2017.08.16 Special Budget Meeting Agenda C

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in exchange for the utilizing the space. We are fortunate to have access to their industry‐leading services and value these partnerships. Proposed Changes to Service Level or Revenue Consistent with our mission statement, partnerships are a hallmark of agency operations. Five of our sworn peace officers work specifically in collaborative relationships with other entities. These include our three School Resource Officers (SROs) who are deployed to the local Mounds View School, an officer assigned to the Ramsey County Violent Crime Enforcement Team (VCET), and a fulltime DWI Officer funded by the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA) with state oversight by the Minnesota Department of Public Safety Office of Traffic Safety. This last partnership will terminate in mid‐2018 with the conclusion of the grant funding but we intend to retain the sworn peace officer position to bolster the ranks of our uniformed patrol unit. Strategic Opportunities and Challenges Through the first five months of 2017, the City of New Brighton has experienced a nearly 20% increase in Part One crimes in the community. While our rates of violent crime and crimes against person (i.e., homicide, rape, aggravated assault, and robbery) have historically been and continue to remain low, our property crimes have increased, notably burglary and theft incidents. Neighborhood Oriented Policing (NOP) Officers work cooperatively with residents and business owners to address such increasing trends by implementing appropriate crime prevention measures. Technology advancements continue to impact daily operations for Public Safety. During the past year, the Fire Division added laptops connected to the countywide Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) platform in its primary apparatus to improve communication and navigation for emergency responders. Further, as the Police Division accomplishes replacement of its existing and aging squad car camera systems, it has been challenged to consider current and future storage needs for the vast amount of digital evidence collected by the agency, especially as the Public Safety Commission continues to explore the implementation of a Police Worn Body Camera system for sworn peace officers in the department. Beginning in 2017, Public Safety refocused its community engagement efforts by targeting specific neighborhoods that we believed were underrepresented in regards to interaction with law enforcement. Leveraging a generous donation from the New Brighton Lions, two community engagement events were held at the Oak Grove Mobile Home Park and Aspen Glen Town Homes. Public Safety utilized its existing partnership with the Mounds View School District to have their Cultural Liaisons representing the Hispanic/Latino, Somali, and Hmong/Pan‐Asian communities educate our staff about these communities in New Brighton. The Faith Community Partnership (FCP), an effort that originated in January 2016, evolved in 2017 with the appointment of a liaison officer from the police officer ranks to work directly with the leaders of these institutions in New Brighton. As the group continues to meet, Public Safety has launched the exploration of a Community Chaplain Program for this year. Several faith community representatives have already stepped forward to pledge their support for our engagement efforts. With five new members appointed to the Public Safety Commission, this citizen advisory group has started a reorientation process to bring the recent additions up‐to‐date with the function of the 59