Everybody and welcome to session two of the city council's um uh um uh public safety deliberation sessions.

Thank you so much for being here.

It's going to be a wonderful time.

So I'll just call this meeting to order.

Um I I think we have to do the thing where the clerk says that we're all here.

So um I'll pass to the clerk to call us all in.

Okay,

councilmember Stasberg.

Here.

Piedmont Smith.

Here.

Zule?

Here.

Sorry.

I'm also here.

Daily?

Here.

Rallo.

Here.

All right.

Well, thank you so much for those joining online.

Um, and we're gonna have lots of breakout things, and and Councilmember Rallo is gonna be leading that, but for now I'm gonna hand over to our okay.

I'm passing over to Councilmember Stasberg.

Take it away, ma'am.

Thank you so much.

Welcome everybody.

I'm so happy to have you guys here tonight for our second uh community conversation and deliberation session on public safety.

Um if staff could uh maybe get that slideshow up on the screen, that would be great.

I'm just gonna do a little introduction and then I'm gonna pass it over to a colleague, and then we're gonna there we go.

Wonderful.

Um sure.

Thank

you.

I think that this was the welcome, so I already did that.

Um so this is our little agenda overview for this evening.

Um we're starting with this opening presentation uh with myself, and then I'll pass it over to Councilmember Piedmont Smith.

Uh, we're gonna do some community agreements and a process overview with uh Wyatt Lawson, who's in the back from CGM.

And then most of our time is gonna be spent having small group deliberative sessions.

Um each group is gonna be on a different topic.

Then we'll get reports out from each group at the end, do an exit survey, and talk about next steps for this.

So, in terms of what we've already done, how many of you came or like watched the video or did the survey or anything like that from the first session?

Can I just have like a little show of hands?

Okay, so about half of you.

So at the first session, we had um uh just kind of general conversation with folks about and and every group talked about the same thing, and it was what makes you feel safe and unsafe in in Bloomington.

And there was an exit survey, and then in early October there was some follow-up survey kind of recognizing who we connected with in that session and who we did not connect with in that session and trying to reach out with some deliberation to different folks.

And CJAM uh wrote up a report for us on session one.

And so, as part of that report, there were some very specific focus points identified that were kind of commonalities between those things.

And so tonight there's we're highlighting four of those commonalities, and so you can see there's four tables set up.

So each group is going to be a different one of those topics.

Don't feel like you have to stay in the topic that you happened to sit down at this evening before we go into the sessions.

You guys can go to whichever one you want to.

And that's basically what the session today is about is is within those specific topics.

How can we seek to make Bloomington a safer place feel like a safer place within those those specific topics?

Um there will be another report on this session, and then you know, hopefully there'll be some some things that uh we'll learn as city council to guide our decision making, of course, understanding that we're a legislative body and that some of these things are programmatic elements, and sometimes things are you know outside of the wheelhouse of council, but they require maybe some collaboration with other community groups.

And I think this is slide four, which goes down to my um colleague, Councilmember Piedmont Smith.

Thank you.

So

from the first uh deliberation session in the surveys that we did, uh there were four issues that kind of um came to the forefront.

Um they're a little bit amorphous, but uh um I hope that uh they are clear enough that you can understand uh the differences, and we'll go into some of these um in few other slides.

Uh so for one thing, uh we'll call it group A.