[Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] good evening welcome to the August 19th city council meeting if you join me for the Pledge of Allegiance and a moment of silence pledge aliance to the flag of the United States of America to the rep for it stands one nation God indivisible and Justice there orlovski uh roll call please L kellier here John burmel here Dan Walter Joshua Lee very good moving on to Citizens comments is an opportunity for those to address the council if there's any issues for up to three minutes if you do you can just come up and state your name and address okay seeing none moving on uh any additional agenda information Mr Miller thank you mayor and Council item 6E there's a revised item on your agenda there was simply a misspelled word Okie do uh moving on to item number five presentations introductions and I'll turn it over to police chief pulson for the police department quarterly report good evening good evening mayor members of the council hued up before you tonight is our second quarter report covering the months of April May and June as we always do we start out with our mission statement to kind of provide the framework of all the work that we do and the information that will follow in the report tonight Lakeville Police Department exists to ensure an excellent quality of life in Lakeville by serving and protecting in a professional and Innovative way kicking things off with some uh promotional news Jeremy lural was promoted from officer to Sergeant back in May as you can see uh under the experience uh label there Jeremy has a wealth of uh policing experience 27 years in all including 13 here at Lakeville PD a lot of uh key positions he's held over the years from SWAT to K9 school resource officer and investigation so he will uh and already has brought a lot of experience to that position and will be very well received and respected uh I just want to note uh one thing on promotions with our sergeants we have eight sergeants they're all in our Patrol Division but quite often there's uh there's certainly good things that come with promotion people seek those out for good reason but there's also a certain degree of sacrifice as well when when you're talking about um work that involves 24-hour coverage and seniority a lot of times those uh sergeants are are moving to the bottom of a seniority list coming from near the top so some sacrifice with work schedules and things like that so we're always happy when people take that step to uh lend their expertise uh in a leadership position with uh with our agency records technician position uh that was open due to a retirement we hired Britney Brown back in June Britney brings a good variety of experience for us coming from a couple of different dispatching roles with Minnesota Minnesota state Patrol as well as uh right here in Dakota County with Dakota 911 most recently she was at the Dakota County Sheriff's Office where she was a senior program service assistant so she's had a lot of good experience dealing with u Public Safety and uh the workflow that is associated with that type of work and then a new position for us this year which kicked off in full in June uh is our Support Services liaison position so Natalie Anderson picture there is not new to our agency but uh is new to this position so uh this position uh really streamlines a lot of our services and connections with our embedded folks from uh our social worker from D County Social Services our crisis response workers our 360 victim Advocate all of those folks that office out of our police department and provide great resources uh Natalie will now uh be working as our liaison with them to to provide a variety of uh of support um mental health calls certainly both in progress and followup uh but also some education and um and and streamlining of other services that are affiliated with with all of those roles as well so you can see there Natalie had experience with our mental health team as well as obviously a patrol officer and school resource officer our mental health team was made up of about 10 to 12 officers uh and that will no longer be in effect we are now moving that all through Natalie's position uh just to again uh streamline things a little bit I think it's important to note that Natalie will not be the only one doing mental health work in our Police Department uh I use the analogy of our Traffic Unit the traffic car specializes and and deals with a lot of our hot areas but all of our officers do some degree of traffic enforcement that would be no different in this position with regards to mental health highlighting some events from uh Quarter Two on May 15th is national law law enforcement National Peace Officers Memorial Day I guess is the official term but uh a lot of recognition across the country obviously out in Washington DC at the National Memorial but also here in the state on the capital grounds with the State Memorial so we send uh officers up every year to stand guard uh there's a 24-hour period where that is covered by uh law enforcement Personnel from across the state so we always like to have a contingency up there to uh take a a shift in doing that to honor those who have uh given the ultimate sacrifice in our profession and this year obviously more uh meaning as well with the loss of two police officers in and a medic in Burnsville back in February from a community engagement perspective a few uh events highlighted there on the far left is a vehicle Fair which was U coordinated by Lakefield Community Ed uh all kinds of fun trucks uh Vehicles school buses garbage trucks police SCS fire trucks all kinds of things for kids to jump in and climb around we were happy to participate with some Squad cars and that event in the middle there is something new for us that we kicked off this year a cops and Bobbers event where we pair police