Crime Commission Meeting

Crime Commission Meeting Madison Heights, Michigan June 11, 2024 A Crime Commission Meeting was held on Tuesday, June 11, 2024 at 2:30 PM at City Hall - Executive Conference Room, 300 W. 13 Mile Rd. CALL TO ORDER Meeting called to order at 2:31 p.m. ROLL CALL PRESENT Martha Covert Margarette Marentette Anthony Roberts Beth Scott Council Representative Sean Fleming ABSENT Alexandra Iaquinto - Excused Alternate Jeffrey Hilliard - Unexcused Council Representative Alternate Quinn Wright - Unexcused ADDITIONS/DELETIONS None APPROVAL OF MINUTES Motion to approve the April 2024 meeting minutes made by Scott, Seconded by Marentette. Voting Yea: Covert, Roberts, Council Representative Fleming MEETING OPEN TO THE PUBLIC None present REPORTS Chief's Report The bike rodeo was a successful event. There was a lot of foot traffic, happy faces and it was a great event for everyone. We are working on social media follow up for the bike rodeo regarding thanking sponsors, posting pictures and doing the bike raffle. 1 The Cyber Security event is scheduled for August 6, 2024 and the K-9 Demonstration is scheduled for September 21, 2024. We are at currently at 47 police officers and we are budgeted for 52 officers. We have 2 officers in the academy right now. We are sponsoring one officer through the academy and the other is currently enrolled in the academy. We have an additional officer currently in the background process. As far as dispatchers, we currently have 8 dispatchers. We have 2 potential dispatchers in the background process now. We just promoted Sergeant Walker last week. We have 5 officers total including Sgt Walker that are set to be promoted to Sergeant in the next 6 to 8 months. Lt. Fecteau is set to retire in February 2025 and Deputy Chief Filzek in December this year. We are also working on getting SIU up and running with at least 1 officer by the end of summer or early fall and hoping to bring a second officer to SIU soon after. We are also hiring a crossing guard as one of ours retired. Council Report Councilman Fleming stated that Council passed an agreement with Oakland County. Chief clarified that this is an agreement with Oakland County Tactical Consortium (Oaktac) to share access to barricade situations, riots, civil disturbances, SWAT equipment and personnel that helps MHPD deal with these special situations or situations that are too large for MHPD to handle. Council signed the agreement. We also recognized National Gun Violence Day on June 1st where everyone wore orange. Councilman Fleming suggested that next year, maybe we could hand out gun locks for this day. UNFINISHED BUSINESS Bike Rodeo follow up – Taken care of in Chief’s report. Commissioner Scott said that she saw some photos and it looked like a great event. Commissioner Marentette stated that we only had 1 bicycle registered this year. Chief stated that we have talked about making signs for the Bike Rodeo to show attendees where to go and what each area is being utilized for. We will look into this for next year’s event. Cyber Safety Presentation - Event date 8/6/2024, Location AAC Dining Room – Councilman Fleming asked about getting materials to hand out to the families about Cyber Safety. Chief will talk to Sgt. White about contacting our person from Common Ground to see if they can provide pamphlets for Cyber Security to hand out to the parents at the event. K-9 Demonstration - Event date 9/21/2024, Location Rosie's Park – The event will be from 11:00 a.m. until 1:00 p.m. and includes K-9 and Officers from Hazel Park and Royal Oak. Chair Person Election – Chairperson Covert stated that with permission from Alexandra Iaquinto, she is going to nominate her to be the chairperson for the next year. Ali has accepted 2 the position per Commissioner Marentette. Commissioner Scott nominated Chair person Covert as the new Co-Chairperson. Motion to make Alexandra Iaquinto the new Chairperson made by Covert, seconded by Marentette, Voting Yea: Robert, Scott and Council Representative Fleming Motion to make Covert the new Co-Chairperson made by Covert, seconded by Roberts, Voting Yea: Marentette, Scott and Council Representative Fleming NEW BUSINESS Record Holiday greeting from the Crime Commission at the October 2024 meeting. The Crime Commission will all wear red or green to this meeting. Secretary Schell will order a holiday back drop for the Holiday greeting to be hung up. The purchase will be $13.99 from Amazon. Motion to purchase Holiday backdrop made by Scott, Seconded by Roberts. Voting Yea: Covert, Marentette, Council Representative Fleming ADJOURNMENT Meeting adjourned at 3:22 p.m. Motion to adjourn meeting made by Scott, Seconded by Marentette. Voting Yea: Covert, Roberts, Council Representative Fleming NOTICE: Persons with disabilities needing accommodations for effective participation through electronic means in this meeting should contact the City Clerk at (248) 583-0826 or by email: clerks@madison-heights.org at least two working days in advance of the meeting. An attempt will be made to make reasonable accommodations. 3