY'RE IN THE SAME CATEGORY.
BECAUSE DWI, I CAN REALLY PUT A LOT OF MEMBERS OF OUR PUBLIC AT RISK, UM, FOR THEIR SAFETY VERSUS A HOT CHECK IS, YOU KNOW, A THEFT, BUT I DON'T THINK IT, NOBODY DIES, UH, FROM A HOT CHECK.
AND, AND WHEN I'M TALKING ABOUT A DWI, I I'M TALKING ABOUT, UM, LIKE A FIRST DWI I, WHICH IS A CLASS B MISDEMEANOR.
UH, I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT INTOXICATION, MANSLAUGHTER OR INTOXICATION ASSAULT.
UM, BUT I'M TALKING ABOUT A VERY LOW LEVEL, UH, ACCORDING TO THE LET JUST, OKAY, UH, MORNING, UH, JESSE SOLOMON, S A P D, UH, THAT, THAT'S A CATEGORY THAT'S DESIGNATED BY THE F B I.
AND SO THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT SOME OF YOUR VICE OFFENSES, UH, SOME OF YOUR DRUG OFFENSES.
UH, I KNOW THAT THAT CAN CROSS OVER AND YOU MAY HAVE SOME, SOME VICTIMIZATION.
UM, BUT THEY, THE F B I DESIGNATES THOSE CATEGORIES.
AND SO WE, WE BREAK THAT UP BASED ON THEIR RECOMMENDATIONS.
SHALL I PUNCH BACK IN? SORRY, COUNCILWOMAN.
UH, I'LL START WITH CHIEF HOOD.
UM, THANK YOU FOR THAT INFORMATION.
YOU KNOW, UM, WE'LL, WE'LL COME BACK AND GET THE END OF THE YEAR AND I'LL BE VERY INTERESTED IN THOSE, UH, GRASS FIRES BECAUSE THEY SEEM TO INCREASE SO MUCH.
DISTRICT THREE HAS GONE TO OVER 135 HOMES WITH THE SAN ANTONIO FIRE DEPARTMENT AND INSTALLED SMOKE ALARMS. AND HOPEFULLY THIS WILL KEEP PEOPLE SAFE, UH, AND, UM, KIND OF HELP YOU GUYS NOT HAVE A FULL-BLOWN STRUCTURE FIRE IF SOMETHING HAPPENS DURING THIS HOLIDAY SEASON.
UM, THE ONE THING I WOULD LIKE TO SEE, AND I KNOW THAT THIS, THIS IS A GENERAL, BUT FOR PERSONAL, IS THAT FALL PREVENTION THAT WE HAVE AND HOW MANY RUNS Y'ALL MAKE OUT THERE BECAUSE SOMEBODY HAS FALLEN.
UM, SO WE CAN WORK WITH OUR SENIORS ON MAKING SURE THAT THEY'RE SAFE THERE.
UM, CHIEF, YOU KNOW, UM, THESE ARE OUR NUMBERS THAT I KNEW WERE GOING TO NOT BE GOOD WITH THE HOMICIDE RATE.
UH, UM, WE HAVE BEEN HERE ALL YEAR AND WE KNEW THAT THIS WAS, UH, GOING TO BE, UH, A HIGH YEAR ON THAT.
WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO SEE IS THIS BROKEN DOWN BETWEEN, UM, IF WE, IF I COULD GET THE NUMBERS ABOUT HOW MANY MALE VICTIMS AND HOW MANY FEMALE VICTIMS WE HAD IN THE HOMICIDE AND HOW MANY WERE RELATED TO FAMILY VIOLENCE AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, I'D APPRECIATE THAT.
ALSO, UM, THE ONE STOLEN PROPERTY, I THINK THAT PART OF THAT IS PEOPLE NOW REPORTING.
DO Y'ALL HAVE A BREAKDOWN OF THE CALLS THAT WE'RE GETTING FOR STOLEN PROPERTY? WHERE IS IT? SO WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO SEE IF IT'S STOLEN PROPERTY FROM A HOME OR STOLEN PROPERTY WHERE PEOPLE ARE OUT THAT WAY WE CAN KIND OF TARGET WHERE PEOPLE NEED TO BE SAFE.