officers with youth in uh in doing some fishing out on Orchard Lake so staff members uh dedicated their uh boats and some equipment to to jump in a boat with some kids and enjoy some time fishing for about an hour and a couple different shifts there but um nobody fell out of the boat no hooked uh ears or other limbs uh no record fish caught but certainly some fish on the line in a lot of good times and and uh good connection with many of our youth in that event and then on the right uh our movie night we've done for a couple years now at Lakeville North on the turf um I think the movie this year was migration but uh beautiful weather night which is always helpful when we do these events but you can see a picture there of Officer Raymond uh running around having some fun with the kids out on the turf just highlighting a grant that we were awarded earlier this year uh from a police officer position standpoint to fund uh what we're calling a Cadet position and so what this does is allows us to hire someone who does not currently have a law enforcement degree they're not eligible to be a police officer yet uh but they have a two or foure degree in some capacity from an accredited institution uh we hire them on do the traditional background check uh and all of that and then we uh facilitate them getting into a program at henpen County Technical College uh paying them at a Cadet wage and covering their tuition uh throughout uh the term of the uh the program which runs from uh mid October through uh March of 2025 so it's kind of of a condensed program there when they're done in March uh we are eligible then to hire them fulltime as a police officer and we get reimbursed for uh up to $50,000 of those expenses for wages and tuition so good way to for us hopefully to expand our candidate pool and and look at at some other folks that maybe uh wouldn't have come to us through a more traditional route a few bullet points here to highlight training and development as we always do obviously that's a big priority for us not only just maintaining our minimum standards as licensed officers but also um hopefully exceeding those standards to deliver the quality that our community uh desires and expects uh couple on top there um anytime you see all sworn that's all 68 police officers that have to get through a certain amount of training every year and uh it's highlighted in a couple bullet points but it's a lot of work there's a lot of moving Parts there to get people uh uh all through those trainings from Firearms to defensive tactics and the less lethal non-lethal skills and those aren't everything certainly but just to just to make mention of the um dedication and coordination it takes to pull that stuff off mental health they uh a few a few bullet points down again those are minimum standards met by or required by the post board uh again we try to get and do get far and above those uh mandated hours and those are all on a three-year licensing cycle for police officers and a couple of other U kind of one-off trainings there with basic narcotics and investigations 101 those are more geared towards an officer or a couple of officers that are starting a new assignment and need some additional training as they step into those roles highlighting here an employee Wellness initiative uh AAS on the backside is a um organization that's been spoken about here I think at Council before but it's uh retired thoroughbred horses out at Canterbury Park that help with therapy for First Responders and military personnel um either struggling or just wanting to um kind of work through some some of the associated um challenges that come with these types of careers and we've had for the last few years um mandatory Wellness check-ins with all of our staff members not just officers but Department wide staff um generally more a traditional therapist route that people uh pursue with those mandatory check-ins but we've added AAS this year as one of the options people can choose from uh just to kind of expose people to a totally different kind of therapy as many people know um you know different types of people different types of therapy click with with other folks and so we just wanted to off offer this as a as a new um option and has been been very well received and they do a lot of great work out there I know the fire department uh has been out and involved out there as well so uh it's kind of one of those things you you have to see or experience to to fully understand it I think but uh it's a pretty pretty cool event all the way around from our staff to uh the thoroughbreds that still provide Great Value out there even though they're retired from racing a few cases of Distinction to highlight here and when we look at these we look for something where we can maybe highlight a specific unit in our agency or a collaborative effort um within our agency your community and I think all three of these do that on the left there you see two um incidents or investigations at our street crimes unit was involved with and our street crimes unit is a two-person unit generally plain closed uh plain plain clothed and uh they do a lot of um what we would call low-level crimes that um Can snowball into much bigger crimes so these might be cases that our investigators wouldn't pick up based on uh they just don't meet a certain threshold uh but our street crimes unit kind of digs into these pokes around a little bit and tries tries to build some cases that become bigger things and both of these highlighted here were exactly that on the upper left this started as uh theft of a commercial trailer from an outdoor storage facility in town um through through some good work by our street crimes officers they recovered the trailer up in Egan which resulted in a lot of extra or additional search warrants interviews and ultimately over $100,000 of stolen property a felony