Public Safety Advisory Commission

Minutes UN Public Safety Committee Commission Regular Meeting Minutes OF Thursday, January 18th, 2024 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. UPPD/ 3612 Drexler Dr W FI 1. Call to Order CI Meeting called to order at 6:01PM by Amy Booth 2. Roll Call AL Public Safety Commission Members Present Ruthann Reim Emily Calhoun Kim Nordby Amy Booth Guests Lance Nelson, WPFR – for Chief Dobbs Public Safety Commission Members Excused Diane Bendixen C Non-Voting Member Present DO James Feore Chief Pat Burke, UPPD Pete Whipple Madison Wells, UPSD Staff Present Members (voting or not) not present Jennifer Hales Assistant Chief Michael Dobbs, WPFR UM 3. Approval of Minutes Ruthann made a motion to approve the minutes, seconded by Diane. Unanimously approved. 4. Public Comments No public present 5. School/ Police/ Fire Reports EN T UPSD: Fentanyl Town Talk happened – wishing there were more people there. Looking to have an assembly. Did a walk through with WPFR to identify areas where vegetation and trees could be trimmed back. Also – identified potential issues with the portable student buildings. Had some follow up evacuation meetings to help address the portable issues. UPSD is implementing an emergency management team. Working on an University Place City Hall 3715 Bridgeport Way West Tel 253.566.5656 University Place, WA 98466 Fax 253.566.5658 www.CityofUP.com  evacuation plan with kids with sensory issues. Also working on triage kits. Additionally, identifying CPR and first aid trained staff. Winter weather: Testing communication systems during the storms to notify residents about school. It is working well. In the past 2 weeks there were two near pedestrian collisions while the attendant was in the crosswalk (Grandview). UPSD is looking for increased lighting in school zones and/or school zone cameras. UN WPFR: December was quiet in UP. Of the 53 fire alarms that went off only 9 were in UP. Of the 6 burn complaints – UP had 1. YTD there were 158 burn complaints and 667 fire alarms – spread across the area that WPFR serves. OF Cold weather reports: Sunday there were 13 calls in UP for burst pipes. There are over 40 calls for burst pipes in UP YTD. Back in classrooms doing presentations about fire safety. FI Teaching in the culinary class at the high school – how to address kitchen fires. UPPD: Pretty quiet since the last meeting. CI December 5th – Holiday Green Firs event was a success. AL Fairly quite CFS so far, seen a bit of a violent crime uptick during the holiday season. Overall call volume and overtime has been on the quiet side for the past month. The announcement for COO opened and will be closing the end of the month. Chief met with Jeff Chamberlain, UPSD superintendent, to talk about a SRO/ SLO proposal/ agreement in 6. the coming year. DO Blood Drive: Battle of the Badges – 46 doners.... UPPD won! New co-Chair election & vote – Amy Booth is retiring N Amy is stepping down as chair. Emily Calhoun has stepped up and offered to take on co-Chairing with Kim ME Nordby. Pete made a motion and Ruthann seconded. Emily Calhoun was unanimously selected as the new PSAC Chair. CU 7. Traffic safety Flash vote discussion (2) Pedestrian safety: streets with no sidewalks, trouble crossing the street. Walking to school? Street lighting and pedestrians. (3) Locations: Are there certain streets/ intersections that we should be focused on? Should we pre- T identify intersections/ streets in the survey? Talk with engineers about upcoming projects – how that might feed into the study? (1) Cameras: What is the general feedback on speed, school and/or red-light cameras? Do you want cameras and if so where? page 2  (4) Non camera/ passive traffic calming measures: Questions about other traffic engineering methods to calm speeds? (Narrowing of road, roundabouts, etc) Focus group discussion: share data/ information to frame the focus group discussions. Regular meeting on the 15th to discuss the questions for the focus group. Looking at hosting those discussions on the February 29th UN 8. Other business Is there interest in a UPPD tour? YES! Jen will reach out with dates and times. OF PW: workplan discussion – suggested that PSAC provide information/ follow up to get information out about what the levy monies are being used for (COO & patrol officers). 9. Adjournment FI No further business on the agenda – meeting adjourned at 7:38PM Respectfully submitted by: Jennifer Hales CI Public Safety Administrator UPPD AL Approved as submitted/amended 2.15.24. DO N ME CU T page 3