I KNOW ONE THING WE'RE PUSHING IN OUR, I'M PUSHING IN MY DISTRICT IS MAKING SURE PEOPLE AREN'T PARKING ON THE STREETS.
IF WE KNOW THAT THERE HAS BEEN KIND OF A CRIME SPREE WITH PEOPLE BREAKING INTO CARS 'CAUSE THEY'RE NOT STEALING THE CARS, BUT THEY'RE TAKING EVERYTHING IN THE CARS.
SO IF YOU COULD GIVE US SOME OF THAT INFORMATION SO WE COULD HELP THIS HOLIDAY SEASON.
UM, AND IF, IF A RESIDENTS CALL WITH SPECIFIC NEEDS ON THE STOLEN PROPERTY.
THE OTHER THING, IN SOME OF MY NEIGHBORHOODS, I GET A LOT OF PEOPLE STEALING FROM PORCHES.
AND IF, IF THAT'S THE CASE, UH, MAKING SURE WITH THE PACKAGE DELIVERY, KIND OF WHAT, WHERE IF WE COULD GET DETAILS ON HOW MORE SPECIFICALLY TO HELP OUR RESIDENTS BE SAFE REGARDING THAT.
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SOBERING.UH, WE HAD THREE HOMICIDES OVER THE WEEKEND IN DISTRICT THREE.
AND SO THE ONE THING I WOULD LIKE AND ONE WAS RELATED TO RACING, UM, AND IF WE COULD GET INFORMATION REGARDING THAT TO, ABOUT THE VIOLENT CRIMES RELATED TO THE STREET RACING.
OKAY, I'D APPRECIATE THAT ALSO.
BUT I WANNA THANK, UH, YOUR TEAM FOR ALWAYS BEING SO RESPONSIVE.
UH, MY NEIGHBORS OF COURSE WANT TO SEE MORE OFFICERS, WANNA SEE MORE PATROL, UM, WANNA SEE MORE SAFE OFFICERS.
AND, UM, AND HOPEFULLY WE CAN GET INFORMATION DONE TO SEE WHAT, WHAT WE NEED TO DO TO WRITE STAFF OUR, OUR POLICE DEPARTMENT FOR OUR POPULATION AS IT IS NOW.
AND I RECOGNIZE THAT THERE'S NO WAY TO, TO, UM, SCRUB FOR, UM, YOU KNOW, ACCURACY OF AS TO HOW OTHER CITIES REPORT THEIR NUMBERS.
BUT I WOULD BE INTERESTED IN SEEING HOW WE DO COMPARE TO OTHER CITIES THAT ARE, ARE COMPAR, YOU KNOW, ARE, ARE ARE CITIES THAT ARE SIMILARLY SITUATED TO US, RIGHT.
POPULATION NUMBERS AND ALL THAT.
WE KNOW WHO THE, WHAT THOSE CITIES ARE.
WE, WE FREQUENTLY COMPARE OURSELVES TO OTHER CITIES WHEN IT COMES TO GOOD STUFF.
I'D LIKE TO SEE US COMPARED TO, YOU KNOW, OTHER CITIES WHEN IT COMES TO CHALLENGES AS WELL.
UM, THE, THE OTHER THING I'LL TELL YOU IS, UM, I, I DID HAVE TWO INCIDENTS AND IN, UH, UP, UP ON THE NORTH SIDE THAT I, I DUNNO HOW TO RESPOND TO FOLKS WHEN, WHEN THEY COME TO ME AND IT'S ABOUT, UM, IT'S ABOUT CAR THEFTS.
IN BOTH INCIDENTS, THE CARS WERE STOLEN AND THE OWNERS CALLED S A P D AND WERE LIVE TRACKING THE CARS AS THEY WERE MOVING.
ONE, ONE WAS TAKING JOY RIDES AROUND THE RIM, AND THE OTHER ONE WAS, YOU KNOW, TRAVELING AND THEY, THEY ACTUALLY SAW IT LIVE AND S A P D CAME OUT AND SAW IT TOO, AND NOTHING WAS DONE.
UH, LIKE, UH, LIKE THEY LITERALLY WERE CALLING AND SAYING, WE KNOW WHERE THE CAR IS.