level of Narcotics uh and a person who was uh in possession of a lot of ammunition that uh was not permitted to be based on their criminal history and then on the bottom left there this was a case that started out as a theft from Motor Vehicles at a residential housing complex in town and again through some investigation um collaboration with other agencies and sharing suspect photos and vehicle descriptions they identified some suspects and found that this group of folks had impacted several communities were able to recover a lot of the initial stolen property through Facebook Marketplace place and return some items to uh owners and hold those uh accountable that were involved and then on the right uh domestic disturbance that really um worked itself into a fairly large scale event for a period of time out in our uh Brackets Crossing neighborhood area this came in with a a little bit of limited information was a pretty Dynamic call coming in uh but some concerning concerning information involving a firearm potentially and a domestic situation that um we uh took very seriously for for good reason but a lot of ground to cover uh uh in a golf course uh on a nice summer day a lot of activity going on uh but just wanted to highlight the work um with mutual Aid which was quickly in place uh with staff members out of Brackets Crossing which did an outstanding job of um getting their employees to Safe positions and ultimately uh everything ended up with a person taken into custody and nobody being injured which is always the end goal few slides with uh with some Case Files here you can see April uh through June these are police reports that were um filed we are down about 250 reports this quarter versus our the same quarter in 2023 and then our crisis response unit calls these are highlighted these these calls come into dispatch and they are then filtered out uh and and pushed right over to Theona County Social Services crisis response unit uh in hopes that police don't need to get get involved if it's not something that um warrants uh police being there or if the caller does not want police there so you can see there 34 total calls in this quarter uh and ultimately 80% of those were handled with police never being involved so uh I think when this was set up that's that's the goal is to to see that Trend and it certainly looks like that's developing and that's pretty consistent countywide with those 8020 numbers calls for service during Quarter Two uh on welfare check and mental Health you can see both welfare checks and mental health were down um by quite a bit um you know we're always hopeful that some of the initiatives that were doing and some of the streamlining of services and embedded folks that were putting into place are making a difference and uh it's not always easy to to draw a direct line but uh certainly encourag to see some of those numbers dropping in 2024 and then from a traffic standpoint traffic stops were down by about 600 property damage accidents were up a little bit but uh personal injury were down and again personal injury or any reported injury doesn't necessarily mean someone was uh ushered away in an ambulance if someone complains of being hurt it is classified as a personal injury crash and then just just a comparison to some of our neighboring agencies in similar size and scope there were uh pretty consistent where we've been in comparison to these communities in the past and then some of our criminal offenses that we highlight uh each quarter DUI uh arrests are down um certainly not because we're not out there looking for them there's been several saturation patrols and things like that in town but uh good to see those numbers coming down a little bit aggravated assaults are down uh simple assaults are down motor vehicle thefts up a little bit um but also a drop in weapons and sex offense so love to see a drop in those every time doesn't always happen obviously and then finally just a note on our social media presence it's a way that we're always trying to continue to interact with the community both by providing timely information but also having a little fun on the way and in just kind of bridging that Gap and making sure we're connecting with our folks and uh I really like to see our officers highlighted and and show them in a uh a personal um kind of a more light hearted note because all too often they're they're seen responding to calls for service where they don't have the opportunity to uh to relax quite as much as they do here so on the left there you see officer Warden stopping out to enjoy a little game of basketball with a group of kids in the neighborhood in the middle we're just highlighting a a donation from a local motorcycle club that supported our pink patch project and then everybody loves a puppy you throw a puppy photo out and and everybody's happy so it's always good to have with that I will stand for any questions or comments you may have did you get the therapy dog we have not yet no okay yeah I did see you commented on that though appreciate that I said it was it was fine Council John yeah just um great report it just always strikes me how um I love to see the movement in the agency and people having opportunities and we've seen a couple of those with this report and the programs that you have that that collaborate with the community and uh your desire to pull Mental Health Resources was in and I think that 8020 uh stat um was really telling in terms of of how you're devoting resources to address uh issues in the community and then of course there's always the uh the case reviews nothing warms the heart more than a story about uh cops holding criminals accountable it's almost as good as the puppy pickle um so yeah well done thank you I know this isn't part of the quarter that you are talking about but we've just ended a season of a lot of um community