I suppose we should actually start our meeting.

Because Richard is so far away, we're gonna start with Richard.

And then we're gonna move a lot of seats and go to Steph, and then we'll be uh Richard, go ahead.

Yeah, I'm I'm Richard Jerome with the Columbia Police Department and uh assistant chief of professional standards.

Steph Yochum, Human Rights Commission.

Charles Zug University of Missouri.

Um Doug Hunt, board member.

Steve Jeffery, board member.

Lynn Bergen, board member.

Stephanie Coleman, board member.

Earl Krause, City Law Department.

St.

Oliver, City Manager Fellow.

Stephanie Brown City Manager's Office.

Right.

Um let's we're our next item is the approval of the agenda.

Is there anything any are there any changes that people would like to see to the agenda?

If not, I'll entertain a motion to approve the agenda as written.

So move.

I'll second it.

All right.

Uh all those in favor signify by saying aye.

Same sign.

No.

Okay.

Um approval of minutes.

I I think we've got um I've had all had a chance to look at this, and they were uh pretty straightforward, I thought.

So we'll we'll do them one at a time though.

So let's vote to approve the draft open session minutes for December tenth.

I'll make a motion for that.

I'll second.

Moved and seconded to approve those minutes.

All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Aye, aye.

Opposed.

Okay.

And then we'll do to the draft closed session minutes from December tenth.

Is there a motion to approve?

I'll make a motion.

Coleman.

Second, Jeffrey.

It's been moved and second to approve the uh closed session minutes.

All those in favor say aye.

All right.

Is there I'm I'm trying to try to think, is there anything up there now?

I you know, people are having trouble with the videos occasionally.

Have we got some that we have access to now that we could try on our computers if we're having trouble?

When I checked it, most of it had fallen off.

It falls off after is it thirty days 30 days.

Uh there's a couple of items in there uh that were there as of today.

I think it had to do with maybe an extension um from that appeal in that case.

Uh so if you wanted to get in the next few days and see if you can see those two items, that'll be fine, but we won't have to do that.

Yeah, and I think the real test will be the next time we have an appeal when there's a lot of videos and things.

Right.

Um, and we would encourage everyone at that point to sign in well before the meeting, try it out, open some things, make sure you can view them and you can hear it and you can see it and that sort of thing.

And then let us know right away if there's problems so we can try to address it before the meeting.

Absolutely.

Is there any possible way we could get a summary of the volume we should be expecting?

Because even still on that cat last case, some people were missing, some weren't.

And if we were told there are five body worn camera vids you're going to be anticipating, and then the appeal and the you know, that might be helpful if we have oh, okay, I'm I know I need to look for five files.

Yeah, we can do that.

Okay, cool.

Yeah, that I think that's a good good idea.

All right.

Anything else?

Any other observations on document access?

And just as a reminder, Earl, I mentioned that um we have accommodations too.

If you have trouble with that specific case, if you can't access it, you can always come in and I can make some space for you to review the items before the meeting.

All right.

Yeah, we'll line up if necessary.

All right, okay.

Good.

Good.

All right.

Well, we'll we'll keep our fingers crossed and we'll see what happens when we get our next appeal on that.

Um report update.

Uh I I did not perceive uh changes from what we were looking uh at last time.

Uh have there been changes?

Uh not any major changes.

There were some updates to the uh board member terms and end of terms, things like that.

Um but other than that, nothing to the major body of the um annual report.

Um I'll give people a chance if they if they haven't had a chance to look at it to remind themselves of what's in it.

The um the sort of history of the board is uh is a carried forward item and is familiar to people, and I I don't think uh raises any question.

You might, if you haven't had a chance, see whether your uh activities, the which is in the last section have been uh noted.

Um the most I think significant thing in the report is the um is additional recommendations and reports where we're talking about the um uh revisions to the the city code that had limited our access.

And so this report will now, if approved, go to the council, which means that we can talk to the council about this and say that it's actually been something that the report has discussed and approved.

I don't know if there's anything else exceptional about the report that we need to be talking about.

Any observations or concerns about the annual report?

No, I like to do that.

They're very straightforward.

Yeah, okay.

Sounds good to me.

I'll entertain a motion to approve the annual report as written.

I will make a motion to approve the 2025 annual report.

I will second Jeffrey second It's been moved and seconded to approve the annual report.

All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Any opposed?

All right.

We have no new business items.

We are moving very fast.

Great.

Um, right, yeah.

We have uh no members of the um Oh, well, the human rights commission report.

Let's see if stay staff, yeah.

That might be very brief.

Um we're just formally sending our letter from the HRC to the city on the proposed pedestrian ordinance again.

