Of 20 uh 2021.

And that's uh legislation enacted by the legislature, the Maryland General Assembly that governs uh what uh under what circumstances when it comes to discipline um that the police department must embark upon and of course the history of that is in the aftermath of the George Floyd in custody death back in 2020, and there was a uh big push on in America to improve policing, and Annapolis was no different than most legislatures across this country to demand police reform.

And basically the short is there's two uh components is the administrative charging committee and the police accountability board.

Administrative charging committee, once we investigate uh an incident misconduct, we forward it to them.

And and I'm paraphrasing and and feel free to jump in if it's something that I miss.

Um it gives it limits what the chief can do.

Once there's a sustained finding, um, the only thing that the chief of police can do, if it involves the public, not internally, exactly discourtesy, uh use of force, um, you know, those kind of things that affect the public.

The only authority that the chief of police would have is to increase the punishment, not lower it once it's determined by the ACC, the recommendation.

We have to the recommendation is legal and binding.

Um the only thing that theoretically I can do is increase it, not lower it.

Did I miss anything?

Okay.

Um those are the core the the uh core value, the four core areas.

Um what we're going to do, we're looking at currently um our policies and procedures, particularly the the the hot topic and the elephant all is always in the room, um, immigration customs and enforcement, aka ice, and what our role is um in uh dealing with uh uh that very uh hot topic uh across America at this time, you know.

Um and the short version of that is um we don't enforce uh federal law.

The only time you will see us get involved in ICE if there's a warrant, and not I'm not talking about a cuss uh uh uh uh uh uh immigration warrant, but say for example, I can uh give you an example better than I can explain.

If somebody of Hispanic descent commits a crime, a robbery, a murder, a rape, a state crime, um they're they're subject to the same prosecution as any other ethnic group, you know, anybody.

Um but what we don't do uh fundamentally is we don't detain them uh because we suspect that they uh have an immigration warrant.

Uh we don't uh uh city council priority, or I noticed a couple of folks had priorities that were really process-based, so I like the idea of discussing those.

Oh, yes, that we have the mayor.

Yeah, thank you.

Um so the questions I have for the group are are you all all right with just one minute per priority, or do you really feel like we need more?

And two, is it worthwhile to go through all three priorities, or can we cut it down to each person just doing two priorities and spend a little more time on discussion?

Any preferences Auto Roman O'Neill.

I'm worried that one minute is not enough.

Um as I read through some of the priorities, it's gonna take Keanu at least two minutes to be looking for.

Well, the intention is to narrow it down to what's most uh important.

Um I I but I do think that it's important that we start the discussion and start talking um and maybe less cons concerned about the time limit on it as opposed to a discussion moving on to the next one after priority.

I would think that if there were some adjacent priorities or overlapping of priorities that we could maybe skip past that one and talk about another one and just give a me to that, so that then when we come back around at the end.

Yeah, uh that sounds good to me.

And I'd say if somebody lists a priority and you have something you want to say about it, uh I think we should all feel free to jump in on that.

What I don't want to have happen is we allocate five minutes per person and everybody feels the need to talk to fill up five minutes.

Um more time for us going back and forth is is really my goal here.

So let's say let's bump it up to a minute and a half, uh, but with the understanding that if someone if if Otto Roman O'Neill says a priority and Altman Thorpe has something he wants to clarify or jump in on that, uh we're not gonna time limit that.

Um and if that means that we only get through two priorities.

Once we go through everybody's first, everybody's second, we can evaluate see how much time it's taken, see if we want to all talk about third priorities too, or just move on to discussion of that point.

So I will ask that yeah yeah yeah sorry go ahead.

I I would just add that I think we need to be concise in our discussions but at the high level so for instance one of mine is parking and transportation.

I could go through First Street, second street, third street um which would not which we would bore the heck out of everybody but I but being able to talk about traffic and parking challenges that need to be addressed and that working with the city staff to identify you know we can reduce that and somebody might ask questions about it but to stay as high level and informative as possible.

Yeah I think that makes sense that we don't want to get too too parochial with it.

Yeah.

Altman Savage Mr Chair yeah I I think that's a good idea to start with the minute and a half I do think for some of these it might be a little difficult because there are um you know I think we have to keep in mind that that for especially the newer members that looking through the list of of priorities there are there's a lot of background uh some of the things we already have funded in some way or another I think a lot of the answers are a lot of those are going to get answered through the budget process as we sorry it's hard yeah I hear you it's always hard to talk with an echo.

I think a lot of those things will be answered as we go through the process.

So for the discussion what I would what I would suggest is that and I think you'll be in a good position because you're very familiar with these is to uh try to establish some points of um consensus uh which you've already stated because I don't think we should get in too much back and forth right now because uh as far as like you know I know you were just being glib but you know as far as um uh saying oh Shandemeyer that's not I don't want to fund that it's not worth you know you know I think we should just keep in mind that um it's it's good to hear everybody out today and um we can then this will build off we can have conversations later on in the committee and elsewhere about yeah point taken that we want to focus more on in things we agree with than things we disagree no anybody got any other process thoughts before we uh turn it to Mr.

Trudeau no all right Mr.

Trudeau you want to just give us a quick overview thank you yes sir uh for the record acting finance director and budget manager Jake Trudeau uh so I'll talk through the timeline a little bit here.

Um in December all of the departments submit their budget requests for the upcoming budget cycle um and then my team right now is is going through those requests um making sure that they're you know fully substantiated uh we have all the information that we need the next step then typically in end of January early February is um that we will have meetings with those departments to walk through and and discuss their budget submissions so that would be uh finance director uh budget team um the departments the city manager and and the and the mayor and chief of staff from there um and that's the same with with capital right the submissions were due back in December for updates to existing projects as well as new submissions and then January we're we're scrubbing those submissions um February we're you know in in January we're meeting with those engineers to talk through uh what they submitted then uh February is and in March are are really typically we're finalizing trying to finalize numbers we're building the budget books and supporting documentation April as you all know is when we submit the budget the next step then in March I'm sorry in May is that uh finance committee will have um deliberations where departments will come in and talk through uh and present their budget to you and then you you know can ask questions and we'll we'll talk through everything there um and mid-May is when amendments are due um and then June is when we you know talk through amendments you all vote on amendments um and then we pass the budget hopefully hopefully all right thank you very much anybody got any questions for the budget director budget manager slash finance director for anyone who may be wondering hey Jake for anyone who may be wondering at home how do I access this or how can I see the timeline for myself where would you direct them to go sure so we we do not have the timeline uh to my knowledge out on the website um but that's that's a good idea that's something we've never been asked before but we do have the I'm sorry the internal budget timeline we do have a resolution out there that is the budget timeline that talks very much more high level kind of what I've gone through um that does talk about um deliberations and what resolution numbers are 4925 this year thank you um the particular one I'm looking at right now is an internal document but we do have the one that is more high level that's out on the out on legislature

Um but that's that's a good idea.

That's something we've never been asked before.

But we do have the I'm sorry, the internal budget timeline.

We do have a resolution out there that is the budget timeline that talks very much more high level, kind of what I've gone through.

Um that does talk about um deliberations and what resolution numbers?

R 4925 this year.

Thank you.

Um the particular one I'm looking at right now is an internal document.

But we do have the one that is more high level that's out on the out on Legislature.

Thank you.

I'll also throw out I believe the uh finance committee reports that we put out each year has said timeline, and that's public on the on the website.

It wouldn't be for this coming budget cycle, but it is going to mirror the previous years will roughly mirror it.

And that's just you look up annapolis budget, it'll come right up.