events and there's been a lot of hours uh put on the clock to support those so thank you to you and your team for for being there for pan prag and National Night Out and Tes the Lakeville and the list goes on and on yeah so thank you stay tuned for quarter three we'll highlight some of those but we appreciate it and a lot of volunteer hours too which um don't always get noted but uh we have a lot of volunteers that are out there uh logging some pretty long days and some pretty hot weather others so thank you uh Chief we had a number of U interactions about uh things that I noticed on social media with uh it seems like everybody's got cameras in their house and their door doorbells and uh and other places and they have images of what they perceive as crimes happening and so forth and post it first to next door or Facebook or something like that do you have people that are monitoring that or how how do you how do you approach that yeah the mainstream social media we have people monitoring uh I mean sometimes people will have access to to video that we don't hear about for whatever reason uh but we always encourage folks we would rather be aware of some video If people think they have something that might might be of value it's much easier for us to say it's it's not something we need than um find out later or after the fact that boy if we would have had that key piece of video uh in the early stages things might have turned out a lot differently so we have um through our axon system we can send out a link to Citizens that they can use that portal just to to upload really U most of most of the home surveillance systems that are out there makes it pretty easy on their behalf so we're always happy to have that conversation and to and to vet that footage to see if it's something that may be of value if people are willing to share it and a followup one one of the recent ones on that was um video of people going you know a group of people going through a neighborhood and seemingly um checking cars to see if there were open doors uh that sort of thing what do are we seeing any kind of uptick in in in that and what kind of advice do you have for people yeah I wouldn't say an uptick I think it's pretty consistent with what we've seen in the past um it's weather dependent a little bit nice summer nights we see a lot more than we do in February uh obviously but by and large if folks are locking their vehicles closing their garage doors they're eliminating most of those issues these are these are crimes of opportunity they Rattle and door anals they're looking for open garage is something that they can grab quickly that's that's of value so uh we would love to not have to lock things up but you do uh eliminate eliminate a lot of those issues if if you take those extra steps thank you thank you Chief appreciate it thank you and now we'll shift gears and turn it over to our fire chief Meyer for our fire department quarterly report welcome good evening mayor council members like to present the second quarter fire department report for 2024 and I will also start with our mission statement the Lakeville fire department is dedicated to serving the community Through the protection of lives and property by providing public safety education and a professional emergency response looking at incidents as far as comparing them three years back so on the left side you can see 22 to 24 and you can see a slight increase 99 calls for the second quarter compared to 23 and 22 uh and then breaking on the right side breaking that down by the the month and a quarter uh we're fairly consistent except for May you can see there was an uptick in calls 319 compared to 262 in May uh but we're running about 8% uh in front of what we were last year as far as total call volume and then looking at those 99 calls for the second quarter as far as how they're broken down on the left side uh about 65% of our call volume is to Medicals uh and then you can see the good intent calls how it goes down from there uh the right side of just showing I wanted to show first quarter second quarter cuz we did see a a pretty good increase in overlapping calls uh and that's 173 compared to 244 and you can see in there that uh in the 244 we had two incidents 232 times that we had two or more incidents occurring uh three incidents at 10 times and then four incidents uh twice in the second quarter uh where for us that kind of stresses our system where we're not just using one truck we're we're calling out multiple uh stations to cover those incidents uh looking at station totals as far as this and this is something obviously when we started Staffing a uh an engine with full-time as far as 247 we we knew we were going to see a decrease in the station call outs and and that's showing there uh but then we also knew that that duty crew that staffed engine was going to see an increase in call volume and typically in the evening hours after 10 p.m. uh that was when our duty crew ended previous to Staffing a full-time engine is that they're covering those overnight calls uh so we were seeing less Pages overnight for the most part for the stations and just to highlight a couple of the calls in the second quarter uh obviously we started in Spring pretty dry uh so we did see quite a few grass slash brush fires uh these these two are just significant ones that we did have but uh the left one just the the advantage of having a drone team or a drone get in the air quickly over that fire so we can see where it's going and then we can also backtrack into it to find any of the hot spots that we may have missed as we go through it and then the bottom right was a gentleman that had a recreational fire and his large wood pile was right next to it and the wind came up on him and caught the whole wood pile on fire and was pretty uh his house is actually on the other side of those trees