Note: The agenda and transcript state the meeting was held on November 25, 2024; the instruction for this summary specifies November 26, 2024. This discrepancy is noted.
The Crestwood Public Safety Board met on November 26, 2024 (per instruction) to hear reports, approve minutes, and consider a traffic calming proposal for Manda Lane. The meeting featured a detailed presentation from Chief Jonathan Williams on a data-driven approach to speeding, followed by public testimony and a board vote to advance the proposal to a resident survey.
This is crazy. I mean, this is like a record. This is more people than the meeting than we've had at all the other meetings I've ever been to. All right. I have 702, so we'll go ahead and get uh call this meeting to order. Uh public safety board meeting on November 25th. Uh we'll start with the uh Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. All right, let's go to roll call. Here we go. Here we are. All right. I uh I'll entertain a motion to approve the minutes from the July 24th meeting. Motion to approve the minutes. Is there a second? Second. All in favor? Aye. Opposition. None. Okay. Those are approved. Uh I guess we'll move right into a report. So, Chief, uh, let's see you. That one? Yes. Okay. Good to go. Um I know we got some things to talk about, so I'm gonna make it somewhat quick, but um hopefully everybody had a chance to review our third quarter report. Um at the police department, we have a uh new officer that she started last month, Jen Brandsteder. She came with uh over 15 years of experience and some leadership experience from a different department. So uh she's been a good addition. She's on field training right now, she'll be off soon. Uh we still do have two openings. Um one is increasing the staffing, um, and then one's a vacancy that we're trying to fill. We have somebody in back in the background right now that's turned out looks like hopefully be hireable sooner than later. So um it is budget time. We had ways and means, um, everything we requested was accepted by the board, and I have to be approved at the meeting. Um it's not a not a lot of new stuff in the uh in the budget this year, a lot of maintenance maintaining, but uh one software addition that I wanted to uh discuss and share with you. It's thing called power engage. Um some departments around the area are using this, so what it is is it uh software that attaches to our dispatch. And when uh uh somebody calls 911, uh it will allow them to receive a text message um saying that officers in a route, who's the officer that's coming. Um it can give them instructions. So say there's an accident and kind of give them some instructions if you're not hurt and the cars are movable, please move them off to the side of the road. Um we'll be able to actually tailor those messages exactly how we want. If there's things like you call for a burglary, we can send out messages that says, hey, you know, don't go in your house, don't touch anything, just wait outside, wait for the police to arrive. Um it's a way to you know really engage with the community and engage with the people who have called us for service. Uh it also allows us then to engage with them through text messages and stuff like that. Once we have then maybe have an active case. So Detective Bureau can send them when they get assigned a case, they can receive a text message, say, you know, Detective So and so has been assigned to your case, they'll be in touch with you soon.