Good afternoon, and thank you for joining us today.

We are currently beginning our ERPS committee meeting, which is employee relations and public safety.

I am your chair, Ladina Bolton and Super District 7 Commissioner, as well as Deputy Presiding Officer.

Also serving on this committee with me is Commissioner Davis Johnson, Marita Davis Johnson, Commissioner Nicole Messiah serves as well.

She is not with us today.

And we have joining us Commissioner Terry from Super District 6.

So at this time, we're going to jump in and start with item 2026, 1410.

These are the September 22nd minutes from the ERPS meeting.

Excuse me.

Do we have a motion for that item?

Yes,

I move that 261410.

Uh be approved.

The minutes for September 22nd, 2026.

Second, all in favor.

Aye.

Motion carries recommendation for approval.

We do have a presentation that we were supposed to hear about two months ago.

It got pushed back because of our packed agenda.

Are we ready to start with the operational assessment update?

Madam Chair, this is Commissioner Spears.

I just want to let you know that I am on teams.

I I apologize.

Yes, Commissioner Spears from District 2 is joining us as well.

Yes, so Madam Chair, I would like to call up Alexis Mathis from the Momentum Firm.

She's one of the principal um architects of our addressing the issues that were found in the Molden and Chicken study.

Thank you, sir.

And thank you, ma'am.

You can go ahead and get started while we are waiting to receive printed copies.

Sure.

Good afternoon.

It's good to be back.

Today I'll be presenting an update based off of the presentation from August in 2026.

Starting with the recommendations that have been completed over time.

Recommendations within the ERPS assessment have totaled 38 recommendations met as of early August of this year.

On the screen, you will see the total number of recommendations met since we started capturing this data in Q4 of 2025.

Going forward to the progress snapshot.

Total recommendations are 106.

As I said, 38 have been met.

Most of the recommendations within this portfolio are either in progress or met.

Is with the recommendations, whether being met or in progress, if there is some correlation made between you working with them and what we see on our agenda on our agenda, I believe there is something regarding the police department and their property room.

So that you know, you pointing that out adds a lot more value to help us understand how we are supporting you, supporting our departments with becoming more efficient.

So thank you for that.

Yeah, absolutely.

And we'll look for additional opportunities to do that in future reports.

Let's see.

Also, there have been eight recommendations that were moved from the not started category from back in March to being either in progress or met.

Some of those recommendations include E91, the transition, they're in the middle of transitioning some responsibilities to the police department regarding vehicle laptop support, so handling the laptops within police vehicles, as well as the fire department working towards a long-term solution to capital improvement funding, as well as HR developing countywide training in potential tuition reimbursement policies.

We also want to highlight a few recommendations throughout this group that's doing very well.

Police has made some really great progress for one, as part of the CAP County's Digital Shield Initiative, the real-time crime center, is now fully operational, uh, 24-7 with 20 of the 25 approved analyst positions filled.

Um, and this is as of August this year.

Um, police has also reached uh 640 sworn officers as of just yesterday.

This is the highest staffing level in nearly five years, um this is following a 9% staffing growth in 2025, uh, as well as some expanded recruitment efforts that the department has done.

The

fire department implemented a five-year AMR contract this past July as part of the recommendations.

Uh as of September, ambulance availability is has been averaging 655 unit hours per day from July to September, which is 9% above the 600 hour contractual minimum.

This also coincides with response times improvements for 59 seconds in priority one and one minute 28 seconds per priority two through three calls.

A few other highlights we have here from DEMA successfully implementing the CAB Alert, uh replacing the former code red system they had with a modern mass notification platform, um, as well as medical examiner's officer office, excuse me, um, delivering on its strategic plan that was also part of the recommendations.

Um, it's also converted a transcriptionist position to an investigator and reached 64% of the ABMDI certification among its staff towards its 75% goal.

As a reminder, um, after the operational assessment was conducted, um, all recommendations were categorized according to 10 different challenge areas that the recommendations strove to correct.