that you can see in that picture there so we were working pretty hard to make sure we didn't extend towards the uh structure of the house just looking at response times uh so this is a generalized as far as for the stations and the duty crew so looking at first quarter to second quarter uh the red line shows uh peap to arrival and paap is from the time that the phone rings at our Dispatch Center until we put a unit on scene uh it's fairly consistent you can see there was a slight dip with station 4 in the second quarter uh but the times remain fairly uh consistent as far as we did see a drop I'll say in the second quarter our uh the yellow line shows from dispatch to and route or that's our turnout time as we look at it uh and we know St Staffing a station from the time that we get a call to the firefighters arriving at the station is kind of our longest time as far as that goes uh and you can see on the far right on the Y Line how it drops to the duty crew it's remained pretty consistent at 2 minutes 24 seconds and I'll have a slide later with the staffed engine to show the difference in that and as I mentioned year to date calls so as of today we're at uh 2207 for calls it's about an 8% increase uh comparing last year to this year 1776 to 1612 and again roughly 65% of those calls are Medicals little bit about training I don't have any nice pictures for training but some of the topics that we did Cover uh our Auto extrication live burn uh core training is something that we implemented this year and what what we mean by core training is that we run through a full-blown scenario uh so our first training that we did in the second quarter was actually at Old Public Works where we simulated a fire in the building and Crews responding going through the entire scenario of potentially searching extinguishing a fire finding a victim bringing the victim out lading the building all of the core uh Essentials that we have to do as a firefighter uh we hosted fire instructor training for a part of our Al Academy and then I holiday a few more hours but our duty crew shift training and fitness that our our staff is doing also looking at fire inspections for our second quarter we had uh 232 inspections done uh and just to show you some numbers as far as out of those 23284 were found with violations it gives you a percentage there uh 49 with open violations and then the far right number the 168 just to highlight that is just occupancies that we didn't touch basically in the second uh quarter that didn't have an inspection scheduled and the graph just shows how we break those uh inspections apart a little bit of change of how we're looking at the data as an annual inspection as a full-blown inspection that we go through a building from basically from the front door to the back door looking at all all things fire service related as far as alarms uh extinguishers exits and such U then the right or the left side of that graph there shows just a different data sets how we're looking at inspection so the routine followup uh as an example at 7% is if we respond on a fire alarm to a business our fire inspection team is going to go up and follow up to make sure that we're getting that problem corrected or they're making taking the appropriate steps uh a slight uptick on our food truck inspection so we're at 22% compared to previous years uh and then a key box just to to note what that is is that we're using our duty crew to go out and do basically every commercial building has a key box for us to gain access after hours so our duty crew goes out inspects a key box make sure that the keys that are in it are still uh gives us access in there because sometimes they change locks without telling us so that's what we're using uh our staffed engine to go out and take care of those fire prevention and community events so just moving from left to right uh we do a number of uh Scout Troop safety and F uh first aid talks whether they're at the station or at a choice of their preference where they're having their meetings uh we ended uh basically the school year with all the Middle School uh sixth grade class going through fire extinguisher training roughly about 900 kids uh a number of fire safety talks at daycare centers and events uh I believe that picture the that picture is from the U North Park the truck rally that we were talking about uh and then fire safety talks station visits that uh we get scheduled quite frequently and as you know we hired our first six full-time uh firefighters they have officially started roughly mid-February but March 4th they started a 30-day Academy that was a joint Academy with Burnsville Egan and South Metro uh they completed that uh the weekend prior to April 15th and April 15th was our goal live with 247 coverage uh the center pitcher is the six uh firefighters that we hired uh five of those were internal one was an external candidate the pitcher to your right to the right of them all sitting on the floor is they're actually doing training they're doing what's called a breathe down skill uh so they've bled their air bottle down to basically an emergency status and they're working on called skip breathing or different way of uh breathing to try to use that air as long as they can before they run out and then the left one is they went through three days of live burn training at our uh able facility and just to give you a snapshot of since April 15th with the duty with that staffed engine uh response Ed on the left side so you can see dispatch to arrival they're running uh so the red is po or pre prior to US Staffing that engine and the yellow is post so April 15th until today uh they're running about just under call it 10 minutes as far as from a dispatch to arrival time and then you can see the drop in our uh in route or our dispatch to en route our our turnout time of getting on the truck and