CAN YOU HELP US? I, I, WHY DOES SOMETHING LIKE THAT HAPPEN? AND HOW DO I LEAVE FRUSTRATED CONSTITUENTS IN A BETTER PLACE WHEN THEY ASKED ME ABOUT THAT? WELL, UM, OKAY.
NOT, NOT KNOWING THE CIRCUMSTANCES.
UM, I MEAN, I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF THOSE TWO.
UM, YOU KNOW, EVERY CASE IS, IS DIFFERENT.
UM, YOU KNOW, THERE, THERE'S TIMES THAT WE'RE ABLE TO RECOVER CARS WHERE THE OWNER KNOWS WHERE THEY, AND WITH TECHNOLOGY, WE KNOW WHERE EVERYTHING IS.
NOW WE CAN, WE CAN TRACE A PHONE.
UH, I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW THOSE TWO CASES.
IF YOU CAN GET ME MORE INFORMATION, I, I'M GONNA PUT YOU IN CONTACT WITH THEM, PLEASE.
UM, THEY, THEY'RE OWED AN ANSWER.
UH, AND IF WE, IF WE COULD FIGURE IT OUT, I'D, I'D LIKE TO FIGURE IT OUT.
SO IF, IF WE COULD CONNECT, THAT'D BE HAPPY TO, TO LOOK INTO BOTH OF 'EM.
AND THEN CHIEF HOOD, ARE YOU STILL HERE? UH, HEY, I GOT SOMETHING TO TELL YOU.
I WAS AT AN H O A MEETING RECENTLY AND A GENTLEMAN WALKED RIGHT UP TO ME WITH HIS WIFE AND SHE WAS CRYING AND SAID, UM, I DON'T KNOW WHO THEY WERE, BUT, UM, SAN ANTONIO FIRE SAVED MY HUSBAND'S LIFE.
UM, UM, YOUR DEPARTMENT AND YOUR TEAM MEMBERS, UM, YOU KNOW, INITIATED C P R GOT HIM TO THE HOSPITAL AND THE MAN IS LIVING TODAY, UM, AND ATTENDING H O A MEETINGS, UH, BECAUSE OF YOU GUYS.
AND SO, UM, I, YOU GUYS ARE INDISPENSABLE TO US.
AND SS A P D I I KEEP HEARING STORIES ALSO ABOUT HOW, YOU KNOW, YOU ALL RESCUE WOMEN IN THE MOST DIFFICULT OF SITUATIONS DURING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INCIDENTS.
AND SO, UM, YOU KNOW, PLEASE, PLEASE KNOW THAT I, I THINK I, I THINK IT'S UNANIMOUS UP HERE THAT WE, WE THINK YOU GUYS ARE ESSENTIAL TO, UM, TO A CITY THAT IS, YOU KNOW, NEEDS TO BE MORE RESILIENT.
AND, UM, YOU GUYS ARE DOING A GREAT JOB.
UM, YOU KNOW, MY STAFF AND I, WE TRY, WHEN WE GO OUT TO HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION MEETINGS OR WHEN WE MEET WITH OUR CONSTITUENTS, WE TRY AND ENCOURAGE THEM TO REPORT MORE OF WHAT THEY SEE.
AND SO WE FIND SOMETIMES CONSTITUENTS, THEY DON'T WANNA BOTHER YOU WITH SOME OF THE SMALLER CRIMES.
AND WE SAY, WELL, YOU KNOW, WE NEED THAT DATA TO BE ABLE TO KNOW WHERE TO PUT THE RESOURCES.
AND, AND SO WHEN I LOOK AT THE DATA THAT YOU'RE SHARING, AND SOMETIMES I SEE THAT CERTAIN CRIMES GO UP, ONE OF MY QUESTIONS IS, IS THAT, IS THERE, ARE WE SEEING AN INCREASE IN THAT CRIME OR ARE WE SEEING AN INCREASE IN THE REPORTING OF THAT CRIME? AND HOW DO YOU ALL LOOK AT THAT AND HOW DO YOU TRY TO DETERMINE THAT? WELL, WE DO THE SAME.
UH, YOU KNOW, ALL OF THE COMMAND STAFF NOW MAKES, UM, HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION MEETINGS AND WE SAY THE SAME THING, REPORT THE CRIMES THAT, THAT YOU'RE SEEING.
