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Our Council Representative is Council Member Sharon Doffing Our Staff Liaison is Bob Jacobson, Director of Public Safety Our Staff Assistant is Julie Forbord Office Supervisor Public Safety Our meetings are called to order at 6:30 PM typically on the last Wednesday of the month and we follow an agenda that generally includes, Minutes of the previous months meeting, followed by any business pertaining to Public Hearings or Presentations. There are four primary Department Reports on the monthly agenda. 1. Human Rights — Reported by Director Jacobson 2. Allina Medical — Reported by Allina Representative Bill Snoke 3. Volunteers in Public Safety (VIPs) -- Reported by Tish Wood 4, Public Safety /Homeland Security Update -- Reported by Director Jacobson Our department reports are typically followed by an update on Council matters by our Council Liaison, Council Member Sharon Doffing. Our agenda then includes Old Business before the Commission and any New Business to come before the Commission as referred by the City Council. As indicated by our agenda our Commission address's many areas that are of concern to the citizens of New Brighton. Human Rights: We are fortunate in the area of Human Rights to have a relatively low incidence of activities against our citizens. Our Police respond to any incident, the information on the incident is reported to our Commission, Director Jacobson and members of the Commission follow up with the citizens to demonstrate support for them and provide additional information as available. Allina Medical: Allina's Representative, Bill Snoke attends our meetings to provide updates on Allina's medical transportation activities for unscheduled ambulance calls for New Brighton's citizens, response time's for calls and other activities related to their services to our city. As an example, for the period from January 2008 to September 2008 Allina made 1,331 unscheduled ambulance calls to New Brighton. The numbers of call types are broken down for this period as: Medical 379, Trauma 280, Heart 248, Breathing 208, Behavioral 95, MVC 56, Stroke 47 and Public Safety Assistance 18. Of these calls the average response time is 7 minutes and 10 seconds, 95% of calls are responded to in less than 11 minutes, and 100% of the calls are responded to in less than 18 minutes. As an added note our Police response time to these medical calls is approximately 4 minutes. VIPs: Tish Woods reports on the activities of the VIPs members for ongoing programs in place and periodic events participation that occur during the calendar year. Monthly reports are given on the progress for Project Lifesaver headed by Bob Parrott, Graffiti Abatement conducted by Ray Tandeski and able assistant Long Nyugen. Park Patrol and Well Watch are provided leadership by Jim Woods. The Fingerprinting program for NB citizens and others is administered by Eunice Westby. Additional activities include Fire Department Dinners, National Night Out, Stockyard Days, American Red Cross . Blood Drives, Volunteer Appreciation Dinner, Child Safety Seat Clinic and Kidcare.