getting out of the station and then the right side response time excuse me I just highlighted a few of the the fires that we've had or some uh Medicals that we've had uh just to give you a snapshot of how quickly they are getting on scene and taking care of that uh kind of a hard thing to look at or to summarize is them getting on scene faster on a fire as example is we're saving a lot of property damage because we're maintaining or getting that fire knocked down faster than letting it it grow uh the Medicals the four that you can see to the right are just our response so we're getting there prior to the ambulance we're starting interventions uh the overdose we actually had administered Naran the patient was conscious even before the ambulance arrived on scene uh and then I know mayor you had asked us at my previous one but just to give you an idea we're we're arriving with that Saft engine 60% of the time in front of the ambulance some of the onshift training so they completed 452 hours of training on shift since April 15th uh fire prevention education so it seems a small number but we're just getting our handle or our feet underneath us and running with this but we got 17 hours that they've gone out and done uh fire prevention visits and three of our firefighters just completed their child seat safety installation uh certification and then also the crews are out uh daily weekly doing either truck checks or going to every station to make sure that they're they're up and ready to go and they're also doing cleaning at the stations too uh in April we started a recruitment process for pay on call Firefighters so you can kind of see the timeline there uh last week was their first week of orientation so we hired two firefighters for station one two for station two and three for station three and they will complete their orientation at the end of this month and start their fullblown fire one Fire 2 and EMR medical training and a few months ago we had Chris Mogan uh in front of you that retired from the fire department with 20 years of 23 years of service and then on April 4th we were part of uh the first responder recognition that the at the twins opener uh that also recognized the three Fallen uh First Responders from Burnsville and just to mention a few uh Public Safety Lakeville Public Safety events so may we hosted Firehouse bingo at station one uh June was Bourbon and cigars and also in June was the uh police and fire golf tournament that concludes my second second quarter report and thank you for your support and I'll stand for any questions Council questions comments have John uh just a comment on well a comment then a question a comment I well done and I love the community engagement and uh it's good to see those full-time firefighters so if I understood this correctly did they start working uh in April they started officially started shift work April 15th so the 247 coverage uh um from a hiring standpoint they actually started mid-February but then they spent 30 days at a fire academy prior to moving to onshift work okay and it's probably too early to tell but with the uh stats on response times have you noticed a difference uh since we've had people here fulltime or yep the the one piece that is our the turnout time is what we've really been focused and make sure that they're getting out the door and that roughly a minute 30 seconds is our our goal uh on unfortunately our drive time from the station to the scene we can't really control much so what we can focus on is getting them out the door fast and then get you know as quickly as they can and I'll say the nice piece that I that I can't put a I can't really say to it but just having consistency of those two full-time people in the front of the truck or on the truck of they're always going the same route to a scene versus we all have different ways how we get through the city but they're finding the most efficient way to get there and then with the amount of construction that happens in the summer and such that they're more aware of what's going on as far as those pieces that may redirect them to that if that makes sense yeah that makes sense thank you well uh one thing thank you for highlighting that number the three out of five calls that we arrive before Al is uh interesting and something I'll continue to follow but then I did see and I I would tell you I mean if you're somebody who calls 911 and you within 3 minutes and 23 seconds of an overdose we have somebody there is pretty impressive so kudos to your team for for really being engaged that's um that's very fast so thank you um appreciate the report thank you yep okay moving on to the consent agenda any items you'd like to highlight Mr Miller thank you just two tonight mayor uh item 6 C is a resolution accepting accepting donations from our lak field liquor customers uh this uh session of fundraising raised $26,000 and is going toward our environmental resources program we appreciate that and then item 6 m is a revised sponsorship and advertising policy for our Parks facilities and naming of um our city parks and that went through the Parks and Recreation and natural resources committee before coming to you okay great uh Council any items you'd like to highlight or uh discuss further if not I'll take a motion to approve the consent agenda I move to approve the consent agenda okay is there a second second any further discussion of the consent agenda okay all those in favor say I I I post consent agenda passes moving on to 78 and9 there's nothing there for announcements our next meeting is next week August 26 that's a work session here in the new Lake Maran conference room and our next regular city council meeting is Tuesday September 3rd uh the day after Labor Day and with that I will take a motion to adjourn so moved is there a second second all those in favor say I I I post we're adjourned