AND SO, UH, WE THINK THAT PEOPLE ARE REPORTING MORE THINGS NOW, UH, THERE'S, THERE'S CAMERAS EVERYWHERE.
SO, UH, YOU KNOW, WE'RE GETTING, UH, VIDEOS, UH, AND, AND, UH, COUNCILMAN GRO WAS TALKING ABOUT PORCH PIRATES.
UH, YOU KNOW, THAT HAPPENS A LOT DURING THIS
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TIME OF THE YEAR.AND SO PEOPLE ARE, ARE FLOODING US WITH VIDEOS, WHICH WE ENCOURAGE.
AND SO WE'RE, WE'RE SEEING A LOT MORE REPORTING, UH, OF, OF DIFFERENT, DIFFERENT PROPERTY CRIMES.
AND I THINK THAT'S WHY WE SEE THOSE SPIKE IN NUMBERS.
YOU KNOW, WE SEE, UM, OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS WE'VE SEEN THIS, UM, UH, SOMETHING THAT WE HAVEN'T SEEN BEFORE.
THE THEFT OF CATALYTIC CONVERTERS HAS, HAS SHOT THROUGH THE ROOF, AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE HAVEN'T SEEN BEFORE.
AND SO PEOPLE ARE REPORTING THOSE INCIDENTS THAT, THAT WE HAVE NOT SEEN IN THE PAST, BUT BECAUSE WE'RE DOING A LOT OF EDUCATION ABOUT IT, UM, YOU KNOW, WE'RE DOING A LOT OF PSAS, WE'RE DOING A LOT OF, UM, SOCIAL MEDIA TELLING FOLKS, HEY, REPORT YOUR CRIMES.
SO WE'RE SEEING A LOT MORE REPORTING, UH, THAT THAT COULD CONTRIBUTE, UH, TO THOSE NUMBERS GOING UP.
BUT, BUT THERE'S A LOT OF EDUCATION COMING FROM THE POLICE DEPARTMENT TO THE PUBLIC.
AND THEN WHEN IT COMES TO CRIME, LIKE WHAT ARE YOU SEEING AN INCREASE IN PEOPLE REPORTING PROBLEM HOUSES, YOU KNOW, HOUSES WHERE THAT, UM, WHERE THE NEIGHBORS ARE REPORTING THAT THERE'S HUMAN TRAFFICKING GOING ON, THERE ARE DRUG, SUSPECTED DRUG TRAFFICKING GOING ON.
ARE THOSE, ARE, DOES THAT SEEM LIKE THAT'S GOING UP OR, WE ARE SEEING A LOT OF THOSE, UH, IN MY BUREAU, I, I HAVE THE NARCOTICS, UM, DETAIL, SO WE ARE GETTING A LOT OF THOSE COMPLAINTS.
UM, I DON'T HAVE SAFE, UH, UNDER, UNDER MY PURVIEW, BUT I KNOW THAT THEY'RE WORKING A LOT, UM, IN THOSE REGARDS.
SO, SO WE ARE GETTING SOME MORE OF THOSE COMPLAINTS SO THE NEIGHBORS ARE ON, ON THE LOOKOUT, AND THAT'S GOOD BECAUSE WE ENCOURAGE THAT.
SO, UH, OUR SAFE OFFICERS ARE DOING A GOOD JOB AT ENCOURAGING, UH, THE COMMUNITY TO REPORT WHAT THEY SEE.
UM, THAT WAS, UH, OUR ITEMS FOR BRIEFING.
THANK YOU TO CHIEF HOOD AND ASSISTANT CHIEF FOX FOR BEING HERE TODAY.
AND, UM, AND THANK YOU, OF COURSE TO, TO ALL OF YOUR TEAM BEHIND YOU THAT THAT HELPS.
UM, REMEMBER, OUR NEXT MEETING WILL TAKE PLACE IN JANUARY.
WE, UM, WE'LL TAKE A BREAK IN DECEMBER, BUT I LOOK FORWARD TO CONTINUING THIS WORK, UH, WITH ALL OF YOU, ESPECIALLY OUR NEW, UM, MEMBERS.