We find it that pretty it's gonna be pretty problematic.

It can potentially restrict where people are allowed to move and rest and exist.

We find it largely uh a waste of time that we've been spending uh four months of the year on this again, talking about it uh when other preventative measures could have been done.

Uh statistically, again, the people getting injured are not in the medium.

They're in the walk crossways, unfortunately.

Um we just submitted our letter that they had asked that the council had asked us for.

That's about it.

Yeah, it is uh a very visible issue.

It's an extremely visible issue, and I understand people have very strong feelings on it.

I get it that we're tired of seeing unsightly trash and people who are struggling and stuff like that.

Right.

I will say, Steph, that your report um from last month, you were talking about the grants and things like that that are available.

I spread the word.

So if you get if you get any from schools, it's because I spread the word.

Just as a reminder, our HREP program, it's a human rights enhancement program.

Any public or private agency can apply for a $500 grant toward an event or toward anything that advances the understanding of human rights.

And it's fun party money if you're like teaching kids and on a budget.

Very nice.

Nazi members of the public to here to make comments, so I'll turn to members, members.

Comments that you want to make.

It seems to me that the comments about the changes in our duties that are in the annual report are now sitting in an annual report, which is not necessarily, I would think would not necessarily be highly visible to the council.

I'm considering the possibility of going and like in effect reading this out to the council doing something to bring it to council's attention.

Any guidance or suggestions on that subject, I would I would certainly welcome.

I don't think that would hurt.

I thought you were going to recommend actually adding our future discussion onto our agenda for February or March.

Now that we've sent it, we could go ahead and reopen the conversation of just repealing what they passed last year.

Yeah, I I think we're we've now officially voted on it, in effect, by making it part of our annual report.

So it becomes a little bit more graceful to say this is what the board would would like to see happen.

So glad to make that comment to the board.

Any other comments from the members from the staff?

Um and just as information, this will be presented on the February 2nd council meeting under reports.

Right.

Thanks.

February 2nd.

Noting.

Can I mention something?

Yes.

I'm sorry.

Um I just just a reminder that Axon system, it has security features, so if you don't log in there regularly, it'll dump you out.

Oh and that's just one of the security things.

Uh you know how often regularly is.

Um I'm not sure.

A couple of hours.

Well, if you leave it running, it will automatically shut you off.

If you like if you don't log in every once in a while, it will push you out.

You might have to redo a password or something.

So just keep that in mind when the next thing that comes up, you got to get in there and make sure it's working.

It's probably a good habit to access it once a month.

Correct.

Either way, right?

Yeah, just to see if there's something there for you.

But to keep it active as well.

Yes, sir.

That's an excellent idea.

Yeah.

Mine's set on two-factor authentication.

I have exactly ten pieces of evidence left over from our last case.

I've never had a problem logging in though.

Yeah.

Rick, do the credentials expire?

No, they they will ask you to update every, I don't know what the number is, but it will ask you to redo a password and such every so often.

That's just automatically once you log in, it'll track that time and 60 days later, 90 days, it'll ask you to redo a new password and such.

But we would be able to redo our password ourselves.

It wouldn't require any other intervention.

Yeah, it's all about you individually.

It's not that's why we don't control any of that.

You it's controlled through axon and you and Axon directly.

Okay.

I think it will prompt for a required password change about every 185 days because it tells me it's good.

Mine's going to expire to 135 days.

All right.

So don't take a long nap.

Every 185 days is going to be 184 days.

184, right, exactly.

Good.

All right.

Uh any other comments by members of the staff.

I do not believe we have an appeal to hear today or any other reason to go into closed session.

Am I incorrect about that?

Does anybody see a reason to go into closed session?

Next meeting date is February 11th.

And I'll entertain a motion to adjourn.

What an important 12-minute quorum.

I will second that.

Pardon?

What an important 12-minute quorum.

I will second that.

All right, okay.

All right.

Good.

All right.

It's been moved and seconded to adjourn.

All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Opposed?

Which one will be a motion to adjourn again?

Pardon?

Which one of your motion to adjourn?

Who made the motion?

Oh, who made the motion?

Stephanie.

Okay.

That was good.

And and I I know it's uh hard to get here and then go for a short meeting.

I do think that that little bit of business of reading the annual report is actually an important thing to get done.

Yes, it is.

And I live three minutes away.

I'm not complaining.

It satisfies it for a year, and then it allows Stephanie to take it forward and get it on the City Council agenda.

So that's really great.

We appreciate it.

All right.

Well, go out and have some fun out there.

Great to see everyone for twelve minutes.

14, almost 15 minutes now.